2025 AQHYA World Championship Show
Youth World Show Report: Team Arizona Shines in Oklahoma City!
From August 1–10, Oklahoma City’s OKC Fairgrounds set the stage for the 2025 AQHYA World Championship Show—and Team Arizona delivered in a big way. Twenty-one AzQHYA members and their 32 American Quarter Horses brought home an impressive list of accomplishments:
- 8 World Championship Globes
- 11 Top 3 Finishes
- 36 Top 10 finishes
- 12 Finalists
Our youth also achieved Top 10 placings in every AQHA Youth World Contest and earned nearly $30,000in scholarships through class awards and AQHA Foundation programs. Congratulations to our AzQHYA members for all of your hard work & dedication! And a heartfelt thank you to Kimes Ranch Jeans and the AQHF for their generous support of these talented competitors.
To see the full list of results and watch videos of the winning runs, visit aqha.com/aqhya-world-results.
Youth World Show Qualification
The Arizona Quarter Horse Association pays for all participating Arizona Quarter Horse Youth members’ stalls and entries each year at the World show.
AzQHYA members may be on the Youth World team in two ways. All youth that show and receive the necessary AQHA qualifying points for each class can nationally qualify to be on the Arizona team. Those that do not qualify nationally may be on the youth team by state qualifying in their classes.
The state qualified youth must be one of the top 4 points earners in the state points for the qualifying year. The Youth Advisor may allow up to 6 state qualifiers in certain more popular classes.
- Youth members must submit a completed Declaration, Volunteer hours, and Fundraising by April 30th, in order to be considered for state qualification.
- Youth must be a current and active member of AzQHA. See membership requirements above.
- If classes or stalls are paid by AzQHA and are canceled unless sickness/lameness of the horse, those costs will be reimbursed back to AzQHA by the parents of the youth.
- Non-active Youth members wishing to attend YWS with Team Arizona, will be responsible for all of their own expenses.
- Residents of another state desiring to compete on the AzQHA youth team must attend a minimum of 4 AzQHA approved events during the qualifying period, perform all of the required volunteer hours within the state of Arizona as well as meet all of the requirements documented above. All out of state Youth will need to contact the Youth advisor for acceptance to the AzQHA youth team.
Download the Youth World Show Declaration
Download the AzQHYA Fundraising & Participation Form
Please contact the Youth Advisor, Reilly if you have any questions! azqhainfo@gmail.com
