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STATESBORO - Georgia Southern rifle closes out the team portion of the 2023-24 season this weekend at the Southern Conference Rifle Championships, a two-day event hosted by The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.

The SoCon will crown team champions in both the smallbore and air rifle disciplines as well as an overall champion. In addition, individual champions will be crowned in each discipline. Smallbore competition will take place Saturday, followed by air rifle on Sunday.

The Schedule *
Saturday, March 3 (Smallbore)
8-9:30 am - Relay 1 (Addy Burrow, Ella Goldfaden)
10:15 am-11:45 am - Relay 2 (Emma Pohlmann)
12:15 pm-1:45 pm - Relay 3 (Bremen Butler, Zahra Gonzalez Mazo)
2:45 pm - Smallbore finals (Top 8 scorers)

Sunday, March 4 (Air Rifle)
7:45-9 am - Relay 1 (Addy Burrow, Ella Goldfaden)
9:45-11 am - Relay 2 (Zahra Gonzalez Mazo, Emma Pohlmann)
11:45 am-1 pm - Relay 3 (Bremen Butler)
2:15 pm - Air Rifle finals (Top 8 scorers)
3:15 pm - Awards Ceremony

Eight teams will be competing for the 2024 title. UAB, The Citadel (co-ed and women's teams), Georgia Southern, North Georgia, VMI (co-ed and women's teams) and Wofford will compete this weekend. 

The 2024 Southern Conference Rifle Championship will be contested at Inouye Marksmanship Center. Admission is free.

Georgia Southern won the 2022 and 2023 SoCon Rifle Championships and will be looking for a three-peat this weekend. Georgia Southern has won two conference air rifle titles (2017, 2019) and three smallbore crowns (2021, 2022 and 2023), but never has won all three titles in the same year.

Rifle returned to the SoCon in 2017, adding to the conference's rich rifle history. Current members The Citadel have won a league-best 10 team titles and VMI claimed two titles during the league's first incarnation (1956-85). West Virginia's John Writer, the 1965 and 1966 SoCon individual champion, won a gold medal in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and a silver in 1968 in Mexico City, both in rifle three positions. ETSU became a player on the national scene from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, winning seven straight SoCon titles and placing third at the inaugural NCAA Championships in 1980. The Bucs finished no worse than fourth at the NCAA Championships each year from 1980-85. North Georgia won the first two team titles since the return of SoCon rifle before UAB and GS cracked the podium last year.

Pohlmann will represent Georgia Southern at the NCAA Air Rifle Championship on March 9 in Morgantown, West Virginia.

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