2013-14 Rifle Roster
Roster
Tessa Howald
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Ozark, Mo.
- High School:
- Ozark HS
2014-15:Â Shot in all 14 matches, including NCAA Championship... Earned 2015 All-OVC second team air rifle honors... Posted career highs in smallbore and aggregate at 586 and 1176, respectively, at Withrow Invitational... Set new career mark in air rifle at UT Martin with score of 594... Averaged 575.9 in smallbore, 586.6 in air rifle and 1162.4 aggregate... Named to OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2013-14: Saw action in 13 matches … Shot averages of 572.5 in the smallbore and was second on the team with a 586.8 average in the air rifle … Fired the highest air rifle score of the year with a career-high 594 against Morehead St., the highest mark by a Racer since 2010-11 … Won the OVC Championship individual title in the smallbore with a season-best 582 … Finished season in the air rifle at the OVC Championships with a score of 589 … Had the Racers best mark in the smallbore on two occasions and in the air rifle four times … Named to the OVC All-Conference First Team in both the smallbore and air rifle.
2012-13:Â Saw action in all 13 events with an average aggregate score of 1154.3, good for second-best on the team ... Scored a team-tying second-best 584 in smallbore at the Withrow Open (Jan. 19) and totaled a season and team-high 1174 at the match ... Recorded a team-best 593 in air rifle at Alaska Fairbanks on Jan. 10 ... Named All-OVC Air Rifle second team and to the All-Newcomer Air Rifle team ... Awarded the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association All-Academic Award.
Before MSU: Joins the Murray State program from Ozark High School in Ozark, Mo. ... Competed in a four-year stint on the Ozark JROTC Rifle team that won three JROTC National Championships ... She held multiple JROTC records in both classes ... Won the gold medal at the Missouri State Jr. Olympics in Women's International in air rifle with a score of 390 out of a possible score of 400 ... Participated in JROTC at Ozark and earned academic honors all four years of high school career by maintaining a 3.8 GPA or higher ... Graduated from Ozark Summa Cum Laude.
Personal: Born Aug. 14, 1993 ... Daughter of Jesse and Jessica Howald.
