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Verena Zaisberger

  • Height:
    5-5
  • Class:
    Fifth Year
  • Hometown:
    Hohenems, Austria
  • High School:
    Musikgymnasium Feldkirch

Summary

Biography

Statistics

Career Highs

Value Opponent
Air Rifle 598 GARC Championship (2/23/19)
GARC Championship (2/28/21)
Smallbore 593 at Navy (1/22/22)

Career Statistics

Air Rifle Smallbore
Season Matches Avg. High Matches Avg. High
2022-23 7 593.714 597 7 582.714 589
2021-22 13 592.273 597 13 586.182 593
2020-21 9 593.375 595 9 583.875 585
2019-20 12 593.5 597 12 576.167 583
2018-19 4 594.75 598 4 574 584


2021-22 (Sr.)

  • NCAA Elite 90 Award
  • CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I Women’s At-Large First Team
  • CoSIDA Academic All-District II Women’s At-Large First Team
  • Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award
  • Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship Recipient
  • CRCA All-America Smallbore Second Team
  • CRCA All-America Aggregate Honorable Mention
  • All-GARC Smallbore and Combined Second Team
  • All-GARC Air Rifle Honorable Mention
  • GARC Scholar-Athlete Representative
  • CRCA Scholastic All-America Team
  • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
  • Competed in all 13 matches; scores counted for 13 of those contests
  • Second on the team in smallbore average, with 585.462
  • Third on the team in aggregate average, with 1178.077
  • Tallied a career-high 593 in smallbore at Navy (1/22), helping WVU shoot a program-record 2364 in the relay
  • Also totaled a career-best aggregate score of 1186 against the Midshipmen
  • Shot a season-best 597 in air rifle the following match against Akron and Morehead State (1/29)

2020-21 (Jr.)

  • CRCA All-America Air Rifle First Team
  • CRCA All-America Aggregate Second Team
  • CRCA All-America Smallbore Honorable Mention Team
  • All-GARC Smallbore, Air Rifle and Combined Score Second Team
  • Second place, air rifle, GARC Championships
  • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
  • Alternate at NCAA Championships
  • Elite 90 Award winner for NCAA Division I Rifle
  • Broke her career high aggregate score after shooting an 1186 to finish third overall at the GARC Championships
  • At the conference championships, she finished first in air rifle (598) and sixth smallbore (588)

2019-20 (So.)

  • NRA All-America First Team Air Rifle
  • CRCA All-America Honorable Mention
  • All-GARC Air Rifle First Team
  • All-GARC Combined Score Honorable Mention
  • Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
  • CRCA All-Academic Team
  • Shot a season high 597 to win air rifle against NC State
  • Matched her season high in air rifle at Ohio State, tying for the discipline win
  • Recorded a season-high smallbore score of 583 against Kentucky
  • Competed at 2020 GARC Championship, shooting 576 smallbore and 591 air rifle

2018-19 (Fr.)

  • Began her Mountaineer career in the spring
  • Scored a career-high 584 total in smallbore against Ole Miss
  • Shot 225.9 in the air rifle final to place third at the 2019 GARC Championship; entered the final in first place after shooting a career-best 598 in the open relay

High School

  • Member of the Austrian National Team
  • Competed at the ISSF Granada World Championships (2014), Suhl World Championships (2017) and Changwon World Championships (2018), as well as the 2017 ISSF Suhl Junior World Cup
  • Individually, finished as high as ninth in the women’s 50m rifle prone at the 2018 ISSF Changwon World Championships; also claimed the junior women’s 50m rifle prone team event
  • Helped three-person team win bronze in the junior women’s 50m rifle 3-positions event at the 2017 European Championships and in the junior women’s 50m rifle prone team event at the 2015 European Championships
  • Placed 19th in the junior women’s 10m air rifle at the 2018 Munich H&N Cup
  • Finished 12th in the junior women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the 2018 Pilsen Shooting Hopes Championships
  • In back-to-back appearances at the European Championships, finished ninth in the junior women’s 50m rifle prone (2016) and 19th in the junior women’s 50m rifle 3-positions (2017)
  • Won consecutive Gold medals in the junior women’s 50m rifle 3-positions and the junior women’s 10m air rifle at the 2015 and 2016 Austrian Championships
  • Attended Musikgymnasium Feldkirch

Personal

  • Daughter of Helge Riechert and Maggy Zaisberger
  • Has one brother
  • Birthday is Dec. 30
  • Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music and French in May 2022
  • Currently pursuing a master’s degree in sport management
  • Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
  • Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll

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Historical Player Information

  • 2018-19Freshman

    5'5"
  • 2019-20Sophomore

    5'5"
  • 2020-21Junior

    5'5"
  • 2021-22Senior

    5'5"
  • 2022-23Fifth Year

    5'5"
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