Allison Lee 186
Captain
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School: Wharton
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Business and Public Policy, Management, and Marketing
Riding Experience: I have been riding hunters
since I was 7.
Current IHSA Level: Intermediate Fences and Open Flat
2 Random Facts:
-- I'm double-jointed.
-- I eat like it's my job.
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Lisa Erwin 183
Captain
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School: Wharton
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Undecided
Riding Experience: Private Horse Shows on the
west coast for six years
Current IHSA Level: Novice Flat and Fences
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Trying to decide
if the guys tucked up with Ally and Allison
2 Random Facts:
-- I can't ride a bike.
-- I'm deathly afraid of jelly fish.
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Alexandra Stern 189
Treasurer
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: History - American Concentration
Riding Experience: I've been riding since I was eight. While most of my experience is with English hunter-jumper, I have spent several years riding Saddle Seat and Western.
Current IHSA Level: Open Fences and Intermediate Flat
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Winning my first IHSA class on Buddy.
2 Random Facts:
-- The first thing I ever wanted to be was a cowgirl... that lasted from when I was 4 until I turned 11.
-- Before I could talk as a baby I could make over 15 differnet animal noises - my first animal noise was a neigh |
Brianna Tarulli 403
Lesson Coordinator
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School: Nursing
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Nursing
Riding Experience: I have been riding for 10 years. I showed mostly in hunter and equitation divisions at local shows but this year I tried some jumper shows with my speedy TB mare Emma. I can w/t/c and jump a 2'6"-3' course.
Current IHSA Level: Novice Fences and Flat
Favorite Horse Show Moment: When my trainer Rachel and I thought of taping "For Sale" signs onto our ponies to cathch the eye of prospective buyers.
2 Random Facts:
-- I am HORRIFIED of snakes.
-- My Grandma was one of 18 children.
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Grace Conway 495
Social Chair
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2014
Major: Undecided
Riding Experience: I rode for about six years as a hunter rider, took a break for two years and started back up again with Penn.
Current IHSA Level: Intermediate Fences and Novice Flat
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Winning a halloween costume class dressed as a pink lady (and my pony as a car) and then falling into a huge mud puddle after my pony spooked.
2 Random Facts:
-- I'm a twin.
-- I have broken over 10 phones in my lifetime.
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Veronica Casellas 310
Photographer
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Majors: History (European Concentration)
Riding Experience: I've been riding on and off
since I was about 8.
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Watching three
girls in the class before mine fall in the same mud puddle.
2 Random Facts:
-- I'm obsessed with shoes.
-- I've always wanted to work for National Geographic. |
Connie Jiang 185
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2012
Major: Health and Societies
Minor: Political Science
Riding Experience: Summer camp way back in
middle school, and lessons at Dawne's!
Current IHSA Level: Beginner Walk Trot Canter
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Being at my very
first IHSA show. It was a nerve-wrecking, exciting, and overall amazing
experience!
2 Random Facts:
-- I love watching anime, which is cartoons made in Japan.
-- If I could have any occupation in the world, I would be an
astronaut.
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Morgan Taylor 132
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2012
Majors: Biology, Romance Languages
Riding Experience: Since I was four- hunter.
Current IHSA Level: Novice Flat and Fences
Favorite Horse Show Moment: When we piled the
entire team into Dawne's Hummer because it was so cold.
2 Random Facts:
-- I have a car fetish.
-- I've always dreamed of having a torquise pair of high heels (which I
finally have). |
Kat West 222
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2012
Majors: Spanish, English with Creative Writing concentration
Riding Experience: I've been riding off and on since I was fourteen--cross country and hunters.
Current IHSA Level: Novice Flat and Fences
Favorite Horse Show Moment: All the many times I've created a spectacle when I needed 4 people to help me pull my boots off
2 Random Facts:
-- I can't smell skunks (though I used to be able to).
-- Two of my cats are named Sailboat and Tugboat, both of whom came off the streets of scenic North Philadelphia. |
Orysia Bezpalko 408
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Undecided
Riding Experience: Ridden for 11 years,
showing on the 'AA' circuit hunters
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Qualifying for the
world championship hunter rider junior under saddle championship with
my five year old horse at his biggest show ever...and coming in seventh
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Laura Francis 184
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: English and Hispanic Studies
Riding Experience: I've been riding and showing horses since I was nine. Although I did English for a while when I was younger, I mostly showed in reining throughout high school.
Current IHSA Level: Novice Fences and Flat
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Jumping for the first time in a show last year!
2 Random Facts:
-- I love photography and writing.
-- My reining horse Boggie likes to lick people. It's a little weird, but he looks so cute when he sticks his tongue out.
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Heather Gerrish 507
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Music
Riding Experience: Just started up again after a long break!
Current IHSA Level: Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter |
Elizabeth Schopfer
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Psychology
Minor: Anthropology
Riding Experience: Since Freshman year at Penn.
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Although I haven't shown yet, the UPENN Horse show from this past fall was a lot of fun, especially since UPENN tied for first! :)
2 Random Facts:
-- Watching Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman is one of the reasons why I wanted to learn how to ride a horse.
-- I have never tried coffee.
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Susan Fowler
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: Philosophy and Physics
Minor: Math
Riding Experience: Getting back into riding after a 6 year break.
Current IHSA Level: Walk Trot
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Although I haven't shown yet, the UPENN Horse show from this past fall was a lot of fun, especially since UPENN tied for first! :)
2 Random Facts:
-- I've played the violin for 15 years.
-- I homeschooled myself through high school.
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Lyle Brunhofer 398
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School: Engineering
Graduation Year: 2014
Major: Bioengineering
Riding Experience: I am a volunteer at a therapy barn and one day they decided to put me on a horse. They taught me and I have loved riding ever since!
Current IHSA Level: Beginner Walk, Trot, Canter
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Finding out that a little pony named Q-Tip would be the first horse that I would ever ride in a horse show. I was a little nervous but it turned out to be a great day!
2 Random Facts:
-- I LOVE SKIING.
-- The only time I ever broke a bone was when I was 14 months old and I fell off a bench.
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Lauren Kaufmann 396
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2014
Riding Experience: I've been riding for about thirteen years and have been a member of Old Rose Tree Foxhunting Club for five years.
Current IHSA Level: Novice Fences and Flat
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Riding my trainer's incredible thoroughbred at the Marlborough Bowl, an intense, timed endurance competition for foxhunters. And accidentally jumping a four-rail fence!
2 Random Facts:
-- I spent ten years playing the violin... and all I have to show for it is the $25 in tips I got playing at a BBQ restaurant the summer after senior year of high school.
-- I love going swimming with my horses!
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Chloe Corner 404
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2014
Major: Undeclared
Current IHSA Level: Open Fences and Flat
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Lydia Berlacher 401
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2014
Major: Visual Studies
Riding Experience: I have ridden Hunter/Jumper for eleven years competing on the east coast and in the midwest.
Current IHSA Level: Open Flat and Fences
Favorite Horse Show Moment: Making it to the jump-off in the Adult Jumper Classic II at Horse Shows By The Bay and then forgetting the course!
2 Random Facts:
-- I am deathly afraid of seaweed.
-- I have a terrible memory
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Andrea Martinez 401
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2014
Major: Health and Societies
Minor: Anthropology
Riding Experience: I've been riding on and off since I was five.
Current IHSA Level: Novice Flat
2 Random Facts:
-- I have a shoe obsession.
-- I am afraid of the ocean, and only go in when forced by my parents.
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Rachel Fleszar 547
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School: Wharton
Graduation Year: 2015
Major: Econcomics
Minor: Math
Riding Experience: 13 years: jumpers and dressage
Current IHSA Level: Open Flat and Fences
2 Random Facts:
-- I once did an unofficial puissance on a 5 year old draft-cross... and ended up clearning 1.60 m.
-- Marcus Ehning is my idol.
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Sunny Shen 541
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2015
Major: Communications
Riding Experience: Four years - hunters
Current IHSA Level: Beginner Walk Trot Canter
2 Random Facts:
-- I can't sleep without a night light and something audio playing.
-- I hate getting haircuts.
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Shoaib Kohli -
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2015
Major: Econcomics
Minor: Math
Riding Experience: 12 years of riding. 6 years of national competition in India, 3 years of international competition and regional competition in India and England.
Current IHSA Level: Intermediate Flat and Fences
Favorite Horse Show Moment: When I one my first two medals in the junior national equestrian championships in Calcutta, India.
2 Random Facts:
-- I play polo.
-- I started riding at age 4.
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Natalie Neale
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School: College
Graduation Year: 2015
Major: Biology
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Jessica Schatz 309
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School: Nursing - Graduate School
Graduation Year: 2012
Major: Anesthesia
Riding Experience: Eighteen years.
Current IHSA Level: Alumni Flat and Fences
Graduating IHSA Level: Open Flat and Fences
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Kate Long 844
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School: Law School (Graduate)
Graduation Year: 2013
Major: EALC, Law
Current IHSA Level: Alumni
Previous Positions Held: Lesson Captain,
Co-Captain
Graduating IHSA Level: Open Flat and Fences
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Carrie Mowbray
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School: College (Graduate School)
Graduation Year: 2012
Major: Classical Studies
Riding Experience: I rode for 8 years growing up (hunters), took a long time off, and recently started riding again.
Favorite Horse Show Moment: As a kid in Virginia, winning my first Champion ribbon in jumping - on a spunky 28-year-old pony. Shaft was 'semi-retired', but he still loved to fly around the ring!
2 Random Facts:
-- I've taken a helicopter ride into the crater of Mount St. Helens.
-- I'm addicted to espresso.
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