The 2016 IEA National Finals will be held April 20-24 at the Kentucky Horse Park and will welcome more than 60 teams and over 600 individual riders from across the United States.
Teams qualifying for the National Finals have placed in the top positions in their respective IEA regions and zones across the country, riding against more than 12,500 individual riders. The teams qualified for the 2016 IEA National Finals are as follows:
Hunt Seat
Zone 1 Upper School Teams: Cavalier, Grazing Fields, Northgate
Zone 1 Middle School Teams: Avon Valley, Cranberry, Northgate
Zone 2 Upper School Teams: Bux-Mont Equestrian Team, Grandz Elite Stables, Lucky C, Limelight Farm
Zone 2 Middle School Teams: Lucky C, Willow Fox, True Heart Equestrian Team, Sweet Hills
Zone 3 Upper School Teams: Chatham Hall, Clover Grove, Madeira School
Zone 3 Middle School Teams: Fox Run Eq NC, HRA/Foxtail, Old Homestead Farm
Zone 4 Upper School Teams: Milton Eagles Equestrian-Red Team, Storybook Jr. Cougars, CF Topflight
Zone 4 Middle School Teams: Storybook Jr. Cougers, Tally Ho Equestrian Team, BrittMohr Farm
Zone 5 Upper School Teams: Double Deuce, Hudson Interscholastic
Zone 5 Middle School Teams: Childress Rodgers, Zionsville, Empress Equestrian
Zone 7 Upper School Team: Aggieland
Zone 7 Middle School Team: Hidden Acres
Zone 8 Upper School Teams: Scottsdale Equestrian, RCR Farms
Zone 8 Middle School Teams: In Stride CO, RCR Farms
Zone 10 Upper School Teams: MVCS, Woodside
Zone 10 Middle School Teams: MVCS, Pebble Beach
Western
Zone 1 Upper School Teams: Hillside Meadows, Grier School, TMC Too
Zone 3 Upper School Team: Central Carolina NC
Zone 4 Upper School Teams: King Show Horses, Last Lap Ranch
Zone 5 Upper School Teams: Autumn Rose Farm, Dare Equestrian Team, KM Equestrian, The Grimm Riders
Zone 7 Upper School Team: Red Dirt Riders
Zone 8 Upper School Team: Rocky Mountain Wranglers
Zone 1 Middle School Teams: Hillside Meadows, Pond Hill
Zone 2 Middle School Teams: Grier School, Grove City Area
Zone 3 Middle School Teams: Central Carolina NC
Zone 4 Middle School Teams: IIIR Stars Equestrian Team, King Show Horses
Zone 5 Middle School Teams: Autumn Rose Farm, KM Equestrian, Team JGPH
Zone 7: Brush Creek
Zone 8: Arizona Reining
Founded in 2002, the IEA has more than 12,500 middle and high school student-riders across the United States. The IEA was organized to promote and improve the quality of equestrian competition and instruction available to middle and secondary school students and is open to public and private schools and barn teams. There is no need for a rider to own a horse because the IEA supplies a mount and tack to each equestrian for competitions. Its purpose is to set minimum standards for competition, provide information concerning the creation and development of school associated equestrian sport programs, to generally promote the common interests of safe riding instruction and competition and education on matters related to equestrian competition at the middle and secondary school levels. For more information, please view the IEA website at: www.rideiea.org.