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NCAA Rifle Championship

Most recent season or competition: 2024 NCAA Rifle Championships
Sport	College rifle
Founded	1980
No. of teams	8 teams, 48 individual shooters
Country	United States
Most recent champion(s)	Team: TCU (4) Small-bore: Cecilia Ossi, Nebraska Air rifle: Rylan Kissell, Alaska
Official website	NCAA.com

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.

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. 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 TCU Horned Frogs, who won their fourth national championship at the WVU Coliseum, located at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, on March 8 and 9, 2024. West Virginia's Mary Tucker won the 2024 individual title in small-bore. WVU junior Gavin Barnick won the air rifle national championship, besting Kentucky's Braden Peiser. In the air rifle qualification round, Alaska's Elijah Spencer fired a score of 600 (a perfect score), with 57x - one X behind the NCAA record set by Nanook Rylan Kissell at the 2023 NCAA Rifle Championship.

Programs

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.

Team titles

19, 11, 4, 3, 2, 1

Appearances by Team

Key

•  CH  National Champion
•  RU  National Runner-up
• Numbers indicate the placement of the team in that tournament beyond second

Individual titles

Schools in italics no longer compete in NCAA rifle.

See also

• Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Rifle Champions (1905-1979)
• Pre-NCAA Women's Intercollegiate Rifle Champions

Footnotes

1. While all members of NCAA Divisions I and II are limited to the equivalent of 3.6 full scholarships in rifle per school in any academic year, Division II members are also limited to 60 scholarship equivalents in men's sports apart from football and basketball.

External links

1. "Bylaw 20.9.6: Sports Sponsorship" (PDF). 2020–21 NCAA Division I Manual. NCAA. August 7, 2020. pp. 406–07. Retrieved March 14, 2021. This bylaw also applies in Divisions II and III, but is numbered differently in those divisions' manuals.
2. "Bylaw 15.5.3.1.1: Maximum Equivalency Limits, Men's Sports" (PDF). 2020–21 NCAA Division I Manual. NCAA. August 7, 2020. p. 222. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
3. "Bylaw 15.4.2.1.1: Maximum Equivalency Limits, Men's Sports" (PDF). 2020–21 NCAA Division II Manual. NCAA. August 7, 2020. pp. 166–67. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
4. "Bylaw 15.4.2.1.1.1: Maximum Equivalency Limits, Men's Sports, Overall Limit" (PDF). 2020–21 NCAA Division II Manual. NCAA. August 7, 2020. p. 167. Retrieved March 14, 2021.
5. Rifle Champs Record (PDF), NCAA, 2015
6. "NC Rifle Results | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com.

• NCAA Sports: Men's & Women's Rifle

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