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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Saturday, November 22
Lincoln, Nebr.
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No. 1 Rifle to Conclude Fall Portion of the Season Facing Nebraska and Air Force
11/21/2025 | Rifle
LINCOLN, Neb. – No. 1 Ole Miss rifle is set to conclude the fall portion of the 2025-26 season in Lincoln, Nebraska, with a three-team match on Saturday against No. 7 Nebraska and No. 14 Air Force, followed by a neutral site match against Air Force on Sunday.
Three wins are up for grabs for the Rebels (3-1, 2-1 PRC) as they face the pair of PRC Rivals. Six Rebels are set to travel with the team to face the Cornhuskers (10-0, 3-0 PRC) and Falcons (5-7, 1-4). Ole Miss is coming off a historic performance against No. 3 TCU, which saw the Rebels come away with a 4744-4739 victory. Ole Miss was justly ranked No. 1 in the country by the CRCA for its performance, the first time it's been the top team since 2022.
Gracie Dinh, Audrey Gogniat, Jordan de Jesus and Regan Diamond each had memorable individual performances en route to the statement victory. Dinh set career-high marks across the board, finishing with an 1190 aggregate score, while de Jesus and Diamond each set or tied career high aggregates.
The Rebels set top 10 team scores in smallbore, air rifle and the aggregate, which included the second-highest total team score in program history. The Rebels' 2359 in smallbore is the fifth best, and their 2385 score in air rifle is also the second best by any Ole Miss squad.
Smallbore sighters are set to start at 8 a.m. CT for both matches. On Saturday, there will be two relays with split counters. The results of the day will become evident at the conclusion of the air rifle event in the second relay. On Sunday, there will only be one relay for the Rebels to determine the outcome.
On the Line
2024-25 Season in Review
Ole Miss is coming off one of its most memorable seasons to date, headlined by the top freshmen class in the country. Audrey Gogniat burst onto the collegiate rifle season in the spring semester of competition, sweeping the Patriot Rifle Conference individual titles in February, and following that by becoming Ole Miss' first individual national champion in air rifle at the NCAA Tournament. Throughout the season, Gogniat rewrote Ole Miss' record books by setting the top three smallbore scores and the top two aggregate scores.
Alongside Gogniat, Gracie Dinh became Ole Miss' 13th All-American after earning First Team Smallbore and Honorable Mention Aggregate nods. Dinh had the 12th-best smallbore average in the country last season. Jordan de Jesus, Susan Carter, Claudia Muzik and Kayla Riewe each had strong freshmen campaigns, with de Jesus serving as the anchor for Ole Miss' starting five.
Ole Miss went 10-6, its first 10-win season since 2021-22 and only its third time doing so ever. The team earned a silver medal in smallbore and overall scoring at its inaugural PRC Tournament in February. Additionally, the Rebels bid farewell to all-time competitors Lea Horvath and M'Leah Lambdin, who helped Ole Miss reach the NCAA Tournament each year they spent in Oxford.
Head Coach Will Shaner
Scouting the Opponent
Nebraska
Richard Clark has transformed Nebraska's rifle team into one of the best in the country in just his second season at the helm. The Cornhuskers were previously ranked No. 1 in the country before the Rebels took over. Nebraska is 10-0 to start the season and has scored at least 4740 points four times already this season.
Senior Emma Rhode has been the catalyst behind Nebraska's success. Rhode is currently the fourth-best shooter in the country according to aggregate averages. She thrives in smallbore, averaging 592.3 per appearance, which is third in the country. She's backed by freshman Katlyn Sullivan, who is putting together a solid first collegiate season. She's seventh in the country in terms of aggregate average. She's recorded three top air rifle scores this season, usually picking up the slack when Rhode underperforms.
Former Ole Miss Rebel Kristen Derting is in her second season as the assistant coach of the Cornhuskers. Derting was a seven-time All-American and has a share of the Ole Miss individual high in smallbore, shooting a 594 in 2020.
Air Force
Launi Meili is in her ninth season at the helm of Air Force's rifle program. The Falcons are 5-7 to start the season. Senior team captain Victoria Leppert and freshman Prisha Thomas are Air Force's top shooters, averaging 1174.7 and 1172.0 aggregate scores, respectively.
The Falcons have shot north of 4700 points just once this season, fittingly in the President's Trophy match against Army. Thomas led the Falcons in that match, shooting a personal best 1179 aggregate score. That mark was tops for all competitors that day.
Rebs in the Rankings
The Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association ranked Ole Miss as the No. 1 team in the nation in its most recent rankings. It's the first time Ole Miss has been ranked at the top spot since 2022 and the fourth time in program history.
Five other members of the Patriot Rifle Conference sit in the top 10 rankings. TCU sits at the No. 3 spot with Nebraska just behind at No. 7. Defending PRC Champions Alaska Fairbanks sits at eighth while UTEP rounds out the the five members of the PRC at No. 10. Air Force (14) and Ohio State (17) are the other ranked members of the PRC.
History in the Making
Against TCU, the Rebels scored the second highest aggregate mark in program history and the most since setting the record in last year's PRC Tournament. To do so, the Rebels had the fifth-highest smallbore and second-highest air rifle scores program history. Two Rebels, Gracie Dinh and Jordan de Jesus, set individual career-high marks in air rifle and aggregate scoring, while Audrey Gogniat remained a staple of high-scoring consistency. Regan Diamond also tied her career high aggregate score.
Ole Miss began the day by firing their highest smallbore score of the season with a 2359 team mark, the fifth highest in program history. It's the most points Ole Miss has scored in the event since shattering the program record at the PRC Tournament last season.
It was in the second event of the morning where Ole miss truly shined, outscoring TCU by seven points. Ole Miss finished the event with a 2385 team score, the second best in program history. All four counters finished with at least 594 points in the event. The Rebels finished just three points shy of tying the program record in the event, set in 2022 against John Jay College.
On top of her air rifle personal best, Dinh tied a career high in smallbore with a 591-point effort, giving her a career-high 1190 aggregate. This shattered her previous best of 1185, and she finished the day as the top overall shooter in the field for the second consecutive match and fourth time in her career.
Overall, three Rebels finished inside the top six of the individual leaderboard, but it was Regan Diamond who rounded out the scoring with an eighth-place finish and an 1182 aggregate.
Bang Bang
Ole Miss opened the 2025-26 in electrifying fashion, putting up 4735 points at UTEP. The Rebels had only two scores higher than that aggregate last season, and it's tied for the fifth-highest score in program history.
To get there, the Rebels fired a 2352 in smallbore and a 2383 in air rifle. Ole Miss' air rifle score is tied for the third highest in program history. Audrey Gogniat led the charge, scoring 594 in smallbore and 598 in air rifle. She began air rifle with 55 consecutive bullseyes but fell just shy of completing her third career perfect air rifle score.
Four Rebels housed the top four aggregate finishes, with Gracie Dinh, Jordan de Jesus and Regan Diamond following Gogniat in scoring.
Ole Miss will look to build on that momentum for the remainder of the season.
Audrey Gogniat: National Champion
Following a historic freshman campaign where she only appeared in seven matches, Audrey Gogniat is back and looking for improvement. The reigning national air rifle and PRC aggregate champion has made a splash in the collegiate rifle world and has personally rewritten Ole Miss' record books.
Now the owner of the top three smallbore scores in program history, the top aggregate score the NCAA has seen since 2015 and a pair of perfect 600s in air rifle, there's not much to say about Gogniat that hasn't already been said. With her back in the rotation, Gogniat is looking to lead Ole Miss to a team title while continuing to excel as an individual.
Gogniat is the only active student-athlete at Ole Miss who has earned a medal in an Olympic sport, and the seventh in Ole Miss athletic history. She's the only Ole Miss rifle athlete to medal in the Olympics.
It came down to the last shot last season, after Gogniat outlasted a ferocious comeback attempt from Kentucky's Braden Peiser. She fired a 10.6 on the tiebreak shot to Peiser's 9.9.
With her accomplishment, Gogniat is the second Rebel to medal in the national tournament, joining former teammate Lea Horvath. Horvath earned two bronzes in the 2021 national tournament for both smallbore and air rifle.
Gogniat reached the final round after firing the second perfect 600 in air rifle of her career in the preliminary round. She had the highest score of the day, with Peiser and TCU's Katie Zaun firing 599 each. Gogniat and Horvath combined for three perfect scores last season for Ole Miss, showing a collective improvement in the event. Ole Miss was one of two teams, and the only one in the PRC, to fire three total perfect scores last season.
The Le Noirmont, Switzerland, native fired the best individual aggregate score in Ole Miss history with an 1197 mark. It's the highest among all NCAA shooters this season and set the best mark in Division I collegiate rifle since at least 2014-15.
To do that, Gogniat broke her own Ole Miss smallbore record with a 597 mark, as well as becoming the second Rebel to ever fire a perfect 600 in air rifle. In total, Gogniat missed only three bullseyes on the weekend while recording 99 center shots.
In her collegiate debut, Gogniat toed the line for the first time as a Rebel on Jan. 18 and casually swept the No. 1 spot in each event of the day. She tied the then-program record in smallbore with a 594 mark and followed that with a 599 finish in air rifle to form an 1193 aggregate. All three scores were the highest of the day in the field as she reached an Ole Miss season-high 100 center shots.
In the NCAA Qualifier, she fired a 596 in smallbore. In doing so, she officially holds the three highest smallbore scores by an individual in Ole Miss school history.
The Sophomore Six
Aptly nicknamed the "Sophomore Six," all members of the 2023 signing class are returning to Oxford for their second season of competition for the Rebels. Arguably the most talented class of athletes in all collegiate rifle, this group boasts some of the top competitors entering the 2025-26 campaign.
Audrey Gogniat, Gracie Dinh and Jordan de Jesus headline the group as the three most experienced competitors from last season, with Susan Carter, Claudia Muzik and Kayla Riewe providing invaluable depth to the lineup. All six were counters last season in at least one event, with Dinh being the only Rebel during the 2024-25 season to serve as counter in both smallbore and air rifle in all 13 appearances.
Rebs on Socials
For more information on Ole Miss rifle, follow the Rebels on Facebook (OleMissRifle), Twitter/X (@OleMissRifle), Instagram (@OleMissRifle) and at OleMissSports.com.
Three wins are up for grabs for the Rebels (3-1, 2-1 PRC) as they face the pair of PRC Rivals. Six Rebels are set to travel with the team to face the Cornhuskers (10-0, 3-0 PRC) and Falcons (5-7, 1-4). Ole Miss is coming off a historic performance against No. 3 TCU, which saw the Rebels come away with a 4744-4739 victory. Ole Miss was justly ranked No. 1 in the country by the CRCA for its performance, the first time it's been the top team since 2022.
Gracie Dinh, Audrey Gogniat, Jordan de Jesus and Regan Diamond each had memorable individual performances en route to the statement victory. Dinh set career-high marks across the board, finishing with an 1190 aggregate score, while de Jesus and Diamond each set or tied career high aggregates.
The Rebels set top 10 team scores in smallbore, air rifle and the aggregate, which included the second-highest total team score in program history. The Rebels' 2359 in smallbore is the fifth best, and their 2385 score in air rifle is also the second best by any Ole Miss squad.
Smallbore sighters are set to start at 8 a.m. CT for both matches. On Saturday, there will be two relays with split counters. The results of the day will become evident at the conclusion of the air rifle event in the second relay. On Sunday, there will only be one relay for the Rebels to determine the outcome.
On the Line
- The Rebels are the top-ranked team in the country according to the CRCA, the first time being so since 2022.
- Ole Miss lit up the scoresheet against TCU last time out, firing top 10 program marks in smallbore (2359), air rifle (2385) and aggregate (4744).
- Gracie Dinh led the charge against the Horned Frogs, shooting a career high 1190 aggregate score. Dinh shot a 599 in air rifle, falling just one bullseye shy of becoming the third Rebel to achieve perfection in the discipline.
- Dinh and Audrey Gogniat are top 10 shooters in the country according to aggregate averages.
- Ole Miss' 67-point victory over UTEP is its largest margin of victory since defeating John Jay College by over 400 points in 2024.
- Jordan de Jesus secured Ole Miss' win against Murray State with a 10 on her final shot in air rifle, giving the Rebels a one-point victory.
- The Rebels' roster features two juniors and six sophomores, who each competed multiple times last season.
- Ole Miss welcomed two freshmen, Savannah Criddle and Jadyn Morgan, as part of National Signing Day 2024.
- The 2025-26 season marks Ole Miss' 30th season of competition.
- Head coach Will Shaner began his first season at the helm for the Rebels.
- Ole Miss hired former student-athlete Katie Tedeschi as assistant coach prior to the 2025-26 season.
- Sophomore sharpshooter Audrey Gogniat won the 2025 individual air rifle championship at the NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
- Gogniat holds Ole Miss' individual smallbore and aggregate record, firing a 597 and 1197, respectively. She also tied the program air rifle record two times, shooting a perfect 600.
- Sophomore Gracie Dinh was Ole Miss' lone CRCA All-American last season, garnering First Team Smallbore and Honorable Mention Aggregate nods.
2024-25 Season in Review
Ole Miss is coming off one of its most memorable seasons to date, headlined by the top freshmen class in the country. Audrey Gogniat burst onto the collegiate rifle season in the spring semester of competition, sweeping the Patriot Rifle Conference individual titles in February, and following that by becoming Ole Miss' first individual national champion in air rifle at the NCAA Tournament. Throughout the season, Gogniat rewrote Ole Miss' record books by setting the top three smallbore scores and the top two aggregate scores.
Alongside Gogniat, Gracie Dinh became Ole Miss' 13th All-American after earning First Team Smallbore and Honorable Mention Aggregate nods. Dinh had the 12th-best smallbore average in the country last season. Jordan de Jesus, Susan Carter, Claudia Muzik and Kayla Riewe each had strong freshmen campaigns, with de Jesus serving as the anchor for Ole Miss' starting five.
Ole Miss went 10-6, its first 10-win season since 2021-22 and only its third time doing so ever. The team earned a silver medal in smallbore and overall scoring at its inaugural PRC Tournament in February. Additionally, the Rebels bid farewell to all-time competitors Lea Horvath and M'Leah Lambdin, who helped Ole Miss reach the NCAA Tournament each year they spent in Oxford.
Head Coach Will Shaner
- This year marks his first season as the Rebels head coach, after being promoted following two seasons as assistant coach.
- This is Shaner's first head coaching gig.
- He earned the first victory as a head coach against UTEP.
- Guided the Rebels to their first No. 1 ranking since 2022, and fourth ever.
- A former collegiate shooter, he competed with Kentucky from 2018-22.
- Shaner was an 11-time first team All-American at Kentucky, where he helped the Wildcats win two team national championships.
- He earned CRCA Senior Shooter of the year in 2021-22. That same year, he earned the NCAA Individual Smallbore National Title.
- Shaner competed for Team USA at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, winning the gold medal in the 10-meter air rifle event.
Scouting the Opponent
Nebraska
Richard Clark has transformed Nebraska's rifle team into one of the best in the country in just his second season at the helm. The Cornhuskers were previously ranked No. 1 in the country before the Rebels took over. Nebraska is 10-0 to start the season and has scored at least 4740 points four times already this season.
Senior Emma Rhode has been the catalyst behind Nebraska's success. Rhode is currently the fourth-best shooter in the country according to aggregate averages. She thrives in smallbore, averaging 592.3 per appearance, which is third in the country. She's backed by freshman Katlyn Sullivan, who is putting together a solid first collegiate season. She's seventh in the country in terms of aggregate average. She's recorded three top air rifle scores this season, usually picking up the slack when Rhode underperforms.
Former Ole Miss Rebel Kristen Derting is in her second season as the assistant coach of the Cornhuskers. Derting was a seven-time All-American and has a share of the Ole Miss individual high in smallbore, shooting a 594 in 2020.
Air Force
Launi Meili is in her ninth season at the helm of Air Force's rifle program. The Falcons are 5-7 to start the season. Senior team captain Victoria Leppert and freshman Prisha Thomas are Air Force's top shooters, averaging 1174.7 and 1172.0 aggregate scores, respectively.
The Falcons have shot north of 4700 points just once this season, fittingly in the President's Trophy match against Army. Thomas led the Falcons in that match, shooting a personal best 1179 aggregate score. That mark was tops for all competitors that day.
Rebs in the Rankings
The Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association ranked Ole Miss as the No. 1 team in the nation in its most recent rankings. It's the first time Ole Miss has been ranked at the top spot since 2022 and the fourth time in program history.
Five other members of the Patriot Rifle Conference sit in the top 10 rankings. TCU sits at the No. 3 spot with Nebraska just behind at No. 7. Defending PRC Champions Alaska Fairbanks sits at eighth while UTEP rounds out the the five members of the PRC at No. 10. Air Force (14) and Ohio State (17) are the other ranked members of the PRC.
History in the Making
Against TCU, the Rebels scored the second highest aggregate mark in program history and the most since setting the record in last year's PRC Tournament. To do so, the Rebels had the fifth-highest smallbore and second-highest air rifle scores program history. Two Rebels, Gracie Dinh and Jordan de Jesus, set individual career-high marks in air rifle and aggregate scoring, while Audrey Gogniat remained a staple of high-scoring consistency. Regan Diamond also tied her career high aggregate score.
Ole Miss began the day by firing their highest smallbore score of the season with a 2359 team mark, the fifth highest in program history. It's the most points Ole Miss has scored in the event since shattering the program record at the PRC Tournament last season.
It was in the second event of the morning where Ole miss truly shined, outscoring TCU by seven points. Ole Miss finished the event with a 2385 team score, the second best in program history. All four counters finished with at least 594 points in the event. The Rebels finished just three points shy of tying the program record in the event, set in 2022 against John Jay College.
On top of her air rifle personal best, Dinh tied a career high in smallbore with a 591-point effort, giving her a career-high 1190 aggregate. This shattered her previous best of 1185, and she finished the day as the top overall shooter in the field for the second consecutive match and fourth time in her career.
Overall, three Rebels finished inside the top six of the individual leaderboard, but it was Regan Diamond who rounded out the scoring with an eighth-place finish and an 1182 aggregate.
Bang Bang
Ole Miss opened the 2025-26 in electrifying fashion, putting up 4735 points at UTEP. The Rebels had only two scores higher than that aggregate last season, and it's tied for the fifth-highest score in program history.
To get there, the Rebels fired a 2352 in smallbore and a 2383 in air rifle. Ole Miss' air rifle score is tied for the third highest in program history. Audrey Gogniat led the charge, scoring 594 in smallbore and 598 in air rifle. She began air rifle with 55 consecutive bullseyes but fell just shy of completing her third career perfect air rifle score.
Four Rebels housed the top four aggregate finishes, with Gracie Dinh, Jordan de Jesus and Regan Diamond following Gogniat in scoring.
Ole Miss will look to build on that momentum for the remainder of the season.
Audrey Gogniat: National Champion
Following a historic freshman campaign where she only appeared in seven matches, Audrey Gogniat is back and looking for improvement. The reigning national air rifle and PRC aggregate champion has made a splash in the collegiate rifle world and has personally rewritten Ole Miss' record books.
Now the owner of the top three smallbore scores in program history, the top aggregate score the NCAA has seen since 2015 and a pair of perfect 600s in air rifle, there's not much to say about Gogniat that hasn't already been said. With her back in the rotation, Gogniat is looking to lead Ole Miss to a team title while continuing to excel as an individual.
Gogniat is the only active student-athlete at Ole Miss who has earned a medal in an Olympic sport, and the seventh in Ole Miss athletic history. She's the only Ole Miss rifle athlete to medal in the Olympics.
It came down to the last shot last season, after Gogniat outlasted a ferocious comeback attempt from Kentucky's Braden Peiser. She fired a 10.6 on the tiebreak shot to Peiser's 9.9.
With her accomplishment, Gogniat is the second Rebel to medal in the national tournament, joining former teammate Lea Horvath. Horvath earned two bronzes in the 2021 national tournament for both smallbore and air rifle.
Gogniat reached the final round after firing the second perfect 600 in air rifle of her career in the preliminary round. She had the highest score of the day, with Peiser and TCU's Katie Zaun firing 599 each. Gogniat and Horvath combined for three perfect scores last season for Ole Miss, showing a collective improvement in the event. Ole Miss was one of two teams, and the only one in the PRC, to fire three total perfect scores last season.
The Le Noirmont, Switzerland, native fired the best individual aggregate score in Ole Miss history with an 1197 mark. It's the highest among all NCAA shooters this season and set the best mark in Division I collegiate rifle since at least 2014-15.
To do that, Gogniat broke her own Ole Miss smallbore record with a 597 mark, as well as becoming the second Rebel to ever fire a perfect 600 in air rifle. In total, Gogniat missed only three bullseyes on the weekend while recording 99 center shots.
In her collegiate debut, Gogniat toed the line for the first time as a Rebel on Jan. 18 and casually swept the No. 1 spot in each event of the day. She tied the then-program record in smallbore with a 594 mark and followed that with a 599 finish in air rifle to form an 1193 aggregate. All three scores were the highest of the day in the field as she reached an Ole Miss season-high 100 center shots.
In the NCAA Qualifier, she fired a 596 in smallbore. In doing so, she officially holds the three highest smallbore scores by an individual in Ole Miss school history.
The Sophomore Six
Aptly nicknamed the "Sophomore Six," all members of the 2023 signing class are returning to Oxford for their second season of competition for the Rebels. Arguably the most talented class of athletes in all collegiate rifle, this group boasts some of the top competitors entering the 2025-26 campaign.
Audrey Gogniat, Gracie Dinh and Jordan de Jesus headline the group as the three most experienced competitors from last season, with Susan Carter, Claudia Muzik and Kayla Riewe providing invaluable depth to the lineup. All six were counters last season in at least one event, with Dinh being the only Rebel during the 2024-25 season to serve as counter in both smallbore and air rifle in all 13 appearances.
Rebs on Socials
For more information on Ole Miss rifle, follow the Rebels on Facebook (OleMissRifle), Twitter/X (@OleMissRifle), Instagram (@OleMissRifle) and at OleMissSports.com.
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