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Shooters featured in USA Shooting News magazine may be photographed without eye protec- Bob Mitchell tion. These are posed photographs using unloaded guns and do not represent actual competiton. USA Shooting encourages Corporal Matt Rawlings Eric Pueppke all shooters to use proper eye and ear protection when shooting. Inclusion of advertisements in USA Shooting does not Vicki Thompson constitiute endorsement of advertised products or services by USA Shooting, its staff or its sponsors. 4 USA Shooting News COLUMNS (Aim with AMU) COLLEGE COACH Q & A ? By Corporal Matt Rawlings “Looking back at my junior year of high school, I remember how anxious I was to ask questions regarding collegiate shooting.” icking the right college can be an intimidating experience air rifle. I look more for athletes that shoot both smallbore and air for a young shooter and their parents as well. Corporal rifle. If they shoot three position and have good standing, then I Rawlings, NCOIC of the Fort Benning Junior Rifle Club, am more apt to look in that direction. compiled a list of questions and answers from National - Shoot as many events as possible, try to work into smallbore if at PCollegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Rifle coaches from across all possible. Sporter will be “kind of” looked at. I know most kids the nation. These are important topics that should be discussed in JROTC shoot that because it’s the only thing available, but I don’t when pursuing a collegiate shooting career. know how serious they are if that’s as far as they are willing to invest in the sport. If you were a junior coach what events - I think all of the above will get them ready to compete in college. The sporter is not the best as they get into their sophomore year (PPP Air, Precision Standing, Sporter Rifle, in high school or later but it is a good place to start young. It Smallbore, etc.) would you recommend your really varies from kid to kid depending on their skills and work ethic. Most of the time I like recruits to have plenty of precision shooters compete in to prepare for college? air and three position smallbore experience, yet we have had some great success with limited smallbore but a lot of three position air - USA Shooting National Junior Olympic Championships, USAS shooters. National Championship junior events, some three position air - We are happy with them shooting anything. and NO sporter unless limited or no access. We need athletes - Since three position smallbore and precision standing are the accomplished in both guns now. two events in collegiate competition, they are top priority for - All shooting is good; we know smallbore access is down among preparing a junior shooter for college. Because of the number juniors, to have smallbore experience is a plus. of competitions - What is available available thru will be the big American Legion, thing. Three CMP, high schools, position air is NRA and USA fine, although it Shooting, the does not always three position air correlate to three at the precision position smallbore. Precision standing matches offer the level is also quite best information valuable. Many of for projecting the us look mainly at future in collegiate the standing scores, air rifle. Smallbore multiplied by three is great, not enough to get a feel for how shooters have they would score in smallbore scores a collegiate event. we can use. - I really don’t look that much into three position WWW.USASHOOTING.ORG 5 As a coach what matches do you look at when of how well you will be able to survive in college and how much looking for prospects? effort you will need to dedicate to school. - Academically, the higher the better. One guideline would be 3.5 GPA in the 16 core courses used to qualify through the NCAA - I give scores fired in state and National Junior Olympics, NRA, Eligibility Center and 26 on the ACT; or the equivalent score on junior sectionals and open tournaments (hosted by many colleges), the SAT since this is the standard used by the NCAA to exempt the most consideration since I know the match conditions and academic scholarships from rifle scholarship limitations. standards for those events. - A national match like the National Junior Olympic Shooting Championships (NJOSC), nationals or other major events where there is a lot of competition is always good.