Ashlee Bond

Her father is Steve Bond.[4] He was born and raised in Haifa, Israel, and moved to the United States when he was 12 years old.[5][6] Her mother, Cindy, is a filmmaker, and she has one younger sibling, her brother Dylan.[6][7][8][9][10]

She married Roy Meeus, now a Belgian former professional soccer player, in 2015 and they have a daughter named Scottie, born in 2016.[4][5][7][11][12]

Bond began competing at six years of age, won her first grand prix at age 16, and that year was named Grand Prix Rookie Rider of the Year by both the United States Equestrian Federation (USEF) and the Pacific Coast Horse Association.[7][8] In 2009, at 24 years of age, she was in the top 40 in the FEI World Rankings, was #2 on the Rolex/USEF Show Jumping Rankings, and was named “Chronicle of the Horse” Show Jumping Horseman of the Year.[7]

Between 2009 and 2014, Bond won the 2009 CHIO Aachen, 2014 HITS $1 Million Grand Prix, and an FEI Nations Cup.[7][12][13] She won the $100,000 Longines FEI World Cup Jumping title at Thermal, California, in 2016, and the $100,000 Longines FEI World Cup Qualifier at the HITS Coachella Desert Circuit in 2017.[7][14][15]

Bond became an Israeli citizen in 2018, and now rides for Israel.[6][7][16][17]

She has qualified to represent Israel at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[2][3] In July 2019 Team Israel’s Bond, Daniel Bluman, Elad Yaniv, and Danielle (Goldstein) Waldman won the Olympic Jumping Qualifier at Maxima Park in Moscow, qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics, the first time that Israel has earned a place in the Olympics in equestrian.[2][5]

In July 2019 she announced the retirement of her top horse, Chela LS.[18] Bond is considering riding her horse Donnie in the Olympics.[4]

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