WVU Sports Hall of Fame
Petra Zublasing is the only Mountaineer to win three individual NCAA Championships during her career from 2011-13, claiming the 2012 air rifle title while winning the air rifle and smallbore disciplines the following season in 2013.
Her 2013 success marked the first time in WVU program history a student-athlete had won both disciplines in the same season. She was the third Mountaineer to win titles in back-to-back seasons.
She was a five-time NCAA All-American, claiming the honor in air rifle three times (2011, 2012, 2013) and smallbore twice (2012, 2013). Zublasing was named the 2013 College Rifle Coaches Association (CRCA) Shooter of the Championship in 2013.
Zublasing claimed two Great America Rifle Conference individual titles, winning smallbore in 2012 before earning the air rifle title in 2013. She was named the conference Shooter of the Year in 2012 and 2013 while adding Senior of the Year honors in 2013. She also added All-GARC First team honors in air rifle, smallbore and combined score in 2012 and 2013.
At the time, Zublasing was one of seven Mountaineers to record a perfect 600 in air rifle and still holds the third-best mark in smallbore with a 595. Her 120-shot aggregate match score of 1193 was a program best, while her 120-shot season average of 1187.67 also topped the program record book. Her 60-shot smallbore season average of 591.33 is the second-best in program history.
Academically, she was a three-time CRCA Academic All-American (2011-2012-2013) and earned CoSIDA (now CSC) Academic At Large All-American honors in 2012 and 2013 while also adding all-district II honors during both seasons. She added an Academic All-Big 12 honors in 2013.
Zublasing competed at two Olympics, representing Italy, qualifying in 2012 for the London Games and then again in 2016 at the Rio Games. During her first Olympics, she finished in 12th place in air rifle and smallbore. At Rio, she narrowly missed the podium in smallbore, taking home a fourth-place finish and a 437.7 score. She added a 33rd-place finish in air rifle.
Zublasing closed out her WVU career by earning the 2013 Order of Augusta Award, winning the Red Brown Cup in 2012 and 2013 and being named the 2013 WVU Outstanding Senior.
Zublasing is a native of Appiano, Italy. She graduated from West Virginia University in 2013 with a degree in civil engineering.
After nearly two decades of competing on the world stage in rifle, she earned another degree in visual communications from Istituto Europeo di Design, where her designs have been used in a wide range of applications from children to scientific illustrations.
