The USEA and Intercollegiate Committee are pleased to introduce the recently completed USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Handbook. Contained within these pages is everything you need to know about the USEA Intercollegiate Program as well as membership benefits and guides for forming teams and hosting team challenges. Much of this information was already available on the USEA website. Now it has been condensed into one convenient, linkable location.
There is some new information available in the Handbook, including collegiate membership restrictions and guidelines and eligibility requirements for the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Championship.
Collegiate Membership
Currently, any individual who is a current undergraduate student at a university or college that is an Affiliate of the USEA is eligible to receive a $25 discount on their annual USEA membership.
Beginning in 2019, undergraduate students are eligible to maintain a collegiate membership and receive the discount for a total of five school years, which may be nonconsecutive. There is no age restriction on eligibility for current undergraduate students.
Intercollegiate Championship
The USEA Intercollegiate Championship has run for three years with great success and always increasing participation. To uphold the mission of the program and ensure fairness, the Committee established these guidelines and eligibility requirements for those students interested in participating at the Championship.
These policies will apply to the 2019 USEA Intercollegiate Championship at Chattahoochee Hills, May 17-19, 2019. Please read them carefully!
Adjusted Coefficients
Based on feedback from students, the Committee has made a slight adjustment to the coefficients used for team scoring at the Intercollegiate Championship. Coefficients are applied to a rider’s score to account for level of difficulty. In the past, Beginner Novice received a coefficient of 1.1 and Novice received a coefficient of 1. Beginning at the 2019 Championship, Beginner Novice scores will receive a coefficient of 1, and Novice will receive a coefficient of .99. The reason for this adjustment is because the majority of Championship competitors compete at the Beginner Novice through Training levels and the feedback received indicated that teams were being ‘penalized’ for every Beginner Novice rider on the team.
The new coefficient system that will be applied at the Championship is as follows:
If Modified is offered at the Championship, a coefficient of 0.95 will apply to Training level and 0.9 will apply to Modified.
Championship Venues
Just as a reminder, the 2019 and 2020 Championships will take place in May at the Chattahoochee Hills Horse Trials in Fairburn, Georgia. The 2021 and 2022 Championships will take place at Virginia Horse Trials in Lexington, Virginia on Memorial Day weekend. Mark your calendars!
About the USEA Intercollegiate Program
The USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Program was established in 2014 to provide a framework within which eventing teams and individual competitors could flourish at universities and colleges across the country. The USEA offers a discount of $25 on annual USEA memberships for current students of universities and colleges registered as Affiliates with the USEA and many events across the country now offer Intercollegiate Team Challenges throughout the year, where collegiate eventers can compete individually as well as on teams with their fellow students. In Intercollegiate Team Challenges, each rider’s score is multiplied by a coefficient appropriate for their level to account for differences in level difficulty and then the individual scores are added together to determine the team score.Click here to learn more about the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Program.
Click here to view the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Handbook.
Are you following along with the action from home this weekend? Or maybe you're competing at an event and need information fast. Either way, we’ve got you covered! Check out the USEA’s Weekend Quick Links for links to information including the prize list, ride times, live scores, and more for all the events running this weekend.
It is with great disappointment and regret, which we know will be shared by many, that we announce the cancellation of the 2021 Badminton Horse Trials which was due to be held “behind closed doors” between May 5 and May 9. This cancellation also includes the BE90 and BE100 Championships (May 4 and 5).
We've got another Team Talk update for you listeners this week! Nicole Brown is joined once again by USEF Eventing High Performance Director Erik Duvander and USEF Managing Director for Eventing Jenni Autry to talk about the U.S. eventing team's path forward to Tokyo.
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