Equestrian Sports: Sequim team takes top 10 at state meet
Published 12:40 pm Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Sequim Gazette staff
The Sequim equestrian team earned a top-10 finish in the state and had a pair of top-10 event finishes at the Washington Association of High School Equestrian Team state meet in Moses Lake, held May 14-17.
In her first year riding Saddleseat, Kaytee Gibeau placed seventh overall.
She and team captain Sydney Balkan earned a fifth-place finish in Team Cow Sorting.
Sequim coach Katie Salmon-Newton said Abi Payseno had a fast go in the Pole Bending event, as did Haylie Newton in Steer Daubing, while Newton and Amanda Murphy had a strong effort in Team Sorting along with Sequim’s Working Fours drill team (Balkan, Gibeau, Newton and Heidi Schleiger).
“All of us had a good time competing in Moses Lake with the hundreds of athletes from across the state,” Salmon Newton said.
