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Equestrian Club looks to continue success

Along with clubs like baseball and basketball, there are a variety of intramural sports at Marquette, including the less well-known Equestrian Club.

An Equestrian competition is a variety of skills pertaining to riding with horses. At a competition events are broken up into team and individual competitions.

There are normal three different categories of competition, eventing, dressage, and jumping. Eventing tests the skill, and endurance of the horse and rider, dressage show cases the training of the horse through ease and grace while carrying the rider. Finally, show jumping tests the horse and rider by having them jump over a series of obstacles inside and riding ring.