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EXPERIENCED ROSTER BODES WELL FOR PITT FOOTBALL Trent Leonard

Senior Staff Writer The 2017 Pitt football season was one marred by inconsistency and underachievement, with the team getting blown out in three of its first four games en route to a 5-7 finish and ultimately failing to reach a bowl game for the first time since 2007.

But despite the unsuccessful season, the Panthers flashed signs of potential and improvement, winning three of their last five games — including a signature upset over No. 2 Miami in the season finale.

Redshirt senior offensive lineman Alex Bookser — a two-time All-ACC Academic Team and two-time Honorable Mention All-ACC selection — spoke to the team’s high expectations at the ACC Kickoff Media Day July 18 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Once we’re all together, there shouldn’t be anyone we can lose to,” Bookser said. “As we’ve proven over the last few years, when we really want to succeed and we’re 100 percent bought into each other and to the game plan, we can beat just about anyone in the country.”

Head coach Pat Narduzzi, now entering his fourth year at Pitt, also spoke about improving from occasional ACC disruptor to consistent contender within the conference. In his three years leading the Panthers, Narduzzi’s record stands at 21-17 overall and 1410 in the ACC. “Any time you can beat two of the best teams in the conference in backto-back years, it lets our kids know that if you pay attention to details, you can do it every week,” Narduzzi said at media day. “They’re buying in, believing in what we’re talking about, and that’s how you win football games.”

And with the toughest non-conference schedule in the nation according to ESPN, the Panthers won’t have any breaks in the season. Road trips to

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in 2017 — Jester Weah and Quadree Henderson — off to the NFL. Redshirt senior Rafael Araujo-Lopes, who led the team in receptions last season, will slot in as Pickett’s go-to option, while 6-foot-4 junior Aaron Matthews and true freshman Shocky Jacques-Louis should be next in line for targets.

It’s no secret that Pitt struggled on defense last year — the Panthers allowed 396.6 yards per game, good for fourth-worst in the ACC. But with nine starters returning for 2018, the unit often considered to be Pitt’s weak point is shaping up to be its strong suit.

“There’s a lot of depth [and] not a Panther Pitt fans cheer for the team at a home game against UNC last November. lot of drop-off, which is a great thing tpn file photo to see for that defense,” said redshirt Notre Dame and Central Florida — as throwing for 193 yards and one touch- senior linebacker Oluwaseun Idowu. well as a home matchup against Penn down while rushing for 90 yards and “I’m really looking forward to what the State — constitute the team’s daunt- two touchdowns in the season finale See Football on page 76 ing slate of non-ACC competition. Pitt victory over Miami.

“You would think that Kenny’s been figures to be the underdog versus all in Oakland for four years, the way he three of those oft-ranked teams.

But if experience is any indicator walks around campus, the way he acts, of success, the Panthers should be in the way he presents himself, the way good hands — they bring back a large he goes about his work … the guy is a group of 18 seniors, seven more than pro,” Bookser said. “He knows that he’s taken the reins and this is his offense.” last year’s team.

Pickett will not have to be the sole Despite the bevy of returning talent, all eyes will be on sophomore offensive leader, however — Pitt’s experienced backfield quarterback Kennyy will help shoulder Pickett to keep the that burden. The team’s underdog Panthers bring back magic alive as Pitt their two leading looks to get back in rushers in seniors bowl contention.

Darrin Hall and Pickett, whom Qadree Ollison, the team intended who combined to to redshirt his first rush for 1,026 yards year, was thrust and 14 touchdowns into the starting last season, as well quarterback job as senior fullback late last season after injuries and underachievement by George Aston, who scored 10 touchthe two quarterbacks ahead of him on downs in 2016 before missing most of the depth chart, senior Max Browne last season due to a foot injury.

The receiving corps remains one of and sophomore Ben DiNucci. When his opportunity to lead the team fi- the Panthers’ biggest question marks, nally came Pickett made the most of it, with two of the team’s top receivers

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CAPEL TEACHES TEAM SACRIFICE Tessa Sayers Staff Writer

Pitt’s 2018 Men’s Basketball team didn’t grow most during the off-season while lifting in the weight room or doing drills on the court, according to head coach Jeff Capel.

Instead, Arlington National Cemetery and The National Museum of African American History and Culture are where he believes the Panthers learned what it truly means to sacrifice for their team.

“I wanted our guys to learn about sacrifice,” Capel said. “The ultimate sacrifice is what the people who are in those two places have done for our country, for the world.

And to see it, to hear about it, to learn about it and most importantly to feel it, we’ve done that.”

Those lessons will come in handy as Pitt competes in one of the toughest conferences in college basketball. Last year, the Atlantic Coast Conference had an NCAA

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conference-leading nine teams appear in the NCAA Tournament. And eight of Pitt’s opponents in the 2018-2019 season, including seven conference opponents, are ranked in CBS Sport’s Gary Parrish’s June top 25 college basketball rankings.

Capel was named head coach of the men’s basketball team in March, replacing Kevin Stallings, who was fired after leading Pitt to two losing seasons in 2017 and 2018.

Pitt finished 8-24 overall in the 2018 season and 0-18 in the ACC. The Panthers were 1-13 on the road — the one win came at a neutral site — and at one point they lost 19 games in a row.

Capel came in knowing change was needed, starting with action off the court.

He believes that the closer his team is off the court, the closer they will be on the court due to a stronger sense of trust and togetherness. Redshirt junior guard Malik Ellison agrees, and can already sense the change in See Sacrifice on page 78

The 2017-18 basketball team stands in a huddle at a photoshoot during pre-season.

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“PARKOUR!” FINDS A CALLING AT PITT

Joanna Li

Senior Staff Writer Between Ruskin Hall and the Information Sciences Building, Currier Wolfe and several other students jump, run and flip over impassable barriers made of high walls and banisters. There’s no set movements or drills to stick to in this sport — Wolfe and the others want to test their own physical boundaries by trying new tricks.

Wolfe, a junior environmental science and film studies major, is the co-captain of Panther Parkour — a Pitt club focusing on the outdoor gymnastics-like activity that utilizes architectural obstacles in a freestyle and artistic form of athleticism.

“About 75 percent of the students come in like me, with zero experience,” Wolfe said.

“People come in with all different levels of athleticism and fitness and the club is very accomodating of all those levels.”

Wolfe discovered Panther Parkour the same way most students on campus discover

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run up walls — Wolfe passed the beginner’s endurance test and wanted to continue to train their brain to overcome fears over and over again through the sport.

Wolfe said the first test for new Panther Parkour members is to run up a wall during the first one or two practices. They said it’s interesting to see who stays after trying and failing so many times.

“It’s a certain type of stress … that will often either make people decide whether or not this is going to be worthwhile to them,” Wolfe said.

As a completely non-competitive club on campus, the group focuses their time on teaching each other parkour tricks — Kofi, a former Pitt Parkour member is known as “a legend” among current members for whether free-running with stylish acrobatics running up a wall at Ruskin Hall. or practicing elemental skills like running, screengrab via youtube video by pantherflow1 swinging and climbing. Practicing as a group their own clubs of interest — at the annual kour, a sport they were vaguely interested in is not only safer for members, but allows Student Activities Fair. Looking for non- but never had the chance to pursue. them to constructively criticize and learn After their first practice — where new from one another. competitive sports that didn’t require much of a time commitment, Wolfe turned to par- members learn to roll, precision jump and See Parkour on page 80

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ARCHERY CLUB TAKES A LONG SHOT, HITS THE BULLSEYE Stephen Cuddy Staff Writer

When Julia Lam arrived at Pitt as a first-year in 2016, the competitive archer sought out a club where she could hone her skills and meet new people.

But to her disappointment, she found the University’s archery club had disbanded several years before when all of its members graduated.

three have built Pitt’s Archery Club to a competitive organization of more than 100 members consisting of a mix of experienced and inexperienced archers.

Just last year, members competed at the U.S. Indoor National Championships and Outdoor Collegiate Nationals, and won All-Academic and All-American awards.

Lam, Nair and Zack were able to lure

Kira Zack (left) practices with Pitt’s archery team during the 2017-18 school year. photo by chris preksta courtesy of julia lam “While there are other schools already with strong archery programs, I knew Pitt was the fit for me,” Lam said.

“Creating my own club just seemed like the natural next step, and I started it with the intention of creating a solid collegiate archery program.”

Lam figured there were other people like her interested in archery on campus — she just had to seek them out.

She joined forces with two other firstyears in the same predicament — Anjna Nair and Kira Zack — and the trio set about rebuilding the Pitt Archery Club.

Now, Lam is a rising junior and the club’s president, while Nair and Zack are rising juniors and co-vice presidents. Over the course of two years, the

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in new members through equipment they scored through a grant from USA Archery, which they used to buy bows, arrows, targets and arrow curtains.

They were also able to set up practice at the racquetball courts in Trees Hall — they’re now looking to move some practices to the Cost Center in the future so they can increase their target distances.

The Archery Club practices two to three times a week, but has a flexible roster. Not every person on the team is asked to compete, especially since the club’s practices are only as intense as the archer chooses to make them. If a student displays an interest in archery, See Archery on page 82

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PITT EQUESTRIAN CLUB DOESN’T HORSE AROUND

Joanna Li

Senior Staff Writer For a one-hour weekly practice, traveling 30 minutes from Oakland to a farm in Allison Park is a large commitment for anyone, especially for students who may not have easy access to cars.

But those who belong to Pitt’s Equestrian Club know their sport isn’t just about the rider’s abilities and how often they are able to practice — it relies heavily on the horse’s as well.

Equestrian is a general term for all types of horseback riding, whether it be jumping over obstacles or simply showing. The Pitt Equestrian Club holds its weekly practices at Bargee Farms — an estate covering 165 acres of land that provides training facilities, derby fields and pastures — where the riders rotate among seven practice horses provided by the farm.

This system teaches the riders to be flexible and accommodating to the horses while practicing and preparing for future competitions — the team attends about 10 Intercollegiate Horse Show Association shows and regional and

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national competitions if they qualify that year.

Pitt’s club focuses on Equitation, a discipline of equestrianism in the English style where riders are judged on form, style and ability as horseback riders.

But before they can get on their horses, the riders must first travel a distance by car. Senior psychology student Lily Mosley says the limited number of drivers makes it tough to get there and back every week. That, in addition to the preparation and cleanup, leaves the riders with no time to waste.

“We get there with like a half an hour so that we have time to groom the horse and get them saddled and ready for our lesson,” Mosley said.

“Afterwards, we have to wait half an hour or more to cool the horse down.”

On top of limited lessons and long travel time, riders need to prepare to work with a different horse at every show and even some lessons. Riders are randomly assigned horses because it’s too challenging to transport each thousand pound animal from the farm,

Micah Lisi, Pitt Equestrian club president and a senior biology and chemistry double major, stands with her horse Sienna. photo courtesy of lily mosley through the city and to the competition site.

“You have to be on the same wavelength — if they try to get away with something you have to be firm and correct them, but then you can’t be pulling on their mouth the whole time or really fighting with them,” Mosley said. “It’s the attitudes and personalities that have to match.”

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Without being able to communicate verbally with the horses, the riders depend on the horses’ personal style and mood, giving clear signals about what needs to be done in response. According to Mosley, because the bond between a horse and its rider is the most See Equestrian on page 84

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Football, pg. 76 defense is going to look like this season.”

It starts with Idowu — the former walk-on turned second-team All-ACC selection — anchoring the defense.

He did it all for the Panthers last year, leading the team with 94 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss and five sacks.

Idowu will have an experienced group of talent around him as well, with fifth-year senior linebacker Quintin Wirginis returning in the middle as well as two other starters — redshirt junior Saleem Brightwell and redshirt senior Elijah Zeise — returning at outside linebacker.

The defensive line also brings back virtually all of its production from 2017, including fifth-year seniors Dewayne Hendrix, Shane Roy, James Folston and redshirt sophomore defensive end Rashad Weaver. Many have Weaver pegged as a rising star after leading his position group in tackles, tackles for loss and sacks last season.

If there’s one area where the defense may struggle, it’s the defensive backfield. Stopping the pass has proven to be problematic time and time again for the Panthers, and last year was no different. Even with NFL selections Jordan Whitehead and Avonte Maddox, Pitt still allowed 254.2 passing yards per game last season — second-worst in the ACC. This season, it’ll be up to returning junior starters Damar Hamlin and Dane Jackson to provide consistency.

As it stands now, the Panthers are projected to finish fifth out of seven teams in the ACC Coastal division, according to an ACC preseason media poll released July 23. Pitt received no first place votes, while Miami, Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Duke finished ahead in the voting.

But with a rigorous non-conference schedule to raise the level of competition, a plethora of starters coming back on both sides of the ball and a large core of senior leadership, it is entirely possible that Pitt outperforms its predicted ranking. While usurping divisional foes Miami and Virginia Tech may be a longshot, expect the Panthers to knock off either Georgia Tech or

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Duke for a top-four spot in the division.

“We want to be that best team in the country, we want to be ACC champions, we want to be in the playoff,” Narduzzi said. “We want to try to make everybody else look bad and make sure Pitt’s at the top of the coastal.”

The Panthers’ official training camp will run from Aug. 2 until the beginning of the regular season, set for Saturday, Sept. 1, at home versus Albany.

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Sacrifice, pg. 69 the team.

“I feel like everybody is whole, everybody is one,” Ellison said. “We communicate on a daily basis and we all hang out and I think we are all getting closer and closer as a team.”

Capel’s next move was getting his new team to understand his emphasis on sacrifice over the months before the season began. Senior guard and forward Jared Wilson-Frame said the team works harder than any one of them have ever worked be-

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fore and that there is no better proof than sophomore center Peace Ilegomah.

Between conditioning and workouts, Ilegomah has lost approximately 30 pounds in the past five months — and he isn’t alone.

While Ilegomah’s transformation may be the most noticeable, according to WilsonFrame, each player is making the necessary changes in order to compete at their peak this season.

“Every single day that we come in to workouts, practice, whatever the case may be, we give it our all, 110 percent,” WilsonFrame said. “Our coaching staff … is push-

ing us to new levels as a whole. And the whole program is reaching new heights … it’s just a higher level than I’ve seen since I’ve been here. I haven’t been here that long, but the whole culture is different.”

Capel and his staff break up practices into individual, small-group and full-team workouts. Each practice focuses on something different, according to Capel and Wilson-Frame, and also incorporates what it means to sacrifice and be a real team player.

After five months, players are already seeing a difference in the team. Last year, Ellison thought there was a lack of commu-

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nication and support when someone made a good play in a game, but now notices a big change.

“I think this year already in our workouts when we make certain plays everyone is really engaged and hyped that he made that play,” Ellison said. “I think that’s the real difference from last year to this year, sacrificing yourself for the team and knowing that is how we are going to succeed.”

According to Capel, individual workouts have given the coaching staff a better chance to get to know each player better on a personal level. But they have also been used to focus and fine-tune each player’s basic skills like dribbling, ball handling and footwork.

The small-group and full-team workouts have focused a lot on defense — breaking it down into smaller parts and then building it back up to its full extent. In every drill, Capel makes sure his team knows how important it is to have each other’s backs, including one where a player has to communicate with his teammates constantly so that they can successfully support his blind side.

“We do a lot of drills where you have to be talking to each other and have to be communicating,” Wilson-Frame said. “You have to be there for one another or else … you won’t be doing the drill correctly or will fail to meet our objectives.”

As for whether or not the defense they practice is the same or similar to what fans saw last year, Capel doesn’t know. When he accepted the job, he didn’t watch any game film from last year. Instead, he decided to flush last year and focus on the present.

“Hopefully, fans see a team that’s incredibly together, a team that plays hard and fights every possession, a team that plays with passion, that’s connected and a team that’s going to battle and fight every time we step in between those lines and a team that’s incredibly together,” Capel said. “That’s what I want our fans to see.”

According to Wilson-Frame, if the fans want to know what to expect, they should look at the “old” Pitt teams — teams that were known for their mental toughness, competitiveness and high intensity level.

“You’ll see a team that will go back to the old days,” Wilson-Frame said. “A Pitt team that is willing to lay it down to whatever limits it takes to get over that hump and get that victory.”

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Parkour, pg. 71 The team usually practices twice a week in a single area of campus. Every once in a while, the group moves around campus — hopping to multiple locations during a single practice, in search of new challenges.

As the traceurs — as those who participate in parkour are called — constantly search campus for new structures to conquer, they find that Pitt’s campus provides a large variety of space that challenges each individual’s skills. Wolfe said a main rule of the team is that pedestrians have right of

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way and they try to pick locations and times when not a lot of people are around.

The group saves weekend practice for learning new tricks. Meanwhile, the weekday practice consists of conditioning and intense drills in order for the members to keep up the basic level of fitness necessary to participate.

“There’s usually one or two skills that we really like to use at each location,” Wolfe said. “Maybe we’re behind Ruskin and there’s some nice walls that go straight into the grass, so we just fall over those for an hour.”

Though the majority of the members are

new to the sport, some members, like sophomore administration of justice major Jeremy ReoNason, have experience in similar fields like martial arts.

“I joined Panther Parkour almost immediately when I came to Pitt last year,” ReoNason said. “I’ve been training in martial arts for over a decade and began learning parkour in high school to supplement my skills in the martial arts. Plus, parkour is a lot of fun, extremely fulfilling and practiced by amazing people.”

On the surface, parkour is a way of navigating an environment through the teach-

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ings of fluid motions, ReoNason said.

“Gymnastics is great for agility, and martial arts for self defense and dexterity. But as far as practical evasive movements, parkour is it,” ReoNason said. “It teaches you how to fluidly navigate a typical urban environment.”

But parkour is much more than its physical challenges of jumps, flips and runs. It’s a mental challenge as well — and for junior linguistics major Kevin Marston, that’s the best part. “[Practices are] almost a discussion, with, of course, the most experienced people leading the discussion,” Marston said. “The biggest obstacle to you doing [a trick] is you thinking to yourself that you can’t do it.”

Marston, who has been part of the club since his first year at Pitt, said he has yet to overcome the nervous feeling he gets before trying a new trick. Traceurs have to first be willing to attempt difficult tricks by opening their mind and convincing themselves to go for it.

“You honestly come out of it surprised that you were able to do that because your brain didn’t think you could, but you were more than able to,” Marston said. “That’s one of the first things I was taught when I started out — that your biggest opponent is not your body, but your mind.”

Essentially, the traceurs on the team selfteach these physical and mental skills. But they also give much credit to each other, their predecessors and online videos. The basic skills they have learned allow team captains, like Wolfe, to develop ideas for new, different and interesting combos that the athletes can learn.

“One of the best things about being modern university students is that it’s the digital age, so not only can we keep teaching new members what we learned from the people who taught us, but we can then also go online, find other people who do things and look up tutorials,” Wolfe said.

With the abundance of open spaces around campus, Panther Parkour can easily accomplish what it was set to be — a group of people that enjoy parkour, coming together and learning from each other.

“There’s something really fantastic about running up a 12-foot wall when at the beginning of the semester you could barely run up a 7-foot wall,” Wolfe said. “And just knowing that I can move my body, I can just get around the world in this way that not a lot of people can, it’s just very satisfying.”

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Archery, pg. 73 then the experienced members of the club teach them how to shoot. Lam encourages beginners to join, especially because for her the sport is calming and helps her find her balance in her daily life.

“This sport is fun and relaxing for me. It helps me find my center as you have to be calm and still to have a perfect shoot,” Nair said. “This sport is a stress-reliever for me.”

While some university club sports

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team can be very demanding, possess strict membership rules and dictate a lot of a student’s time, Pitt Archery does not. Students can come and go to practice as much as they would like.

In addition, athletes are not required to participate in competitive archery events in order to hold an executive board position. Brittany Pham, a junior majoring in molecular biology and the club’s social media manager, does not compete but still practices. Pham, like many other students, uses the club as a way to branch out socially and meet new people she otherwise would not

have met.

“I really appreciate Pitt Archery.

Even though it’s small as of right now, you know the names of every member and you know their daily lives as well,” Pham said. “Pitt Archery isn’t just about practicing archery but it’s a place to build interpersonal relationships.”

Even though she has yet to compete, she intends to do so at some point in the future. For this upcoming season she plans to improve her average scores in practice and work toward a competition.

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and improve without the whole ‘I’m bad’ mentality,” Pham said. “Of course we have tons of new archers but I never felt bad for missing a target.”

Some of the other team members are more serious than others, like Nair, a junior double majoring in molecular biology and biochemistry. At home she trains with a coach at a range not very far from her house, while at school she typically trains when she can.

“I train as often as I can when I have time. In college, I train at least two times a week with the rest of the club. On the days when I don’t go to the range, I ‘train’ with a stretch band to simulate pulling a bow and to keep my posture” said Nair.

Nair is one of the more serious competitors and trains with multiple arrows to simulate competitions. She went with the team to compete at nationals this past year.

Other students practice archery because it is related to their other interests. Greg Carlson, a junior finance and supply chain management major, wants to get into hunting and sees archery as a way to prepare for that while he attends Pitt.

“I like being able to provide for myself and not rely on others,” Carlson said. “Being able to practice a form of marksmanship at school is really helpful for me.”

Lam explained that there are more ways to train other than using stretching bands and just shooting arrows.

Personally, she does various forms of cardio training to help lower her heart rate, keeping her calmer in competition.

She said weight training can also be beneficial for archers who pull a heavier weight resulting in high arrow speed — an important aspect in outdoor competition since it lessens the effect of wind on the arrow.

And in addition to working out, Lam spends time reading to mentally prepare for competition — but she usually reads books about golf.

“Golf and archery are actually very similar in the sense that after a certain point the competitors in the field are all capable of shooting the same or similar scores,” Lam said. “It is the mental part and the ability to stay calm that helps your earn a higher score in competition.”

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Equestrian, pg. 75 important aspect of horseback riding, riders must learn patience with the many horses they encounter.

With rotating horses during lessons, riders practice basic reigning and communication skills they will eventually use in competition.

Having a horse of her own, senior biology student Micah Lisi is used to knowing every detail of her horse, but when it comes to riding at school it’s different.

“You have to be mentally flexible to understand your horse’s personality that day and be

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open-minded,” Lisi said. “If you become impatient, horses can feel that and they’ll know you’re nervous or impatient and they feed off of it, and it keeps growing.”

With about 30 members on the team, the riders are split into groups of four or five and spread out across lesson slots throughout the week. When the riders arrive for their lesson, they receive a list of the available horses for that day — sometimes the horses are assigned by the coach and other times, the riders get to pick.

After getting the horses cleaned up and the saddles prepared, the riders and their partners are ready for the lesson.

Throughout the duration of the practice,

head coach and Bargee Farms trainer Jim Boyce gives advice to the riders to help them improve, according to Lisi. The lesson process seems easy enough to remember, but the riders must keep in mind that what they learn must later be applied to the random horse they are assigned in competition.

“Nothing’s as good as being on the horse,” Lisi said. “There’s a disadvantage there where you’re only riding once a week, so with all of that muscle memory you don’t use unless you’re on a horse, it’s hard.”

At competitions, riders compete in different classes depending on their riding skills and experience. The highest level is the open class,

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and riders that compete at this level are either trained extensively in jumping fences in Open Over Fence or trained in walking and trotting in Open Flat.

Upon arrival at a show, the team is given an order of who is riding and when, as well as the competitors in their respective classes. The riders, including senior psychology student Ellen Stewart, look for their name next to a brief description of the random horse they will be riding that day.

“There’s a captain and coaches meeting, and after that, there’s usually the draw, which is when the horses are picked at random for each division,” Stewart said. “We get [the rider] on the horse, and they aren’t allowed to do anything on the horse before they go on.”

Unlike the standard show process, where riders get a practice run and adjustment of the saddle, the shows the Pitt equestrian team competes in are a bit different.

With the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, the rider, dressed in breeches, a jacket, a show-shirt, helmet, gloves and black tall boots, is given merely 30 seconds to figure how to best work with the horse assigned to them and then only one opportunity to attempt to perform based on the skills they already know.

“Basically, you have to watch other people ride that horse to see how they behave,” Lisi said. “It’s just sort of luck of the draw — sometimes you get the best horse there and sometimes you get the one that is being so bad that later on in the day it gets pulled out of the show and isn’t allowed to compete anymore.”

And sometimes, the rider just needs luck on their side to help understand how a horse may feel on a particular day.

“Maybe the horse is having a bad day because it had a lot of beginner riders and got frustrated, or maybe it’s having a great day and you’re about to have an easy ride,” Lisi said.

“There’s some that are super lazy or super crazy.”

Through their practices and shows, Stewart, Lisi and Mosley all understand that they may not always be in control. Blame can be placed on any aspects of riding, whether it’s not following through on a move or carrying out improper positions. But when sitting on top of a living animal which can decide how to react on its own, the rider must be flexible enough to compensate for the both of them.

“The discipline that we ride in is equitation, which generally focuses only on the rider — it doesn’t really focus on the horse — so you have to show your ability as a rider,” Stewart said.

“Some of the horses aren’t that helpful in helping you look good, so it’s a test of our skills.”

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people can share a single unit. Check property’s compliance with codes. Call City’s Permits, Licensing & Inspections.

412-255-2175.

LAST MINUTE FALL RENTALS: Looking for an apartment at the last minute? Call John CR Kelly Realty for details on available units: 412-683-7300 or visit: www.jcrkelly. com

Shadyside 714 Summerlea Street - 2 bedroom, 1 bath, fully equipped galley kitchen, pine shelving, paneling and decorative fire place, C/A, Coin op laundry in basement, parking on street by City Permit. Can be rented furnished or unfurnished.

Rent - $1,250.00 + G/E 412-462-1296 Please visit our website@MadroneProperty.com Friendship - 300 Amber Street Studio apartment in a converted house, fully equipped large kitchen, large bay window and ceiling fan, parking pad behind building, coin op washer in basement,

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Rent - $650.00 + G/E 412-462-1296 Friendship - 300 Amber Street - Large 2 bedroom plus den, 1 bath in a converted house, wall to wall carpet, equipped kitchen, ceiling fan in livingroom, parking pad behind building, coin op washer in basement, dryer free.

Rent - $1,050.00 + G/E 412-462-1296

Squirrel Hill August 1st: 3BR, 1BA sunny spacious duplex, 2nd floor. Fully equipped kitchen, balcony, front porch, basement, storage space. Washer and dryer in building, off-street parking, near bus-line. No pets.

Call for pictures and info - 412-606-8052 Ludwick & Monitor Street - 3 bedroom, 1 bath, updated fully equipped kitchen, newly finished hardwood floors, front porch, basement, lots of storage space, free washer and dryer, off-street parking in attached garage. Near busline, Giant Eagle, and universities. Pets okay. $1350. Call 561-818-1007

Rental Other 3 bedroom house 3 miles from campus. $1000. 412-225-8723.

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