Bubbly and full of infectious energy, Lily Voss is unabashedly a horse girl. After an accident as a teenager required her arm to be amputated, she could have hung up her spurs forever. But that’s not Lily’s style. She climbed back into the saddle and on to show horses in high school, on her college equestrian team, and beyond. These days, she’s crafting a career capturing what we all love about horses in the realm of social media.
Horse Lover From Birth
Lily grew up in Tulsa, Okla., a third-generation horse girl thanks to a grandmother and mother who rode. Her mother had a string of retired Quarter Horses that she used to show in breed shows.
“I was ‘born with the defective gene,’ as my dad would say,” Lily says with a laugh. “Even before I could walk, I was on horses with my mom, but it wasn’t until I was about 8 or 9 that I started to take formal riding lessons and got competitive with it.”
Lily started her riding journey with dressage throughout her youth and junior years. She showed hunter/jumpers on her university’s Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association team. She ended up falling in love with the hunters, and that has fueled her continued passion for horses.
The Accident
Lily was adventurous as a teen—a little too adventurous, she might say. At the age of 14, she was in an ATV accident that required her to be life-flighted to the hospital…