STATESBORO - Georgia Southern senior rifle student-athlete Rosemary Kramer has been selected to Team USA for the World University Games in Naples, Italy July 3-9. She joins Liz Marsh (TCU), Levi Clark (Memphis) and Will Shaner (Kentucky) on the squad.

Each shooter will shoot both guns in the Airgun 60 shot match and the 3x40. Kramer and Shaner will go on to shoot the mixed doubles event on July 9 based on being the highest female and male scorer, respectively, at the NCAA Championship.

"I am so excited about this," Kramer said. "I heard about the opportunity this past summer but I had no idea I would be able to go. I can't wait to represent Georgia Southern University and the United States in Naples come July! This is just my first step on a long road to the Olympics; I am so thankful to have all of you supporting me on my journey."

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"The athletes were selected from their performance at the 2019 NCAA Rifle Championship," said team coach Web Wright, LTC (Ret.), U.S. Army. "They are the best collegiate shooters in the country and will make a formidable US team to compete in Naples.

"I selected the top eligible athletes, both male and female, from each of the disciplines at the NCAAs," Wright continued. "Each of these athletes excelled in one or more of the rifle disciplines in Morgantown this year. They will be competing in both the air rifle and smallbore 3x40 competition. Many of the nations around the world take this very seriously and use it as a developmental path for their potential Olympians. This is a great opportunity to expose our athletes to an Olympic-like environment, with all of the pageantry, communal living in the athletes' village and officiating. It's a great precursor for these young men and women, who undoubtedly have aspirations for 2020 and beyond."

Kramer was selected based on her NCAA-record 599 in the air rifle preliminaries. She went on to finish third to become the first medalist and All-American in Georgia Southern rifle history.

"Rosemary shot an incredible qualification round at the NCAAs that got her into the final, where she really impressed the crowd with how much fun she was having in that incredibly stressful event. It was wonderful and refreshing to see," Wright said.

The competition is held every two years at world-class facilities around the world. Previous locations and history of the games can be found here.

Kramer, a biology major at Georgia Southern, wrapped up her collegiate career as the most-decorated rifle student-athlete in the short history of the Georgia Southern program. She will take the first steps for a potential Tokyo 2020 bid with an event at Fort Benning next weekend as she tries to earn a spot on the U.S. Air Rifle squad.

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