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NCAA Rifle Championship

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Sport
  
College rifle

Country
  
United States

Founded
  
1980

Official website
  
NCAA.com

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No. of teams
  
8 teams, 48 individual shooters

Most recent champion(s)
  
Team: West Virginia (19) Small-bore: Morgan Phillips, West Virginia Air rifle: Milica Babic, West Virginia

Instances
  
1999 NCAA Rifle Championships

2016 ncaa rifle championships set up time lapsed video


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 and Alaska-Fairbanks combined have won 28 of the 37 Championships, West Virginia leads all with 18, while Alaska Fairbanks has 10.

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Under NCAA rules, rifle is technically designated as a men's sport, however it actually has been a coed sport since 1980. 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, two field women's and coed teams, and VMI fields all three types of teams.

The current team national champions are the West Virginia Mountaineers who won their record nineteenth national championship in Columbus, Ohio, hosted by the Ohio State University on March 10 and 11, 2017. The individual titles title were both won by West Virginia freshman. Morgan Phillips won the small-bore titles on March 10, 2017. Milica Babic won the air rifle championship the next day.

2010 ncaa rifle championship preview


Conferences

  • Great America Rifle Conference
  • Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference
  • Ohio Valley Conference, the only Division I all-sports conference that sponsored rifle before the SoCon added it in 2016–17.
  • Patriot Rifle Conference
  • Southern Conference; resumed the sport in 2016–17 after a 30-year hiatus.
  • Champions

  • Prior to NCAA sponsorship in 1980, a collegiate rifle championship was held yearly by the National Rifle Association.
  • From 1980 to 2004, the championship consisted of 120 shots by each competitor in smallbore, and 40 shots per competitor in air rifle. Since 2005, the championship has consisted of 60 shots for both smallbore and air rifle, equaling a total of 120 shots per team member.
  • References

    NCAA Rifle Championship Wikipedia