SCHEDULE

STATESBORO – Georgia Southern head rifle coach Sandra Worman released the 2019-20 Eagle rifle schedule Tuesday, one that is highlighted by the Southern Conference Championships coming to Statesboro for the second year in a row

The slate of 13 dates includes four home events at the Georgia Southern Shooting Sports Education Center and nine road events. The season will be divided up into seven matches during the fall of 2019 with the remaining six, including the 2020 Southern Conference Championships, in the spring.

"I'm very happy with how this year's schedule turned out," Worman said. "It is the perfect combination of home matches, nearby matches, and matches requiring flights. My thanks to those schools hosting us on the matches requiring flights, for granting us two matches, instead of the usual one, in the same trip. That's a good use of time and resources. Each range we'll visit offers an excellent opportunity to develop the team's  skill set of gauging light and range specifics. With such a young team, it firmly establishes this as a building and developing year."

The Eagles will start the season off at home, hosting UAB and Wofford on Saturday, Sept. 28. Two weekends later, GS will head to Charleston, South Carolina on Oct. 12 to take on The Citadel and UAB on Oct. 12. On Oct. 26, the Eagles will take on North Georgia in Dahlonega and then host VMI on Nov. 2. On Nov. 9, GS travels to Spartanburg, South Carolina to take on Wofford and then wrap up the fall with a two-day affair in the Boston area  against SUNY Plattsburgh and MIT.

The second half of the season begins on Jan. 19 in Palmyra, Pennsylvania, as the Eagles take on North Georgia in the NRA Collegiate Sectional. The Eagles will then travel to Morehead, Kentucky, on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 to take on Morehead State twice. The next weekend, Georgia Southern returns home for the Georgia Collegiate Championship, hosting the two in-state college program in UNG and Georgia Military.

The month of February will conclude by traveling to Charleston to take on The Citadel, UAB and Wofford in an NCAA qualifying match on Saturday, Feb. 15.

The Eagles will close out the campaign by hosting the 2020 Southern Conference Rifle Championships at the Shooting Sports Education Center. The SoCon Championships will begin with smallbore on Saturday, March 7 and will conclude with the air rifle portion on Sunday, March 8. Georgia Southern is the defending conference champion in air rifle.

The 2019-20 squad consists of six women: redshirt senior Lydia Odlin, along with freshmen Faye Bryans, Lilly Herring, Ashley Judson, Gabby Morrow and Amelia Pierce.

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