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Women's Rifle

Eagle Rifle Looking to Four-Peat SoCon Title This Weekend

Event takes place in Statesboro

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STATESBORO -
The fourth-ranked Georgia Southern rifle is back in action this weekend as it hosts the Southern Conference Rifle Championships, a two-day event hosted at the Shooting Sports Education Center.

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, Feb. 8 (Smallbore)

8-9:30 am - Relay 1 (Emme Walrath, Tori Watts)
10:05 am-11:35 am - Relay 2 (Ella Goldfaden)
12:20 pm-1:50 pm - Relay 3 (Bremen Butler, Emma Pohlmann)
3 pm - Smallbore finals (Top 8 scorers)

Sunday, Feb. 9 (Air Rifle)
7:45-9 am - Relay 1 (Ella Goldfaden, Emme Walrath)
9:35-10:50 am - Relay 2 (Bremen Butler, Emma Pohlmann)
11:25 am-12:40 pm - Relay 3 (Tori Watts)
2 pm - Air Rifle finals (Top 8 scorers)
30 minutes following end of finals - Awards Ceremony

Eight teams will be competing for the 2025 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 2025 Southern Conference Rifle Championship will be contested at the Shooting Sports Education Center. Admission is free. Fans may park across the street from the facility at the RAC basketball courts.

Georgia Southern won the 2022, 2023 and 2024 SoCon Rifle Championships and will be looking for a four-peat this weekend. Georgia Southern has won three conference air rifle titles (2017, 2019, 2024) and four smallbore crowns (2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024).

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.

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Players Mentioned

Bremen Butler

Bremen Butler

Sophomore
Ella Goldfaden

Ella Goldfaden

Sophomore
Emma Pohlmann

Emma Pohlmann

Junior
Emme Walrath

Emme Walrath

Freshman
Tori Watts

Tori Watts

Junior

Players Mentioned

Bremen Butler

Bremen Butler

Sophomore
Ella Goldfaden

Ella Goldfaden

Sophomore
Emma Pohlmann

Emma Pohlmann

Junior
Emme Walrath

Emme Walrath

Freshman
Tori Watts

Tori Watts

Junior