1989 NCAA Rifle Championships

1989 NCAA Rifle Championship

Tournament information
Sport	Collegiate rifle shooting
Location	Murray, KY
Host(s)	Murray State University
Participants	7
Final positions
Champions	West Virginia (5th title)
1st runners-up	South Florida
2nd runners-up	Tennessee Tech
Tournament statistics
Smallbore	Deb Sinclair, UAF
Air rifle	Michelle Scarborough, USF

The 1989 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the ninth annual competition to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States. The championship was held at (what is now known as) the Pat Spurgin Rifle Range at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky.^[1]

West Virginia, with a team score of 6,234, retained the team championship, finishing 54 points ahead of South Florida. It was the Mountaineers second consecutive and fifth overall national title.

The individual champions were, for the smallbore rifle, defending titlist Deb Sinclair (Alaska–Fairbanks), and, for the air rifle, Michelle Scarborough (South Florida).

Qualification

Since there is only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of seven teams ultimately contested this championship.

Results

• Scoring: The championship consisted of 120 shots by each competitor in smallbore and 40 shots per competitor in air rifle.

Team title

Rank	Team	Points
	West Virginia	6,234
	South Florida	6,180
	Tennessee Tech	6,167
4	Air Force	6,110
5	Murray State	6,102
6	Alaska–Fairbanks	6,069
7	UTEP	6,039

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