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2021 ALUMNI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The date was June 6th. The site was the United States Equestrian Team headquarters in Gladstone, New Jersey. And the
show was the tenth Alumni Tournament of Champions. Both English and Western alumni gathered that day to try and win one or more of the 15
classes held, including the first-ever "Founder's Battle"...
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2021 SPRING TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The only non-virtual invitational IHSA-related event of the 2020-21 school year took place in Hardeeville, South Carolina on
May 1st. The host school from nearby Savannah, Georgia had not one but two teams entered. These two teams were so strong that only four blue
ribbons were awarded all day in team classes to riders from any of the other nine teams in attendance...
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REMEMBERING NAOMI BLUMENTHAL
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| Longtime IHSA National Treasurer and former Cazenovia College head coach Naomi Blumenthal passed away in December. Blumenthal
was one of a select few to be involved with the IHSA for over 40 years...
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2020 HUNTER SEAT ALUMNI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The class-by-class results plus a story on the August 9th hunter seat Alumni Tournament of Champions. Riders from schools located in
the state of Pennsylvania have now produced as many winners of the Alumni Cup as schools from Connecticut...
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2020 WESTERN ALUMNI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| For the first time the yearly western Alumni Tournament of Champions event took place before the hunter seat event. Though the August 2nd show was
held in the state of Michigan (for the first time) four of the six class winners were previously undergraduates at schools based in the empire state...
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THE LIST THAT WAS NOT WHITTLED DOWN
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| As with most college sports the IHSA halted their season in Mid-March due to the coronavirus. Therefore there were no Semifinal shows, Zones shows or the year-end National
show to determine the many team and individual champions. Therefore we present a list of all the English and Western Teams and Open Riders who were ahead in their respective regions
when word came down that the season was sadly over...
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2020 WINTER TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| Though it is called the Winter Tournament of Champions invitational the locale of the event on January 25th was far enough south that it felt like
spring by mid-afternoon. And the host school rode like they were out to break TOC records...
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PRE-SEASON AND HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT RECAPS
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| A school from the Southeastern United States won the Pre-Season Tournament of Champions in Storrs, Connecticut on September 21st, then won
with a record-setting high score at the Holiday Tournament of Champions on December 7th...
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ROOKIES AND LIMITS
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| There is no limit to the number of Rookies a western team may have on their roster, but there might be a limit to the number of Rookies they can bring to a show.
There may even be a limit to the number of limits a school can bring to a hunter seat show. Confused? This story about the new IHSA Division Names - including the Rookie levels
for Western and Limit levels for Hunter Seat - will clear that problem up...
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UNDERSTANDING ZONE 7 WESTERN IN THE NATION'S MIDSECTION
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| Back in 2016 the IHSA divided one very large western region into two. The region in question is Zone 7, Region 5. Those who want to follow the
IHSA Western Teams in the two regions which were once one (and which cross into five states) can finally find a place which specifically lists which western teams
ride against each other on a regular basis...
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2019 ALUMNI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The 2019 Alumni Tournament of Champions hunter seat and western classes took place on June 2nd but in completely different states.
Once again the hunter seat event was in Ringoes, New Jersey while the western event was in Oxford, Ohio and there were several winners in each location
that were familiar to the blue ribbon at these events...
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2019 IHSA NATIONALS RESULTS
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| The University of Findlay repeated as the Western Championship team while a Virginia school located not far from North Carolina, West Virginia
and Tennessee captured their first hunter seat National Championship. We even wrote a full story about this particular show...
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2019 ZONE 1 ZONES RESULTS
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| History was made when not one but both of the top two schools advanced to an IHSA Nationals event with a full
hunter seat team for the first time in program history. Since the elimination process began for teams at Zones competitions in
1997 there had not been a case when both of the top two schools at the end of the day were without a previous IHSA Nationals
appearance with a full team...
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2019 ZONE 2 ZONES RESULTS
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| The defending National Champions are one of a few teams that will be back at Nationals this season...
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2019 ZONE 3 ZONES RESULTS
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| A school located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania had won ten consecutive region titles going back to 2009 but had not won a
Zones show in that time. However after winning their eleventh consecutive region title this season this school never trailed on April 7th
and won Zone 3 Zones by 12 points...
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2019 ZONE 4 ZONES RESULTS
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| The winning team sent a full team to Nationals two seasons ago while the reserve champions on Saturday last fielded a full
team at Nationals in 2009. And this reserve team has now sent a full team to Nationals as a member of three different regions!...
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2019 ZONE 5 ZONES RESULTS
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| Zone 5 Zones took place in Auburn, Alabama on March 30th. And the Tiebreaker to end all
Tiebreakers had to be figured out as Three Schools ended the afternoon seemingly tied for second
with 30 points each!...
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2019 ZONE 6 ZONES RESULTS
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| Three of the schools in the team competition were back from the 2018 meet. However the one school that had not
fielded a full hunter seat team at '18 Zones won the '19 event by a healthy nine points...
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2019 ZONE 7 ZONES RESULTS
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| It took over two weeks but now we finally have the complete class-by-class results from Zone 7 Zones on April 7th. The top two teams of
one year ago are both returning to Nationals with a full hunter seat team. However last year's high point at Zone 7 Zones was the runner-up in '19 while the
runner-up one year ago earned high point team honors in a close show that saw all four teams sitting second through fifth going into the last team class with
a chance to get to Syracuse...
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2019 ZONE 8 ZONES RESULTS
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| The Stanford Red Barn Equestrian Center has become the yearly host to Zone 8 Zones since 2012. In a year when so many titans of IHSA history fell
during the April 6th/7th weekend the host school won Zone 8 Zones outright for the fourteenth year in a row...
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2019 FINDLAY, OH SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| The host school won five of the six team classes and by most accounts looked like the
defending National Champions that they are...
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2019 OCALA, FL SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| Another school from the state of Ohio had a big day, winning four of six team classes. This team, coached by a
husband and wife, can say they have sent a full western team to Nationals every year from 1987 to today. However the big news is
that a certain school located on the Central California Coast advanced a full western team through to Nationals for the first time
since 1998...
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2019 LOGAN, UT SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| Only two of the eight schools entered were eliminated with one team class remaining. And one of the two still finished in fourth place! The first IHSA Semifinal ever held in the state
of Utah was won by a school that previously won the western National Championship in 2012...
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2019 WINTER TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| Usually there are two Winter Tournament of Champions invitationals but in January of 2019 one of the events was cancelled due to
weather issues. The second planned January tournament event did go on as scheduled, with a school from the Southeast winning both the show itself
and the 2018-19 TOC series trophy (again)...
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2018 HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| Not only do we now have information and some results from the December 1st Holiday Tournament of Champions invitational held on the campus of
Otterbein University we also include with that story a similar write-up on the September 22nd Pre-Season Tournament of Champions event at the Randolph College
Riding Center. The same team won both shows and can claim to have won five of the six most recent TOC classics...
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2018 ALUMNI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| For the first time in three years the Alumni Tournament took place in two different locations; one for hunter seat (the first Sunday in
June) and one for Western (exactly two weeks later). Schools in Virginia and Michigan claimed the top riders in each discipline...
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2018 IHSA NATIONALS RESULTS
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| IHSA Nationals took place May 3rd through 6th in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the fifth time the event has been held in this state capitol and the first time since 1984
that the large coliseum was used for all the classes. One English team quickly established themselves as the leader while the eventual Western Champion team came from behind but won by
more than a blue ribbon's worth of points...
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