Morehead State’s Equestrian Team competed at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association national competition, with several riders and horses winning awards.
Senior Jordyn Bagnall, a nursing major from Jupiter, Fla., and MSU hunter seat team captain, was crowned as reserve champion in the open hunter seat equitation on the flat. Bagnall won sixth place in the open hunter seat equitation over fences classes.
Rudy Pohlabeln (Class of 2022) from Edgewood clinched third place in the American Quarter Horse Association High Point Rider Cup. He competed against the best collegiate western riders in the nation. Riders competed in a two-part class comprised of western horsemanship and reining disciplines.
Junior Andrea Robinson of Mount Sterling, Ohio, an equine science and agribusiness major and Equestrian Team president, was awarded ninth place in her Rookie Western Horsemanship class.
MSU students were not the only ones who were winners at IHSA Nationals. The judges selected MSU’s horse, Juice, a 6-year-old AQHA gelding owned by MSU, as the most useful horse of the show.
The IHSA nationals were held May 5-8 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
To learn more about MSU’s Equestrian Team, visit moreheadstate.edu/equestrianteam or email Coach Luke Brock at l.brock@moreheadstate.edu. To learn more about agriculture programs at MSU, visit moreheadstate.edu/agriculture, email agsi@moreheadstate.edu or call 606-783-2662.
