Alexis Steele - Equestrian Coach

Alexis Steele

Title:
Assistant Coach

Alexis Steele is in her first season as an assistant coach on the University of Tennessee at Martin equestrian staff in 2025-26.

Steele brings over 20 years of international level horse experience to UT Martin, including seven years of National Collegiate Equestrian Association experience as a student-athlete and graduate assistant at Fresno State under head coach Eric Hubbard.

Steele assisted in operations management alongside the Bulldog coaching staff while providing one-on-one coaching to horsemanship riders at Fresno State. She managed the judging, stewards and secretarial staffs while also overseeing daily care of the barn and horses during her time as a graduate assistant.

As a student-athlete, Steele earned starts in the Bulldog horsemanship lineup in all four years (2018-22). She took part in 26 career meets and collected three MOP honors, including her first collegiate ride against Delaware State. As a senior, she accounted for a career-best 78.5-point effort against Oklahoma State, which ranks as the fourth-best all-time horsemanship score in Fresno State history.

Steele boasts a decorated youth career as she was a five-time Appaloosa World and European champion. That includes a strong 2016 campaign where she brought home an ApHC world championship in Western Horsemanship & Showmanship at Halter 13-15 and a European Appaloosa championship in Bareback Horsemanship 18/U in Aachen, Germany. She was also a seven-time Youth High Point champion.

Steele additionally gained experience as a field supervisor at Foster Farms in Livingston, Calif. (2024-25) and as a manager/lead instructor at New Beginnings at Circle T Ranch (2023-24) in Lemoore, Calif.

A Discovery Bay, Calif. native, Steele was a first-team NCEA All-Academic, APHA All-Academic and first-team All-Big 12 Conference honoree as a student-athlete, winning the latter award in each of her final two seasons. She graduated from Fresno State with a degree in exercise science in 2022 and obtained a Master’s degree from Fresno State in sport administration in 2024.