The Intercollegiate Dressage Association (IDA) was started approximately 10 years ago as a way to provide collegiate equestrians an opportunity to compete in dressage at the college level. A "hosting school" provides visiting teams horses to compete on. Each school participates in a random draw of horses, and riders are then given 10 minutes to warm up their horse and enter the ring to perform a test. Teams consist of four riders, one at each of four levels: intro, lower training, upper training and first level.

Averett is a member of Region I and attends approximately six to seven shows per year. The team has been quite successful. It was ranked fourth in the nation in 2008 and was home to the Lower Training Level Individual National Champion in 2009. The University's horses, Baron and Dan, have both been voted IDA Horse of the Year by the riders in the team's region.

The Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) was formed in the 1970's and now offers riders an opportunity to compete in both hunt seat and western riding. Averett, which only recently formed an IHSA team, only competes in the hunt seat discipline. The team competes in six to seven shows a year. Like other forms of intercollegiate riding, host schools provide horses for visiting teams to ride. Riders draw a horse's name out of a hat and then must go in and complete an equitation course or ride in a flat class.