2024-25 Rifle Roster

Gavin Barnick
- Height:
- 5-9
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Menasha, Wisc.
- Prev School:
- Alaska
Statistics
WVU Career Highs
Value | Opponent | |
---|---|---|
Air Rifle | 600 | GARC Championship (2/25/24) |
Smallbore | 593 | GARC Championship (2/24/24) |
WVU Career Statistics
Air Rifle | Smallbore | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Season | Matches | Avg. | High | Matches | Avg. | High |
2023-24 | 9 | 595.2 | 600 | 9 | 587.5 | 593 |
2023-24 (Jr.)
- NCAA Air Rifle Individual National Champion
- CRCA All-America First Team (Smallbore)
- CRCA All-America Second Team (Smallbore)
- CRCA All-America Third Team (Combined)
- All-GARC First Team (Smallbore)
- All-GARC Honorable Mention (Air Rifle)
- All-GARC Second Team (Combined)
- Scored a perfect 600 in air rifle to become the 8th Mountaineer to hit the mark
- Air rifle score was the fourth best on the team as aggregate and smallbore marks were the fifth highest on the team
Prior to West Virginia
- Comes to WVU after spending his first two collegiate seasons with Alaska-Fairbanks.
- Guided the Nanooks to the 2023 NCAA National Championship and a third-place finish at the same event in 2022
- In 2023 posted an aggregate score of 1187 twice, marking his season-high
- Added season highs of 592 in smallbore while hitting a high of 597 in air rifle twice
- Internationally, managed gold at the 2022 ISSF World Championships in the Junior Men's 50m Rifle 3 Position Team
- Added a silver at the 2022 Winter Air Gun Championships in the Men's 10m Air Rifle
- Earned bronze at the 2022 USA Shooting Rifle National Championships in the Junior Men's 50m Smallbore.
- He took home bronze at the 2021 ISSF JR World Championships in the Men's 50m Smallbore Team, Mixed Team 50m Prone and the Men's 50m Smallbore
- claimed a silver medal at the 2021 JR Pan American Games
- Before his collegiate career, won a silver medal at the 2019 USA Shooting Rifle National Championships in the Junior Men's Air Rifle class.
Personal
- Parents are Chad and April
- Majoring in Business with a minor in Accounting
- Birthday is Nov. 23
A Conversation with Wren Baker
Monday, December 05
Jon Hammond | Thursday
Thursday, September 30
Life as a Mountaineer - Jared Eddy
Wednesday, March 24
Jon Hammond | Thursday
Thursday, January 14