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 (28) and Alaska (10) combined have won 28 of the 37 Championships.
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 freshmen. Morgan Phillips won the small-bore titles on March 10, 2017. Milica Babic won the air rifle championship the next day.
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 2016â€"17.
- Patriot Rifle Conference
- Southern Conference; resumed the sport in 2016â€"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
Individual titles
See also
- Pre-NCAA Intercollegiate Rifle Champions (1905-1979)
- Pre-NCAA Women's Intercollegiate Rifle Champions
External links
- NCAA Sports: Men's & Women's Rifle
