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She drew "Addie" for the rail phase of the Individual AQHA Trophy division and earned the high score. University of Findlay sophomore Katie Morehead gives a thumbs up after drawing Addie a second time for Individual Open Western Horsemanship. Morehead went on to win the class at 2009 IHSA Nationals in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on April 25th.

FINDLAY CONTINUES DOMINENCE OF INDIVIDUAL WESTERN DIVISIONS AT YEARLY IHSA NATIONAL SHOW

Murfreesboro, TN - When we wrote our account of the Individual Western classes held at 2008 IHSA Nationals in Burbank, California we analyzed how the University of Findlay had dominated the proceedings since 2003. Through May of '08 the Oilers had won 14 out of 35 individual western classes, or 40 percent. In 2008 Findlay became the first western program ever to win four individual undergraduate divisions at an IHSA National show. Findlay was sure to have their chances again in 2009, with not one but two riders entered in five of the six individual western divisions. But remember, this means that ten riders from other schools would have a shot to win each time as well!

Since several high profile programs left the IHSA following the 2005-06 season to compete NCAA/Varsity-only, two programs have emerged as the most powerful from a 'team' standpoint, and though these schools are in different regions they are within a three hour drive of each other, as well as being within the same state. Findlay is one of the two, while the other is nine-time western National Champion Ohio State. Coached by Ollie and Debbie Griffith, the Ohio State University won 2008 Nationals while Findlay was reserve by a point. In 2007 Findlay blew out the competition while Ohio State was reserve. Since 2005 Findlay had won each of the odd-numbered seasons while Ohio State took the title on even years. While the Buckeyes have represented their region in the western team competition at IHSA Nationals every year since 1987 and have effectively dominated the team classes over those 22 seasons it is Findlay which has won more individual classes, with ten other riders winning prior to 2003 raising the Oilers' total of individual nationals blue ribbons to 24 entering the 2009 meet at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum.

34 schools could claim at least one IHSA rider entered in the individual undergraduate western classes in Murfreesboro, with 11 of them represented in the first individual western class of the competition, the intermediate western horsemanship (a separate story on the english and western alumni divisions will appear in the middle of June). When the IHSA expanded Nationals to four days in 2004 (when the National show was also at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum) the schedule was set up so that the entire first day of Nationals would be hunter seat and that the entire final day would be western. On days two and three both disciplines would hold a few classes. As a result the individual intermediate western horsemanship did not start until the late afternoon on Friday, April 24th, after nine other classes took place earlier that day.

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With each passing year he moved up in the placings. Keith Ceddia of Ohio State was sixth in 2006, fourth in 2007, second in 2008 and the winner of individual open reining at Nationals on April 25th. Ceddia (third on right) will be one of four riders in the NRHA-sponsored division to compete in the Collegiate class at the NRHA Derby in Oklahoma City on June 27th.


Each of the intermediate riders walked, jogged and lopped in both directions at the request of judges Debra Jones Wright and Allen Mitchels. Then all 12 riders lined up and went through the intermediate pattern. After nearly an hour the placings were determined. Announcer Justin Ochs read the results from tenth down to first, with tenth awarded to Rebecca Schmitt, the first of four Morrisville State College riders to compete in the individual classes. Cazenovia College junior Jennifer Keefe was eighth at Nationals last year in individual beginner western horsemanship, and this time she nearly equaled that feat, placing ninth. Only two schools from Zone 8, Region 4 sent riders to IHSA Nationals. Oregon State had a full western team and several individuals qualified, while Linn-Benton Community College had two undergraduates and an alumni in tow. Freshman Larissa Bjornsen was the first Linn-Benton rider to compete, placing eighth. Seventh went to Whitney Mahlock of St. Mary of the Woods College while sixth went to Lauren Stanford of Laramie County Community College. Alyssa Vieth had the highest individual western placing of any Murray State western rider at 2009 Nationals, earning a fifth here. McCabe Jones, a University of Wyoming freshman was fourth while Rebecca Fournier was the first of two Findlay riders to hear her name called in the division. A sophomore from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, Fournier had won individual beginner western at '08 Nationals. Fournier was third while Cal Poly - Pomona senior Krista Whitney took the Reserve Championship in her final IHSA undergraduate ride. For the 25th time in IHSA history a University of Findlay western rider won an individual blue ribbon. Spencer Zimmerman, a sophomore from Newport, Pennsylvania not only won the class he could have claimed his second top ten ribbon in less than an hour! Zimmerman had the rare distinction of riding not only in consecutive classes at IHSA Nationals, but three classes in a row! Zimmerman had placed out of the ribbons in team novice western, then placed eighth in individual walk-trot, and finally won intermediate western. Both of the latter two divisions started a moment late as Zimmerman had to change twice. Ironically, teammate Fournier would have to race from the ring to get changed for team walk-trot, which was the very next class on April 24th. And for the second year in a row both Fournier and Zimmerman were in the same division! Fournier won individual beginner western horsemanship in Burbank, while Zimmerman was the Reserve Champion. One wonders if both will ride in individual novice western in Lexington next season?!

The second of six individual western classes was also the fifth class of the day on Saturday, April 25th. The individual open reining is perhaps the most highly anticipated of all the individual classes at Nationals. This is because those who make the top four advance to the National Reining Horse Association's Derby in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, held this year on Saturday, June 27th. These four riders represent the IHSA in the Collegiate Derby, which also includes four riders selected from NCAA/Varsity programs and four other at-large selections (all of which came from NCAA/Varsity programs in 2008-09). Of the twelve IHSA riders who survived the three semifinal shows to reach the NRHA reining class, three were returnees from 2008. Two of the three, Renae Burks of West Virginia University and Keith Ceddia of Ohio State University, made the top four in '08 and competed at the Derby. Would they be able to stay inside the top four in '09?

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University of Findlay sophomore Spencer Zimmerman (center) poses between teammate Kristin Swankie and Assistant Coach Jimmy Frebes (on right) after winning individual intermediate western on April 24th. Because he competes in both western and english divisions, Zimmerman wound up riding in three consecutive classes held that day.

One by one each of the riders took their turn executing the reining pattern as best they could (no judges' scores were read aloud during the western divisions, so no one knew what to expect when the placings were announced). When the division was over there was a delay, caused by the fact that two riders finished in a tie with regard to the judge's un-announced combined scores. Even more importantly the tie was for fourth place, meaning that only one of the two riders could advance to the Derby. To be honest there was confusion at this point. Riders were invited into the ring to receive their awards but when tenth place was being announced Ochs then backtracked and asked everyone to wait for a moment. Then Ochs asked the tenth place rider to return her ribbon and also told everyone in the arena that they were excused for a moment. Then it turned out that a ride-off for fourth was necessary. Both Black Hawk College freshman Cada Hunn and Findlay sophomore Katie Morehead had to do their pattern once again. Then everyone returned for the announcements. However after everyone gathered in the ring a second time Ochs once again had to excuse everyone as there was still debate elsewhere in the coliseum over how a tie is broken in this particular situation. Campus Equestrian never did learn exactly why there was so much debate, but eventually we did get the placings. Morrisville State freshman Catherine Howlett was tenth, equaling teammate Schmitt's placing in intermediate western. Joe Boellmann was ninth, the junior being the lone member of the State University of New York at Cobleskill team to reach Nationals. Ohio State earned their first undergraduate western individual ribbon of the contest as junior Meghan Ritchey was eighth. Middle Tennessee State freshman Korry Bailey was seventh while West Texas A & M's Jordan Mitchell was sixth in what was the first of two consecutive classes for the senior from Glenwood, Utah. However unlike Zimmerman and Fournier, Mitchell had time between the classes as there was a lengthy break for the Parade of Teams and a presentation honoring the IHSA's 30 year relationship with the AQHA (Mitchell went on to win the next class, the team open reining division).

In fifth place was Hunn, which meant that defending individual AQHA Trophy winner Morehead would compete in the Collegiate Derby for the first time. Morehead's fourth would be the first of two ribbons the Findlay, Ohio resident would receive on this day. Burks, a junior from Hillsboro, West Virginia, moved up one place from last year, taking the yellow ribbon. Burks will also hope to move up in the Derby placings, having finished tenth out of twelve in Oklahoma City last summer. The Reserve Championship went to Alicia Daugherty of Texas Tech University. A junior from Alpine, Texas, Daugherty was making her first IHSA Nationals appearance of any kind. Like Morehead, Daugherty would ride again later in the day, though this would be her lone ribbon above the participation level at '09 Nationals. Ceddia has become a pro at surviving the NRHA Reining division, heading to the Derby with the 2009 Individual Open Reining Champion ribbon. Since his IHSA Nationals debut at Harrisburg in May of 2006 Ceddia has placed sixth, fourth, second and now first in the division (Though Ceddia did not make the top four in '06 he was one of the four at-large selections made by the NRHA). In Ceddia's three prior Derby appearances the Sunbury, Ohio resident has placed second, twelefth and second in that order. Ceddia is the first Ohio State rider to win an individual class at Nationals since Natalie Norval won individual novice western in 2007, and the twelfth undergraduate to win individually in Buckeye program history.

(UPDATE: At the Derby on June 27 IHSA riders earned eleventh, ninth, sixth and second place ribbons. With a score of 207.50 Burks was eleventh while Ceddia tied Chloe Gray of the University of South Carolina for ninth with a score of 209. Morehead had sixth place all to herself with a score of 211.50 while Daugherty tied Maggie Gratny of Texas A & M for the Reserve Championship as both earned a score of 214.50. Lyndsey Jordan of Auburn University was the Champion with a 218 score. Gratny, Bri Parnell of Oklahoma State University, Nichole Grant of the University of Georgia and Carrie Von Uhlit of Texas Christian University were selected based on their performance at the Varsity Equestrian National Championship while Jordan, Gray, Helen Lauth of South Dakota State University and Kate Stewart of the University of Georgia were at-large selections made by the NRHA. Each of the 2008-09 at-large selections turned out to be of the NCAA/Varsity type. The complete placings from the NRHA Derby class appear at the bottom of this story - Editor).

Though only two classes came and went before Individual Open Western, a considerable amount of time passed due to the presentation of hunter seat awards, schooling and a dragging of the ring in between. Individual open western horsemanship riders Morehead, Daugherty, Howland and Sara Gibson of the University of Oregon were returnees from the NRHA Reining class earlier while six of the remaining eight entries were riding at 2009 IHSA Nationals for the first time. After the usual walk-jog-lope-line up-do your pattern routine was completed tenth place went to Elizabeth Whitman, a freshman at Oregon State. The Beavers were one of three schools with two riders qualified in the division. Ninth place went to Bernadette Loomis of Washington College, who had competed in the rail phase of the Individual AQHA Trophy division a day earlier. Eighth went to Ashley Jabrocki of Michigan State University while seventh went to Allie Jones of Berry College. Like Loomis, Jones also was an Individual AQHA qualifier. Howland earned her highest ribbon during the '09 National show with a sixth. Jarrod Bush was the first of two Findlay riders to finish inside the top five of individual open horsemanship, placing fifth. When she placed second in team advanced western (in 2006) and second in team open western (in 2007), Sara Gibson gave her hometown as Oregon City, Oregon. Now from Bend, Oregon, Gibson earned her first IHSA Nationals ribbon in two years with a fourth here. Elisabeth Bianco of Ohio State was third while the Reserve Championship went to Kody Zaagman of St. Andrews Presbyterian College. From Prophetstown, Illinois, Zaagman would tie teammate Kelsey Moody for the best western ribbon earned by a St. Andrews rider at 2009 Nationals (Moody would finish second in team open western horsemanship which was the final division of any kind held at 2009 Nationals). Morehead, who is the daughter of Findlay Head Coach Cindy Morehead, won the class, giving Findlay their 26th individual western blue ribbon at an IHSA Nationals show since Joann Strayer won individual intermediate western in 1989.

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Seen here with her Mother, Heather Allenby of Findlay (on left) won individual novice western on April 26th. Findlay has now won 28 individual undergraduate IHSA Nationals western classes since 1989 and 20 since 2000. Findlay has also won eight of the last 12, with Allenby having won two of them.

There were only six classes held on Sunday, April 26th but three of them were individual western sections. The day started with the first rider entering the ring for Individual Advanced Western Horsemanship at 9:04AM. By 10:15AM the results were ready for Ochs to read. Tenth place went to Brittany Karl, a senior who is also the first member of the North Carolina State western team to qualify for Nationals since the discipline was re-introduced to North Carolina schools in 2005 (Zone 4 was completely without western from the early 1990's until Region 1 introduced it in 1999. In the fall of 2005 Zone 4, Region 3 - which includes North Carolina State - started holding western shows again). Alexandra Fitch was the second Linn-Benton Community College undergraduate into the ribbons, earning ninth place. It should be noted that former Linn-Benton rider and current coach Jason Peacock won alumni western horsemanship a day earlier. Brittany Gambill was the second of three St. Mary of the Woods College rider to make the top ten individually, placing seventh. Christina Campbell was the lone Midway College undergraduate to reach 2009 Nationals, the senior placing sixth. North Dakota State could also claim only one rider qualified, with sophomore Janelle Lanoue earning fifth place. Mark Kucko was the first of two Findlay riders to place inside the top ten in advanced western, with the senior going out with a fourth. Middle Tennessee State's Megan Hephner earned the Blue Raiders' highest undergraduate placing at '09 Nationals, but the sophomore from Georgetown, Kentucky finished two places behind 2008 MTSU graduate Amy Snoderly, who won alumni reining on Friday evening. Following Hephner through the out-gate was Reserve Champion Amanda Stalford of Ohio State. A junior from Logan, Ohio, Stalford just missed out on becoming the thirteenth Buckeye to win an individual class at Nationals. Instead Kimberly Deane earned the 27th individual blue ribbon at IHSA Nationals in Findlay program history. A freshman from Bernardston, Massachusetts, Deane made it two straight individual blues for the Oilers. Also Findlay retained a shot at four (or even five) individual blue ribbons to equal (or exceed) the record set at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center nearly 12 months earlier.

Following team intermediate western horsemanship and the reining phase of the individual AQHA Trophy class it was time for the third-to-last class of the IHSA season and the next-to-last individual class. The division in question was the individual beginner western, and save for the fact that no one had to lope the class was run in similar fashion to the previous horsemanship divisions. Oregon State, which still had a shot at the team National Championship at the time, claimed the tenth place rider in Kathleen Kruchok. Madeah Daubert was the final Murray State rider to compete in 2008-09, placing ninth. Same goes for Lauren Bender of Centenary College, who was eighth. Though she did not ride hunter seat at 2009 Nationals Bender did compete for the English team during the regular season. The Cyclones were the talk of Nationals a day earlier, as the English team captured their first National Championship in 30 years. Katelyn French of the University of Wyoming was seventh while Brian Booth of Utah State University was sixth, the latter the lone member of the Aggies to qualify for Nationals. Elise Gerken of Findlay was fifth, and unsurprisingly Gerken was the first of two Oilers to place inside the top five. St. Andrews Presbyterian College senior Jessica Gesel went out with a fourth while Chris Holve of Stanford was third. A sophomore from Tuba City, Arizona, Holve was surprisingly the first individual qualifier - english or western (and excluding the AQHA Trophy rider) - from Stanford to compete at '09 Nationals (The Cardinal did field a full hunter seat team in the competition, eventually tieing Virginia Intermont College for third). Reserve Champion honors went to Lillian Flynn of Findlay. A freshman from Pinckney, Michigan, Flynn was one of six Findlay riders to win an individual undergraduate class at Semifinals just over a month earlier.

Between 2000 and 2006 nearly all the western riders to reach Nationals through Zone 7 Zones came from three schools: Texas A & M University, Oklahoma State University and West Texas A & M University. The first two mentioned no longer compete in the IHSA, which has allowed riders from other schools in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and Louisiana to advance. Last season Kayla McCullough became the first rider from Redlands Community College to qualify for Nationals, placing fourth in individual novice western. In 2009 Megan Matthews became the second Redlands Community College rider in program history to compete at Nationals. Though she finished second to Holve at Semifinals in Canyon, Texas on March 22nd, Matthews defeated the entire field at the National show. The freshman from Edmond, Oklahoma won beginner western, marking the first time since 2002 that a Zone 7 Western rider not from one of the three schools mentioned earlier had won a western class at Nationals (and the '02 winner was from a school that would be moved into Zone 9 the following season - Editor).

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Head Coach Justin Lynn (on left) and LuAnn Ulrich of the AQHA (on right) pose in the winner's circle with Redlands Community College freshman Megan Matthews after she placed first in individual beginner western horsemanship on April 26th. Matthews is the first rider in Redlands history to win a class at IHSA Nationals. Matthews even finished ahead of two Findlay riders to do it!


Novice Western Horsemanship was the final individual class of 2009 IHSA Nationals, and also the individual class with the shortest history. Novice western was introduced for the 2003-04 season, and though Nationals went to a four-day format for the first time that spring the novice western was not the only reason the show needed to add the extra day (the Friday and Saturday sessions running past 10:00PM in 2003 had more to do with it). Since DeeAnn Whitehead of Findlay was the first champion of the division in 2004 two more Oilers had won the division, as had Norval of Ohio State (incorrectly listed as from the University of Akron in the 2009 Nationals program) and Sarah McKee of Middle Tennessee State (the latter proving someone from a program outside the state of Ohio has a chance). Findlay had two riders qualified in the division this season, while Ohio State had one. Could the Oilers equal their 'four individual blue ribbon record' established a year ago?

It should be noted that following each class Ochs first announced the names of the two riders who did not place inside the top ten, with each then being excused. Then the top ten countdown would commence. In tenth place was Morgyn Purdy of St. Mary of the Woods College, the final member of the Pomeroys (or 'Woodsies') to compete in '09. Also from Zone 9 was ninth place rider Patrick Davis of Black Hawk College. Though Davis and Hunn were the only Black Hawk riders to qualify individually the BHC western team took the early lead before eventually finishing third overall. The University of Montana had one representative at 2009 Nationals, and that individual was Camas Anderson. A senior, Anderson was eighth in her final undergradute ride. Kelsey Lieurance of Texas Tech was seventh while Kayla Hay of St. Andrews Presbyterian College was sixth. As a sophomore Hay placed fifth in individual intermediate flat in Burbank, nearly equaling the feat this time. Senior Anne Gomez was the second and final Stanford western individual qualifier to compete, placing fifth in her final IHSA undergraduate ride.

Findlay had yet to hear any of their rider's names announced, but then Ochs proclaimed Kelly Harmon of the Oilers was fourth. Excluding blue ribbons Findlay had received a second, a third, three fourths and two fifths in the individual western classes up through the Harmon announcement. Strangely enough the remaining three riders in the ring also came from the current top three in the western team standings (Findlay, Ohio State and Oregon State). Third went to Hilary Bedford of Ohio State. It was the final undergraduate ride for the Buckeye senior from Hilliard, Ohio who will be remembered for winning team novice western at 2008 Nationals to put Ohio State ahead for good as it turned out. When one factors in her reserve champion ribbon in team intermediate western in 2007 at the Big E in Springfield, Massachusetts Bedford graduates with a yellow ribbon, a red ribbon and a blue ribbon from various IHSA Nationals appearances. Almost half the Miller Coliseum went wild when Haley Marsh of Oregon State was announced as second. Sometimes second place receives more cheering than first place, usually because the fans of the only other rider left in the ring know that the one they rooted for will win. A sophomore from Milwaukie, Oregon (not spelled quite like the town in Wisconsin), Marsh had made her IHSA Nationals debut two days earlier, placing third in team advanced western horsemanship. The applause was equally loud for University of Findlay junior Heather Allenby, who won the division. From Portland, Oregon, Allenby could be called the proverbial 'old pro' at Nationals, having now won individual western classes at two different levels! Last season Allenby was the individual intermediate western champion, while also placing sixth in team novice western horsemanship at the LAEC's Equidome. Allenby made Findlay history in several ways: She is the first Oiler ever to win individual western classes at different levels at Nationals below the open level; She claimed the 28th western individual championship for an Oiler at an IHSA National show, the most for any school since Western was introduced to the IHSA in 1977, and Allenby helped Findlay tie their own record of four individual western blue ribbons at a National show set one year ago.

If winning all these individual blue ribbons was not enough, the Oilers came from behind in team open western horsemanship to win their third National Championship in five years (keeping the odd/even-thing going with the Buckeyes). Having also won the title in '01 the Oilers moved ahead of both Ohio State and Texas A & M for the most IHSA western team National Championships in the first decade of the new century (yes we are aware that the year 2000 is part of the 20th century, but Oklahoma State won that year, so we feel we can post the info as is and still sleep peacefully at night - Editor). In the most recent team competition, Findlay riders accounted for three of the six blue ribbons to edge Ohio State and Oregon State by a 25-21 count.

For the first ten years of the new millennium two zones wound up dominating the individual western blue ribbons. In fact of the 56 individual western blue ribbons handed out at Nationals 45 went to schools in these two zones! Zone 7 claimed 19 blue ribbons in that time, with Texas A & M claiming ten, Oklahoma State five, West Texas A & M two and both Kansas State (in their pre-Zone 9 days) and Redlands Community College one each. Zone 6 could boast of 26 individual champions, with Findlay way ahead with 20, Ohio State next with five, and Black Hawk College with one from their pre-Zone 9 days (Black Hawk and Kansas State both became members of Zone 9, Region 2 when the IHSA expanded to nine zones for 2002-03). Elsewhere Zone 9 has two (one each for Kansas State and St. Mary of the Woods) as does Zone 8 (one for Stanford and one for Fresno State, which left the IHSA prior to the 2005-06 season). Zone 2 has three winners (two from Morrisville State and one from Cazenovia) while Zone 5 has the third-most with four. Strangely enough the Zone 5 riders who won individual blue ribbons came from Western Kentucky University (no longer in the IHSA), Midway College (now in Zone 6) and Middle Tennessee State, the last of which has twice produced firsts. Though MTSU hosted Nationals at their Miller Coliseum in 2003, 2004 and 2009 their individual blue ribbon winners came from shows held in Burbank, California and West Springfield, Massachusetts! It should be noted that since 2006 when Zone 7 became a very different place Zone 6 has produced 12 winners, or four out of every six. For this trend not to continue it seems schools other than Findlay and Ohio State will have to raise their game to a new level, or see similar results in 2010.

---Steve Maxwell

The following is a list of the Individual Western Class-by-Class Results from 2009 IHSA Nationals, held at the Tennessee Miller Coliseum in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The first class listed was held Friday, April 24th, the next two on Saturday, April 25th and the final three classes were held on Sunday, April 26th. The Judges for all western classes were Debra Jones Wright and Allen Mitchels.

Individual intermediate western horsemanship: 1. Spencer Zimmerman, University of Findlay. 2. Krista Whitney, Cal Poly - Pomona. 3. Rebecca Fournier, University of Findlay. 4. McCabe Jones, University of Wyoming. 5. Alyssa Vieth, Murray State University. 6. Lauren Stanford, Laramie County Community College. 7. Whitney Mahloch, St. Mary of the Woods College. 8. Larissa Bjornsen, Linn-Benton Community College. 9. Jennifer Keefe, Cazenovia College. 10. Rebecca Schmitt, Morrisville State College.

National Reining Horse Association open reining pattern: 1. Keith Ceddia, Ohio State University. 2. Alicia Daugherty, Texas Tech University. 3. Renae Burks, West Virginia University. 4. Katie Morehead, University of Findlay. 5. Cada Hunn, Black Hawk College. 6. Jordan Mitchell, West Texas A & M University. 7. Korry Bailey, Middle Tennessee State University. 8. Meghan Ritchey, Ohio State University. 9. Joe Boellmann, State University of New York at Cobleskill. 10. Catherine Howland, Morrisville State College.

Individual open western horsemanship: 1. Katie Morehead, University of Findlay. 2. Kody Zaagman, St. Andrews Presbyterian College. 3. Elisabeth Bianco, Ohio State University. 4. Sara Gibson, Oregon State University. 5. Jarrod Bush, University of Findlay. 6. Catherine Howland, Morrisville State College. 7. Allie Jones, Berry College. 8. Ashley Jabrocki, Michigan State University. 9. Bernadette Loomis, Washington College. 10. Elizabeth Whitman, Oregon State University.

Individual advanced western horsemanship: 1. Kimberly Deane, University of Findlay. 2. Amanda Stalford, Ohio State University. 3. Megan Hephner, Middle Tennessee State University. 4. Mark Kucko, University of Findlay. 5. Janelle Lanoue, North Dakota State University. 6. Christina Campbell, Midway College. 7. Danielle DeMel, Cal Poly - Pomona. 8. Brittany Gambill, St. Mary of the Woods College. 9. Alexandra Fitch, Linn-Benton Community College. 10. Brittany Karl, North Carolina State University.

Individual beginner western horsemanship: 1. Megan Matthews, Redlands Community College. 2. Lillian Flynn, University of Findlay. 3. Christopher Holve, Stanford University. 4. Jessica Gesel, St. Andrews Presbyterian College. 5. Elisa Gerken, University of Findlay. 6. Brian Booth, Utah State University. 7. Katelyn French, University of Wyoming. 8. Lauren Bender, Centenary College. 9. Madeah Daubert, Murray State University. 10. Kathleen Kruchok, Oregon State University.

Individual novice western horsemanship: 1. Heather Allenby, University of Findlay. 2. Haley Marsh, Oregon State University. 3. Hilary Bedford, Ohio State University. 4. Kelly Harmon, University of Findlay. 5. Anne Gomez, Stanford University. 6. Kayla Hay, St. Andrews Presbyterian College. 7. Kelsey Lieurance, Texas Tech University. 8. Camas Anderson, University of Montana. 9. Patrick Davis, Black Hawk College. 10. Morgyn Purdy, St. Mary of the Woods College.

NRHA Collegiate Derby (June 27, 2009): 1. Lyndsey Jordan, Auburn University ("218" score - Champion). 2. TIE - Alicia Daugherty, Texas Tech University ("214.50" score - Tie for Reserve Champion). 2. Maggie Gratny, Texas A & M University ("214.50" - Tie for Reserve Champion). 4. Bri Parnell, Oklahoma State University ("212" - Tie for fourth). 4. Kate Stewart, University of Georgia ("212" - Tie for fourth). 6. Katie Morehead, University of Findlay (211.50). 7. Nichole Grant, University of Georgia ("211"). 8. Helen Lauth, South Dakota State University ("210.50"). 9. Keith Ceddia, Ohio State University ("209" - Tie for ninth). 9. Chloe Gray, University of South Carolina ("209" - Tie for ninth). 11. Renae Burks, West Virginia University ("207.50"). 12. Carrie Von Uhlit, Texas Christian University ("206"). (A special thanks to Texas A & M SID Chris Harrell for the Derby class results - Editor).

 


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