Equestrian: Kim rides off with top prize

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO - Corona del Mar eighth-grader Nicole Kim

earned top overall honors for the varsity class in the Dec. 3

Interscholastic Equestrian League show at The Oaks.

Kim was first in equitation over fenced and IEL medal, second in hunt

seat equitation and third in working hunters and English pleasure.

As a team, the CdM junior varsity finished second at the fourth show

of the season Dec. 2, which was followed by the fifth show Dec. 3 at the

same site.

On Dec. 2, Kim was first in hunt seat equitation and equitation over

fences, second in working hunters and sixth in both IEL medal and English

pleasure.

CDM freshman Whitney Weidner, riding in the varsity class, finished

first in hunt seat equitation.

In the junior varsity class, CdM freshman Jessica Cardelucci was first

in English pleasure at the Dec. 2 show, where fellow CdM freshmen Julia

Koetting was third in equitation over fences and working hunters, and

Sydney Farrer was third in the JV hunt seat equitation.

At the Dec. 3 show, Koetting was third among JV riders in the IEL

medal competition, while CdM freshman Anne Schroeder was second in JV

working hunters.

At previous IEL shows Nov. 4-5, Newport Harbor freshman Sigourney

Gallo, won two JV jumpers events and was third in another at both shows.

Other results:

Dec. 3 show

JUNIOR VARSITY

Hunt seat equitation - 4. Schroeder; 6. Whitney Roy; 8. Koetting; 10.

Cardelucci.

Equitation over fences - 4. Koetting; 5. Farrer.

English pleasure - 7. Schroeder; 10. (tie) Cardelucci and Farrer; 12.

Roy.

IEL medal - 7. Schroeder; 8. Roy; 10. Farrer.

Working hunters - 9. Farrer; 11. Roy.

Hunters under saddle - 6. Cardelucci.

NOVICE

Hunt seat equitation - 5. Katie Jones.

Dec. 2 show

JUNIOR VARSITY

Hunt seat equitation - 4 (tie) Cardelucci and Schroeder; 6. Roy; 7.

Koetting.

IEL medal - 6. Koetting; 7. Roy; 8. Farrer; 10 Schroeder.

English pleasure - 6. Roy; 8. Koetting; 11. Schroeder; 12. Farrer.

Hunters under saddle - 8. Cardelucci.

Equitation over fences - 5. Roy; 7. Schroeder; 11. Farrer.

Working hunters - 8. Farrer; 11. Schroeder; 12. Roy.

NOVICE

Hunt seat equitation - 6. Jones.

Nov. 5 show

JUNIOR VARSITY

Hunt seat equitation - 6. Farrer.

Working hunters - 3. Schroeder; 5. Farrer; 6. Roy.

IEL medal - 2. Koetting; 5. Farrer;

English pleasure - 4. Schroeder; 5. Farrer; 6. Koetting;

Equitation over fences - 3. Roy; 6. Koetting; 7. Farrer; 12.

Schroeder;

NOVICE

Hunters under saddle - 7. Jones.

Hunt seat equitation - 7. McDaniels; 9. Jones.

English pleasuere - 5. McDaniels;

WESTERN

Limit showmanship - 2. Katherine Bryant; 5. Nicole Schultz (Newport

Harbor).

Limit pleasure - 7. Schultz.

Limit horsemanship - 8. Schultz.

Limit IEL stock seat equitation medal - 8. Schultz.

NOV. 4 show

VARSITY

Working hunters - 2. Weidner.

Hunt seat equitation - 3. Weidner.

Equitation over fences - 5. Weidner.

JUNIOR VARSITY

Working hunters - 6. Farrer.

IEL medal - 3. Koetting; 5. Schroeder; 6. Roy; 7. Farrer.

Equitation over fences - 1. Koetting; 9. Roy; 10. Farrer.

Hunt seat equitation - 6. Schroeder; 8. Roy.Working hunters - 5.

Koetting; 8. Schreoder.

English pleasure - 6. Roy.

NOVICE

Hunt seat equitation - 7. Jones.

Hunters under saddle - 11. Jones.

English pleasure - 3. McDaniels.

WESTERN

Limit horsemanship - 6. Schultz.

Limit showmanship - 7. Schultz.

Limit IEL stock seat equitation medal - 8. Schultz.