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College notebook Date published: 6/2/2004 By KURT NICOLL W AITING A YEAR to go to nationals didn't bother Glenna Kassel one bit. The Culpeper High School graduate competed in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association's national championships at Murfreesboro, Tenn., last month and captured the fourth-place ribbon in intermediate over fences. "I'm a little disappointed. I rode pretty well, but I could have been more precise," said Kassel, a rising junior at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg. "The four days prior to the competition, I went to the barn and rode a lot of different horses that I hadn't ridden before because you don't know what horse you're going to ride at nationals, and I wanted to be able to adapt. "I got lucky and was assigned the same horse I rode at regionals," she said. Wildcats riding coach J.T. Tallon was pleased with Kassel's performance and thinks her future is bright. "Glenna rode with confidence and with poise," he said. "She was the fifth rider to compete, and the judging was tougher because they don't know what will follow. If she had competed later, she probably would have finished higher and might have won." Kassel was one of 18 riders to qualify in her event after placing first at regionals and second in zone. Kassel qualified for postseason intermediate competition based on the total number of points she compiled as a freshman. This season, she moved up to the open division and held her own, placing first in the first show at Radford University. "It would have been nice if we could have qualified the entire team," said Kassel, noting the Wildcats lose only one rider to graduation. "We had enough talent, but things went badly for us." Kassel has been riding since she was 9 years old. Her mother, Linda, is a longtime rider, and her older sister, Cathy Kassel-Geitner, is a former national runner-up at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C., who now trains horses in Aiken, S.C. McNemar leads VolsSophomore Sean McNemar (Culpeper) concluded his career with the John A. Logan (Ill.) College golf team with a flourish, sparking the Vols to a second-place finish at last weekend's National Junior College Athletic Association's championship match in Phoenix. McNemar finished with a 72-hole total of 287 (one-under-par), two shots behind individual champion Steven Knight of Tyler (Texas) Junior College.
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