Virginia Intermont College junior Jennifer Kelly holds the perpetual trophy awarded annually to the winner of the team intermediate flat division at IHSA Nationals. Kelly was not the only Virginia Intermont rider to win a team class at 2007 IHSA Nationals in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

FOUR PROGRAMS STAND OUT ABOVE THE REST WITHIN '07 IHSA NATIONALS HUNTER SEAT TEAM COMPETITION

WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA - It had been ten years since IHSA Nationals took place in New England. In 1997 Mount Holyoke College hosted to date the most recent two-day IHSA Nationals show, which included a hunter seat team competition remembered for controversy (i.e. disqualifications) and a surprise winner (the University of Delaware coming from behind to win 27-25 over Colorado State).

Ten years later the IHSA National Show has become a four-day event, while larger venues are also required. For the first time IHSA Nationals took place at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts, within their 4,000-plus seat coliseum. Frequently the site for New England Medal Finals, it is believed the Eastern States Exposition, or "The Big E" as it is usually referred to by the locals, is the second largest venue as far as seating capacity goes for an IHSA National show. Though 2006 Nationals had been held at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex, or "Harrisburg" as it is known, the classes themselves were in the 1,800-seat Equine Arena, while the 1984 National show was held in the "Large Arena" (the Equine Arena was constructed in 2002), with seating for over 6,500 spectators.

The Majority of the hunter seat teams which qualified for 2006 Nationals were not so fortunate in 2007. Out from the '06 team competition were Oklahoma State University, Kansas State University, Indiana University, Rocky Mountain College, Maryville College, Sweet Briar College, Miami University of Ohio, Ohio State University, St. Lawrence University, Delaware Valley College and the University of Vermont. In their places were Brown University, Goucher College, Berry College, University of Findlay, University of Kentucky, Purdue University, West Texas A & M University, the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Cazenovia College and 1997 champs the University of Delaware. Goucher College is the only school Campus Equestrian can confirm to have been making their first-ever appearance at IHSA Nationals with a full hunter seat team, though West Texas A & M likely had not previously accomplished this either. Seven teams were able to repeat as both Region Champions and Zones survivors. College of Charleston, Centenary College, Skidmore College, 2004 & 2005 National Champion Virginia Intermont College, 2006 Co-Reserve Champions Stanford University and Penn State University and Defending National Champion Mount Holyoke College were all back from the Harrisburg show, which had been one of the more balanced (and low scoring) shows this decade. Would the competition be as close as last season, when Mount Holyoke won their third championship to date by a 23-22 margin over both Penn State and Stanford?

The University of Findlay led first, as junior Becky Baumel (second on left) won team novice fences. Since Findlay's Travis Womer (not pictured) had won the individual intermediate fences to start the show less than an hour earlier, many wondered if Findlay was going to run away with the blue ribbons.

With Linda Shahinian and Randy Mullins in the judge's chairs and Ken Marash behind the announcer's microphone day one of IHSA Nationals got underway at 8:53AM, with Jennifer Cumming of Virginia Intermont the first rider in the ring to negotiate the individual intermediate jumps. Though this belongs in a separate story on the hunter seat individual classes, it should be noted that Findlay senior Travis Womer eventually won this division, important because it gave Findlay the first blue ribbon of any kind at 2007 IHSA Nationals, perhaps easing some of the tension for the Oiler faithful.

The second class of the day officially kicked off the hunter seat team competition. The team novice fences division included two riders who had competed for the exact same prize in '06, with Skidmores' Katherine Fegan having placed fourth and Penn States' Katherine Petro having started the Nittany Lions' on their way with a second. Neither had pointed up during the 2006-07 season and were thus eligible to compete in the division once again. With Marash reading the combined judge's scores shortly after each rider's turn, the placings could be determined before the riders were even pinned. Only the possibility of testing left the results in doubt.

But unlike both 2005 and 2006 Nationals, when very few of the hunter seat classes would be tested, judges Shahinian and Mullins chose to test frequently, having already made the top four in individual intermediate switch horses and jump the course as second time. For team novice the top three were tested, with Becky Baumel of Findlay, Rachel Griffith of Brown and Jessica Warner of Virginia Intermont all having scored in the 80's and each asked to ride their same horses over a specific group of fences. When the testing was complete, all 17 novice fences competitors returned to the ring for the awarding of ribbons. Sixth place went to Petro, who had scored a '73' while fifth went to Jennifer Piechowski of the University of Delaware, who had earned a '75.' Fourth place went to Cazenovia junior Elizabeth Bracken, whose '77' was the best of four scores in the '70's. Strangly enough the testing did not change the order of ribbons for the riders with each of the top three scores. Warner, from Anchorage, Alaska, scored an '81' which was the third highest score and subsequently worthy of the yellow ribbon. Griffith, a freshman from Merrimack, New Hampshire had a score of '82' and was ultimately the reserve champion.

The blue ribbon went to Baumel, a junior from Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey, who was making her IHSA Nationals debut. Findlay Hunter Seat Head Coach Sandra McCarthy jokingly (?) said after the class "I just told her 'do what Travis did,'" and Baumel obliged. However Baumels' jumping score of '84' was in fact better than any given the riders in individual intermediate an hour earlier.

Following the individual open and novice over fences divisions came the first flat class of Nationals. Like team novice fences, the team intermediate on the flat division included two riders who rode in the same division one year ago, with one of them being Hawthorne Hart of Skidmore, the 2006 team intermediate flat champion. Two of the entries had by coincidence faired well in the previous individual class before the jumps had been removed and the ring dragged. Catherine Brown of West Texas A & M had placed third in individual novice fences while Centenary College junior Rachel Samuels had won the division. Back at the start of the day Carly Swatek of the University of Wisconsin at Madison had placed eighth in individual intermediate fences, while Mount Holyoke senior Christine Gunn had placed second. Swatek and Gunn were also enterred in team intermediate flat.

All 17 riders walked, trotted and cantered in each direction. Eventually everyone was asked to line up in the middle. Then seven riders were asked to return to the rail for more flatwork. When it was over Hart had put Skidmore on the board, but with a sixth rather than the first she received in Harrisburg. Gunn proceeded to put Mount Holyoke on the board with a fifth while Sara Smith did likewise for Berry College by earning fourth. Swatek, a sophomore from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (and a former member of the University of Kentucky team) improved her score from the individual and put the Badgers on the scoreboard as well.

Three riders remained in the ring, with only two ribbons to be awarded. While Lindsay Kohl hoped to increase the University of Delaware total, Ashley Gallo of Findlay and Jessica May of Virginia Intermont likely had other ideas. The reserve ribbon went to Gallo, boosting Findlay's score to 12 points. From Des Plaines, Illinois, Gallo kept an unusual streak going. One of the few riders in attendance who could claim to have ridden at 2004 Nationals in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Gallo had placed second that year in team walk-trot-canter. A year later at '05 Nationals in Sunbury, Ohio, Gallo was again second, this time in individual walk-trot-canter. Gallo did not compete at 2006 Nationals, and the team intermediate flat was her only ride at this year's National show. Therefore Gallo finished her undergraduate years having only earned red ribbons at IHSA Nationals. May, a junior from Auburn, New York, was intermediate flat champion, moving VI's team total to within a point of Findlay. It was the first time in the ribbons at an IHSA National show for May, whose only previous ride was at '06 Nationals in team intermediate fences. Through two Findlay had 12, Virginia Intermont 11 and Brown five to round out the top three.

Centenary College sophomore Nora Crist (right, with Assistant Coach Emily Vaughan) boosted the Cyclones' total to nine points with a first in intermediate fences to start the team classes on day two.

The only occasion where one team class followed another was when team novice flat followed team intermediate flat. As was the case in each team class so far at least one competitor was a returnee from the 2006 division of the same name. Neither Fegan nor Julianne Wilson of Virginia Intermont had earned any points for their respective teams in the team novice flat division last season. Could they do better this time around?

Judges Mullins and Shahinian requested the usual walk-trot-canter-reverse-walk-trot-canter routine, though things went on longer than at a regular IHSA show. When the novice flat was lined up Penn State earned their second green ribbon of '07 Nationals as Lena Ohta placed sixth. Sarah Pandolfini became the first rider in Goucher College team history to earn points at an IHSA Nationals show, scoring two for the Gophers with a fifth. Zoe Steele-Rand became the third of three Findlay riders to earn team points, earning fourth place and raising the Oilers' team total to 15. Cazenovia College earned a few more points, as Sharla Englerth's third-place ribbon gave the Wildcats seven points overall.

Though the policy would change before the IHSA Nationals hunter seat classes were completed, all the riders not yet placed were still on their horses in the ring, hoping that Marash would announce their names so they could ride over to the winner's circle and be photographed with IHSA Founder and Executive Director Bob Cacchione. Next to greet Cacchione was Emma Bogdonoff of Brown. A freshman from New London, Connecticut, Bogdonoff's red ribbon made the Bears the third team in double figures, now with ten points. For a moment Brown was within five points of first place. However Virginia Intermont would prevail for the second time in less than an hour. From somewhere in the vicinity of Ashville, North Carolina, Virginia Intermont junior Wilson was team novice flat champion. Suddenly VI had 18 points, only three more than Findlay, but certainly alot considering Mount Holyoke won 2006 Nationals with only 23. Virginia Intermont had won both of the mid-season Tournament of Champions shows as well as an eighth consecutive Zone 4, Region 3 Region Championship. Would VI continue their hot pace?

Unlike the first three team classes, team walk-trot-canter did not contain a single rider from the same division one year ago. The final class of any kind on day one saw two more schools get on the scoreboard, but at the same time the rich got richer. Sixth place went to West Texas A & M senior Laura Wilder, perhap the first person in Buffs' team history to score a hunter seat team point an IHSA Nationals (West Texas A & M may have won their region in the early 1990's though it may have been a Texas A & M/University of Texas at Austin battle every one of those seasons as well. If you have any knowledge of West Texas A & M advancing a full hunter seat team to Nationals prior to 1995 please let us know - Editor). Centenary had faired extremely well in the individual classes, as Samuels won a second blue ribbon in individual novice flat during the day. However Heather Bowens' fifth in team walk-trot-canter gave the Cyclones only their first two team points at '07 Nationals. Findlay continued to pile up the points, as Raffi Kechejian was fourth in his IHSA debut (Kechejian would later also compete for the Oilers' western team). Third went to Allie Wetzel of Berry College, the freshman raising the Vikings' total to seven points. Mount Holyoke had perhaps the most team members in attendance, as their campus is less than a 15 minute drive from the Big E. Up until this point the defending champs had little to cheer for. Then Lyons freshman Emily Coler won second-place honors. From Minneapolis, Minnesota, Coler received the loudest reaction of the day with this placing.

Though it may have only been a few decibels lower, the Virginia Intermont reaction to first place was nearly as loud. From Boca Raton, Florida, Sophomore Jennifer Kelly made her IHSA Nationals debut a memorable one, becoming the third consecutive Virginia Intermont rider to win a team class. This marked the first time in five years that any hunter seat team competing at IHSA Nationals won three consecutive team classes (Ohio University pulled away from the field by doing this in 2002 - Editor). With day one completed and half the team classes in the books, Virginia Intermont had 25 points, more than any team could claim after all eight team classes in '06. However Findlay was only a first-place ribbon behind with 18. Brown held third with 10 points, while Berry, Cazenovia and defending champ Mount Holyoke were next in line with seven each. Though many began to talk openly about Virginia Intermont possibly reaching 40 points (which no one was certain had ever been done), VI Head Coach Eddie Federwisch was still worried about Findlay and even Mount Holyoke. The latter may have been 18 points behind, but yet the Lyons still had Nathalie Cooper riding in both open divisions over the final four classes not to mention Mount Holyokes' impressive history in the team walk-trot division. Since 1998 three Mount Holyoke riders had won team walk-trot, while all but one placed fifth or higher.

Day two of Nationals started with the alumni fences, which was followed by the jumping phase of the Cacchione Cup. As a result the first of three team classes to take place during the Friday session did not start until after 11AM. VI's May and College of Charleston's Julia Nichols were both returnees from the same division a year ago. Neither placed at that time though both would be more fortunate in '07. At least four other riders in this division competed once on the first day of competition at the Big E. As had been the case before, the judge's combined scores were far lower than many will recall from previous Nationals, with six of the 17 riders in this division earning '69' or less. Only two riders cracked the '80's, with Purdue freshman Kelli Parsons earning an '83' early on and seemingly in line to cruise to first.

However the last three riders to go came from schools named Mount Holyoke, Virginia Intermont and Centenary. May represented Virginia Intermont well, earning a '79' score. Dani Corkill of Mount Holyoke received a '77,' in line for fifth unless the top five were tested. Centenary sophomore Nora Crist became only the second intermediate rider after Parsons to score in the '80's, earning an '81.' In spite of the two-point difference, Parsons and Crist were tested. When the division was completed Nichols had earned Charleston their first point of the show with a sixth. Nichols' score was '76' while Corkill added two to the Lyons' total with a fifth. Cazenovia became the fourth team into double digits thanks to Jen Mondazzi, with her score of '78' adding three points to the Wildcat's total, now evening them up with Brown at 10 each. May did not get to test but her third put Virginia Intermonts' team total at 29, and with Findlay not in the top six this opened up some breathing room for the school from Bristol, Virginia.

From Iowa City, Iowa, Parsons was given the reserve ribbon, which provided Purdue with their first five points of '07 Nationals. From Ellicott City, Maryland, Crist moved Centenary College up to nine points, tieing them with Mount Holyoke for the moment, by virtue of her better test which resulted in a blue ribbon for the Cyclones.

Following the alumni flat and the first appearance of western riders in the ring for phase one of the individual AQHA Trophy, the team open flat was centerstage. Though this division usually sees the most riders who competed in the same division last season return for another round, the field included only two riders from the '06 class. Former Cacchione Cup winner Ashley Woodhouse had been out of the ribbons in this division at Harrisburg while Hannah Mayer from College of Charleston had been sixth. Would either place higher this time out?

The format for testing the flat changed slightly from day one. Following the usual walking, trotting and cantering in each direction, all but eight of the riders were excused to empty out the ring slightly for testing (one event that may have led to this was an issue regarding the attaching of ribbons to the horse's bridle while pinning team walk-trot-canter the previous afternoon. With the ribbon so close to his face at least one horse tried to take off. Since the rider had only so much room to throw the ribbon off at the canter it was decided to thin things out rather than have the bottom half of the class stand in the middle). Remaining in the ring were Woodhouse, Cooper, Whitney Keefe of Brown, Samantha Pandolfi of Penn State, Jonathan Cohen of Goucher, Kristina Christiansen of the University of Delaware, Diana Glenney of the University of Kentucky and Katie Johnston of Findlay. With no Virginia Intermont rider in the ring, Johnston had a chance to make up seven points and close the VI lead to only four points. After considerable work without stirrups the testing was complete and the placings were announced.

Mount Holyoke College senior Nathalie Cooper (on horse; Her first name is pronounced 'Natalie' as the 'H' is silent) won the first of her two blue ribbons in team open flat. After earning only two points through the first three team classes, the Lyons added 23 more over the final five divisions, actually exceeding their 23-point effort which won the National Championship a year earlier.

Cohen gave Goucher a third point with sixth place while Christiansen became the second Delaware rider to earn a fifth. Johnston took fourth place, raising Findlay's total to 21, not enough to catch Virginia Intermont with a first in the following division. Keefe took third place, momentarily giving Brown third place with 14 points. Glenney, a senior who goes to school in her hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, provided the Wildcats with their first team points at an IHSA National show since the 1980's with a second.

Mount Holyoke leapfrogged over Brown into third place as Cooper won outright. A senior from Newport, Rhode Island, Cooper had earned the highest score over fences in the Cacchione Cup jumping phase earlier in the day (an '86') while having earned the second highest score in the Cacchione flat phase a day earlier (an '85). Coopers' heroics moved Mount Holyoke to 17 points, three ahead of Brown and four behind Findlay.

The last of the three team classes during the Friday/day two session was team walk-trot. This division is notorious for being the most difficult to predict, as many of the riders had little or no riding experience before attending the school of their choice. Several established coaches over the years have complained how it can be difficult to find someone to fill this division. While Virginia Intermont won two of the previous three IHSA National Championships, they won them without earning a single point in this division, with none of the VI walk-trot riders able to add points since Jennifer Parshall won the division at 2003 Nationals. Would this year's VI entry, who happenned to by junior Jamie King, far better?

Minus the cantering, all riders walked and trotted in each direction, with virtually no one making a mistake on the diagonal. This class was then split, with half the riders going again and another group going shortly thereafter. Eventually the placings were announced, with Lyndsey Renken equaling teammate Nichols to provide College of Charleston with another green ribbon. The pink ribbon went to Kate Miller of Mount Holyoke while the white was awarded to Emily Janosko of the University of Delaware. Though the Fighting Hens had come from behind to win in their only other appearance with a full team at a New England-based Nationals, it turned out that Janosko's three points which raised their total to seven were the last points of the season. Stanford University finished tied for second one year ago but up to this point had been shut out. Senior Elise-Marie Combs ended the scoring drought with a third. From Piedmont, California, Combs earned what turned out to be the only four points for the Cardinal this time around.

Virginia Intermont fans were quite loud when King was awarded the reserve ribbon, From Elizabeth City, North Carolina, King had raised the VI point total to 34, equaling their 2005 showing in Sunbury, Ohio. The Brown faithful also showed some good lungs, as junior Stephanie Carmack won the division to earn the Bears their first blue ribbon. From Pawcatuck, Connecticut, Carmack raised the Brown total to 21, good enough to tie Findlay for second place overall, at least until the next morning. With Findlay out of the ribbons it had become official: Virginia Intermont had clinched their third IHSA National Championship in four seasons. Two questions on the minds of many at that moment: Who would earn reserve high point team honors, and would Virginia Intermont break 40 points?

2007 Nationals marked the first time Brown University had a full hunter seat team qualified since 2003, and junior walk-trot rider Stephanie Carmack (on horse) became the first Brown rider to win a team class at IHSA Nationals since Amanda Forte won team open fences in 2002.

Though the hunter seat team totals from IHSA Nationals starting in 1992 are known, it is not clear if any IHSA teams between 1979 (when the first official team classes took place at the year-end National show) and 1991 scored more than 34 points. The 1988 Southern Seminary team definitely scored at least 32 points, but may have earned as many as 38. Between 1979 and 1981 there were no intermediate team classes, as the division was established for the 1981-82 season. If anyone with completed IHSA Nationals programs from 1979 through 1991 knows the high scores from these shows could they please contact Campus Equestrian (e-mail us at editor@campusequestrian.com) to let us know what they were? We do know that Southern Seminary won in 1985 with 31 points while Colby-Sawyer College and Penn State tied for the top spot with 22 points in 1989, believed to be the lowest 'high score' for a hunter seat national champion.

The final hunter seat team class of 2007 started the third day/Saturday session. At 8:37AM Berry College senior Lauren Brown was the first rider on course to compete in team open fences. Brown however was not the first person in the ring, as IHSA Nationals included a Ringmaster for the first time in many years. Dressed in a red coat and a top hat, Ringmaster Ed Nowak blew into his horn moments before Brown enterred the in-gate (though he was not present the first two days, when most of the classes were hunter seat, Nowak used his horn to announce all the english and several of the western classes on Saturday).

As was the case with all the jumping classes, one who was writing them down after they were announced had a general idea of who was going to add points to the totals. It turned out that Shahinian and Mullins called back six riders, each of whom had bucked the trend by scoring in the '80's. Adding to the excitement was that Brittany Denton of Virginia Intermont, whose score of '84' was fourth before the testing, got a call back, keeping the 40-point dream alive temporarily. Cooper, Keefe and Findlay's Laura Baldine were also in the top six, creating just as much excitement for the reserve race (Save for Baldine, who was not a Cacchione rider, Denton, Cooper and Keefe could use this opportunity to prepare for the work-off phase of the Cacchione Cup Competition, in which these three riders made up half the field and which would take place immediately following the open fences). When the test was completed and the riders returned to the ring to accept their ribbons, sixth went to Lauren Brown, who had scored an '83' but who saw two riders move ahead of her in the testing phase. Berry College thus finished with eight points in their first IHSA Nationals team appearance since 2004. Fifth went to Keefe, giving the Brown Bears 23 overall. 2006 had marked the 10th anniversary of Brown having gone varsity with their equestrian program, and the 2006-07 Brown team set a school record for points at an IHSA Nationals show, eclipsing their 2002 total of 21 in their fourth trip to the year-end show. Alas Denton was fourth, keeping VI under 40 but still champs with a new school record 37 points at an IHSA National show. Baldine, a senior from Yorkville, Illinois had only scored an '80' during her initial jumping round but moved up over Brown, Keefe and Denton to take third place and give Findlay outright control of Reserve High Point Team - for roughly two minutes.

Skidmore senior Woodhouse (who would place eighth in the 2007 Cacchione contest) had earned an '86' before testing, but would it be her or Cooper with the top prize? If the Skidmore senior from the Minneapolis suburbs prevailed then Mount Holyoke would tie Brown for third place. However if Cooper was superior, then Mount Holyoke would tie Findlay for Reserve.

Marash announced 'In second place we have number 476 Ashley Woodhouse of Skidmore College,' which drew as many cheers from the large Mount Holyoke contingent as from the Skidmore faithful. Cooper, with a score of '87' to lead going into the testing, had prevailed again. Mount Holyoke had scored 30 points in 2005, 23 in 2006 and now 25 in 2007. The Lyons can claim to have won outright or at least shared second place each of the past three seasons.

The results of the final team class meant that only five teams broke double digits, with Virginia Intermont the new champions with 37, Mount Holyoke and Findlay tied for reserve with 25, Brown in third place with 23 and Cazenovia, which only advanced a full team to Nationals after another Zone 2 team was disqualified, leading the rest of the pack with 10 points.

Virginia Intermont College Head Coach Eddie Federwisch (left) and IHSA Founder and Executive Director Bob Cacchione pose with the Collegiate Cup, awarded to the top hunter seat team at IHSA Nationals annually. Virginia Intermont College claimed the trophy for the third time in four seasons, earning 37 points to win by a healthy 12 points over both Mount Holyoke College and the University of Findlay.

The Virginia Intermont 12 point margin of victory over both the Lyons and the Oilers was not unlike the outcome in 1993. At '93 Nationals hosted by Lake Erie College, Hollins won the championship by a 30-18 margin over both Centenary College and Colorado State University. The 12 point margin is - until someone proves otherwise - the largest difference between first and second place within a hunter seat team competition at IHSA Nationals in the organization's history.

Shortly before the Parade of Teams was to begin a few hours later, Federwisch reflected on VI's success. Federwisch felt that his riders had exceptional draws.

"We drew Lois Lane and Bellagio from Hollins. Gladiator twice and Chili from Skidmore (Chili was in fact voted hunter seat horse of 2007 Nationals - Editor). Retro from Caz, Lemon Park from Tufts. It was our best draw ever at Nationals," said Federwisch, whose team can claim to be the only one to compete at each of the last eight IHSA Nationals shows in the hunter seat team competition.

It should also be noted that none of the riders used by Virginia Intermont in the '07 team competition appear to be seniors, so many might be back in the same division or another one year from now when Zone 8 hosts Nationals at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center in Burbank, California. Only the results of 2008 Zone 4 Zones - and up to ten Zone 4, Region 3 regular season shows - can hold back VI from trying to make it four out of five.

---Steve Maxwell

Here are the 2007 IHSA Nationals Hunter Seat Team Class-by-Class Results. The first four classes listed were held Thursday, May 3rd, the next three were held Friday, May 4th, and the final class was held Saturday, May 5th. The judges for all hunter seat classes were Linda Shahinian and Randy Mullins:

Team Novice Equitation Over Fences: 1. Becky Baumel, University of Findlay. 2. Rachel Griffith, Brown University. 3. Jessica Warner, Virginia Intermont College. 4. Elizabeth Bracken, Cazenovia College. 5. Jennifer Piechowski, University of Delaware. 6. Katherine Petro, Penn State University.

Team Intermediate Equitation On The Flat: 1. Jessica May, Virginia Intermont College. 2. Ashley Gallo, University of Findlay. 3. Carly Swatek, University of Wisconsin at Madison. 4. Sarah Smith, Berry College. 5. Christine Gunn, Mount Holyoke College. 6. Hawthorne Hart, Skidmore College.

Team Novice Equitation On The Flat: 1. Julianne Wilson, Virginia Intermont College. 2. Emma Bogdonoff, Brown University. 3. Sharla Englerth, Cazenovia College. 4. Zoe Steele - Rand, University of Findlay. 5. Sarah Pandolfini, Goucher College. 6. Lena Ohta, Penn State University.

Team Walk-Trot-Canter Equitation: : 1. Jennifer Kelly, Virginia Intermont College. 2. Emily Coler, Mount Holyoke College. 3. Allie Wetzel, Berry College. 4. Raffi Kechejian, University of Findlay. 5. Heather Bowen, Centenary College. 6. Laura Wilder, West Texas A & M University.

Team Intermediate Equitation Over Fences: 1. Nora Crist, Centenary College. 2. Kelli Parsons, Purdue University. 3. Jessica May, Virginia Intermont College. 4. Jen Mondazzi, Cazenovia College. 5. Dani Corkill, Mount Holyoke College. 6. Julia Nichols, College of Charleston.

Team Open Equitation On The Flat: 1. Nathalie Cooper, Mount Holyoke College. 2. Diana Glenney, University of Kentucky. 3. Whitney Keefe, Brown University. 4. Katie Johnston, University of Findlay. 5. Kristina Christiansen, University of Delaware. 6. Jonathan Cohen, Goucher College.

Team Walk-Trot Equitation: 1. Stephanie Carmack, Brown University. 2. Jamie King, Virginia Intermont College. 3. Elise - Marie Menke, Stanford University. 4. Emily Janosko, University of Delaware. 5. Kate Miller, Mount Holyoke College. 6. Lyndsey Renken, College of Charleston.

Team Open Equitation Over Fences: 1. Nathalie Cooper, Mount Holyoke College. 2. Ashley Woodhouse, Skidmore College. 3. Laura Baldine, University of Findlay. 4. Brittany Denton, Virginia Intermont College. 5. Whitney Keefe, Brown University. 6. Lauren Brown, Berry College.

Hunter Seat Team Totals: