Alvernia University Equestrian Team

🏆A fifth place team finish today, lead by Miah Delinko in Introductory Flat with the blue ribbon and seven points. Nya Barry followed up with six points in Intermediate Flat and Fences. Natalie Livelsberger finished third in Limit Fences followed by Emma Philiposian who finished fifth in Open Fences and Flat. Emmerson Bartley rounded out the ribbons with a fifth in Novice Flat in her IHSA debut. Many thanks to Angie, Jazz and Subway for making the day run smoothly! 🦄
📸: Kamarra

🏆 A great first day back in the show ring with more than half the team stepping into IHSA for the very first time! Can’t wait to see what this special team can accomplish this year!
Nya Barry: 2nd Int Flat, 5th Int Fences
Evelyn Gombar: 4th Novice Flat
Karis Howell: 5th Limit Fences, 7th Limit Flat
Miah Delinko: 5th Intro Flat
Emma Philiposian: 6th Open Fences, 7th Open Flat
Natalie Livelsberger: 7th Limit Flat, 8th Limit Fences
Christina Walko: 8th Limit Flat
Thank you to Kamarra, J and Nicole for being the best cheering squad, and many thanks to Angie, Subway and Jazz for being the greatest crew. And to for a great host show!

Presenting your 2024-25 Golden Wolves! 🌟 Sneak peek of our fun media day with Alvernia and CPT Photography!

🗓️ The 2024 Fall Schedule is here! Mark your calendars!

🍦 We welcomed so many new faces to our first “ice cream sundae Monday” of the year! This is such a special group, can’t wait to see everything they will accomplish this year! Welcome to the and Valley Mist Farm! 🦄

👋🏻 Meet first year Emma Philiposian! We’re so excited to welcome you to the team! 🦄

👋🏻 Now we introduce Evelyn Gombar! You can find in Novice Flat! Eve has been putting in the work, even taking extra lessons this summer. Expect to see her pointing up to Limit Flat soon!🦄

👋🏻 Let’s meet Junior Captain, Emma Hackett! You can find .r09 in Open Flat and Intermediate Fences.

Today let’s welcome first year Nya Colantonio! We also send the warmest of welcomes to her horse, Lani, who is also moving into college 🦄 Welcome to the Alvernia and VMF families!

👋🏻 Next let us introduce Senior Co-Captain, Christina Walko! 🙌🏻 You can find Christina showing in Limit Flat!

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Let’s meet grad student and co-captain, Karis Howell! Karis has been riding for 9 years and you can find her in Limit Flat and Limited Fences. Karis is also a talented skier! ⛷️

👏🏻The official congratulations to “Subway” on being named IHSA Regional Horse of the Year 🦄 Valley Mist Farm

☀️ Some summer fun before this heat wave captured by the always amazing CPT Photography! ☀️

🫡 Introducing your 2024-25 captains!
Karis Howell, co-captain
Christina Walko, co-captain
Emma Hackett, junior captain

Congratulations to all our athletes celebrating graduations this past weekend! 📚
🎓 Dr. Taylor Suto, PT, DPT
🎓Carissa Foster, BSN
🎓Ashleigh Leinbach, BSN
🎓Thanea Redrovan, SW
🎓Officer Abbie Miller, BA

We’re hanging out at the IEA National Finals College Fair! Stop by and say hi! Best of luck to all the riders competing! 🍀 🦄

Thank you to the talented CPT Photography for capturing these moments of our day at Bridge Acres!

It was a double champion day for Alvernia at Bridge Acres Stable!
⭐️ Emma Hackett and “All That Jazz” - champion in Novice Eq and winner of the eq medal
⭐️ Abbie Miller and “All That Jazz” - Champion in the thoroughbred hunters
⭐️ Great riding by Evelyn Gombar, Karis Howell and Ashleigh Leinbach
Thank you so much to our Valley Mist Farm family for letting us tag along, and for all of the help and support!

🌟 Congratulations to this team on a great day at Regional Finals!
🏆 Emma Hackett - 4th Intermediate Flat
🏆 Thanea Redrovan - 4th Introductory Flat
🏆 Carissa Foster - 5th Introductory Flat
… and a big congratulations to Subway on being named Regional Horse of the Year!! 🦄

Congratulations and best of luck to our golden wolves who are qualified for Regional Finals this weekend!! 🍀 🌟
📸: CPT Photography

🍀 It takes a village, and our village is amazing!! 🙌🏻 A fantastic host show day for the team and so many thank you’s to extend! To our amazing horse providers for sharing their unicorns with us, to our outstanding parents who put together the best food stand, to our family for ensuring the day ran smoothly, and to everyone… THANK YOU!! 🙏

🦄 Seniors Abbie and Ashleigh stepped outside of IHSA today with Subway and Tanner at CJL at Wyndsor. Great ponies, great rides, and great learning! Thank you Valley Mist Farm!!! 💙