When the young members of the Flying Star Vaulting Team tell their friends they do gymnastics on horseback, the response is … skeptical. “They’re like, you’re lying,” said Haley Haberger, 11. “When ...

A vaulter runs alongside a cantering horse. She wears a full body leotard, red lipstick, black eyeliner and her hair in a bun. Grabbing a handle secured to a pad on the horse’s back, she hoists ...

The four members of the Flying Stars team — Haley and Sidney Haberger, Greta Lee, and Aili Varner — call what they do gymnastics on a horse. Their coach has another description of equestrian or horse ...

Two Empire competitors rank in the top five after the first day of the American Vaulting Association Nationals at Lexington, Va. The sport, which dates back to Roman times, involves gymnastics done on ...

ELYSBURG, Pa. — Raelyn Snyder and Allegra Hart are practicing this mixture of gymnastics and dance while on horseback at the Mountain Laurel Equestrian Center in Ralpho Township. They're getting ready ...

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of Marlee on the Move, a new series airing in the 4 p.m. hour in which News 8 sports reporter Marlee Wierda tries out various sports. You can send ideas ...

The horse trots in a tight circle, straining at its lead, as 8-year-old Kaitlyn Bergen sits calmly atop. Slowly she swings both outstretched legs to one side of the horse and then the other. Then, ...

The heat outdoors burned like an oven, but the 90-degree weather didn't break Annalise VanVranken's keen focus during a recent horse-vaulting practice. The 18-year-old braved the humidity to perform ...

The first time Jarred Sallus tried equestrian vaulting, he was with his girlfriend, Kadriya Musina, in her native Russia. Within eight hours of his arrival, he was upside down on a horse. Sallus ...

N. MANHEIM TWP., Pa. - A little jump here, a handstand there, even a back handspring. These are stunts most of us can't do on a floor -- but how about on a moving horse? Performing tricks at her ...

ELYSBURG, Pa. — Raelyn Snyder and Allegra Hart are practicing this mixture of gymnastics and dance while on horseback at the Mountain Laurel Equestrian Center in Ralpho Township. They're getting ready ...