FINDLAY, Ohio – The SCAD equestrian team has been named the 2025-26 Tournament of Champions Series Champion, picking up its first national title of the year.
 
In a historic run during the 35^th Anniversary Season of the collegiate Tournament of Champions (TOC), SCAD claimed victory in three of the four TOC shows this season, to earn the overall series title.
 
SCAD entered the final TOC show, the Spring Classic, having already mathematically secured the 2026 Series Championship, but their performance in Findlay put an exclamation point on a legendary year.
 
The Series Championship, calculated using the highest two-show point totals, saw SCAD finish with a record-high 98 points. Under the leadership of Director of Equestrian/Head Coach Ashley Henry and Assistant Coach Sammy Perlman, the 2025-2026 season was one for the history books, highlighted by the Tournament's first-ever perfect achieved by the Bees during the Winter Classic in January 2026.
 
Tournament of Champions 2026 Series Championship
Champions: SCAD, Savannah, Georgia—98 points
Reserve Champions: University of Lynchburg, Virginia—72
3rd: Delaware Valley University, Pennsylvania—67 (tiebreaker)
4th: Purdue University, Indiana—67 (tiebreaker was highest score of the year)
5th: Skidmore College, New York—64
6th: Goucher College, Maryland—55
 
The 36th season of the Tournament of Champions kicks off in September at the University of Lynchburg in Lynchburg, Va. The Series will continue at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. in December and then return to SCAD in January of 2027, before finishing at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio in March.