{"id":8947,"date":"2012-04-16T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=8947"},"modified":"2012-04-16T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:55:07","slug":"equestrian-claims-baylors-second-national-title-in-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2012\/04\/equestrian-claims-baylors-second-national-title-in-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Equestrian claims Baylor’s second national title in two weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2011-12<\/p>\n

The Year of the Bear continues to roll on — even into sports you might not realize Baylor participates in.<\/p>\n

Saturday night — less than two weeks after Baylor women’s basketball won the NCAA tournament<\/a> — the Baylor equestrian program brought home another national title<\/a>. Head coach Ellen White’s Hunter Seat team narrowly defeated Texas A&M to claim the National Collegiate Equestrian Association (NCEA) national title in that event. (See photos here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Equestrian teams are split into two squads, Hunter Seat and Western, much like track and field are combined together. It was fun to see each Baylor squad support the other; as the Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em><\/a> described the scene, when the final scores were announced, “a mess of BU teammates wearing riding shirts, team polos and Baylor Line jerseys made a beeline for the gate, mobbing the Hunter Seat riders and celebrating a national title.”<\/p>\n

Equestrian is classified as an NCAA “emerging sport,” which means it is on its way to becoming a full-fledged NCAA sport but is not there yet. A total of 40 Division I\/II schools must sponsor equestrian in order to hold an NCAA-sponsored championship; Baylor is currently one of 23 participating institutions<\/a>. The Bears are joined by fellow Big 12 schools Kansas State, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M, in-state rivals SMU and TCU, and other universities such as Auburn, Brown, Cornell, Fresno State, Georgia, New Mexico State and South Carolina.<\/p>\n

So to recap, here’s Baylor Athletics’ year in review (so far): Two national titles, a Heisman, an Elite Eight hoops team, 12 teams currently in the top 25*, and all 19 varsity programs on track to make the postseason in 2011-12.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor equestrian and Baylor student-athletes in all sports!<\/p>\n

* Ranked BU teams: women’s basketball (No. 1), equestrian (3), acrobatics & tumbling (5), baseball (6), men’s basketball (8), football (12), women’s tennis (12), women’s indoor track & field (16), women’s golf (17), women’s outdoor track & field (18), men’s outdoor track & field (19), and softball (23).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Year of the Bear continues to roll on — even into sports you might not realize Baylor participates in. Saturday night — less than two weeks after Baylor women’s basketball won the NCAA tournament — the Baylor equestrian program brought home another national title. Head coach Ellen White’s Hunter Seat team narrowly defeated Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors","category-photo-galleries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}