Category: Riding
Vixens Widen Lead in IHSA Region
Sweet Briar swept the top finishes in its home Intercollegiate Horse Show Association show, hosted at Rogers Riding Center on Nov. 12. With 37 points, the Vixens were the high-point team, while sophomore Sarah Hibler was the top individual rider in the show and classmate Olivia Smith claimed the reserve high-point rider title. Randolph College [...]
Hibler is High-point Rider at Randolph
Sarah Hibler ’14 was the high-point rider at the Randolph/Lynchburg College Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Show hosted by Randolph College on Oct. 7. Class winners include Katie Drake ’14 in her first IHSA show in novice fences, Laura Leitch ’14 in advanced walk trot canter and Hibler in intermediate fences and flat. Other standings include: [...]
Vixens Atop IHSA Region after Bridgewater Show
Coach Ian McCartney’s riders won the team championship at the Bridgewater College Intercollegiate Horse Show Association show on Saturday, Oct. 29. The Vixens dominated the competition with 37 points. Second place went to Bridgewater with 25 points. Washington and Lee and James Madison University tied for third with 24 points. Sweet Briar was led by [...]
Riders Rave About Clinic, Clinician Raves About Riders
National Show Hunter Hall of Famer Bernie Traurig taught a two-day riding clinic at Sweet Briar in October, in which 17 students participated. Traurig has represented the United States eight times in World Cup Finals and in three Olympic disciplines, show jumping, dressage and eventing. He has competed in more than 60 show jumping grand [...]
Sweet Briar Champions Abound at Culpeper Show
It was a quite a gaggle of people and horses that trucked up U.S. 29 from Sweet Briar to Commonwealth Park in Culpeper for the Horse Shows in the Sun, aka HITS, circuit finals from Sept. 29-Oct. 2. Between two hunter show teams, the jumper show team and individual students who qualified to compete on [...]
Vixens Reserve Champions in First IHSA Show
The Sweet Briar Intercollegiate Horse Show Association team took the reserve championship in the first IHSA show of the season on Sept. 24 at Hollins University. Sarah Hibler ’14 led the individual highlights with first- and second-place finishes that added up to make her the show’s high-point rider. Kendall Harris ’13 collected enough points to [...]
2011-2012 IHSA Team Members Announced
Coach Ian McCartney has announced selections for Sweet Briar’s 2011-2012 Intercollegiate Horse Show Association team. Tryouts for the team are conducted like regular IHSA competitions, in which students are assigned a horse and asked to show without any warm-up time. The system is a test of how well a rider can read her horse and [...]
Hunters Compete at Bridgewater
Three Vixen riders competed at the Bridgewater Horse Show on Saturday, Sept. 10 accompanied by their coach Matt Payne. Katie Drake ’14 and Chinook showed in three classes, taking home a first- and second-place ribbon, along with a sixth-place finish. Grace Griffin ’14 competed on Casanova and was fourth over fences. Frankie Beyer ’14 showed [...]
Meet Riding’s Matt Payne
Matt Payne, with his easy smile and ready sense of humor, is undoubtedly a calming influence in the nerve-wracking realm of collegiate competitive riding. “I try not to take anything too seriously,” says Payne, Sweet Briar’s newest riding instructor and coach, having joined the faculty this fall. That said, he describes himself as “very competitive [...]
Vixens Sweep USEF Adult Medal at Greensboro
Sophomore jumpers Sarah Hibler and Olivia Smith had a great day at the eight annual Greensboro Hunter Jumper Classic, where the Vixen hunter and jumper teams competed over the weekend of Sept. 3. Hibler was champion in the Adult Jumpers and won the Adult Classic, while Smith won the U.S. Equestrian Federation Adult Medal and [...]
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