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Making their third appearance at IHSA Nationals with a full western team, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln finished fifth overall with 13 points. Head Coach Libby Lugar (second on right) can boast that her Cornhuskers have improved with each Nationals appearance, having scored seven points in 2005, 10 points last season and 13 this season.

The Purdue Equestrian team had a full hunter seat team at IHSA Nationals for the first time in three seasons. Since the Boilermakers were nearly a thousand miles from campus, it was doubtful that the real 'Purdue Pete' could make an appearance. However the Boilermakers brought the next best thing. Head Coach Jerry Steinmetz holds a Purdue Pete bobblehead figurine that made everyone feel right at home at the Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

ZONING IN!

Northern Illinois University hosted 2007 Zone 9 Zones the day after hosting their final Zone 9, Region 2 regular season show and Region 2 Regionals. Did the home field advantage help NIU on the occasion of their first appearance with a full hunter seat team at Zones?...
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ARCHIVES AND RELICS

Region 1: 2007 marked the first time that Western riders passed not through Zones but rather through Semifinals to reach Nationals folowing the Regional shows. Region 1 high point western team Saint Mary of the Woods traveled to Findlay, Ohio to compete in a six-way team competition while individual qualifiers found themselves in classes of up to 14 riders...
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Region 2: Black Hawk College advanced a western team to the post-season for the first time in three years. Black Hawk was sent to the Murfreesboro western Semifinal, where they faced six other teams in need of a top three placing...
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Region 3: The University of Nebraska at Lincoln picked up the most frequent-flyer miles of any Zone 9 school during the post-season. The Cornhuskers had to fly to California to compete at Western Semifinals, then had to go even further the opposite direction for IHSA Nationals. The California trip went very well, with only then-defending National Champion Ohio State able to finish ahead of them...
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