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2016 NCAA Rifle Championships
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2016 NCAA Rifle Championship Collegiate rifle shooting Shooting pictogram.svg Ohio Akron, OH University of Akron Stile Athletics Field House 8 teams West Virginia (18th title) TCU Murray State Smallborechampion Ginny Thrasher,West Virginia Air riflechampion Ginny Thrasher,West Virginia 2015 2017
The 2016 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 37th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States.NCAA Rifle Championships Results http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/rifle_champs_records/2019-20/Rifle19.pdf NCAA NCAA.org 25 May 2021
The championships were held at the Stile Athletics Field House at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio.
Three-time defending champions West Virginia again won the team championship, the Mountaineers' eighteenth NCAA national title in rifle.
West Virginia's Ginny Thrasher became the fifth person to win both individual championships and the first since 2013.
Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of eight teams contested this championship.
Results
Scoring: The championship consisted of 60 shots for both smallbore and air rifle per team.
Team title
(DC) = Defending champions
Italics = Inaugural championship
† = Team won center shot tiebreaker
Rank Team Points West Virginia (DC) 4,703 TCU 4,694 Murray State 4,690 04 4 Air Force 4,669† 05 5 Kentucky 4,669 06 6 Alaska 4,664 07 7 Ohio State 4,659 08 8 Nebraska 4,650
Individual events
Event Winner ScoreSmallboreGinny Thrasher, West Virginia461.5Air rifleGinny Thrasher, West Virginia208.8
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