Nichole McColley

Nichole McColley began coaching the western team at Albion in August 2024. During her first season coaching the Albion western team, the Britons won Regional Champion Team, Semi-Finals Reserve Champion Team, and placed 5^th as a team at IHSA Nationals.

She currently also serves as the coach for the McColley Equestrian Team along with her husband, Travis, which they have done since 2012.

The McColley Equestrian Team has achieved significant success at both IEA and YEDA competitions. They clinched the 2018 and 2020 YEDA National Champion Senior High Team titles, as well as claimed the 2019 YEDA Reserve National Championship Senior High Team. In addition to team success, they have coached numerous YEDA individual National and Reserve National Championship riders in horsemanship and ranch riding. Additionally, the team’s riders have secured IEA regional championships, high point championships, and national qualifiers.

Many of McColley’s riders have gone on to compete in NCAA and IHSA collegiate riding. In 2020, the senior high team made history by achieving the highest score to date at the YEDA National Championship show, triumphing by over 10 points.

McColley also operates McColley Quarter Horses with her husband, at their home in Jonesville. There, she has helped riders and horses achieve significant success, including producing AQHA Level Three and Level Two World, Reserve and Bronze World champions, AQHA Congress and Reserve champions, AQHA Level One champions, PHBA World champions, and numerous year-end high point champions.

McColley holds a bachelor’s degree in Biology, as well as an associate’s degree in Equestrian Studies from the University of Findlay, where she competed on their IHSA equestrian team.

Beyond her equestrian pursuits, McColley is a devoted mother to three boys and actively supports them in their sporting endeavors.