SMU (7-3, 3-0 UEC) vs. TCU (5-6, 1-3 Big 12)
Turning Point Ranch – Springtown, Texas
March 9, 2019 – 10 a.m. CT
 
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DALLAS, Texas (SMU) - The No. 3 Mustangs travel to Turning Point Ranch to battle metroplex rival No. 8 TCU at 10 a.m. this Saturday (March 9). Live scoring for each event point will be updated through Twitter, @TCUWEquestrian. 

    This is the second time the two teams will compete against each other in 2018-19. The Mustangs (7-3, 3-0 UEC) confront a road test with the Horned Frogs (5-6, 1-3 Big 12), after winning against them at home earlier this season.
    
    Prior to this weekend's metroplex matchup in Springtown, Texas, this fall, then-No. 2 SMU toppled then-No. 6 TCU, 11-6, in Dallas. Since the program's first competition with the Horned Frogs, which occurred during the 2006-07 season, the series history between the two DFW schools stands at 9-7, in favor of SMU. Saturday will be SMU's seventeenth meeting with their foe from Forth Worth.

  The Mustangs have combined for a total 22 accolades on the season, including UEC Rider of the Week awards, as well as two UEC Rider of the Month awards, to go along with a Horse of the Month and Rider of the Month nod from the NCEA. Riders for the Red & Blue have also earned 29 Most Outstanding Player (MOP) honors on the season (including exhibition meets).

    Vivian Yowan, with four Hunter Seat MOPs (12 total in her collegiate career), is second for All-Time MOPs in school history, and Holly Lansidel has also earned four MOP awards in Reining this year. Additionally, team captain Nora Gray sits atop the SMU leaderboard for All-Time Wins in program history, after eclipsing the previous mark of 70 (Gray has garnered 74 wins). 
   
    SMU Equestrian is led by the team's Reining & Equitation Over Fences squads, who have garnered five event wins each, so far.

    Saturday marks the regular season spring finale for both teams, who will go on to compete at their respective conference tournaments at the end of March, then, the NCEA National Championships in April. 

EVENT RECORD 2018-19 (Not including exhibition meets)
Horsemanship: 3-3-3
Reining: 5-3-1
[Western: 8-6-4]

Equitation on the Flat: 4-5-1
Equitation Over Fences: 5-3-2
[Hunter Seat: 9-8-3]

HILLTOP HIGHLIGHTS
Seek is undefeated on the flat (1-0) and rises to a near perfect 6-1-1 record over fences, while Yowan remains undefeated on the flat this season, as well, owning an impressive 9-0-1 record on the flat and tallying a 7-3 mark over fences. Gray, too, has earned a significant number of Hunter Seat points for the Red & Blue this season, notching an 8-2 record over fences and going 4-4-2 on the flat in 2018-19, so far. She also earned recognition recently for becoming the winningest rider in program history, by virtue of her 74 career wins.

Steed and Lansidel have eclipsed their opponents, 6-3, on the season in reining, as Vroegh improves to an impressive 7-3 in Horsemanship. Schoonover (Horsemanship), Aubrey Alderman (Reining), Ostner (Reining) and Mary Elizabeth Cordia (Flat) have clinched five wins for the Mustangs in meets this season.

MOP MAGIC 
SMU riders have represented the team in Most Outstanding Player selections in every meet this season. The Mustangs have had multiple MOP award winners in all but three meets. Mustangs earned four MOPs against Fresno State, DSU and UC Davis, three over TCU, two facing South Carolina, Texas A&M and OSU, and one each in meets versus Georgia, Sweet Briar College and Auburn.

Holly Lansidel and Vivian Yowan have four MOPs apiece, while Ashley Mauney has three and Nora Gray, Kirsten Ostling and Devin Seek each have a pair of MOP honors.

MOP HONORS THIS SEASON
Madison Steed (Auburn) - 1
Kirsten Ostling (OSU & UC Davis) – 2
Megan Waldron (DSU) – 1
Aubrey Alderman (DSU) - 1
Mallory Vroegh (TCU)- 1
Mary Elizabeth Cordia (TCU)-1
Holly Lansidel (Fresno State & Texas A&M & OSU & UC Davis) – 4
Vivian Yowan (Fresno State & TCU & DSU & UC Davis) - 4
Kelsie Brittan (Fresno State) - 1
Ashley Mauney (Fresno State & Georgia & UC Davis) - 3
Haylee Schoonover (South Carolina) - 1
Nora Gray (South Carolina & Texas A&M) - 2
Elle Young (Lynchburg scrimmage) – 1
Olivia Woodson (Lynchburg scrimmage) – 1
Haley Zimmerman (Sweet Briar College) -1
Brecken Schaefer (Baylor exhibition) – 1
Devin Seek (Baylor exhibition & DSU) – 2
Tali DeJong (Baylor exhibition) - 1

NCEA NODS
Holly Lansidel, NCEA Rider of the Month - Reining (February)
Dillon, NCEA Horse of the Month (January)

CONFERENCE HONORS THIS SEASON
Michaela Dinger, Kirsten Ostling, UEC Riders of the Week, Week Eleven
Nora Gray, Holly Lansidel, UEC Riders of the Week, Week Nine
Megan Waldron, Devin Seek, Vivian Yowan, UEC Riders of the Week, Week Seven
Mary Elizabeth Cordia, Equitation on the Flat UEC Rider of the Week, Week Six
Vivian Yowan, Equitation on the Flat UEC Rider of the Month - October
Aubrey Alderman, Reining UEC Rider of the Month - October
Kelsie Brittan, Vivian Yowan, Jill Pfisthner UEC Riders of the Week, Week Four
Aubrey Alderman, Ashley Mauney, Vivian Yowan –UEC Riders of the Week, Week Three
Nora Gray, Haley Zimmerman, Savannah Ostner, Haylee Schoonover – UEC Riders of the Week, Week One