Tessa Downey

Position:
Jumping Seat
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Houston, Texas

OVERALL RECORD: 14-10-3
FENCES RECORD: 14-9-3
FENCES MOPS: 2
HIGH SCORE: 92
FLAT RECORD: 0-1
FLAT MOPS: 0
HIGH SCORE: 69

(Sophomore) 2024-25: rode in all 16 meets for the Bulldogs...posted a 7-7-2 record in Fences...earned a pair of MOP honors at Fresno State and against South Carolina...rode to a career-high score of 92 against SMU...competed in Flat against Lynchburg in a Jumping Seat only meet to open the spring season...beat her opponent by 44 points, 80-36, to clinch the 2025 NCEA National Championship against SMU...named to the NCEA All-Championship Fences Team and NCEA APHA All-Academic First Team... earned a spot on the NCEA APHA and SEC Winter honor rolls.

(Freshman) 2023-24: went 7-2-1 overall in Fences…went 3-0 in the postseason… rode to a high score of 88 against Auburn…named SEC Freshman Fences Rider of the Year.

Other: selected to the US Junior Team for FEI Jumping Nations Cup Youth Finals in Opglabbeek, Belgium…Winner of the 2023 Gladstone Equitation Cup…Team Gold on the Junior team at the NAYRC… third at the 2023 Maclay Finals, 5th at the 2023 Medal Finals and won the 2023 North American Palm Beach Equitation Championships…third place finish at the 2022 ASPCA Maclay Finals…Zone 7 Team Gold and Individual Silver at the 2022 Prix des States…finished Top 12 at the 2022 USET Finals…placed fourth at the 2021 WIHS Equitation Finals…Top 25 Maclay Finals and Medal Finals in 2021.