Player Profiles
VERENA ZAISBERGER 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
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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 • Majoring in music and french • Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll • Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
