Murray State University Athletics
MSU Rifle Selected for NCAA Championship
2/20/2007 6:00:00 AM | Rifle
The Murray State Rifle team learned they have been invited to participate in the NCAA Rifle Championships to be held at Fairbanks, Alaska March 9-10.
The NCAA Men's and Women's Rifle Committee announced the teams and individual qualifiers for the 2007 event to be held at the Patty Center in Fairbanks.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks is the host for the championships.
MSU Rifle has participated in 26 of the 27 championships sponsored by the NCAA, winning in 1985 and 1987.
MSU has also produced five NCAA individual champions, the most recent was Benji Belden in the air rifle in 1995.
A total of 48 competitors were selected for the championships. The top eight teams in both the smallbore three-position and air rifle events were selected based on the average of the three highest regular-season aggregate scores with no more than one match at any given site. The average of the three highest scores was added to the aggregate scores from the designated qualifiers to determine the top eight teams.
Team Qualifiers (Smallbore Three-Position and Air Rifle)
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Jacksonville State University
University of Kentucky
Murray State University
University of Nebraska
Texas Christian University
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Individual and team competitions in smallbore three-position (60 shots) will be held Friday, March 9. Individual and team competitions in air rifle (60 shots) will be held Saturday, March 10. The overall team champion will be determined by combining the smallbore and air rifle team totals into one aggregate score for each institution.
In 2006, Alaska Fairbanks claimed its seventh NCAA national title. The Nanooks scored 2353 in air rifle and 2329 in smallbore for a first-place total of 4682. Nebraska Husker Kristina Fehlings shot a final score of 100 to finish with a 692 to win the 2006 air rifle national title. Nebraska finished second with a 4666 total followed by Army at 4650.
For more information about the 2007 National Collegiate Men's and Women's Rifle Championships, go to http://www.ncaasports.com/
