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No. 2 Vol. 5
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May 2016
Centenary IHSA Team Reigns In Success At Kentucky Event
By J. L. Shively he Centenary College Intercollegiate Horse Show Association team trotted into fourth place this month at the IHSA National Competition held in Lexington, KY. The IHSA is for full-time undergraduate students who are “interested in any level of riding,” says Michael Dowl-
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ing, an IHSA coach at Centenary where he has worked for the past 16 years. According to the IHSA website the organization was first established by Bob Cacchione in 1967 when he was a sophomore at Fairleigh Dickinson University, founding the association “on the principal that any college student should be able to participate in horse shows, regardless of their financial status or riding level.” The team at Centenary is one of the top ranking IHSA schools in the nation and competes locally in zone three region three. They compete against schools in northern New Jersey and southern New York such as Drew University, the United States Military Academy and Vassar. “Centenary has won our region every year for the past decade,” Dowling states of the IHSA team’s regional performance. The Centenary IHSA team currently has approximately
60 riders from all different riding levels. Competitions include walk/trot levels as well as an open competition including Hunt Seat as well as a Western Division. Throughout the academic year, teams and riders compete in a variety of shows and earn points which will help them qualify for nationals. The top two qualifying teams from each division earns a place to compete at Nationals. Subsequently the top two individual riders also move forward based on the point system. The Centenary team “participated in eight shows over the past two semesters,” says Dowling. With six shows in the fall semester and two in the spring. The regional competition was hosted by Centenary at the beginning of April and then zone finals were held in Gloucester leading up to Nationals early this month. Dowling explains that both individuals and teams parcontinued on page 4
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