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Lily Dal Cin Found Her People—and Her Purpose—Through Intercollegiate Riding

For Lily Dal Cin, college has been as much about grit and growth as it has been about horses and art. As a member of NC State’s intercollegiate eventing team, she’s weathered setbacks with her horses while continuing to ride, support her teammates, and pursue a demanding degree. Through it all, t...

April 28, 2025
Competitions

Cohesion Comes First for the Randolph-Macon College Eventing Team

If you attended the USEA Intercollegiate & Interscholastic Eventing Championships this year at Stable View in Aiken, South Carolina, you would have been hard pressed to look anywhere on grounds without seeing Randolph-Macon College’s signature yellow and black school colors buzzing around. The co...

October 8, 2024
Competitions

Kate Boggan Champions the Spirit of Intercollegiate Eventing in Her Professional Career

Kate Boggan describes her younger self as your typical horse-crazy kid. “As soon as I saw a horse, I was obsessed,” the born and raised Texan recalled. “It was the most expensive mistake my parents ever made taking me to my first rodeo as a toddler.”

February 28, 2024
Competitions

Top of their Class: The Leading Riders of the Intercollegiate Eventing Program in 2023

The USEA is proud to look back on another fantastic competition season for our Collegiate members. In 2023, the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Program completed another successful Intercollegiate Eventing Championship, this time at Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, North Caroli...

December 19, 2023
Competitions

USEA Intercollegiate Where Are They Now: UK Grad Ivie Cullen-Dean Has Big Dreams for the Future

When Georgia native Ivie Cullen-Dean graduated from high school, she decided a change of zip code was in order to kick start her college career. The University of Kentucky in Lexington was calling her name, and the young eventer, who had previously competed at the North American Junior and Young ...

November 9, 2023
Competitions

Intercollegiate Invasion: Meet the College Athletes Competing at the 2023 USEA AEC

The 2023 USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Championships may have come and gone already, but many Intercollegiate members have their sights set on the next championship of the year: the 2023 USEA American Eventing Championships presented by Nutrena Feeds! The USEA caught up with members from the Aubu...

August 18, 2023
Competitions

USEA Podcast #335: All Things Intercollegiate

USEA podcast host Nicole Brown calls this "one of my favorite shows of the entire season" because "it's the time of year that so many of us wish we could go back to college days." That's right, it's the week of the Intercollegiate Eventing Championship! The panel of Leslie Threlkeld (co-chair of ...

May 22, 2023
Competitions

USEA Collegiate Member: Sydney Shinn, FEI Competitor and Full-Time Student at USC-Aiken

For years the USC-Aiken eventing team has brought team spirit, school pride, and successful upper-level event riders to the USEA Intercollegiate Eventing Program. Sydney Shinn, a USEA collegiate member, full-time student at USC-Aiken, and CCI3* event rider is one of them. Last year, Shinn compete...

April 5, 2022
Competitions

USEA Collegiate Member: Jackson Dillard, FEI Competitor and Full Time Student at Clemson

“The Clemson Eventing Team does a fantastic job of creating a community of riders,” said collegiate member, Jackson Dillard. In 2021, Dillard competed his two horses, Elmo a 13-year-old Warmblood gelding bred by James Martin, and Layla Q (Loerke x Ayla Q) an 11-year-old Hanoverian mare bred by Su...

January 20, 2022