Since the early years of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, St. Lawrence University has been a top-performing school. They won the Collegiate Cup in 1973, earned back-to-back championships in 1976 and 1977, and won again in 1981. In 1997, head coach Mary Drueding took over with a plan to be at St. Lawrence for two years, lucky for the Saints she has now been coaching for the past 26 years and was once again able to lead the Scarlet and Brown to back-to-back victories in 2012 and 2013 with long-time assistants Cate Wagner and Katherine Hankin. In doing so she became the first head coach in IHSA history to win National Championships with two schools. St. Lawrence has qualified at least multiple individual students for the national championships every year since Drueding became head coach. The 2012 and 2013 back-to-back National Championship riding teams, captained by Michelle Harazim, will go down as two of the most successful teams in program history. The pair of teams make up two out of six of the national championship winning teams for the Saints and consisted of two-time individual National Champion in Emily D’Alessandro and individual National Champions Casey Zuratis, Jenna Gunnell and Mackenzie Alderman. 386 colleges and universities start the competition season, 16 vie for the National Championship title and besting those top 16 schools once is impressive, but twice is legendary.