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IHSA ZONE 2 - REGION 3

Sheridan Beard (on right) was the first person to win a team class at 2018 IHSA Nationals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From Simsbury, Connecticut, Beard gave Skidmore College the early lead with a first in team novice fences on May 3rd. On the left is Karen Esteves of LM Boots, as the winners of each hunter seat team class will receive new custom boots from LM. Beard's win set the tone for the Thoroughbreds, who never trailed and went on to win their eighth IHSA National team championship in program history. According to Skidmore assistant coach Belinda Colgan (not pictured) all six Skidmore riders who showed in the team classes will be back in 2018-19 as not one of them were seniors (Beard will be a junior in the fall).

He is seen here with his Father after extending his season for one more show. From Syracuse, New York, Marcus Livermore of Morrisville State College (on left) was second in both individual novice divisions at Zone 2 Zones in Leonia, New Jersey on April 8th. By making the top two in either division Livermore earned the right to compete at IHSA Nationals nearly a month later. Though Rebecca Bedard of Ottawa University (not pictured) won the individual novice fences at Zones Livermore would get the upper hand in Harrisburg, winning the class on May 3rd while Bedard was third. Like Beard of Skidmore Livermore has two more seasons as this was only his sophomore season.

Morrisville State College Director of Riding Dr. Tiffany Day (on left) poses with Lea Inhaber - Courchesne of the Mustangs in the mounting area inside the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on May 6th. From Westboro, Massachusetts, Inhaber - Courchesne would place third in individual intermediate western horsemanship on the final day of 2018 IHSA Nationals a short time later. Yet another rider who was finishing her sophomore season, Inhaber - Courchesne's third was the best ribbon earned by a Region 3 western rider during this years' Nationals event.

What's this? IHSA Alumni Legend Ashton Phillips on the Zone 2, Region 3 page? Phillips - who has never ridden in this region - is on the page because he and Morrisville State College graduate David Sookey III (on left) placed first and second, respectively in alumni flat at Zone 2 Zones at Bergen Equestrian Center in Leonia, New Jersey on April 8th (IHSA founder and executive director Bob Cacchione is on the right). Though Virginia Intermont College graduate Phillips (riding as an alumni in the post-season for at least 20 seasons to date) was one place higher on this occasion it would be Sookey returning the favor at Nationals on May 5th. The former Mustang was third in alumni flat while Phillips was fourth in what has become the final hunter seat class at Nationals every year since 2009.

Seen here with head coach Tracy Pedersen at a February 2016 Skidmore show, Megan Rota of the State University of New York at Albany (on right) finished her senior year by placing fifth in individual intermediate flat at Zone 2 Zones on April 8th. The Great Danes finished fifth in the Region 3 hunter seat team standings in 2017-18, perhaps ending a season in the top five overall for the first time since the program started showing IHSA in the middle of the previous decade.

I think she bent the beam holding up the Pennsylvania Farm show complex just this much! But the structure is still standing and so is Rachel Butler of the State University of New York at Cobleskill (pictured). From Seward, New York, Butler won the individual beginner western division at the Hamburg, New York Semifinal on March 26th. Butler was one of three Cobleskill riders to compete at 2018 IHSA Nationals. On May 6th Butler completed her junior year with a tenth in beginner western in Harrisburg. From 1993 through 2016 Morrisville State ran off a very long string of Western Region Titles. However with Butler on board Cobleskill has won the past two!

From Weston, Massachusetts, Alexandra Hartman of Skidmore College (pictured) is seen here at Zone 2 Zones on April 8th during which she won the individual intermediate over fences. Hartman was not the only Skidmore rider to compete individually that day. In fact the Thoroughbreds had a "Historic Good" day at their Regionals show a week before Zones. Skidmore riders earned 13 of the 16 top-two ribbons awarded to Undergraduates at Regionals on the final day of March. This writer cannot recall any school doing better than this in his 21 years of writing about the IHSA on the internet. Livermore of Morrisville (twice) and Rota of Albany were the only Region 3 undergrads Not from Skidmore who were able to make the top two at Regionals and thus travel down to New Jersey to compete in the Zones show.

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Schools which competed in Zone 2, Region 3 during the 2017-2018 school year: Colgate University, Hartwick College, Keuka College, Morrisville State College, Oneonta State College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Siena College, Skidmore College, the State University of New York at Albany and the State University of New York at Cobleskill.

Fall 2018 Show Schedule for Zone 2, Region 3:

Saturday, October 13 Skidmore College (Host) at the Van Lennep Riding Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 8:30AM ENGLISH ONLY

Saturday, October 27 Hartwick College (Host) at Hunters' Rein Stable, Otego, NY 8:30AM ENGLISH ONLY

Sunday, October 28 State University of New York at Cobleskill (Host) at the Morrisville State College Equine Center, Morrisville, NY 9:00AM 2 WESTERN ONLY

Saturday, November 3 Morrisville State College (Host) at the Morrisville State College Equine Center, Morrisville, NY 9:30AM ENGLISH ONLY

Sunday, Novmeber 4 Morrisville State College (Host) at the Morrisville State College Equine Center, Morrisville, NY 8:30AM ENGLISH ONLY

Saturday, November 10 Morrisville State College (Host) at the Morrisville State College Equine Center, Morrisville, NY 9:00AM 2 WESTERN ONLY

Saturday, November 17 Skidmore College (Host) at the Van Lennep Riding Center, Saratoga Springs, NY 8:30AM ENGLISH ONLY

Saturday, December 1 Morrisville State College (Host) at the Morrisville State College Equine Center, Morrisville, NY 9:00AM 2 WESTERN ONLY

Show Schedule subject to change.

Recent Region 3 Team Champions (Region 3 created by spinning off eleven schools from Region 2 prior to the 2000-01 season for hunter seat and 2002-03 season for stock seat)

Hunter Seat:

2001 - Skidmore College
2002 - Skidmore College
2003 - Skidmore College
2004 - Skidmore College
2005 - Skidmore College
2006 - Skidmore College
2007 - Skidmore College
2008 - Skidmore College
2009 - Skidmore College
2010 - Skidmore College (2009-10
IHSA Hunter Seat National Champions)
2011 - Skidmore College
2012 - Skidmore College
2013 - Skidmore College (2012-13
IHSA Hunter Seat Co-National Champions)
2014 - Skidmore College
2015 - Skidmore College
2016 - Skidmore College
2017 - Skidmore College
2018 - Skidmore College (2017-18
IHSA Hunter Seat National Champions)

Western:

2003 - S.U.N.Y. - Morrisville
2004 - Morrisville State College
2005 - Morrisville State College
2006 - Morrisville State College
2007 - Morrisville State College
2008 - Morrisville State College
2009 - Morrisville State College
2010 - Morrisville State College
2011 - Morrisville State College
2012 - Morrisville State College
2013 - Morrisville State College
2014 - Morrisville State College
2015 - Morrisville State College
2016 - Morrisville State College
2017 - State University of New York at Cobleskill
2018 - State University of New York at Cobleskill

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