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2024 PRE-SEASON TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The first of four Tournament of Champions series invitational events during the 2024-25 school year took place in
Westerville, Ohio on September 21st. A school from the Southeast that usually wins TOC events in recent history came up two points
behind the host school...
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2024 IHSA NATIONALS RESULTS
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| For the first time IHSA Nationals were held at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Carolina.
Middle Tennessee State University repeated as Western National Champion Team while Savannah College of Art & Design won the hunter seat
team competition by the largest margin to date...
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THE BARBIE ROOM AT ZONE 1 ZONES
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| Save for IHSA Nationals, where horse draw is an event in it's own right, most post-season IHSA shows have a traditional
live draw. But at Zone 1 Zones in South Hadley, Massachusetts on April 6th the Barbie-themed draw room was perhaps the ninth wonder if not
the eighth...
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2024 ZONE 1 ZONES RESULTS
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| As usual there was drama through to the final team class, with two schools tied for second heading in and another
school needing a certain combination to gain a tiebreaker. When it was over one school entered at '23 Nationals and another entered
at '22 Nationals were headed to '24 Nationals...
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2024 ZONE 2 ZONES RESULTS
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| For the third time in three years a different combination of the same three schools held down the top three
positions in the Zone 2 Zones team competition. The defending National Champions won the event while a school from Northern New
York State claimed second place...
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2024 ZONE 3 ZONES RESULTS
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| The last of the eight 2024 Zones shows was moved from a location in Pennsylvania to New Jersey on less than two weeks
notice. Held on Sunday, April 7th it featured the closest team race of all. None of the four schools had been mathematically eliminated
going into the final team class...
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2024 ZONE 4 ZONES RESULTS
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| Prior to the start of the show it had been 13 years since a Region 2 school advanced a full team
through Zones to IHSA Nationals. The 2024 Region 2 Team entered at Zone 4 Zones came from behind to win the show
outright, and this particular program will have a full team at Nationals for the first time since 2010...
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2024 ZONE 5 ZONES RESULTS
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| While Savannah College of Art & Design repeated their 54 point score of a year ago the race
for second place was up for grabs between two teams up to the very last class. The only program to win a team
class versus a SCAD rider won the tiebreaker for second by having the most blue ribbons with one...
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2024 ZONE 6 ZONES RESULTS
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| The host school won seven of the eight team classes. This kept the other three teams from
pulling away from each other, and as a result no team was truly eliminated until the results of the last team
class were announced...
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2024 ZONE 7 ZONES RESULTS
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| It was a crazy close show through five classes in Roscoe, Illinois, with first separated from fifth place in the team
competition by only six points. Going into the last team class the second place team had only a one point lead on two others. When it
was over the school that traveled the furthest won going away (after sitting in last place through two classes) while another school will
field a full hunter seat team at an IHSA Nationals event for the first time since 2010...
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2024 ZONE 8 ZONES RESULTS
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| All but one 2024 IHSA Zones show featured an exciting race for second place team, including this one where two
schools entered the final team class tied. And with the right combination either could have tied the leading team at the time.
Ultimately that did not happen, and the winner has now won every Zone 8 Zones team competition since 2006...
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2024 ALBION, MI SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| We checked the record books. Prior to March 24th Mount Holyoke College had never sent a full western team to Nationals. But they
will now. The Lyons won the Albion, Michigan Semifinal outright...
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2024 MURFREESBORO, TN SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| The defending National Champion Western Team hosted and won while the third place school will be back at Nationals with a full
western team for the 36th consecutive time...
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2024 FINDLAY, OH SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| We finally confirmed the results from Team Open Reining at the Findlay, Ohio Semifinal. This confirms that the host school won
and that a school from the Keystone State advanced a full Western Team to IHSA Nationals for the first time...
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JANUARY 2024 WINTER TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| Schools from all eight IHSA geographic Zones traveled to the Georgia/South Carolina border to compete in the third of four TOC events during the
2023-24 season. When it was over the host school found yet another record to break in the 33 year history of the Tournament of Champions series. It has to do with
the Medal Classes, but it is not the record many thought the host school might set...
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2023 HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| For the first time since 2015 the Holiday Tournament of Champions took place in Long Valley, New Jersey as Centenary University hosted.
The second of four annual TOC invitational events went to SCAD as it has often done since 2017. We go into great detail to recap the Bees remarkable run
to the present...
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IN-SEASON ALUMNI EVENTS ARE STILL BEING HELD
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| Though they are seldom held the same day and location as an IHSA event, those who have ridden at
least once in an IHSA event as an undergraduate have events to compete in alongside other IHSA alums during the 2023-24
regular season. Under the new name Alumni Equestrian Events there are alumni classes around the country...
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2023 PRE-SEASON TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The Champion Team at the annual event, held this fall at St. Mary of the Woods College, has won the blue ribbon at
all but one TOC event in which they have competed since the fall of 2018...
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2023 ZONE 1 ZONES RESULTS
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| Due to the EHV virus in New England Zone 1 Zones took place over two days, using horses exclusively from the Mount Holyoke
Equestrian Center on April 7th and 8th. When it was over the host school won while a school in Southwestern Connecticut will send a full
hunter seat team to Nationals for the second time in program history...
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2023 ZONE 2 ZONES RESULTS
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| Host Skidmore College took the early lead and won by nine points. A close race for second was not settled until
the eighth and final team class, which was open flat...
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2023 ZONE 3 ZONES RESULTS
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| Centenary University hosted and never trailed, taking High Point Team Honors with 49 points. Another school finished fifth out of five...over the first two team classes and will now field a
full hunter seat team at IHSA Nationals for the first time since 2007 thanks to earning Reserve High Point Team Honors...
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2023 ZONE 4 ZONES RESULTS
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| The two-time defending National Champion hunter seat team will be back at Nationals again in '23. But the
host school at today's event outscored them by 16 points...
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2023 ZONE 5 ZONES RESULTS
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| The host school won by 23. The runner-up was second by only a point...
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2023 ZONE 6 ZONES RESULTS
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| Two schools from Ohio will be competing in the 2023 IHSA Nationals Hunter Seat Team Competition, but not the exact same two
as last season...
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2023 ZONE 7 ZONES RESULTS
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| Purdue University found themselves outside the top two through three team classes, but the Boilermakers won the last four sections in a row
to take high point team honors. A school from Zone 7, Region 4 joins them...
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2023 ZONE 8 ZONES RESULTS
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| Stanford University hosted Zone 8 Zones at their Red Barn and claimed high point team honors. A school from the greater Los Angeles area
repeated their reserve champion ribbon from a year ago to make Zone 8 Zones the only show this April where both of the 2022 Nationals Team Entries made it
back to the big show...
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THE 2023 WINTER AND SPRING TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| The third and fourth events in the 2022-23 Tournament Invitational Series took place in early 2023. Jim Arrigon sent us press releases on
both, including his in-novative way of reporting from the March 25th event in Findlay, Ohio...
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2023 WEIRSDALE, FL SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| Black Hawk College will defend it's Western National Champion Title after winning Semifinals by 11 points over St. Andrews...
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2023 VERONA, MS SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| Midway University clinched a return trip to Nationals with one team class remaining...
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2023 FINDLAY, OH SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| After winning the event the host school will field a full team in Lexington as will another Ohio School with a long run of Nationals appearances. They are joined by
schools from the Cornhusker state and the Empire state...
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THE 2022 HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| Though we could not post the live results from this show as planned we now have the complete class-by-class results as well as a full story with
photos on the event which took place on December 3rd in Blacksburg, Virginia. A certain school from the Southeast won a TOC event for the 13th time since the fall
of 2018...
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2022 ALUMNI TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
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| It was the eleventh such gathering for hunter seat riders and the ninth time around for the western. It was
the 2022 Alumni Tournament of Champions, held over two days at the United States Equestrian Team headquarters in Gladstone, New
Jersey the first weekend in June. A 2021 graduate fresh off a win in alumni fences at IHSA Nationals won three of the fifteen
classes...
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2022 IHSA NATIONALS RESULTS
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| Emory and Henry College made it two consecutive hunter seat National Championships while Black Hawk College won the western
National Championship for the first time...
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2022 ZONE 1 ZONES RESULTS
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| Mount Holyoke College won the first two team classes and never trailed. The race for second went down to the final team class, and two teams finished in a tie.
A school from Northern New England won the tiebreaker with two blue ribbons and will send a full hunter seat team to Nationals for the first time since 2016...
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2022 ZONE 2 ZONES RESULTS
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| A rarity occured when not one but two schools scored over forty points at Zone 2 Zones in Canton, New York. One of them was host St. Lawrence, but yet
the Saints were only reserve high point team...
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2022 ZONE 3 ZONES RESULTS
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| Centenary University won the first three team classes and never trailed. Yet one school came very close to catching
them - but eventually that school would narrowly hang on to second place...
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2022 ZONE 4 ZONES RESULTS
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| The team race could have gone any which way through four team classes. Then the most recent National Champion hunter seat team won the last four team classes to break away from the pack. The race for second would not
be decided until the final team class...
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2022 ZONE 5 ZONES RESULTS
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| While IHSA Zones 1 through 4 and 6 through 8 held their Zones shows over the April 9th/10th weekend Zone 5 held theirs on Saturday, April 2nd, 2022.
Host Savannah College of Art and Design from Region 5 won while a school from only a few miles north but located in a different region was reserve champion...
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2022 ZONE 6 ZONES RESULTS
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| The only IHSA Zone with four hunter seat regions had the closest team race of the April 9th competitions. None of the four teams had been eliminated heading into the final team
class and only one team was assured of a trip to Nationals if their rider stayed on (and she even won)...
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2022 ZONE 7 ZONES RESULTS
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| Held over two days, a school located in Canyon, Texas was high point team. The runner-up overcame a goose egg in the first team class to finish within four points of the eventual Zone champion...
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2022 ZONE 8 ZONES RESULTS
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| There were only three teams entered in the hunter seat team competition at the Stanford Red Barn Equestrian Center due to two regions not
having enough regular season shows to legally send a full team. However a few individuals from these regions were entered. And the annual host school added
to their long run of Zone 8 Zones Championships which extends from 2006 through this season...
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2022 REEDSVILLE, WV SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| Ohio State keeps their long streak of Western Team Appearances at Nationals intact. The two schools joining the Buckeyes with a full team in Harrisburg did not have a full team at 2019 Nationals...
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2022 GALVA, IL SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| None of the top three teams at this Semifinal fielded a full Western team at 2019 Nationals. In fact the school which finished third will be sending a full western team to IHSA Nationals for the first time ever...
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2022 LUBBOCK, TX SEMIFINAL RESULTS
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| The first Semifinal ever held at the Texas Tech Equestrian Center was won by the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The Cornhuskers scored 41 points, the most of any school at a 2022 Semifinal event...
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GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT
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Centenary University won the inaugural IHSA show at the Saint Equestrian Center on October 3rd, besting the hosts 42-32. But it was a happy day for USMA nonetheless, as their spectacular new facility was well received by all. It took
quite some time for the USMA to go from the drawing board to actual construction of the facility. How long you might ask? More than four decades...
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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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