2022-23 Rifle Roster
Verena Zaisberger
- Height:
- 5-5
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Hohenems, Austria
- High School:
- Musikgymnasium Feldkirch
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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