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2019-20 Equestrian Roster

Eldon Lindsay/Cornell Athletics

Katherine Caracappa

  • Position Open Flat/Intermediate Fences
  • Class Senior
  • High School Notre Dame School of Manhattan
  • Hometown Staten Island, N.Y.

Biography

• Regional Qualifier, Intermediate Flat (2019-20)
• Regional Qualifier, Limit Fences (2019-20)
• Team Co-Captain (2019-20)

As a senior (2019-20)

• Served as one of the team’s two co-captains during her senior campaign.
• IHSA Regional qualifier in the intermediate flat and limit fences divisions.
• Competed in nine shows over the course of the season, recording eight top-three individual finishes.
• Won her limit fences class at Cornell’s first home show of the season, also adding a third place finish in intermediate flat.
• After a third place finish in limit fences at Cornell’s second home show of the season, moved up to the intermediate fences division.
• Also pointed out of intermediate flat and into open flat after notching a pair of top-three finishes in the division at back-to-back shows at Nazareth.

As a sophomore (2017-18)

• Finished second in her novice over fences class and fifth overall at the Ivy League Championships. 

Prior to Cornell

• Competed at several shows throughout high school, varying from the A circuit to local schooling shows in the 2'6-3ft equitation division.
• Qualified and showed at the Marshall and Sterling Finals in Saugerties in 2015.
• Regularly volunteered for a therapeutic riding program called HOOPH.
• Co-captain of her high school's varsity soccer team as a senior.

Personal

• Caracappa has two siblings, a twin brother Jonathan and an older brother Stephen.
• She is the daughter of Dr. Valerie Venterina.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017-18Sophomore

    Novice Fences/Intermediate Flat
  • 2018-19Junior

    Novice Fences/Intermediate Flat
  • C

    2019-20Senior

    Open Flat/Intermediate Fences
    C