NCAA Rifle Championship
Annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The tournament includes an individual and team championships consisting of the two-day aggregate scoring of the smallbore competition and air rifle competition. The national championship rounds are contested annually in mid-March. West Virginia (19) and Alaska (11) have combined to win 30 of the 43 team championships. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together.
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Most recent season or competition: 2022 NCAA Rifle Championships | |
Sport | College rifle |
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Founded | 1980 |
No. of teams | 8 teams, 48 individual shooters |
Country | United States |
Most recent champion(s) | Team: Alaska (11) Small-bore: Cecilia Ossi, Nebraska Air rifle: Rylan Kissell, Alaska |
Official website | NCAA.com |
Under NCAA rules, sports teams that include both men and women are designated as men's teams for purposes of sports sponsorship and scholarship limitations.[1][lower-alpha 1] Nonetheless, rifle has been a coed sport since 1980, a year before the NCAA began holding championships in women's sports. Schools sponsoring rifle may field anywhere from one to three teams. If a school chooses to sponsor more than one team, it may have any combination of men's, women's, and coed teams. Two schools field men's and women's teams, and three field women's and coed teams.
The current team national champions are the Kentucky Wildcats, who won their fourth national championship at Clune Arena, located within the Cadet Field House on the grounds of the United States Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 11 and 12, 2022. Kentucky's Will Shaner won the 2022 individual title in small-bore. Air Force freshman Scott Rockett won the air rifle national championship, the first ever for the Academy.