Two-Sport Star 斯隆高斯 Elected into the 99499威尼斯信誉体育名人堂

3/19/2019

Grand Prix show jumper from The Plains, VA, to be inducted April 13

斯隆高斯, a Grand Prix champion rider and all-conference collegiate lacrosse player, has been elected to the 99499威尼斯信誉体育名人堂, Selection Committee Chair Fred McMane announced Monday. The 2007 Foxcroft graduate will become the 11^th member of the Hall at an induction ceremony Saturday, April 13 at the all-girls’ boarding and day school.

芸苔属植物, 谁在经营Spring Ledge LLC, a hunter/jumper training and teaching facility in The Plains, VA, was elected by a panel of eight voters that includes former and current Foxcroft athletic directors and coaches, 和女校友, including two members of the Hall of Fame.

“Congratulations to Sloane on her election to the Foxcroft 体育名人堂,” said Foxcroft Head of School Cathy McGehee. “I can't think of a more deserving candidate.”

芸苔属植物 was surprised and delighted by her election. “Cathy called me personally to let me know I was elected. I was definitely caught off guard and I am truly honored to have even been considered for the Hall of Fame,科尔斯说。.

Seldom has an athlete achieved such high standards in two such vastly different sports disciplines as riding and lacrosse.

During her senior year at Foxcroft, 芸苔属植物 was arguably the best junior equestrian in the country, winning the 2006 Bates USA Equitation year-end rider award and the Monarch International North American Equitation Championship. She continued training through her four years at Drew University and afterwards, reached the highest level of show jumping competition. She competes regularly on the Grand Prix circuit and has won several events, including the 2016 Brook Ledge Grand Prix and the 2017 Grand Prix of Michigan.

All through high school and college, 虽然, 芸苔属植物 managed to find the time to pursue another of her favorite sports — lacrosse. She played both years that she attended Foxcroft and was an all-conference selection in the tough Independent Schools League the School belonged to at the time.

在麦迪逊的德鲁大学, NJ, 的辛勤工作, athletic midfielder was a second-team All-Landmark Conference selection in 2008, when she also made the conference’s academic honor roll. A year later, she was a first-team conference selection and made second-team regional all-American.

她还为美国队效力 in the Southern Crosse Tournament in Australia where she helped her team win the gold medal.

与此同时, she continued working with a variety of top trainers, 包括约翰和比齐·马登, 马克里昂, 比利时奥运选手弗朗索瓦·马西, 和你.S. rider Lauren Hough before returning to The Plains in 2013 to open Spring Ledge LLC.

Athletes are selected to the Hall of Fame for a combination of outstanding competitive achievement, 对体育事业的贡献, 以及个人性格. 为了有资格进入学院, an athlete must have graduated from Foxcroft, been a varsity competitor or top-level rider, and been out of school for at least 10 years. She must have distinguished herself by her outstanding athletic achievement since graduation, 作为运动员或教练, 在大学和/或以后. Athletes must serve as examples of outstanding character, 勇气, and leadership which Foxcroft seeks to develop in its athletic program.

Members of the Foxcroft 体育名人堂 voting board include Athletic Director Michelle Woodruff, 《骑马》的导演凯99499威尼斯信誉·沃瑟姆, former athletic directors Joan Eliot and Katie Kantz, 前99499威尼斯信誉蕾莎. Shook Award winners Cricket Bedford ’85 and Jennifer Sgro Orfield ’91 and Hall of Famers Kitty Palmer ’72 and Jacy Edelman ’96.

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