Her horses have won numerous local and National awards from the Midwest Dressage Association, United States Dressage Federation, United States Equestrian Federation and American Hanoverian Society.
Evented through Training Level in the 1980's with a horse called Jolly Roger Received a Horse of the Year award from the Michigan Combined Training Association (now TEAM)

Received her USDF Bronze Medal riding Shady Jay
Received her USDF Silver Medal riding Sanwalt
Received her USDF Gold Medal riding Shevron
Attended the Lisa Wilcox Clinic, April of 2006 and Lisa rode Shevron as the FEI Demonstration Horse.
Sandy has trained with numerous people over the years:
Violet Hopkins, Carol Grant, George Williams, Marina Genn, Maj. Anders Lindgren, Lars Peterson, Karl Mikolka, Sally Swift, Max Gawhyler, Tom Dvorak, Bodo Hangen, Debbie Bowman, Besty Steiner, Gerhard Politz and Catherine Haddad.
She is currently working with Shelly Francis.
Sandy stood the Hanoverian stallion Sanwalt while competing with him up the dressage levels. Her two show horses, Shevron and Sinatra, were bred by her along with several client horses: Selena, Skylar and Superstition