Skidmore College Athletics

This legendary team embarked on an extraordinary journey that would redefine Women's Polo, and elevate the Thoroughbreds to National Champions-the first Skidmore team in any sport ever to earn that honor.
 
Just a year after barely escaping reclassification as a club sport and coached by new graduate Holly Holleran '88, this determined team faced down a string of formidable regional and national competitors in United States Polo Association tournament play. The women captured the Eastern Regional Polo Championships, besting host team and favorite Cornell. In Ft. Worth, Texas, the Thoroughbreds won their first-round game against Tulane by the widest margin ever at Nationals, 27-6. In the second round, Skidmore toppled top rival Yale 17-14, advancing to the Championship Match. In a dramatic 19-13 victory over Colorado State, dubbed by tournament officials as "the slaughter of Colorado," the Thoroughbreds claimed the USPA National Title.
 
This extraordinary team would go on to capture the Reserve National Champion Title in 1990.
 
Jennifer Donnelly '90
Jennifer Johnsen '92
Loring Piper '90
Rose Lansbury '90
Holly B. Holleran '88, Coach