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National champion Bulldog equestrian team adds top riders
Issue date: 5/6/09 Section: Sports
The national champion Georgia Equestrian team on Tuesday announced the signing of four highly-regarded Hunt Seat riders to national letters-of-intent to attend Georgia and ride for the Bulldogs next year.
Carly Anthony of Redmond, Wash.; Melanie Carraway of Evans, Ga.; Kelsey Delaplaine of Gettysburg, Pa.; and Ann Francis of Nashville, Tenn., have all joined the Georgia program for the 2009-10 season.
Anthony is a graduating senior at The Overlake School in Redmond. She has ridden since the age of three and has competed for the past six years. This year she was a silver medalist at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation Maclay finals, and last year she was a 5th-place finisher in the USET West Coast Finals.
Carraway is in her senior year at Greenbrier High School in Augusta. Most recently, she was the Reserve champion in the 2008 South Carolina Hunter Jumper Association Governor's Cup Medal Finals, in addition to wins in the USEF Medal and ASPCA Maclay competitions.
Delaplaine, a senior at Biglerville High School, has competed in horse shows throughout the Northeast and across the eastern seaboard. Among her highlights include a championship at the Gittings Equitation Finals in Upper Marlboro, Md.; Champion and Reserve Champion in the Local Hunter division at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show; and Reserve Circuit champion at the HITS Ocala, Fla., show. Delaplaine also spent last winter showing at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla.
Francis is a senior at Harpeth Hall school in Nashville. In the past year she has competed in the Junior Hunter divisions at multiple shows. In 2007 she won the NAL Classic at Littlewood in Wellington, Fla.; placed first in Children's Hunters at Brownland Farm Horse show in Franklin, Tenn.; and also first place in Large Junior Hunters at Nashville Country Horse Show.
- Georgia Sports Communications
Carly Anthony of Redmond, Wash.; Melanie Carraway of Evans, Ga.; Kelsey Delaplaine of Gettysburg, Pa.; and Ann Francis of Nashville, Tenn., have all joined the Georgia program for the 2009-10 season.
Anthony is a graduating senior at The Overlake School in Redmond. She has ridden since the age of three and has competed for the past six years. This year she was a silver medalist at the U.S. Equestrian Team Foundation Maclay finals, and last year she was a 5th-place finisher in the USET West Coast Finals.
Carraway is in her senior year at Greenbrier High School in Augusta. Most recently, she was the Reserve champion in the 2008 South Carolina Hunter Jumper Association Governor's Cup Medal Finals, in addition to wins in the USEF Medal and ASPCA Maclay competitions.
Delaplaine, a senior at Biglerville High School, has competed in horse shows throughout the Northeast and across the eastern seaboard. Among her highlights include a championship at the Gittings Equitation Finals in Upper Marlboro, Md.; Champion and Reserve Champion in the Local Hunter division at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show; and Reserve Circuit champion at the HITS Ocala, Fla., show. Delaplaine also spent last winter showing at the Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, Fla.
Francis is a senior at Harpeth Hall school in Nashville. In the past year she has competed in the Junior Hunter divisions at multiple shows. In 2007 she won the NAL Classic at Littlewood in Wellington, Fla.; placed first in Children's Hunters at Brownland Farm Horse show in Franklin, Tenn.; and also first place in Large Junior Hunters at Nashville Country Horse Show.
- Georgia Sports Communications
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