Rifle Team Named Student-Athletes of Week

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University rifle team has been named the WVU Student-Athletes of the Week, presented by University Apartments.

For the 21st time in program history, the West Virginia University rifle team won the NCAA Rifle National Championship. The win marks the second straight title for the Mountaineers and the second straight season WVU has come from behind to claim it.

WVU finished with a 4748 aggregate score, which is an NCAA Championship record, to beat runner-up TCU.

Griffin Lake became just the fifth Mountaineer to be named the NCAA National Championships Most Outstanding Performer in program history. He is the first to earn the honor since Mary Tucker in 2024. He scored the top mark of the event with a 1194 after a second-place qualifying mark of 595 in smallbore and a third-place mark of 599 in air rifle.

At 44 NCAA National Championships, the Mountaineers have now finished inside the top two 31 times, including 21 titles and 10 runner-up finishes. The 2026 championship marks the second straight for the Mountaineers and the back-to-back title since the 2017 season, which marked the end of five straight titles for WVU.

West Virginia completed the 2025-26 season with an 18-1 mark in the regular season and a 5-0 record in the Great America Rifle Conference. The 2026 NCAA Rifle National Champions also claimed the program's 18th GARC Conference Championship and 17th GARC Regular Season title this season.

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