Not only did current and former West Virginia University student-athletes collect a school-best five medals, they earned three Gold medals, including the first of the Games, as well as one of the last team medals, ensuring that Mountaineer Nation had achievements to celebrate for almost two straight weeks.
The celebrating has not stopped, as three of those athletes – WVU sophomore Ginny Thrasher and seniors Kadeisha Buchanan and Ashley Lawrence – have returned to Morgantown to resume competition with their Mountaineer teammates.
Thrasher, the reigning NCAA air rifle and smallbore champion, claimed Gold in the women’s 10m air rifle for the United States.