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ABOUT THE TEAM
IHSA offers undergraduate university students the rare opportunity to enjoy what is often an individual sport, as a team. Additionally, riders are not required to have their own horse as they are provided by schools at competitions. The University of Guelph IHSA team is a great way to enjoy competing and meet people with similar interests while at university, at a fraction of the cost of showing your own horse. We offer riders the valuable experience of riding many different types of horses to build their confidence and skills on any type of ride. We welcome riders of all levels to tryout and have spots on the team for beginners all the way to seasoned competitors.
AMY NOONAN
Head Coach
Amy grew up on a boarding farm, in the small town of Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia. Thanks to her mother's love for riding, Amy has been in the saddle since before she could walk. At the young age of 9, Amy began her dressage career, which took her from Basic 1, to 4th level within a matter of years. Jumping, however, had always been her passion.
During her Junior years, Amy continued to compete and train in various disciplines, thankful for her dressage background. She received numerous horses in for training and sales, and also taught beginners on school horses, nervous adults on their own horses, and juniors on their own children’s hunters. As well, she enjoyed catch riding large ponies, children’s and pre-green hunters, and even entry-level eventers. Amy spent a summer as a working student in New Jersey, and traveled all over the American East Coast, grooming and competing in equitation classes on a borrowed horse.
While attending Acadia University and earning a Bachelor of Business Administration, Amy continued to ride and compete for the Equestrian Team. Amy’s family moved to Ontario during this time, and she spent summers training and riding the family’s home-bred babies.
Amy has been part of every aspect of a horse’s career, from the very beginning stages of breaking, to prepping for and competing in the upper levels of dressage and jumping. She has also worked with everything from the greenest of ponies, to the OTTB, to the Grand Prix showjumper; hot, difficult, problem, or “re-trainee” horses are not an issue.

EXECUTIVES
2023-2024

ALYSSA SCHILLER
Captain
EMILIE MAXWELL
Captain

LIZZY HENDRICKS
Coordinator
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