Education

The son of accomplished riders Rick and Jen Maynard, Tik was in Pony Club from ages 6 to 21, achieving his ‘A’ level in 2002. He was Canadian National Champion in Tetrathlon (2000), was part of the National Champion Team in PPG (1997), and was part of the Canadian Team that won gold in Kentucky in 1998.

For much of his twenties, Tik competed full-time in the sport of Modern Pentathlon (running, swimming, shooting, fencing, show jumping). He was on the Canadian National Team and won the National Championships twice. He also competed at multiple World Cups and World Championships and at the 2007 Pan-Am Games in Rio.

Tik has evented at the Advanced level and been Long-Listed and Short-Listed for the Canadian National Three-Day Event Team.

He won the Freestyle twice at the Thoroughbred Makeover (2015, 2018) and judged it once (2017). Maynard won the Road to the Horse 2024 World Championship of Colt Starting and has been invited to compete for the title again in 2025.

Maynard travels year-round, teaching clinics in the United States, Canada, England, and Scotland, and is an online instructor for The Horseman’s University and the Noelle Floyd Equestrian Masterclass. He is a regular guest on podcasts and a contributor to many equestrian magazines and online news sources.

He is the author of In the Middle Are the Horsemen and Starting in the Middle. Maynard lives with his wife Sinead, a top American eventer, and their two children in Citra, Florida, where they run Copperline Farm.