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WVU wins the NCAA rifle championship for the 20th time record

The West Virginia University Rifle team took place on Saturday, March 15th, its 20th NCAA title at the NCAA Rifle Championship 2025 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.

The WVU Mountainers went away with a total team value of 4738-355x and ended only one point in front of the Kentucky guest school.

Two WVU competitors ended the top 5 in the individual ranking, Natalie Perrin with 1190-90x and Griffin Lake with 1188-94x.

After entering the Air rifle competition, the WVU gathered in third place on Saturday with a 10-point deficit after the smallbor phase behind the university of Alaska-Fairbanks and Kentucky. The mountaineers closed the gap in the air rifle, which were deleted by the excellent shooting of Senior Natalie Perrin with a score of 598-53x and newcomer Ashlyn Blake with 597-52x.

In the team's two-weapons unit, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which jointly scored a score of 4726-338x.

Top three teams

The three best teams on the podium at the NCAA Rifle Championships 2025 (from left): Kentucky, winner of West Virginia University and third Alaska fairbank.

The WVU Mountainers-Beiden, trained by Jon Hammond, came from Senior Natalie Perrin, who achieved a 598-53x value in Air rifle and 592-37x in Smallbore, together with Sophomore Griffin Lake with 597-51X in Air Rifle and 591-43x in smallbore. Hammond, who has been the coach of the WVU rifle for 19 years, was the victory at the NCAA rifle championship 2025 on Saturday the seventh for the mountaineers during his term.

This year's victory also ends a drought for the WVU rifle, whose last NCAA championship title was in 2017 and completed a five-year Siegel series in the competition.

The WVU Mountainers not only won the two-gun team championship, but also won the Air rifle title with 2388-210X, and also took third place in Smallbore with 2350-145x.

2025 NCAA Rifle Championship Team Rangingboard

  1. WVU, 4738-355X
  2. Kentucky, 4737-333x
  3. Alaska Fairbanks, 4726-338x
  4. Ole Miss, 4716-331x
  5. Georgia Southern, 4713-302x
  6. TCU, 4712-309X
  7. Air Force, 4703-315X
  8. Murray State, 4693-298x

You can see the full results of the NCAA rifle championships 2025 on the NCAA Rifle website.

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