Meet Rowan O’Riley

Rowan O’Riley, owner of ROasis Riding Oasis, is a former Grand Prix dressage competitor and sponsor of elite US Para Dressage competition.  As an adult amateur dressage competitor, O’Riley earned her USDF Gold Medal in dressage in 2018 and was Region 8 Adult Amateur Champion at Grand Prix in the same year. 

O’Riley is passionate about para dressage and is the proud sponsor of five-time Paralympic dressage athlete Rebecca Hart. With O’Riley’s horse El Corona Texel, Hart won a silver and a bronze medal at the 2018 World Equestrian Games in Tryon, North Carolina, and the team bronze medal at the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. O’Riley currently leases the mare Floratina for Hart, and the pair were unbeaten at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, earning three gold medals-- a team gold and two individual gold medals. 

An established supporter of high-performance U.S. equestrian sport, O’Riley serves on the USET Foundation’s Board of Trustees, and was on the USET Foundation’s National Advisory Committee since 2018.

O’Riley also serves on the National Council of McLean Hospital in Boston and supports various health and international welfare organizations. She is an amateur portrait artist, the mother of three daughters, and grandmother to four grandchildren.