2024-25 Rifle Roster
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John Blanton
- Height:
- 5-8
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Brookings, SD
- High School:
- Heritage Academy
Bio
2023-24
2022-23
2021-22
Before MSU
Personal
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- 2024 All-OVC Smallbore and Air Rifle first teamÂ
2022-23
- 2023Â All-OVC Smallbore and Air Rifle first team
- 2023 All-American Honorable Mention in Smallbore
2021-22
- 2022 CRCA Air Rifle Second-Team All-American
- 2022 OVC Air Rifle Athlete of the Year
- 2022 OVC Freshman of the Year
- 2022 All-OVCÂ Smallbore & Air Rifle first team
- 2022 All-OVC Smallbore & Air Rifle All-Newcomer team
- 2021-22 CRCA Scholastic All-American
- Named to 2021-22 OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll
Before MSU
- Placed third in air rifle at the 2021 San Salvador Gran Prix in El SalvadorÂ
- Placed second in Men's Team Air Rifle at the 2021 Junior World Championships in Lima, Peru
- Placed second in air rifle at the 2021 Junior Pan American Games in Cali, Colombia
- Won the air rifle event at the Mississippi Junior Olympics in each of the in 2018 and 2019
- Finished second in smallbore in 2019 and third in smallbore in both 2018 and 2020
- Won 2018 section championship and finished second at the 2018 Inter-Junior championships
- Helped the Heritage Academy football to a district title in 2019 and 2020, as well as the 2019 MAIS Class 5A state championship
Personal
- Born July 12, 2002 in Lubbock, Texas
- Son of John Jr. and Kerry Blanton
- Has one sister, Olivia
- Majoring in Agriculture BusinessÂ
| John Blanton Career Highs |
|
|---|---|
| Smallbore | 592Â (MUR, 2/18/23) |
| Air Rifle | 597 (UK & MUR, 3X) |
| Aggregate | 1187 (MUR, 2/18/23) |
| John Blanton Season & Career Averages |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Smallbore | Air Rifle | Aggregate |
| 2021-22 | 581.0 | 593.6 | 1174.6 |
| 2022-23 | 584.3 | 589.3 | 1173.6 |
| CAREER | 582.7 | 591.5 | 1174.1 |
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