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IHSA ZONE 3 - REGION 5

You don't see it too often but Shayna Tamburo of Drexel University (center, with her parents) is a first-year IHSA rider who is also a senior. Hailing from Vienna, Virginia, Tamburo is currently third in the Region 5 hunter seat open rider standings. The Dragons were in fourth place through five shows but were high point team at their home show on October 27th with 33 points. This photo of Tamburo was taken that day, during which she won the lone section of open fences.

This photo is from a little further back in time. It is from the 2021-22 season opener, during which MacKenzie Esposito of Stockton University (on right) won her IHSA debut. From Hammonton, New Jersey, Esposito took the blue ribbon in novice equitation as the Ospreys hosted on 10/2/21. Now a senior, Esposito was third in intermediate flat at the October 27th Drexel show. Show coach and former Osprey Anna Sucar (on left) has Stockton in third place overall which is easily the best start ever for the program.

Stockton is one of two Region 5 schools based in New Jersey while Rowan University is the other. Nina McManus of the Profs (on right, with head coach Ariel Frattaroli) is seen here before placing third in limit fences at the October 27th Drexel show. A sophomore from Ringoes, New Jersey, McManus has since pointed out of the division.

While Stockton is off to their best start ever so is Salisbury University. The Seagulls are one of two Maryland schools in Region 5 and were in fifth place overall headed into the November 16th Villanova show. Salisbury intermediate rider Paige Taylor (on right) is seen here with "Miles" and Seagulls first-year head coach Hilary Gibbons - Neff, who brought Miles to the November 10th Washington College show. Salisbury's best score of the season was a week earlier, when the Seagulls put 22 points on the board at Millersville's event on November 3rd to tie the University of Delaware for reserve high point team honors (photo courtesy Salisbury University Equestrian Team).

Two University of Pennsylvania riders have qualified for 2025 Regionals and both did so on the same day! Carola Agostini (not pictured) pointed out of novice while Suhani Bhatt (pictured) pointed out of introductory equitation at the Quakers' October 20th home show. A senior from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Bhatt is seen here on October 27th prior to winning her debut in pre-novice that day. The classes on the 27th were usually made up of nine to twelve riders, and Bhatt won her first cantering class among a field of ten riders.

Millersville University is in their third region in three years! When Zone 3, Region 2 was dissolved in mid-2023 the Marauders were moved into Zone 3, Region 1. But after one season they (along with Penn State - Berks Campus which had also been in Region 2) were moved into Region 5. And at the very first Region 5 show ever for Millersville they had one of the first two Regional Qualifiers of the new season! Alexa DeLaGala (pictured), a senior from Freehold, New Jersey pointed out of novice equitation at the Stockton show on September 28th. Through November 10th Millersville was ninth out of 13 Region 5 hunter seat teams to compete so far this season.

Washington College did not make their first appearance of the 2024-25 season until the Drexel show. And at Drexel Tegan Carey of the Shoremen (on left) won Washington's first blue ribbon of the season. A sophomore from Denton, Maryland, Carey won her limit flat. Coached by Megan Dixon (on right, who brought horses to the Drexel show) Washington College tied the University of Delaware for reserve high point team with 20 points each at their home show on November 10th.

With Region 5 expanding to 14 teams in 2024-25 there are now two schools from Maryland (Washington College and Salisbury), two from New Jersey (Rowan and Stockton), one from Delaware (the University of Delaware) and nine (!) from the state of Pennsylvania including recent arrival Penn State - Berks. Kendall Rohrbach (pictured), a Berks junior from Oley, Pennsylvania, was fifth in her limit fences class at Drexel on October 27th.

Amanda Enwright (on left) has the honor of coaching not one but two Zone 3, Region 5 teams in 2024-25. And on October 27th both of her teams had exactly one rider entered. For Bucks County Community College Haley Martin (on right) was entered in both limit divisions. The freshman from Langhorne, Pennsylvania was third in limit fences to put the first four points of the season on the scoreboard for Bucks.

A little later in the day Enwright had her Temple University coaching hat on. Daria Hu-Henderson (on right), a sophomore from Bethesda, Maryland, competed for the Owls in novice equitation. Hu-Henderson showed in the nineteenth of twenty classes held that day at the Dream Park in Logan Township, New Jersey, which will also host one of the IHSA's Western Semifinal events in their indoor coliseum in mid-March.

Villanova University started the season in a tie for first place, having equaled the University of Delaware with an unusually low high point team score of 18 points on September 28th. According to several of the Wildcat riders the team has a mostly-new roster this season. From left to right are Ava O'Brien (from Cary, North Carolina) and Elizabeth Rattner (from Waccabuc, New York) who are both freshmen at Villanova. There were other Wildcats who are freshman also entered that day.

Seen here with her Mother in the bleachers on October 27th is Jessica Wilm of the University of Delaware (on left). A senior from Stillwater, New Jersey, Wilm was one of four University of Delaware riders to qualify for Regionals in the fall of 2024. Wilm qualified in limit fences, a division she won in at Drexel for which the blue ribbon is on display here. UDel moved ahead of West Chester by a 75-73 margin through the first three shows.

But since the fourth show on November 3rd West Chester University has held the lead. Head coach Wendy Myers (on left) poses with Golden Rams open rider Grace Frain during the Drexel show. A freshman from Delta, Pennsylvania, Frain was fourth in the Region 5 hunter seat open rider standings through November 10th. Erica Fornwell (not pictured) has a narrow lead overall in the Region 5 open rider standings after having led the region last season. Myers, herself a former IHSA rider with what was known as Salem Teikyo University at the time, is trying to guide the Golden Rams to their first-ever region title. West Chester was high point team at three of the first five shows and was leading the University of Delaware by 19 points at that time.

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The Zone 3, Region 5 Smorgasbord

Schools competing in Zone 3, Region 5 during the 2024-25 school year: Bucks County Community College, Drexel University, Franklin & Marshall College, Millersville University, Penn State University - Berks Campus, Rowan University, Salisbury University, Stockton University, Temple University, University of Delaware, University of Pennsylvania, Villanova University, Washington College and West Chester University.

Fall 2024 Show Schedule for Zone 3, Region 5:

Saturday, September 28 Stockton University (Host) at Split Elm Equestrian, Galloway, NJ 9:30AM ENGLISH ONLY

Sunday, October 20 University of Pennsylvania (Host) at Northwestern Stables, Philadelphia, PA 9:00AM ENGLISH ONLY

Sunday, October 27 Drexel University (Host) at the Dream Park, Logan Township, NJ 9:00AM ENGLISH ONLY

Sunday, November 3 Millersville University (Host) at Linden Hall School for Girls, Lititz, PA 9:00AM ENGLISH ONLY

Saturday, November 9 Kutztown University/University of Delaware (Co-Hosts) at the Dream Park, Logan Township, NJ 9:00AM 2 WESTERN ONLY

Sunday, November 10 Washington College (Host) at Hickory Ridge Farm, Queenstown, MD 9:00AM ENGLISH ONLY

Saturday, November 16 Villanova University (Host) at Durango Farm, West Chester, PA 9:00AM ENGLISH ONLY

Saturday, November 23 Delaware Valley University (Host) at Saddlebrook Equestrian Center, Schwenksville, PA 9:00AM 2 WESTERN ONLY

Schools in each Zone 3 Hunter Seat Region will show Western as part of one big region again in 2024-25. Show Schedule subject to change.

Recent Region 5 Team Champions (Region 5 known as Zone 4, Region 4 2010-13 and was spun off from part of Zone 3, Region 2 following the 2009-10 season)

Hunter Seat:

1997 - University of Delaware (1996-97
IHSA Hunter Seat National Champions)
1998 - Kutztown University
1999 - University of Delaware
2000 - University of Delaware
2001 - University of Delaware
2002 - University of Delaware
2003 - University of Delaware
2004 - Delaware Valley College
2005 - Delaware Valley College
2006 - Delaware Valley College
2007 - University of Delaware
2008 - University of Delaware
2009 - Delaware Valley College
2010 - Delaware Valley College
2011 - University of Delaware
2012 - University of Delaware
2013 - Drexel University
2014 - University of Delaware
2015 - University of Delaware
2016 - University of Delaware
2017 - University of Delaware
2018 - University of Delaware
2019 - University of Delaware
2020 - University of Delaware
2022 - University of Delaware
2023 - University of Delaware
2024 - University of Delaware

Western:

1999 - Kutztown University
2000 - Kutztown University
2001 - University of Delaware
2002 - Rutgers University
2003 - Bucks County Community College
2004 - Bucks County Community College
2005 - Delaware Valley College
2006 - Delaware Valley College
2007 - Delaware Valley College
2008 - Delaware Valley College
2009 - Washington College
2010 - University of Delaware
2011 - University of Delaware
2012 - University of Delaware
2013 - University of Delaware
2014 - University of Delaware
2015 - University of Delaware
2016 - University of Delaware
2017 - Delaware Valley University
2018 - Delaware Valley University
2019 - Penn State University (State College)
2020 - University of Delaware
2022 - Delaware Valley University
2023 - Delaware Valley University
2024 - Penn State University (State College)

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