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Verena Zaisberger
by Joe Swan
2020-21 (JR.)
• CRCA All-America Air Rifle First Team • CRCA All-America Aggregate Second Team • CRCA All-America Smallbore
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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 • Majoring in music and french • Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll • Garrett ford Academic Honor Roll
SR. • 5-5 • HOHENEMS, AUSTRIA • MUSIKGYMNASIUM FELDKIRCH
ZAISBERGER’S PERSONAL BESTS
Air Rifle
598 . . . . . . . . . .GARC Championship, feb. 23, 2019 GARC Championship, feb. 28, 2021
