Dover, Del. (Mar. 26, 2023) --- Delaware State collected a majority of the major ECAC Equestrian 2022-23 Dual Discipline post-season awards. The awards were announced during this week's annual conference championship tournament.
The Hornets claimed three of the four ECAC Rider-of-the-Year awards. DSU's Olivia Brown (so.; Berlin, Md.), was selected as the Flat Rider-of-the-Year, while Kersten Zehner (sr.; Tomahawk, Wis.) is the Horsemanship Rider-of-the-Year and Aiden Stetzer (sr.; Harrisburg, Pa.) is the Reining Rider-of-the-Year.

In addition, the Hornets earned three of the four ECAC Dual Discipline Freshman-of-the-Year awards. Grace Mangrum (Milton, Ga.) is the top rookie on the Flat, Claire Andrews (Bellefonte, Pa.) received the award for Horsemanship and Estella Estus (So. Dayton, N.Y.) is the honoree for Reining.

Each of the aforementioned Delaware State award winners was also named to the ECAC All-Conference Team.
In addition, Delaware State's Justina Johnson (sr.; Rose Hill, N.C.) earned ECAC All-Conference Horsemanship Team honors.         

ECAC Equestrian Post-Season Awards / All-Conference Teams
Dual Discipline
Rider of the Year – Fences: Carly Sweeney, UC Davis
Rider of the Year – Flat: Olivia Brown, Delaware State
Rider of the Year – Horsemanship: Kersten Zehner, Delaware State
Rider of the Year – Reining: Aidan Stetzer, Delaware State

Freshman of the Year – Fences: Juliana Gullo, UMC
Freshman of the Year – Flat: Grace Mangrum, Delaware State
Freshman of the Year – Horsemanship: Claire Andrews, Delaware State
Freshman of the Year – Reining: Estella Estus, Delaware State

ECAC-EQ All-Conference Fence Team
Ella Domenicone, SDSU
Julia Gilman, UTM
Sydney Hott, UTM
Carly Sweeney, UCD

ECAC-EQ All-Conference Flat Team
Olivia Brown, DSU
Margeret Franke, UCD
Marin Gililand, UCD
Sydney Hott, UTM

ECAC-EQ All-Conference Horsemanship Team
Lexi Bailey, UTM
Callyn Fox, SDSU
Justina Johnson, DSU
Kersten Zehner, DSU

ECAC-EQ All-Conference Reining Team
Logan Putvinski, UTM
Amber Nusser, UCD
Estella Estus, DSU
Aidan Stetzer, DSU

ABOUT THE ECAC
The ECAC (Eastern College Athletic Conference) is an eighty-four-year-old organization with well over 200 member schools across all three NCAA Divisions - I, II and III. The ECAC exists to enhance the experience of student-athletes participating in intercollegiate athletics and provides great value for universities and colleges by sponsoring championships, leagues, bowl games, tournaments and other competitions throughout the Northeast. The ECAC's esports platform is growing and now totals more than sixty colleges and universities and is expanding the geographic footprint for the conference nationally. The ECAC is also sponsoring competitions and leagues involving other varsity and club sports that do not fall under the umbrella of the NCAA.