The NDSU Marksmanship Club won awards during the Western Intercollegiate Rifle Conference Championship Matches in Jackson, Michigan, held Feb. 18-19.

The NDSU Team consisted of Sara Bauman, a junior majoring in interior design from Valdez, Alaska; Jacob Vaagen, a sophomore majoring in civil engineering from Devils Lake, North Dakota; Garrett Langerud, a junior in biological sciences and microbiology from Bismarck, North Dakota; Joe Eisenberg, a junior in industrial engineering and management from Champlain, Minnesota; and Philip Rovinsky, a senior in electrical engineering from Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The NDSU team competed in air and smallbore, and was one of six teams that qualified for the conference championship matches.

The championship matches were a culmination of monthly postal matches and an in-person All-Conference match at the end of the competition season.

Bauman was the silver medalist in the air rifle competition and was named to the first All-Conference Air Rifle Team and the second All-Conference Smallbore Rifle Team. Vaagen was named to the second All-Conference Teams for both air and smallbore rifle. Langerud was awarded fifth place for the Most Improved Smallbore Rifle Shooter for the 2022-2023 competition season.

The teams are now preparing for competition at the 2023 National Rifle Club Championship Matches in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, March 31-April 2.

The teams are coached by Mitchell Godbout of Casselton, North Dakota, and Dakotah Faught of Fargo.

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