Rifle Earns 14th Straight NCAA Bid
2/25/2020 2:15:00 PM | Women's Rifle
Frogs claim No. 2 national ranking ahead of championship match
FORT WORTH – The TCU Rifle team earned its 14th consecutive trip to the NCAA Rifle Championships on the heels of a successful 2019-20 regular season campaign.
After claiming the program's third National Championship last season, the Horned Frogs will look to defend their title against the field of eight March 13-14 at the Memorial Coliseum on the University of Kentucky campus in Lexington, Ky.
This season, the Frogs have put together another impressive year that featured program records in team aggregate score and air rifle score. On Nov. 2, they fired a mark of 4,732 as a squad, breaking the previous best of 4,728. The past two weekends, TCU has also posted school-record scores of 2,388 in air rifle.
As a team, the Frogs have fired five of the top 10 aggregate scores this season and top the nation with an average of 4,712.7. They eclipsed the 4,700 mark in all but one match and recorded 12 victories on the season, including winning the Patriot Rifle Conference for the fourth time.
Stephanie Grundsoee and Kristen Hemphill have paced the team all season long as the duo rank third and fourth in the NCAA with averages of 1,180.9 and 1,179.7, respectively. Senior Casey Lutz also joins her teammates in the top 10, ranking eighth in the country. TCU is represented by three of the top nine smallbore shooters and three of the top six air rifle performers.
Air Force, Akron, Kentucky, Murray State, Navy, Nebraska and West Virginia round out the field of eight.Players Mentioned
