MORGANTOWN, W.Va.— When shooters from across the country toe the line Friday at the WVU Coliseum and squeeze the trigger to start the 2019 National Rifle Championship match, it will be an historic moment.
The West Virginia University Rifle team over the course of three decades has set the standard for rifle teams nationally, yet their championships have all bee earned on somebody else’s range, in another state, and almost invisible to their rather large fan base. Other than the occasional article, a brief TV feature, and a celebratory cake, most of the program’s 19 National Championships were generally marked as another notch on the belt without too much fanfare.