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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Dinsmore Promoted To Assistant Rifle Coach
9/7/2011 | Rifle
Sept. 7, 2011
OXFORD, Miss. - Ole Miss rifle graduate assistant Natasha Dinsmore has been promoted to assistant coach, Rebel head coach Valerie Boothe announced on Wednesday.
Dinsmore, who joined the program last year, is the first full-time assistant coach in Ole Miss rifle history. She will assist Boothe in coaching, recruiting and with administrative duties, as well as in strength and conditioning and organizing team travel.
"We are very excited to have Natasha stay with our program on a full-time basis," said Boothe. "She brings a great drive and energy for the sport that is contagious. She has been invaluable to our program and will continue to help us reach new levels of success."
Dinsmore came to Oxford after a four-year career on the West Virginia rifle team. She joined the Mountaineer program as a walk-on student-athlete after taking up competitive shooting while visiting Germany on a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Scholarship. After falling in love with the sport, Dinsmore turned down a field hockey scholarship to chase her dream of shooting in college.
A State College, Pa., native, Dinsmore earned the GARC Academic Award for having the highest GPA on the Mountaineer team in 2006 and was named to the Athletic Academic Honor Roll every semester as a student at WVU. She earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in animal and veterinary Sciences in 2008 and followed that with a Master's in agriculture, forestry and consumer Sciences in 2010. Dinsmore is currently pursuing a Master's of Science in exercise science with an emphasis in exercise physiology at Ole Miss.
