10/16/2003 - Rifle
Rifle Opens Season with Back-to-Back Meets
Captain Marta Jung will compete in air rifle and smallbore for the Mids this weekend. |
Annapolis, Md. -- Navy rifle will open the 2003 season this weekend with a match on Saturday, Oct. 18 against Penn State and Duquesne and due to schedule change, the Mids will face Akron on Sunday, Oct. 19. Both contests are set to begin at 8 a.m. in the Bancroft Rifle Range.
Two freshmen are set to make their collegiate debuts on the counting team this weekend as Sarah Bergman earned a spot on the first team for air rifle and Chris Schneider will compete on the first team in both air rifle and smallbore.
The first team will be filled out with Mike Miller competing in the smallbore and captain Marta Jung and junior Matt Albright shooting in both disciplines. On Sunday, junior Kevin Wilson will take Albright's spot in both air rifle and smallbore.
?I'm eager to see if we can perform at the same level that we have been shooting at during training,? noted head coach Bill Kelley. ?We're eager to shoot against someone other than ourselves.?
Each of the returning shooters saw marked improvement last season. Jung set new career-best marks in her final dual of the season against Canisius with an 1152 smallbore mark and a total score of 1543 (her 391-air mark matched her career-high).
Albright and Miller both earned their second NCAA berths last season. Miller ended his sophomore season with an average total score of 1531.7, the third-best on the team. On the season, Albright finished as the top Navy shooter with season averages of 1169.5 in smallbore and 386.6 in air rifle.
Albright also set a new smallbore national record with a 593 (out of a possible 600) at the NRA Junior Sectionals in February. He capped the season by earning NCAA Second-Team All-America honors in both disciplines after finishing as the seventh-place shooter in the smallbore (1173) at the NCAA Championship.
Wilson finished his sophomore year with a 1504.6 total score average and set new career-high scores in both disciplines last February (a 385 in air rifle and an 1141 in smallbore).
