Oak Brook Polo Club 100th Anniversary Podcast with Guests Jorie Butler Kent & Reute Butler

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You are listening to a special edition of Outside The Boards
podcast celebrating the Oak Brook Polo Club’s 100th Anniversary.


 Founded in 1922 by legendary businessman, Paul Butler, the
Oak Brook Polo Club is an American Polo treasure and one of the
oldest polo clubs in the United States. It was once the sport's
epicenter for elite professional polo and served as home to the
U.S. Open Polo Championship for twenty-four straight seasons and
other prestigious international and national polo
tournaments. 


In 2022, the Oak Brook Polo Club will be celebrating its 100th
anniversary and will be returning to its original and masterpiece
field, the Cecil Smith Field.


To honor this historic occasion, the Oak Brook Polo Club has
invited Club friends and family to share stories and their most
fondest memories of visiting and playing at Oak Brook. Join as we
take listeners down memory lane with some of the sport’s
household names while they share their experiences at Oak Brook
and the impact the Club and its founder’s have played on their
lives.  Welcome to this Outside The Boards special podcast
edition, with your host Danny O’Leary.


 My guests on today’s podcast need no introduction, the
legendary Jorie Butler Kent, daughter of Paul Butler, and her
daughter Reute Butler. Both women are gifted riders and polo
players themselves with multiple accolades tied to their names
and success on the field. Jorie won numerous horse show and
jumping event championships by the time she was 17. From 1967 to
1979, Jorie served as the director of the Butler’s Sports Core
where she built and managed the Oak Brook Bath & Tennis Club
and Oak Brook Polo Club. Jorie continued her interest in polo and
would become the first woman member along side Sue Sally Hale to
be rated by the USPA in 1971. Her daughter Reute also found
success on the field having organized and played in Oak Brook’s
first ever Junior Challenge Trophy and both played and sponsored
two Sun Ranch polo Teams. Reute is currently the President of the
Friends of Conversation, an organization founded by her mother
Jorie 1982. one of the world's earliest leaders in the
development of community conservation in Masai Mara of
Kenya. 


 Jorie and Reute are two of polo’s most important women a


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