Cindy (Wilson) Halle has been involved in polo for over forty years as a player, coach, clinician, club manager, instructor and umpire. She started playing polo at UC Davis (California) where she was a part of four Intercollegiate Women’s championship teams. She worked hard to ultimately achieve a 2-goal outdoor and 3-goal arena handicap, and then moved to Maryland to run and coach the polo program at Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, where she worked for twenty-one years. Under Halle’s guidance and utilizing her talents both as a player and coach, her players garnered nine National Girls Interscholastic titles and one Open Interscholastic title.

Her players have also been awarded numerous PTF Interscholastic Player of the Year awards and gone on to play intercollegiate polo for many championship teams. Extending her reach beyond traditional students, Halle has created several inner-city youth immersion programs using polo as a means to teach young people teamwork and responsibility and gain self-confidence. She believes in personal development through sport and keeps sportsmanship, teamwork and horsemanship at the core of her coaching.

Taking her passion for polo beyond coaching Halle has been part of the USPA’s Certified Polo Instructor as a Certifier/Instructor as well as being a Certified Umpire. Now retired from Garrison Forest she stays busy doing polo clinics for colleges and clubs as well as umpiring tournaments.

She was honored with the United States Polo Association’s 2018 Woman of the Year award, and is a co-chair of the USPA Intercollegiate/Interscholastic committee and serves on the Umpires, LLC advisory board and is active on the Arena Rules sub-committee.

She plays her summer polo in Maryland and Virginia and has competed all over the US as well as in Argentina, India and Ireland. Halle lives on a farm in Maryland with her husband Ned, an avid fox-hunter, and has two grown children. Cindy is most interested in growing through sport through the support of club polo, I/I and youth polo and umpire training. She also would like to become more involved in the areas of Safety and Equine Welfare.