Support UF Eventing Alumni Team at Nationals

For the first time ever UF Eventing is sending an alumni team to compete in the intercollegiate national championship! The competition will take place in Aiken, South Carolina at Stable View May 2nd-4th, 2025. With graduate school budgets the alumni team can use any help they can get to support the trip there! More about our 3 riders below:

Katie Szewczyk

Katie graduated from UF with her undergraduate degree in 2019 and completed pharmacy school at UF in 2023! For the entire time she competed with both UF eventing and the UF Dressage team, and was Dressage Captain! Her horse Doozy, an OTTB last raced in 2023 before she bought him! Doozy successfully completed the retired race horse project last year and Katie has been working hard to take him up the eventing levels!

Lena Kennedy

Lena graduated from UF in 2022 with her bachelors in finance and is currently finishing up her masters degree! Lena was heavily involved with the UF eventing team and was captain her senior year. She has owned her horse, Murphy, since 2016 and competed him through training level!

Ashley Ferrato

Ashley completed her Bachelors degree at UF in 2022 and is currently in her third year of Veterinary school at UFCVM. She was an active member of the UF eventing team throughout school and was Co-Captain her senior year. Ashley loves to catch ride any horse that she can and this year she is taking Katie’s gelding Bentley to champs! Ashley and Bentley have both competed at champs for UF eventing before but this will be their first time as a pair!

Go gators!!