USIAA Equestrian Rules:
Scholarship and Roster Rules:
- All programs can only have a max of 60 players during the regular season; this limit is lifted to 122 total players for preseason tryouts only.
- All programs can choose whether to allow athletic scholarships or not; start-up programs are given a max of 5 years to decide whether or not to provide athletic scholarships to players.
- All scholarship programs can only have a max of 15 total scholarships, and a max of 7 full scholarship players.
- 4 points for 1st place.
- 3 points for 2nd place.
- 2 points for 3rd place.
- 1 point for 4th place.
- 0 points for 5th place or worse.
- All programs play a 10-invitational season (may only host 1) beginning on the first Saturday of October and ending on second Saturday of March; 5 invitationals are in the fall semester and the other 5 are in the spring semester after winter break.
- The USIAA will use the Olympic format for all equestrian invitationals:
a) Individual dressage
b) Team dressage
c) Individual jumping
d) Team jumping
e) Individual eventing
f) Team eventing - The USIAA Championship is an invitational in which the top 5 athletes for each gender in each event will compete.