Kramer Set To Make Run at History
3/8/2019 11:00:00 AM | Women's Rifle
Senior to compete in NCAA Air Rifle Championship Saturday
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STATESBORO - Georgia Southern senior rifle squad member Rosemary Kramer will make history Saturday when she becomes the first student-athlete in the program's six-year history to compete at the NCAA Air Rifle Championships, hosted by West Virginia University in Morgantown at the WVU Coliseum. The two-day event will crown the overall team champion, as well as individual champions in smallbore and air rifle.
Kramer, from Culloden, Georgia, qualified as one of four individuals for the air rifle with a 596 in the NCAA Qualifier. She has been assigned to relay No. 2, which will begin sighters and prep at noon on Saturday with a 12:15 p.m. start time.
There will be two relays for the air rifle championships. The first will begin at 10:15 a.m. while the second one will begin at 12:15 p.m. All 44 competitors will shoot 60 shots and have 75 minutes to complete the process. Once everyone is completed, the top eight scores from the two relays will advance to the finals, which begin at 2:30 p.m. In the event of a tie for eighth place, the multipliers scored in the 60 shots will be the determining factor.
In the finals, competitors will shoot five shots in one series, and then five more in a second series. There will then be 14 single shots. After the second of the 14 single shots, the lowest scorer will be eliminated for eighth place. After the fourth shot, the lowest scorer remaining will be eliminated for seventh place. This process will continue until only shooters remain for the final two shots to determine the national champion.
In the prelims, no decimals are used, meaning a 10.9 (a perfect shot) is the same as a 10.0. However, in the finals, decimals are used and are a big factor over the 24-shot procedure.
Heading into the championship, Kramer's season average places her as the eighth-best in the country, but she has shot above that number of 593 several times this year, including last week as she won the SoCon Air Rifle title. She shot a school- and SoCon-record 598 (tying the mark she set earlier this year) in the prelims and then shot a 249.6 in the finals, which would have won last year's NCAA title (249.4).
Kramer, the back-to-back SoCon Air Rifle Athlete of the Year after taking the individual title last weekend, is the first Southern Conference student-athlete to qualify for the NCAA air rifle since William Thomas of ETSU qualified in 1985. She is seeking to become the first NCAA individual national champion in any sport at Georgia Southern (Buddy Harris won the 1964 NAIA national titles in horizontal bars and parallel bars in gymnastics). Kramer holds the 11 of the top 12 all-time highest air rifle scores in program history and her 581.140 average in air rifle is a school record.
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Championship Notes (PDF)
Championship Central
STATESBORO - Georgia Southern senior rifle squad member Rosemary Kramer will make history Saturday when she becomes the first student-athlete in the program's six-year history to compete at the NCAA Air Rifle Championships, hosted by West Virginia University in Morgantown at the WVU Coliseum. The two-day event will crown the overall team champion, as well as individual champions in smallbore and air rifle.
Kramer, from Culloden, Georgia, qualified as one of four individuals for the air rifle with a 596 in the NCAA Qualifier. She has been assigned to relay No. 2, which will begin sighters and prep at noon on Saturday with a 12:15 p.m. start time.
There will be two relays for the air rifle championships. The first will begin at 10:15 a.m. while the second one will begin at 12:15 p.m. All 44 competitors will shoot 60 shots and have 75 minutes to complete the process. Once everyone is completed, the top eight scores from the two relays will advance to the finals, which begin at 2:30 p.m. In the event of a tie for eighth place, the multipliers scored in the 60 shots will be the determining factor.
In the finals, competitors will shoot five shots in one series, and then five more in a second series. There will then be 14 single shots. After the second of the 14 single shots, the lowest scorer will be eliminated for eighth place. After the fourth shot, the lowest scorer remaining will be eliminated for seventh place. This process will continue until only shooters remain for the final two shots to determine the national champion.
In the prelims, no decimals are used, meaning a 10.9 (a perfect shot) is the same as a 10.0. However, in the finals, decimals are used and are a big factor over the 24-shot procedure.
Heading into the championship, Kramer's season average places her as the eighth-best in the country, but she has shot above that number of 593 several times this year, including last week as she won the SoCon Air Rifle title. She shot a school- and SoCon-record 598 (tying the mark she set earlier this year) in the prelims and then shot a 249.6 in the finals, which would have won last year's NCAA title (249.4).
Kramer, the back-to-back SoCon Air Rifle Athlete of the Year after taking the individual title last weekend, is the first Southern Conference student-athlete to qualify for the NCAA air rifle since William Thomas of ETSU qualified in 1985. She is seeking to become the first NCAA individual national champion in any sport at Georgia Southern (Buddy Harris won the 1964 NAIA national titles in horizontal bars and parallel bars in gymnastics). Kramer holds the 11 of the top 12 all-time highest air rifle scores in program history and her 581.140 average in air rifle is a school record.
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