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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.
As of the 2013 season, the NCAA has passed a rule stating that shooting strings are limited to an area within a 4-inch (10 cm) arc drawn from the top of the plastic of the scoop. This essentially eliminates U- or V-shaped shooting strings, as they almost always cross below the 4-inch (10 cm) line. The pocket depth is governed by rule as well.
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).
Following Oregon football's dramatic win over Ohio State, the NCAA announced a rules clarification involving 12 defenders on the field.
At the beginning of a standard match the range officer will go over the rules of the range and the competition. They will state the course of fire and any change over times. In between each string of shooting the range will generally give about 10-minute change over time to get ready for the next position. [2]
The new rules go into effect immediately and were approved by the Division I council last week. The NCAA will no longer limit the amount of times that athletes can transfer schools.
All the other players must stand in their correct places until the ball leaves the shooter's hands: up to four people in the NCAA rules [2] and three people in the FIBA rules [3] from the defensive team and two people from the shooting team line up along the sides of the restricted area (keyhole, paint, lane). These players are usually the ones ...
The NCAA is tweaking how block/charge calls are made in men's basketball. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved rule changes on Thursday that require a defender to be in position to draw ...