our college equestrian club is looking into joining the intercollegiate horse show association and I was wondering what other colleges are paying to be apart of the IHSA including entry fees, travel, lessons, etc. Also, any fundraising ideas would be great too!
Might want to post this over on Off Course for more traffic and responses from a greater variety of IHSA participants and alumni
I rode IHSA western.
For our shows its was $35 per class (the region decided this would be the fee for every show)
We paid our coach a reduced lesson rate of $25 per lesson. Reduced from what she normally charges, that is. But there had to be at least four of us riding in a lesson to make it worth her time. Generally we had group lessons of five or six.
We paid the school barn $300 per semester to use the horses and everyone on the team had to work six hours per semester unpaid in the barn.
Our team was a club sport so we had a budget for sending riders to semi-finals. If a rider qualified for nationals they were on the hook to pay but the whole team would help with fundraising.
Food booth at home horse shows were our big money maker. And easy enough for everyone to make something and bring it. Also nice to give anyone volunteering a free voucher.
I loved showing IHSA, good draws or bad draws I have some great memories.
