West Virginia University Athletics

Marsha Beasley served as head coach of the rifle team for 16 seasons from 1990 and 2006 and led the squad to eight NCAA titles.
           
Beasley compiled 14 winning seasons in her first 14 years with the Mountaineers, including nine undefeated campaigns. Her record after 14 seasons was 146-8. Under her watch, WVU won eight NCAA titles, posted one second-place finish and two third-place finishes at the NCAA Championships.
           
WVU did not sponsor rifle in 2003-04. When the team was reinstated in 2005, Beasley took on the task of rebuilding with a limited budget and no scholarships. Her efforts laid the groundwork for her successor to return WVU rifle to prominence, which the team attained winning the NCAA Championship in 2009.
           
She guided 28 student-athletes to 119 All-America honors and coached eight individual NCAA champions and four Olympians, including Ann-Marie Pfiffner, who qualified for the 1992 Olympics while a WVU student. Beasley coached the Mountaineers to three Great American Rifle Conference (GARC) tournament titles and five regular-season titles, including four individual GARC champions. In the classroom, 25 Mountaineer student-athletes were named all-academic 55 times by the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association (CRCA). 
           
Beasley earned numerous coaching awards and honors: 1997 National Coach of the Year for shooting by the United States Olympic Committee, 1993 National Rifle Association Coach of the Year, 1996 West Virginia State Sportswriters Coach of the Year, 1998 West Virginia College Coach of the Year by the West Virginia Girls and Women in Sports Association, 2003 Distinguished Service to Collegiate Shooting Sports honoree and a 2005 Celebrate Women Award honoree by the West Virginia Women's Commission.
           
In addition to coaching, Beasley has been a leader in the sport. She wrote the grant request for initial funding and drafted the bylaws to create the Mid-America Rifle Conference (now GARC). She was a staff member at the then-national governing body of shooting (the NRA) and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. She also served 17 years on the Board of the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Beasley is currently serving as a member of the NCAA Rifle Committee.
           
Since 2016, she has coached rifle at Ole Miss, leading the turnaround of the program and guiding the Rebels to a third-place finish at the 2021 NCAA Championships. One of her shooters represented the United States in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. Beasley was voted Coach of the Year in 2017 and 2021 by the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association.
           
Beasley is a graduate of East Tennessee State and later earned a master's degree in sport management at WVU. She competed in smallbore and air rifle while in college. Later as a member of the U.S. National Team, she was a two-time international Gold medalist. During her shooting career, Beasley set 65 national records and won eight national championships. 
           
She is married to Carl Flowers, and they have a daughter, Tavie, a 2021 graduate of the WVU fast-track nursing program, and twin sons, Aaron and Daniel. Daniel graduated from WVU in 2021 with a degree in civil engineering, while Aaron attended WVU for one year before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where he competed in rifle and graduated this past May.