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MARSHA BEASLEY RUN DOWN
Eight-time NCAA Championship coach Marsha Beasley has taken the Ole Miss Rifle program to new heights in four seasons at the helm.
both the 2018 Winter Airgun Championships and 2019 Pan American Games. Randi Loudin secured bronze in smallbore in 2017 and 2018.
Beginning her Ole Miss tenure in 2016 after a decorated coaching career at West Virginia, Beasley guided the Rebels to a program-record score of 4687 on Jan. 19, 2018 at Alaska Fairbanks.
Beasley has coached six GARC Honorable Mention athletes in three seasons. Weisz received a Second Team All-GARC nod for air rifle in 2016-17. Buesseler earned GARC Second Team for both smallbore and combine as well as Honorable Mention for air rifle in 2019-20.
Remarkably, Ole Miss has produced the top 20 aggregate scores in school history under her tutelage, including seven of the top 10 in 2019-20 alone. The Rebels also tallied 2372 points in air rifle for a new mark to outshoot her former team, the Mountaineers, in the event on Nov. 2, 2019. She was named the College Rifle Coaches Association National Coach of the Year and Great America Rifle Coach of the Year after leading Ole Miss to programbests in GARC regular-season finish (third) and total wins (seven) in 2017-18. Beasley began a three-year term in September of 2019 as a member of the NCAA Rifle Committee. She will work with the committee to further develop policies and procedures governing the administration and conduct of the NCAA Rifle Championships and verify qualification of teams for the championships. The Rebels set a new record in the CRCA Poll in 201920 by reaching No. 5, where the team ranked for four weeks during the season. It also marked the first time the program spent the entire regular season inside the Top 10 of the rankings. Fans have also begun to support Ole Miss rifle with more fervor. An average of 84 fans filled the Ole Miss Rifle Range during the 2019-20 campaign, setting yet another record. Beasley has coached three NCAA individual qualifiers while at Ole Miss: Alison Weisz, Kamilla Kisch and Abby Buesseler. Weisz became a four-time qualifier and twotime All-American, both once under Beasley’s leadership. Kisch qualified for Nationals as a freshman, joining Weisz as the only Rebel rookie to do so. Buesseler qualified for the cancelled 2020 NCAA Rifle Championships in smallbore. The Stacy, Minnesota, product set program records for aggregate total, aggregate season average and smallbore season average during the campaign. The Rebels have found success in outside competition during the Beasley era. Weisz became the first former Rebel to qualify for the Tokyo Summer Olympics as a member of the USA Shooting Team in women’s air rifle. She also took home a national title at the 2017 USA Shooting National Championships, and gold medals at
2020-21 OLE MISS RIFLE FACT BOOK
The success has carried over into the classroom as well under Beasley’s watch. A combined 35 student-athletes have been named CRCA All-Academic, SEC Academic, or made the SEC First Year Honor Roll. Beasley arrived in Ole Miss from Morgantown, West Virginia, where she most recently served as a volunteer coach for the Mason Dixon Junior Rifle Club and the West Virginia Junior Marksmanship Program. From 1990-2006, Beasley was the head rifle coach at West Virginia leading the program to eight NCAA National Championships. In her first year as head coach, the Mountaineers won the first of four consecutive NCAA titles (1990-93) and repeated the feat from 1995-98. At WVU Beasley also coached eight individuals to NCAA national titles and 27 student-athletes earned 67 NRA All-America honors during her tenure. Four team members competed in the Olympic Games after leaving WVU. Success at WVU under Beasley carried over to the classroom, as 25 student-athletes were named All-Academic 55 times by the Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association. Beasley’s coaching awards include US Olympic Committee Coach of the Year (for Shooting) and West Virginia Sports Writers Coach of the Year (all sports). A graduate of East Tennessee State University, Beasley later earned a Master’s in Sport Management at West Virginia. She competed in smallbore and air rifle while in college and as a member of the U.S. National Team. In addition to competing and coaching, Beasley has been a leader in the sport. She drafted the bylaws to create the Mid-America Rifle Conference (now GARC) and was a staff member at the (then) national governing body of shooting (the NRA) and the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. She also served 17 years on the Board of the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Beasley is married to Carl Flowers and they have a daughter, Tavie, and twin sons, Aaron and Daniel.
POSITION HOME TOWN ALMA MATER CAREER RECORD OLE MISS RECORD
QUICK HITS HEAD COACH MORGANTOWN, W. VA. EAST TENNESSEE STATE 173-48 (20 SEASONS) 21-25 (4 SEASONS)
YEAR-BY-YEAR RECORD YEAR 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 TOTAL
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West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia West Virginia No varsity team West Virginia West Virginia Ole Miss Ole Miss Ole Miss Ole Miss 20 SEASONS
* NCAA Champions % MARC Champions
5
RECORD
9-0* 10-0* 9-0* 10-0* 13-1 10-0* 10-0* 9-1* 13-0*% 10-0% 12-1% 11-0 8-3 11-2 ---3-8 4-7 3-9 7-4 5-6 6-6 173-48
