Skidmore College Athletics

This legendary team captured Skidmore's second consecutive Intercollegiate Horse Show Association National Championship title on May 5th, 1991, in Roanoke, VA, firmly establishing the Thoroughbreds as a preeminent national competitor. After besting 16 other teams in IHSA Zone Il/Region 2 competition, the Thoroughbreds claimed the Cartier Cup in a decisive 30-point victory over 15 top-ranked rivals in eight different phases of horsemanship.
 
National championship performances in team competition were scored by Jennifer Rossire '92, who won second place in the Open Over Fences and fourth in the Open on the Flat (and the individual National title in Intermediate Over Fences): Natalie Labouchere '92, who captured first place in Intermediate Over Fences; Matthew Goodrich '94, who claimed third place in Intermediate on the Flat; Dawn Gilbert Buchanan '91, who took fifth place in Novice Over Fences; Olivia Chantecaille '94, who finished third in Novice on the Flat; and Jennifer Lamphere '94, who captured third place in Walk-Trot-Canter. Jennifer Kniffin Tones '93 competed in the Walk-Trot.
 
This distinguished team also included Marie Boccuzzi'93, Colleen Dwyer Heise '94, Mark Hoeber '91, (who took fifth place in Individual Open Over Fences at Nationals), Christine O'Connell '91, Kathleen Ryan O'Connor '93, Lee Shannon Quinn '93, (Individual National champion in Intermediate on the Flat), Camille Sexton '94, and Brenda Tananbaum'93. The team was coached by Cindy Ford.