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Varsity
Equestrian Championships To Air On College Sports TV
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The
second Varsity Equestrian Championships, held April 18 at Texas
A & M University’s Dick Freeman Arena in College Station
Texas, will air on the College Sports TV (CSTV), July 3, at 8
pm (ET) and August 1, at 11 pm (ET).
Teams
from several conferences battled for the Hunt Seat Team Championship,
the Western Team Championship and the Overall Team Championship.
This program, presented by the American Quarter Horse Association,
will include clips from the Hunt Seat and Western competitions
as well as interviews with riders and coaches from various attending
schools.
Equestrian
is a NCAA emerging sport by the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) and is offered at 13 Division I and six Division II colleges
from coast to coast. The NCAA defines an emerging sport as: “a
sport recognized by the NCAA that is intended to provide additional
athletics opportunities to female student-athletes.” For
more information about equestrian and the NCAA please contact
Andrea Ice, Assistant Director, NGB Services, at 859-225-6977
or via email at aice@equestrian.org.
CSTV is the first 24-hour college sports network and features
a wide array of men's and women's college sports from numerous
athletic conferences. CSTV can be found on DIRECTV, Channel 610.
Visit www.cstv.com for more information.
USA
Equestrian Inc., as the National Equestrian Federation of the
U.S., is the regulatory body for the Olympic and World Championship
sports of dressage, driving, endurance, eventing, reining, show
jumping, and vaulting, as well as 19 other breeds and disciplines
of equestrian competition. As
the country's largest multi-breed organization, the Federation
has over 80,000 members and recognizes more than 2,800 competitions
nationwide each year. It governs all aspects of competition, including
educating and licensing all judges, stewards, and technical delegates
who officiate at these shows.
VISION STATEMENT
The vision of USA Equestrian is to provide leadership for equestrian
sport in the United States of America, promoting the pursuit of
excellence from the grass roots to the Olympic Games, based on
a foundation of fair, safe competition and the welfare of its
horses, and embracing this vision, to be the best national equestrian
federation in the world.
www.equestrian.org
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