MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — While many eyes will be on top-ranked West Virginia’s shooters when the NCAA rifle championships open Friday, other competitors have deep ties to the Mountaineers program.
Morgantown native Aaron Flowers is a freshman shooting for Army. The 2017 graduate of University High School was a student at West Virginia before being accepted to West Point.
“He took a lot of his engineering classes, calculus, and science during that year he spent here,” said his father Carl Flowers. “He didn’t get accepted the first time, but he applied the next year and he made it.