Gladys, Va.—Dec. 18, 2025—The U.S. Hunter Jumper Association announced Angela MacFawn as the recipient of the 2025 Naomi Blumenthal Memorial Training Grant, which supports the furtherance of equestrian education.

Gladys, Va.—Nov. 21, 2025- When Purdue University IHSA hunter seat coach Kathryn Kraft first met with her team at the start of the 2024-2025 season, she shared three motto words that she hoped to inspire her squad for the year: intentional, gritty and grateful. Every practice she and her students would speak about the words, and before and after each show they would come back to the terms to stay focused. What Kraft didn’t know is that those words would be just as inspirational to her athletes outside the saddle as in it.

Gladys, Va.—Nov. 18, 2025—For Savannah Strebinger, the Marshall+Sterling/USHJA National Championships were a week of final chances. At 18-years-old, the event at the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa was the last competition of her last season as a Junior rider. On the final day of the championships, Strebinger laid all her cards on the table to win the IHSA/USHJA 3'3'' Hunter Seat Medal Final - West riding her own Gladstone.

Gladys, Va.—Nov. 14, 2025–The MZ Farms/USHJA Emerging Athletes Program National Training Session and the USHJA Horsemanship Quiz Challenge Nationals were held November 6–9 at Midway University in Midway, Kentucky. IHSA members Finley Scheffel, a freshman at Midway University and Ella Hallman-Luhn, a junior at the Savannah College of Art and Design, earned top honors at each event, respectively.

West Springfield, Mass.—Oct. 21, 2025—Fiona Fitzgerald rode her own Étoile to the top the 2025 IHSA/USHJA 3'3'' Hunter Seat Medal Final - East on Saturday, October 18. The Walpole, Massachusetts, native bested a field of 106 riders with a two-round score of 175.5 at the 50th annual New England Equitation Championships in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Gladys, Va – May 4, 2025 – The third and final day of competition at the 2025 Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) National Championship held at Tryon International in Mill Spring, North Carolina, culminated with the presentation of the penultimate national championship titles–the USHJA Hunter Seat High-Point Rider, Presenting the Cacchione Cup, and Back on Track Western High-Point Rider.

This year’s IHSA National Championship welcomed two accomplished judges to the Western Arena: Rhonda Replogle and Tammy Braham. In this Q&A, they share their impressions of the competition, the unique aspects of the IHSA format, and their admiration for the riders, coaches and horses who made the event so special..

Competition for coveted high-point rider national champion titles began on Day Two of the 2025 Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) National Championship held at Tryon International in Mill Spring, North Carolina. The first phases of the USHJA Hunter Seat High-Point Rider, Presenting the Cacchione Cup and the Back on Track Western High-Point Rider class culminated after a day of tough competition.

This year’s IHSA National Championship welcomed two highly-respected hunter seat judges, Michael Tokaruk and Joyce Przebowski, to the Horseware Ireland Hunter Seat Arena. While both are familiar with the IHSA format, 2025 marks their first time judging the National Championship.