Akihito Shimizu

SHIMIZU’S PERSONAL BESTS

Air Rifle

599 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ole Miss, Jan. 31, 2021

Smallbore

590 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at ole Miss, Nov. 3, 2019

Career Air Rifle

year Matches Avg. High 2021 8 596.33 599 2020 11 592.818 595

Career Smallbore

year Matches Avg. High 2021 8 574.833 587 2020 11 581.636 590

2020-21 (SO.)

• All-GARC Air Rifle First Teams • All-GARC Combined first Team • All-GARC Smallbore Second Team • CRCA All-America Air Rifle First Team • Ninth place, air rifle, NCAA Championship • finished 10th overall at the GARC

Championships with a career high aggregate score of 1175 • Shot a career high 599 in air rifle against Ole Miss

2019-20 (FR.)

• NRA All-America First Team Air Rifle • NRA All-America Second Team Smallbore • CRCA All-America Second Team • All-GARC Air Rifle and Combined

Score first Teams • All-GARC Smallbore Second Team • Matched his career-high air rifle mark of 595 three times • Won his first collegiate competition at Ole

Miss, posting an 1185 aggregate total for a personal-best mark; shot a career-high 590 smallbore score to finish first and equaled his air rifle career-high total of 595 to place second • Competed at the 2020 GARC Championship, shooting 579 smallbore and 590 air rifle

HIGH SCHOOL

• Member of the Japanese Junior National

Team, competing in multiple world cups • Claimed top-35 finishes in the junior men’s 50m rifle prone and the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions at the 2019 iSSf Suhl Junior World Cup • Earned a ninth-place finish in the junior men’s 10m air rifle at the 2017 Asian Championships • Placed seventh in the youth men’s 10m air rifle at the 2016 Asian Championships • finished as high as 13th in the men’s 10m air rifle competition at the 2016 iSSf Gabala Junior World Cup

PERSONAL

• Son of Hidetsuna and Hiroko Shimizu • Birthday is April 28 • Majoring in sport management

JR. • 5-5 • TOKUSHIMA, JAPAN • OHJISOHGO