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WT Equestrian Team advancing to nationals

[ 0 ] April 2, 2013 | Alex Gonazalez

The Equestrian Team at WTAMU this year has just returned from Pomona, Calif. where they competed in the Western Semi-Finals Championship. There, they managed to become a high point team and will advance to Nationals which will be held in Harrisburg, Pa. in May. They also beat the University of Findlay, a school that has [...]

WT Stock Horse Starts their Season

[ 0 ] October 30, 2012 | Addie Davis

The WTAMU Stock Horse team is preparing to compete at their first show of the season in Abilene, Texas at the World Championship Stock Horse Show of Texas. The collegiate competition will begin on Nov. 1 and continue through the weekend until Nov. 3. The WT Stock Horse team is a club on campus that [...]

WT hosts equestrian horse show

[ 0 ] September 25, 2012 | Haley Sprague

On Sept. 22, West Texas A&M University hosted the first Western Horse Show of the year at the WT Equestrian Center. The first show started at 8:00 a.m. with the second show following at 2:00 p.m. Schools that competed were North Central Texas College, The University of Oklahoma Equestrian, Redlands Community College, Southern Nazarene University, [...]

Horse judging team hopes to win it all

[ 0 ] September 18, 2012 | Addie Davis

It’s been several years since any senior college horse judging team has been able to snag the triple crown of collegiate horse judging. With determination and hard work, the WTAMU Horse Judging team hopes to snag the title away from the competition. “These students are extremely dedicated and hard working,” Dr. John Pipkin, equine program [...]

Equestrian team tops IHSA regionals

[ 0 ] March 6, 2012 | Melissa Bauer-Herzog

In a big weekend for WTAMU sports, the school’s equestrian team added to the excitement by sending 18 riders to compete at the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Zone 7 Region 2 Western Championships on March 4. The first class of the day would be the fastest paced event with nine riders from four schools, including [...]

2011 Breeders’ Cup World Championships roll into Churchill Downs

[ 0 ] November 8, 2011 | Melissa Bauer-Herzog

Nov. 4 and 5 saw the world’s best horses step onto the historic Churchill Downs track for two days’ worth of racing in a showcase of talent and rivalries. From Australia to the United States and everywhere in between, horses and horsemen flew to the center of the horseracing universe to match against each other [...]

Breeders’ Cup World Championships: This Week in Photos

[ 0 ] November 8, 2011 | Melissa Bauer-Herzog

One of our sports writers went to the Breeders’ Cup World Championship. Check out her report of the event here. [imagebrowser id=108]

Equestrian team goes to Texas Tech for weekend

[ 0 ] October 1, 2011 | Melissa Bauer-Herzog

The Lady Buffs traveled to Lubbock on Oct. 29 to show in two western shows at Texas Tech for their first official away show of the weekend. The first show of the day started with multiple classes of reining. The first reining class saw two WTAMU riders hitting the board as Christa Fosburg took third [...]

WT equestrian team prepares for IHSA National Championship

September 20, 2011 | Melissa Bauer-Herzog

The WTAMU Lady Buffs Equestrian team had their first event of the season on Sept. 18-19 as they took on New Mexico State University. The competition was a scrimmage event to help the team prepare for the rest of the season against teams around Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Individually, team members rode in a [...]