NEWARK. Del. Jen Midiri,
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Earlier this month, inside a
Colorado stadium, hundreds of
people waited to watch die animal
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some of the best riders in the
countiy. It was enough to give
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like Midiri who has been riding
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horse. Midiri looked down at the
silly smiley face scrawled on her
hand and couldn’t help but smile
back. All the UD team members
had similar purple faces inked on
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Equestrian Team Spurs Spirit At Nationals
didn’t feel quite so alone in that
cavernous arena.
All the lucky smiley faces
and lucky socks and pennies, too
had paid off for the University
of Delaware’s equestrian team.
The 6S-member squad had won an
invitation to the National Intercol
legiate Equestrian Champion
ships, held in Fort Collins, Colo.
The nationals brought together the
very best of collegiate teams, and
by the end of the weekend-long
event, UD had earned a very re
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teams participating.
Not a bad showing for a team
who had been in the basement in
their regional standings just three
years earlier.
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tcmoon, Midiri and club president
Linda Pill, also a student in the
College of Agricultural Sciences,
laughed at the recollection of a fel
low member running around in
Colorado with her purple pen,
checking to everyone
had a smiley face. But while they
enjoy joking about the team’s as
sorted amulets and charms, it’s
readily apparent that luck has had
little to do with this team’s suc
cess.
Riding is a sport that engages
both body and brain. It calls upon
an individual’s coordination,
strength, logic and judgment At
collegiate equestrian competi
tions, participants are given
mounts at random. Within min
utes, the rider has to become accli
mated to a new horse and must
think quickly and act decisively.
But riding also is about heart:
attitude, effort persistence. And
when it comes to heart the Uni
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“Even the judges in Colorado
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PiU.
“We were the loudest, most ob
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Midiri with a chuckle.
This close-knit group was en
thusiastic despite knowing that
they were going into nationals as
the underdogs. After alt UD was
competing against some very
well-trained and well-equipped
teams from schools with long his
tories of equestrian excellence, hi
contrast the IS-year-old UD team
never had a coach until this year,
and must travel to a distance to the
trainer for weekly practices. But
the work pays off for all. There are
no bench-warmers on this team.
“Other collegiate teams have
cuts or have a first-string and a
second-string line-up, but we be-
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member gets an opportunity to
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the team, as well as ability, is what
matters.”
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members are female this year
share an intense camaraderie and
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Olympics site in Los Angeles.
However, Midiri doesn’t want to
see club members get too fixated
on that goal.
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why we ate doing this,” said Mi
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