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Recent Alumna Kylie Schoelen '23 Rides A DelVal Horse To Success At 2024 I Love NY Horse Show

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (07/16/2024) — Delaware Valley University alumna Kylie Schoelen '23 recently competed at the 2024 I Love NY Horse Show in Lake Placid, New York. She competed in the adult jumpers division riding atop DelVal's own horse, Java's Keltic Mist, and in the adult jumpers division with her own horse, Capone Z, who she currently leases to the DelVal equine program.

Schoelen graduated with a bachelor's degree in equine science and is currently enrolled in veterinarian school at St. George's University in Grenada. While at DelVal, she was a three-sport student-athlete for the Aggies, competing for the equestrian hunt seat and dressage teams, and the track and field team. She also completed an internship at DelVal's breeding center where she worked as a breeding center student assistant manager from May-December, 2023.

Over three days at the I Love NY Horse Show, Schoelen successfully competed in 12 different classes. She earned two third-place ribbons for her efforts in the Adult Hunter Classic division and the Adult Hunter 18-35 Over Fences division and took fourth in the NEHC Adult Hunt Seat division.

About Delaware Valley University

Delaware Valley University is a private, comprehensive, nonprofit university educating students with a curriculum that emphasizes and requires experiential learning. Located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles north of Philadelphia, the University offers more than 25 undergraduate majors in business, arts and sciences, and agricultural and environmental sciences; 12 master's degrees; and a doctorate in education. Founded in 1896, DelVal has been cited by the National Society for Experiential Education as having the country's top experiential learning program, by Princeton Review as one of the best colleges in the Northeast, and by College Factual as having one of the top 20 animal science programs in the country.