Kentucky wins the 2021 college rifle championship

It's the second day of the 2021 college rifle championships. Kentucky is in the lead for team scoring (2352 points) after the first day of competition at Converse Hall on the campus of Ohio State University.  Individual and team competitions in air rifle (60 shots) are today. You can.

• On day 1, University of Kentucky's Mary Tucker scored 463.3 points to win the individual smallbore competition. TCU's Stephanie Grundsoe placed second with a 459.1 final score

The moment Mary Tucker became a NATIONAL CHAMPION! 🥇

— UK Rifle (@UKRifle)

• Watch the full replay of day 1 here or see everything that happened in this brief recap of the first day.

Kentucky currently leads in the team standings (2352 points), following the first day of the 2021 NC rifle championship at Converse Hall on the campus of Ohio State University.

Day 1

• On day 1, Mary Tucker of Kentucky scored 463.3 points to win the individual smallbore competition. Stephanie Grundsoe of TCU placed second with a 459.1 final score
• Watch the full replay of day 1 here or see everything that happened in this brief recap of the first day.

The moment Mary Tucker became a NATIONAL CHAMPION! 🥇

— UK Rifle (@UKRifle)

Day 2

• Watch day 2 live here. Events are scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. ET tomorrow.

The NCAA Men's and Women's Rifle Committee announced the teams and individual qualifiers for the 2021 NC Men's and Women's Rifle Championships. The events are scheduled for March 12-13 and will be hosted by Ohio State University.

Below you will find the team and individual qualifiers for the Smallbore Three-Position and Air Rifle, as well as the individual alternates for each event. For more on what the committee based their selections on, review the official press release here.

Team Qualifiers (Smallbore Three-Position and Air Rifle)

• Air Force
• Alaska Fairbanks
• Kentucky
• Memphis
• Nebraska
• Ole Miss
• TCU
• West Virginia

Individual Qualifiers (Smallbore Three-Position)

• Allison Henry, Murray State
• Matias Kiuru, Murray State
• Kyle Kutz, Army West Point
• Makenzie Sheffield, NC State
• Michael Zanti, Navy

Individual Qualifiers (Air Rifle)

• Kayla Andreoli, Akron
• Ariel Hall, Ohio State
• Matias Kiuru, Murray State
• Kimberlee Nettles, North Georgia

Alternates (Smallbore Three-Position)

• Wyatt Openshaw, Akron
• Bryce Ward, Morehead State

Alternates (Air Rifle)

• Michael Dietz, Jacksonville State
• Ashley Judson, Georgia Southern

TCU (4,699 points) edged West Virginia (4,692) to take home the rifle team national championship last season. It was the Horned Frogs' third national title. All three came in the past 11 years.

 for the full final scores, team and individual, from the 2019 championships. The 2020 championships was canceled amid COVID-19 concerns. Below is the year-by-year national championship history since 1980.