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The West Virginia Mountaineers rifle team is a co-ed intercollegiate varsity sport of West Virginia University. The rifle team participates in NCAA Division I rifle competitions within the rifle-only Great America Rifle Conference. West Virginia is the most successful college rifle program in the United States, winning a total of 19 NCAA ...
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.
West Virginia Mountaineers; University: West Virginia University: Conference: Big 12 (primary) Sun Belt (men's soccer) Great America Rifle Conference (rifle) NCAA: Division I: Athletic director: Wren Baker: Location: Morgantown, West Virginia: Varsity teams: 18: Football stadium: Milan Puskar Stadium: Basketball arena: WVU Coliseum: Baseball ...
WVU athletes will represent four countries at the games, competing for Australia, Canada, Nigeria and the United States. Mary Tucker (United States) was on the WVU Rifle team from 2022-24.
Since there are only 22 Division I schools, 2 Division II schools, and 5 Division III schools that sponsor rifle, the NCAA holds only a single National Collegiate championship. There are 2 men's teams, 9 women's teams, and 23 mixed/co-ed teams (the number of teams exceeds the number of schools because four schools field two teams).
Five-time defending champions West Virginia once again retained the team championship, finishing just 10 points ahead of Alaska in the team standings. It was the Mountaineers' ninth overall national title. The individual champions were, for the smallbore rifle, Eric Uptagrafft (West Virginia), and Trevor Gathman (West Virginia), for the air rifle.
Murray State, with a team score of 6,205, bested defending champions West Virginia in the team standings by 2 points to claim their second national title. It was the Racers' second title in three seasons. The individual champions were, for the smallbore rifle, Web Wright (West Virginia), and, for the air rifle, Rob Harbison (Tennessee–Martin).
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