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    molonlabe

    molonlabe

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    May 7, 2005
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    Mountaineer Country, WV
    From. USA shooting, The national body of shooting sports released yesterday

    Congrats to 2017 NCAA Rifle Championship Smallbore Rifle Champion Morgan Phillips, a freshman for the West Virginia University Rifle Team and a USA Shooting Junior National Team member. She was spectacular in defeating a field that had six of eight USA Shooting Team members competing, including 2016 NCAA National Champion and 2016 Olympic gold medalist Ginny Thrasher. WVU Rifle goes 1st and 2nd followed by TCU Women's Rifle Team freshman Casey Lutz in third.
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    Hippy

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    Mar 11, 2008
    367
    Frostburg Md
    Things that you may not know about this Team:

    The rifle team is one of the only teams at WVU to win a NCAA tournament, something the beloved football and basketball programs have not been able to do. Of their 25 appearances at the NCAA, they have won 14 times. The team has produced 65 NCAA All-Americans, 20 national individual champions, and 13 Olympians—including the current coach.

    The rifle team has been at WVU since 1951, but financial constraints caused the school to drop their most successful program in 2003. “When the team was first dropped, they had to become a club team. Some students transferred to other schools and some students just weren’t able to shoot. We shot a little bit as a club team, but it just wasn’t the same without the structure of being a NCAA sanctioned team. It was a big challenge for the kids who decided to stay,” Hammond says. As a club, the team was unable to give the scholarships that enticed top shooters to come to WVU. Being a club also limited competition to much closer to WVU because of transportation costs.

    Public support for the rifle team was tremendous. E-mails and phone calls were made to the athletics department and the legislature. The team had statewide and nationwide support. In 2004, thanks in large part to the fans, the rifle team came back. “It was quite a fight here,” Hammond says. “The support and outcry from people throughout the state really helped the rifle team get reinstated. People felt strongly.”

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    bob finger

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    Jul 24, 2016
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    For those that don't know Morgan Phillips is one of our own. Her family lives in Fruitland, just outside Salisbury on the eastern shore.

    She is quite the lady and we are most proud of her. I've enjoyed watching her progress as she was growing up. bob
     
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