West Virginia University Athletics

Nicco Campriani was a national champion and four-time All-American from 2010-11 before winning three Olympic Gold medals following graduation from WVU.
            
A native of Florence, Italy, Campriani captured the air rifle national title at the 2011 NCAA Championships, becoming the first Mountaineer to win the discipline crown since 1996. He helped the Mountaineers to a second-place team finish in 2011, and a third-place finish at the 2010 NCAA Championships. 
            
Campriani helped the Mountaineers win their first conference championship since 2000, capturing back-to-back GARC (Great American Rifle Conference) Championship titles in 2010-11. He won two GARC smallbore titles and two GARC air rifle titles in 2010 and 2011. Campriani is one of five Mountaineers to shoot 600 in air rifle in program history and is the only WVU athlete to hit the mark twice. WVU went 22-2 over his two-year career.
            
He was a two-time All-American in air rifle and a two-time All-America selection in smallbore. Campriani also was a four-time All-GARC First Team selection, the 2011 GARC Shooter of the Year, 2011 GARC Outstanding Senior and 2011 GARC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. In the classroom, he earned CoSIDA Men’s At-Large Academic All-America First Team honors in 2011 and was a second team selection in 2010.  
            
Following his WVU career, Campriani became a three-time Olympic Gold medalist as a member of the Italian National Team. He captured his first Gold medal in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions at the 2012 Olympics in London, as well as a Silver medal in the men’s 10m air rifle. Campriani won a Gold medal in the men’s 10m air rifle and men’s 50m rifle 3 positions at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Campriani was the first WVU rifle athlete to win two Gold medals at one Olympic Games, and overall, with his three Gold and one Silver, he is considered the most successful rifle shooter in Olympic history. He also competed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
            
He won the Gold medal at the 2009 European Championships in the 10m rifle and then captured Gold at the 2010 Shooting World Championships in the 10-meter rifle, becoming the first Italian world champion in shooting. For his career, he has won eight Gold medals, five Silver medals and two Bronze medals at ISSF World Cups. 
            
Campriani earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from WVU in 2011. Prior to coming to WVU, he attended the University of Firenze for two years. He managed to combine his engineering background with his sport passion by developing a new air rifle design. His first prototype was produced in 2013 and was the same one he used to win his Gold medal in Rio 2016.
           
Following his retirement from the sport, Campriani joined the International Olympic Committee as Senior Sport Intelligence Manager, working on a variety of projects from the Athlete Career Program, focusing on dual career and career transition, to other public facing programs within the Olympic movement. In 2019, he founded ‘Make a Mark’, a personal initiative that offers retired Olympians an opportunity to identify and mentor refugees and forcibly displaced people for elite level sport to help transform their lives. This project, which relied on crowdfunding and donations, resulted in two of his athletes qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in the 10m air rifle event, further contributing to the Refugee Olympic Team.