Junior Joey Fink Wins Tournament of Champions Collegiate Medal! Goucher team ties with SCAD for 7th place!

Eighteen of the top Equestrian teams in the nation, including the Goucher Varsity Equestrian team, traveled to Randolph College this past weekend, to attend the annual Pre-Season Classic Tournament of Champions.

 

It was a very close race right up to the end of the day, with only seven points separating the 1st and 8th place teams.  Some of the larger Equestrian programs brought two full teams, with three and four Tournament of Champions Collegiate medal riders each.  Goucher finished the day with 23 points, tied for 7th with SCAD.

Final Team Results were:

SCAD, Black team - 31 points

Randolph College, Yellow Team - 29 points

Randolph College, Black Team - 29 points

Bridgewater College, Crimson - 28 points

St. Andrews Presbyterian College - 27 points

Lynchburg College - 25 points

Goucher College - 23 points

SCAD, Gold team - 23 points

Virginia Intermont - 19 points

UMass Amherst - 19 points

Mount Holyoke College, team A - 18 points

Virginia Tech - 18 points

Also competed:  Bridgewater, Gold team; University of Mary Washington; Mount Holyoke, team B; University of Delaware, University of West Virginia; University of Wisconsin

The Tournament of Champions Collegiate Medal is a special competition for the best Open riders from each team to compete in a Cacchione Cup style contest.  At the Pre-Season, 22 riders competed on the flat, 9 were invited back to compete on a course over fences, and the top three from the two first contests were called back to perform a mounted equitation test.  Junior Joey Fink won the Collegiate Medal, for the first time in Goucher history!

In addition,  every point rider on the Goucher team ribboned at the Pre-Season Classic!  Other individual Gopher team highlights included:

Joey Fink - 2nd place Open Flat

Joey Fink - 3rd place Open Fences

Alison Radgowski - 2nd place Intermediate Flat

Alison Radgowski - 6th place Intermediate fences

Anna Carmichael - 5th place Novice flat

Erika Scott - 4th place Advanced Walk Trot Canter

Kaili Janette - 3rd place Walk Trot 

A great start to the season for the Gophers!   Videos to come!

The Goucher Varsity Riding team will next compete at home on Oct. 6 the first regular IHSA show of the season. Stay tuned for more details!