ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell equestrian team are coming off an exciting win last weekend at Alfred University where they secured high point for the fifth time this season. The week prior, Cornell took home third highest point, also at Alfred.
This weekend is Regionals, and the Big Red had nine riders qualify in seven different categories. Claudia Arredondo will represent Cornell in the Introductory Hunter Seat. Emily Pecsok and Annalisa Piscitelli will ride for Cornell in the Novice Hunter Seat. In the Limit Hunter Seat on the Flat, we'll see Alexandra Miranda and Taylor Haines represent the Big Red. Katherine Philipp will compete in a back-to-back double header, first in the Limit Hunter Seat over Fences and then immediately followed by the Intermediate Hunter Seat on the Flat where she will be accompanied by Biance Garcia. Philipps took second in that event last week at Alfred University. Bianca Garcia will then move onto the Intermediate Hunter Seat over Fences alongside Alexandra Miranda and Isabel Hall. The final event that will see a Cornell athlete is the Open Hunter Seat over fences, where Posie Price will ride for the Big Red. Price took home a fourth-place finish in this event last week.
Individual riders that qualified for Regionals will have the opportunity to qualify for Zones if they take home either a first or second place finish in any of their events this weekend.
About the Big Red
• Cornell has won high point five times this season in just seven shows.
• The Big Red return 11 riders to the line-up, including Ashley Ardila, who placed fourth at the 2022 IHSA Nationals in Individual Introductory Equitation.
• The Big Red finished atop the podium 8 of 10 times in the 2021 season, including winning the Ivy Show title.
• The 2022-23 season marks Novakovic's eighth year as Head Coach of Equestrian. It marks her seventh season as the 2020-21 season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Novakovic has helped lead the Big Red to the national stage on multiple occasions, including a seventh-place overall finish in the first ever team qualification to the IHSA National Championship in 2016.
• Under Novakovic, Cornell has won four straight Ivy Show titles (2017-2021) .
• Novakovic coached an IHSA National Champion and a National Reserve champion in 2015.
• She has developed Zone Reserve Champions (2016, 19, 21), Regional Champions (2015, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21), Ivy League Champions (2015, 17, 18, 19, 21) and Ivy League Reserve Champions (2016, 21).
Up Next
• The Big Red will travel to Saratoga Springs, N.Y. next week to face off against Skidmore College. The matchup will be held on Saturday, April 8
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