In senior Jenna Elliott’s life, four is a popular number. She has been riding horses since age four, she has been on the JC equestrian team for four years, and she has been participating in equestrian since fourth grade.

Elliott first started riding horses at age four because of her dad. “My dad took me to a horse farm and I started really liking horses,” Elliott said.

After that, she began to ride horses just for fun, but a couple years later went on to competitions.

Before joining JC’s equestrian team, Elliott rode horses with Tranquility Manor Farm at age nine in fourth grade.

As a freshman, she decided to ride for JC’s equestrian team.  “It’s something different that a lot of people don’t do or hear about.  It’s just fun,” Elliott said.

She currently competes with her horse Griffin.  She has had him since 2005.

“I do games, jumping, eventing, fox hunting, equitation, and hunter shows,” Elliott said.

She finds that the most challenging thing that she does in equestrian is switching horses.

Even though she has memories from all four years of her career on the JC equestrian team, she has had the most fun during her senior year.

“This year was a lot of fun because we had a lot of new people who were really nice and put in a really good effort,” Elliott said.

She plans to ride in college even though she is not pursuing it. Elliott will continue equestrian for her personal enjoyment.

Hopefully in whatever she does, she will incorporate the number four, since it appears to be a good number for her.

Amanda Graziano is a reporter for “The Patriot” and jcpatriot.com