NCAA rifle championships
| Most recent season or competition: 2026 NCAA Rifle Championships | |
| Association | NCAA |
|---|---|
| Sport | College rifle |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Division | Division I, Division II, and Division III |
| No. of teams | 8 teams 48 individual shooters |
| Country | United States |
| Most recent champions | Team: West Virginia (21) Small-bore: Braden Peiser, Kentucky Air rifle: Audrey Gognait, Ole Miss |
| Most titles | Team: West Virginia (21) Small-bore: West Virginia (13) Air rifle: West Virginia (15) |
| Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA rifle championships are contested at an annual competition sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the team and individual champions of co-educational collegiate rifle among its member programs in the United States. Unlike many NCAA sports, only one National Collegiate championship is held each season with teams from Division I, Division II, and Division III competing together. It has been held in mid-March every year since 1980, except 2020.
The two-day event includes individual and team titles with team scoring based on the aggregate performances of individual shooters across a set of smallbore and air rifle competitions.
West Virginia has been the most successful program at the team and individual levels; the Mountaineers have won 21 team and 28 individual titles.
The current team national champions are West Virginia, who won their twenty-first team national championship at the 2026 event, held at the Covelli Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio from March 13-14. Braden Peiser of Kentucky won the individual championship for smallbore, while Audrey Gognait of Ole Miss won the individual championship for air rifle.