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Working the Phones Pays Off Student callers will take to the phones once again in early October. Will you take their call? Thousands of donors last year did and contributed to a record of nearly $250,000 in pledges to the Annual Fund, helping support the critical operations of the College. Thanks to all our supporters during last year, and thank you for taking that call in the future. To donate to the Annual Fund, make your gift online at www.naz.edu/makeagift. Please contact the Development Office at 585-389-2415 to make your gift by phone or ask questions about ways to give. 4245 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618 www.naz.edu
Equestrian Team Turns Ten by Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G Nina Malatesta ’04 originally intended to bring her horse Royal to college with her. “She was my first horse, the one I had ridden since I was seven, but she was aging,” Malatesta explains. “Then she started to go blind, and moving her was not an option.” Malatesta decided to stay in Rochester with Royal and look for a school close to home. She enrolled at Nazareth, but the College did not have an equestrian program at the time. Not knowing what kind of response she would receive, Malatesta held an interest meeting to start a club on campus—and the response was overwhelming. Approximately 35 students attended the meeting to learn more about starting a program at Nazareth. Through hard work and the support of administrators and staff, the equestrian club transitioned to a varsity sport after just one year. “We worked to formulate a solution so that the College would benefit from this program,” Malatesta says. And it has. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the equestrian team has achieved both local and regional success under head coach Terese Bouchard, the owner of Huntington Meadow Stables in Webster. “In the first year, we qualified riders for the regional championship, which is a good undertaking for a brand new team,” says Bouchard. “This has been our best year yet. The team finished with riders in every level [in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association Region standings] and finished third overall.” “It’s been a great addition,” says Athletic Director Pete Bothner. “It’s one of those programs where I think we could be the best team in our district and continue to send students through the process of qualifying for the nationals. Hopefully at some point we will be bringing home national accolades for the individual riders.” “We are competing against colleges that have equine programs,” says Bouchard. “[At Nazareth], students can get a great education but don’t have to give up the sport they’ve been doing throughout middle and high school.” But the College has also had to consider the expense and cost of fielding the team. As Malatesta explains, riding horses is not as easy as grabbing a soccer ball and walking across campus to the practice fields. “It’s not like you can pick up the horse and bring it to the lacrosse field,” Malatesta says. As a result, the team has held multiple fundraisers and utilized off-campus host schools in order to defray costs. Even with the off-campus training facility 20 minutes away at Huntington Meadows, the program has benefitted the College in numerous ways. The equestrian team has created its own niche of student-athletes the school didn’t have before the program started 10 years ago. “It’s a group of students who are looking for a place to ride when they go to school, and a lot of these students might not have considered attending Nazareth,” says Bothner. “If they did, they certainly wouldn’t be a part of the athletic department.” Amber Streicher ’11, a biology major, is a perfect example. A three-year captain of the equestrian team, Streicher competed on the swimming and diving team in high school and took riding lessons. She decided to join Nazareth’s equestrian team because she felt it was important to participate in a club or organization and she wanted to try something different. But what she gained from the experience was much more than she expected. “I’m a pre-vet Amber Streicher ’11 in a Novice Equitation Over Fences class. student and I can always use more experience with horses, so being on the team definitely helped,” Streicher says. “We can’t get that experience in dorms, and we aren’t an agricultural school, so we don’t have that much access to animals.” Because riding is an individual sport, Streicher emphasizes that one of its greatest challenges is getting all the riders to come together as a team. She has also learned about time management, something crucial in Division III athletics and especially for a team that has to train off campus. “That was a huge part of what I did from day to day,” Streicher says. “Trying to figure out lesson times and team activities…it’s kind of cliché, but time management is so important and I can’t imagine life without it.” The equestrian team has become an essential part of the athletics department, embracing student-athletes who might never have come to Nazareth. “If we didn’t offer it, they might just find a place to ride on their own,” Bothner says. “We’re able to give them a chance to do something that they wouldn’t be able to do at many colleges.” Learn more about the team at go.naz.edu/equestrian. Kerry Van Malderghem ’08G works for Nazareth’s Office of Alumni Relations and is a sports reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. www.naz.edu CONNECTIONS | Summer/Fall 2011 19
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