Maryland’s World Travelers, continued...
competition in 35th place. T e pair moved up to 28th after cross-country with only a few time faults. Two rails were dropped in show jumping.
Molly Curtiss of Brookeville rode Savannah to 35th overall. T e pair placed 39th after dres- sage and moved up to 31st after jumping clean but outside the time on cross-country. Molly and Savannah had some diffi culties in show jumping on the fi nal day, racking up 32 jump and 24 time faults to drop down to 35th.
Olympic Dreams by Katherine O. Rizzo
Most Maryland horse people know Su-
zanne Stettinius of Parkton as the young stee- plechase jockey who came up the ranks from pony races to timber races and now seems to be training a slew of future steeplechase jockey stars. But did you know that Suzanne is also 31st in the world as a lady Modern Pentathlon athlete and is one of the top two women in the U.S. in the sport? T e sport of Pentathlon dates back to an- cient Rome and was included in the very fi rst Olympic games. Now, the Modern Pentathlon includes fencing, running, swimming, riding and shooting…all in one day! Suzanne’s fi rst Pentathlon competition was the Canadian na-
Suzanne Stettinius (in pink) with just a few of the “pony kids” she trains when not traveling the world competing in pentathlons.
zanne was introduced to the Tetrathlon, which includes riding, swimming, running and shoot- ing, but no fencing. After competing at the 1998 USPC National Championships in the Tetrathlon when she was only 10 years old, Su- zanne added fencing to her list of “hobbies.” She began training with Bin Lu of the Bal-
timore Fencing Center, where she still trains. Under his tutelage, she went to two Junior Na-
tionals in 2005. T ere, she placed fi rst in the Junior division and fourth overall. Before that fi rst competition, Suzanne was just a kid who foxhunted on the weekends with her family, raced ponies and also competed in soccer, lacrosse and swimming. In 1995, she and her siblings joined Pony Club, where Su-
tional Championships and two Junior Olym- pics in fencing. After enrolling at McDaniel College in 2008,
Suzanne took a break from Pentathlon to focus on swimming for the college. She felt swim- ming was her weakness at the time and through the coaching of Jeff Hiestand, made huge im- provements in that phase. T en in 2010, Suzanne became active in
the sport again, setting her sights on the 2012 London Olympic Games. In order to qualify for those games, she must compete in one domestic U.S. Nationals, one continental Pan American Games, and six international com- petitions. In 2010, Suzanne won the silver medal at the U.S. Nationals, placed 11th at the Pan American Championships and sec- ond at the Domestic Qualifi er held in Colo- rado Springs. And thus, she started checking off those qualifi cation requirements. T is year, Suzanne placed third at the Do-
mestic Qualifi er in Palm Springs, California before heading to Mexico to compete in the NORCECA Championships, where she won gold. Back in the U.S., Suzanne earned a silver again at the U.S. Nationals. In September, Su- zanne was on the U.S. Womens’ Senior Team at the World Championships in Moscow, Russia. T e team placed 13th overall and in the semi- fi nals, Suzanne was ranked 22.
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