The 2015
NCAA Rifle Championships
The NCAA rifle championships are contested at an annual competition sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team and individual champions of co-educational collegiate rifle among its member programs in the Unit ...
were contested at the 36th annual
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...
-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate
rifle shooting
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in the
United States
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.
The championships were held at the E.F. Horton Rifle Range at the
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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in
Fairbanks, Alaska
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.
Two-time defending champions
West Virginia
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again won the team championship, the Mountaineers' seventeenth NCAA national title in rifle.
Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...
rifle programs (whether from
Division I,
Division II, or
Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below.
Association football
*Belgian Third ...
) 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
Individual events
References
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NCAA Rifle Championship
NCAA Rifle Championships
The NCAA rifle championships are contested at an annual competition sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team and individual champions of co-educational collegiate rifle among its member programs in the Unit ...
2015 in shooting sports
NCAA Rifle Championships
The NCAA rifle championships are contested at an annual competition sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team and individual champions of co-educational collegiate rifle among its member programs in the Unit ...