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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Friday, March 14
Lexington, Ky.
8 a.m.
Ole Miss
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NCAA Rifle Championships - Smallbore
Rifle Seeking First National Title in Lexington
3/13/2025 | Rifle
LEXINGTON, Ky. – No. 6 Ole Miss rifle is prepped for its fifth-straight appearance at the NCAA Tournament, held at the Historic Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, Ky., from March 14-15.
The Rebels (10-6, 1-3 PRC) will look to bring their first team title back to Oxford in their sixth overall attendance at the event. The Rebels and the seven other programs will face off in smallbore on the first day and air rifle the next day for a chance at an NCAA Championship. Each team brings five players to counter both events.
Ole Miss enters the tournament as the fifth seed after coming off its third-strongest performance of the season in terms of aggregate scoring. The team traveled to Memphis for the NCAA Qualifier, where it scored 4734 behind a pair of strong performances from Audrey Gogniat and Gracie Dinh.
Smallbore will commence on Friday at 8 a.m. CT with the first relay.
On the Line
Schedule
Friday (Smallbore)
Relay 1 | Jordan de Jesus, Lea Horvath, M'Leah Lambdin at 8 a.m. CT
Relay 2 | Gracie Dinh, Audrey Gogniat at 10:45 a.m. CT
Finals | Following the end of Relay 2
Saturday (Air Rifle)
Relay 1 | Jordan de Jesus, Lea Horvath, M'Leah Lambdin at 8 a.m. CT
Relay 2 | Gracie Dinh, Audrey Gogniat at 10:15 a.m. CT
Finals | Following the end of Relay 2
The Field
1. Alaska Fairbanks
2. West Virginia
3. Kentucky
4. TCU
5. Ole Miss
6. Murray State
7. Georgia Southern
8. Air Force
Head Coach Rachel Martin
NCAA Championship History
The Rebels are heading to the program's sixth NCAA Championship appearance and fifth straight. Ole Miss rifle's first-ever championship appearance came in 2006, where OMAF Hall of Famer Jennifer Lorenzen and Shannon Wilson guided the team to a sixth-place finish. After a 15-year drought, the Rebels returned to the big stage in 2021. Despite the long wait, Ole Miss earned their best finish to this day of third. The Rebels would finish in fourth in the following two seasons, shooting a 4713 in both. Last season, the Rebels finished seventh with a 4693 aggregate.
The Lineup
Three Rebels are making their NCAA Championship debut: Jordan de Jesus, Gracie Dinh and Audrey Gogniat. They are joined by Ole Miss veterans Lea Horvath and M'Leah Lambdin, who are competing in their fifth and second national tournament, respectively. Horvath has helped alter Ole Miss' course of success in her five years as a Rebel. Since joining the Rebels during the 2020-21 season, Ole Miss had never missed the national tournament. As such, she became the only Rebel in school history to participate in five national tournaments.
The three freshmen in de Jesus, Dinh and Gogniat have been a mainstay of the starting lineup for the entirety of the spring campaign. They've helped the Rebels shoot north of 4720 in all seven spring meetings, including contributing to Ole Miss' record-setting Patriot Rifle Conference Tournament.
Senior Katie Tedeschi traveled with the team and will act as an alternate.
Say 'Hello' to Audrey Gogniat
Head coach Rachel Martin added Swiss shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Audrey Gogniat to the 2024-25 roster last August, and after sitting out the fall season, Gogniat has made a splash in Division I rifle.
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.
Legendary Lea
Senior Lea Horvath elected to return to Ole Miss for her fifth and final year of competition, a decision Rebels fans are celebrating. In her four seasons as a Rebel, Horvath has personally rewritten the Ole Miss record books. Horvath is a 10-time All-American, becoming the first Rebel in program history to reach double digits. A staggering eight of her 10 selections were on the first team.
Her most recent accomplishment was historic, as she fired a perfect 600 in air rifle against Murray State. It's the fourth time she's accomplished this feat and tied Alaska Fairbanks' Rylan Kissell for the most in NCAA history in the process.
She also tied her own program record in smallbore (594) and aggregate (1194) against Murray State. Those records held until Gogniat broke them in the spring. She became the first woman in NCAA rifle history to shoot a 600 in air rifle in three separate instances from 2020-22.
Passing The Torch
Gracie Dinh has had an impressive start to her collegiate career thus far. Her performances have drawn comparisons to her teammate, Lea Horvath, and what she accomplished as a freshman in 2020-21.
That season, Horvath led the team in all three categories of shooting. This year, Dinh trails only Horvath in air rifle scoring among year-long competitors, showing that if Horvath elected not to take her fifth year of competition, Dinh would be doing the same thing. Dinh has fired a 597 in air rifle twice, becoming the first Ole Miss freshman since Horvath to record that high of a score. She last did so at the NCAA Qualifier against Memphis.
Fantastic Freshmen
A large part of Ole Miss' success to start this season has come off the back of its 2024 freshmen class. All six freshmen have countered in at least one event this season, as three have established themselves into the starting rotation.
Gracie Dinh, Jordan de Jesus and Susan Carter have proven to be capable competitors in the arena. Dinh is off to the strongest start of the three, leading the team among season-long competitors with the highest smallbore average (588.0) and the highest aggregate average (1181.7) on the team.
She's only getting better with time, after setting a new career high mark of 1185 against Army and Akron.
De Jesus is right behind Dinh in scoring, averaging 1176.7 in aggregate and 592.2 in air rifle. She's fired a 596 in air rifle twice this season and is behind Dinh for the third-highest average on the team. Dinh and de Jesus each finished in the top eight in the smallbore event at the PRC Tournament.
With the emergence of Audrey Gogniat, head coach Rachel Martin's first signing class as Ole Miss' head coach is shaping into one of the best in program history.
Smallbore Savages
Ole Miss has historically performed well in smallbore, both individually and as a group. However, the Rebels have upped the intensity in the spring season thus far. The Rebels fired a program-best 2364 in the PRC Tournament, as Audrey Gogniat shot an incredible 597 to set the individual record. Her score is tied for the second highest in Division I rifle since 2014-15.
All Rebel counters fired 588 or better to help secure the new record. Their efforts helped the four highest-scoring Rebels reach the championship round of the PRC Tournament, all finishing within the top seven.
Against Akron and Army, Ole Miss set the event record for the first time after firing a 2362. Gogniat set the school individual record with a 595 mark, as all four of Ole Miss' counters once again scored 588-or-better.
The Rebels had an all-time performance in the second match of the season against Murray State. Ole Miss' 2358 served as the third-best team score in program history, while Lea Horvath tied her personal career-high with 594.
The Rebels have the sixth-best team average in the event thus far and third highest in the PRC.
Much of Ole Miss' success in smallbore has come in the prone position. The Rebels have strung together 12 instances of firing a 200 in prone. Jordan de Jesus and Gogniat lead the team with four occurrences at the position each, with Emma Pereira and Horvath having done so three times. Susan Carter has done it twice.
Gogniat, Dinh, de Jesus and M'Leah Lambdin have both fired a 599 out of the gate in the kneeling position. Their accomplishment tied a school record for the best score in smallbore's first position.
Rebs Roll Deep
Ole Miss' depth pieces have come into their own at entering the conference championship portion of the season. Veteran M'Leah Lambdin has emerged as Ole Miss' critical anchor piece in the latter half of the season.
Lambdin has earned a counter spot in all but two events this season and has reached the podium for smallbore, air rifle and individual aggregate scoring at least once each this season. She's seen steady improvement in both smallbore and air rifle and set a career-best 1181 aggregate score against Akron and Army.
Against TCU and Murray State, Lambdin's upward trajectory continued with her 594-air rifle score. That tied her career-best in the event, the fourth time she'd done it in her career.
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.
The Rebels (10-6, 1-3 PRC) will look to bring their first team title back to Oxford in their sixth overall attendance at the event. The Rebels and the seven other programs will face off in smallbore on the first day and air rifle the next day for a chance at an NCAA Championship. Each team brings five players to counter both events.
Ole Miss enters the tournament as the fifth seed after coming off its third-strongest performance of the season in terms of aggregate scoring. The team traveled to Memphis for the NCAA Qualifier, where it scored 4734 behind a pair of strong performances from Audrey Gogniat and Gracie Dinh.
Smallbore will commence on Friday at 8 a.m. CT with the first relay.
On the Line
- The Rebels had their best performance in an NCAA Qualifier match in team history on Feb. 22. Ole Miss' 4734 mark is 10 points higher than its second-best total in a qualifier match (4724, 2022-23).
- Ole Miss had a dominant 4746 performance in the PRC Tournament, where it finished second overall. It's tied for the best placement in a conference tournament in Ole Miss rifle history.
- That aggregate score is the best in program history, with the Rebels scoring 2364 in smallbore to set the event record as well. It's the second time this season that Ole Miss has set the smallbore program mark, after initially doing so on Jan. 19 against Akron and Army.
- Audrey Gogniat swept the individual titles in air rifle and smallbore, putting up what is one of the most impressive stat lines in Division I rifle history. Since the 2014-15 season, no athlete has ever shot better than her 1197 aggregate mark, in which she missed only three bullseyes in the entire tournament.
- She obliterated her previous school smallbore record with a 597 mark. She last set a 595 score against Akron and Army on Jan. 19.
- Gogniat joined Lea Horvath as the only Rebels in program history to fire a perfect 600 in air rifle to cap her stellar weekend. Horvath has accomplished the feat four times in her illustrious career.
- Gogniat has fired 599 or 600 four times in the spring alone, while claiming the top three highest smallbore scores in Ole Miss history.
- Ole Miss tied the third-highest air rifle score in program history with a 2383 mark against TCU and Murray State.
- The Rebels have averaged a monstrous 2351.4 in smallbore while posting a 2380.6 average in air rifle in the spring.
- A Rebel has sat atop the individual aggregate ranking in all but one spring appearance thus far.
- Prior to the PRC Tournament, Ole Miss had a convincing 4725-4698 victory over Memphis. The Rebels filled the aggregate score podium, while also claiming the top six spots in smallbore.
- Ole Miss is the fifth-ranked team in the nation according to the CRCA, which is the third highest among PRC programs.
- Gogniat currently holds the highest aggregate score average in the nation through six appearances. She's firing 1190.8 per showing.
- As a team, Ole Miss fired an aggregate score of 4740 on Jan. 19, which now ranks as the third highest team score.
- On Jan. 18, Ole Miss tied the fifth-highest air rifle score in program history with a 2382 mark. The Rebels would repeat this showing in the PRC Tournament with the same score.
- Horvath leads the Rebels in air rifle averages among season-long competitors, boasting 595.5 per appearance. Gracie Dinh paces the team in smallbore and aggregate scoring, putting up 588.0 and 1181.7 per appearance, respectively.
- The Rebels have the seventh-highest aggregate team score average in the NCAA and sit third in the PRC with 4719.5 in 11 matches.
- Ole Miss also boasts the third-largest smallbore average in the PRC this season, with 2345.4, good for sixth in the country.
- Dinh swept the board in the fall season finale against Ohio State, claiming the No. 1 spot in smallbore, air rifle and aggregate scoring. She scored a then-career best 1184 aggregate, which was the top score of the day by four points.
- Horvath, the 10-time All-American, fired a perfect 600 in air rifle against Murray State this season, the fourth time in her career. She distanced herself in the record books by becoming the only woman in NCAA history to shoot 600 four times.
- M'Leah Lambdin has developed into a staple of consistency for the Rebels. The senior has posted top three individual performances in smallbore, air rifle and the aggregate at least once in spring matches.
- All six freshmen have countered for the Rebels in at least one event this season.
- The Rebels' roster features seven returning athletes, including two All-Americans and three counters from the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
- Ole Miss is the newest member of the seven-team Patriot Rifle Conference.
- The team welcomed six newcomers, all of whom are freshmen.
- The 13-member roster is the largest in program history.
Schedule
Friday (Smallbore)
Relay 1 | Jordan de Jesus, Lea Horvath, M'Leah Lambdin at 8 a.m. CT
Relay 2 | Gracie Dinh, Audrey Gogniat at 10:45 a.m. CT
Finals | Following the end of Relay 2
Saturday (Air Rifle)
Relay 1 | Jordan de Jesus, Lea Horvath, M'Leah Lambdin at 8 a.m. CT
Relay 2 | Gracie Dinh, Audrey Gogniat at 10:15 a.m. CT
Finals | Following the end of Relay 2
The Field
1. Alaska Fairbanks
2. West Virginia
3. Kentucky
4. TCU
5. Ole Miss
6. Murray State
7. Georgia Southern
8. Air Force
Head Coach Rachel Martin
- This year marks her second season as the Rebels head coach, after being promoted following one season as assistant coach.
- Martin also has two previous years of head coaching experience at Nebraska, guiding them to the NCAA Championships in both seasons.
- Martin has coached five total All-Americans, including two at Ole Miss.
- A former collegiate shooter, she competed with Nebraska from 2014-17.
- Martin was an NCAA Individual Smallbore Champion in 2015.
- Martin earned her 10th win as the Rebels head coach against Jacksonville State.
- She guided the Rebels to post the greatest smallbore score in program history at the 2025 PRC Tournament.
- Martin led Ole Miss to a second-place team finish in the 2025 PRC Tournament, the team's inaugural appearance in the conference.
- She helped guide Audrey Gogniat to an individual event sweep in the PRC Tournament. She became the first individual aggregate conference winner in program history.
NCAA Championship History
The Rebels are heading to the program's sixth NCAA Championship appearance and fifth straight. Ole Miss rifle's first-ever championship appearance came in 2006, where OMAF Hall of Famer Jennifer Lorenzen and Shannon Wilson guided the team to a sixth-place finish. After a 15-year drought, the Rebels returned to the big stage in 2021. Despite the long wait, Ole Miss earned their best finish to this day of third. The Rebels would finish in fourth in the following two seasons, shooting a 4713 in both. Last season, the Rebels finished seventh with a 4693 aggregate.
The Lineup
Three Rebels are making their NCAA Championship debut: Jordan de Jesus, Gracie Dinh and Audrey Gogniat. They are joined by Ole Miss veterans Lea Horvath and M'Leah Lambdin, who are competing in their fifth and second national tournament, respectively. Horvath has helped alter Ole Miss' course of success in her five years as a Rebel. Since joining the Rebels during the 2020-21 season, Ole Miss had never missed the national tournament. As such, she became the only Rebel in school history to participate in five national tournaments.
The three freshmen in de Jesus, Dinh and Gogniat have been a mainstay of the starting lineup for the entirety of the spring campaign. They've helped the Rebels shoot north of 4720 in all seven spring meetings, including contributing to Ole Miss' record-setting Patriot Rifle Conference Tournament.
Senior Katie Tedeschi traveled with the team and will act as an alternate.
Say 'Hello' to Audrey Gogniat
Head coach Rachel Martin added Swiss shooter and Olympic bronze medalist Audrey Gogniat to the 2024-25 roster last August, and after sitting out the fall season, Gogniat has made a splash in Division I rifle.
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.
Legendary Lea
Senior Lea Horvath elected to return to Ole Miss for her fifth and final year of competition, a decision Rebels fans are celebrating. In her four seasons as a Rebel, Horvath has personally rewritten the Ole Miss record books. Horvath is a 10-time All-American, becoming the first Rebel in program history to reach double digits. A staggering eight of her 10 selections were on the first team.
Her most recent accomplishment was historic, as she fired a perfect 600 in air rifle against Murray State. It's the fourth time she's accomplished this feat and tied Alaska Fairbanks' Rylan Kissell for the most in NCAA history in the process.
She also tied her own program record in smallbore (594) and aggregate (1194) against Murray State. Those records held until Gogniat broke them in the spring. She became the first woman in NCAA rifle history to shoot a 600 in air rifle in three separate instances from 2020-22.
Passing The Torch
Gracie Dinh has had an impressive start to her collegiate career thus far. Her performances have drawn comparisons to her teammate, Lea Horvath, and what she accomplished as a freshman in 2020-21.
That season, Horvath led the team in all three categories of shooting. This year, Dinh trails only Horvath in air rifle scoring among year-long competitors, showing that if Horvath elected not to take her fifth year of competition, Dinh would be doing the same thing. Dinh has fired a 597 in air rifle twice, becoming the first Ole Miss freshman since Horvath to record that high of a score. She last did so at the NCAA Qualifier against Memphis.
Fantastic Freshmen
A large part of Ole Miss' success to start this season has come off the back of its 2024 freshmen class. All six freshmen have countered in at least one event this season, as three have established themselves into the starting rotation.
Gracie Dinh, Jordan de Jesus and Susan Carter have proven to be capable competitors in the arena. Dinh is off to the strongest start of the three, leading the team among season-long competitors with the highest smallbore average (588.0) and the highest aggregate average (1181.7) on the team.
She's only getting better with time, after setting a new career high mark of 1185 against Army and Akron.
De Jesus is right behind Dinh in scoring, averaging 1176.7 in aggregate and 592.2 in air rifle. She's fired a 596 in air rifle twice this season and is behind Dinh for the third-highest average on the team. Dinh and de Jesus each finished in the top eight in the smallbore event at the PRC Tournament.
With the emergence of Audrey Gogniat, head coach Rachel Martin's first signing class as Ole Miss' head coach is shaping into one of the best in program history.
Smallbore Savages
Ole Miss has historically performed well in smallbore, both individually and as a group. However, the Rebels have upped the intensity in the spring season thus far. The Rebels fired a program-best 2364 in the PRC Tournament, as Audrey Gogniat shot an incredible 597 to set the individual record. Her score is tied for the second highest in Division I rifle since 2014-15.
All Rebel counters fired 588 or better to help secure the new record. Their efforts helped the four highest-scoring Rebels reach the championship round of the PRC Tournament, all finishing within the top seven.
Against Akron and Army, Ole Miss set the event record for the first time after firing a 2362. Gogniat set the school individual record with a 595 mark, as all four of Ole Miss' counters once again scored 588-or-better.
The Rebels had an all-time performance in the second match of the season against Murray State. Ole Miss' 2358 served as the third-best team score in program history, while Lea Horvath tied her personal career-high with 594.
The Rebels have the sixth-best team average in the event thus far and third highest in the PRC.
Much of Ole Miss' success in smallbore has come in the prone position. The Rebels have strung together 12 instances of firing a 200 in prone. Jordan de Jesus and Gogniat lead the team with four occurrences at the position each, with Emma Pereira and Horvath having done so three times. Susan Carter has done it twice.
Gogniat, Dinh, de Jesus and M'Leah Lambdin have both fired a 599 out of the gate in the kneeling position. Their accomplishment tied a school record for the best score in smallbore's first position.
Rebs Roll Deep
Ole Miss' depth pieces have come into their own at entering the conference championship portion of the season. Veteran M'Leah Lambdin has emerged as Ole Miss' critical anchor piece in the latter half of the season.
Lambdin has earned a counter spot in all but two events this season and has reached the podium for smallbore, air rifle and individual aggregate scoring at least once each this season. She's seen steady improvement in both smallbore and air rifle and set a career-best 1181 aggregate score against Akron and Army.
Against TCU and Murray State, Lambdin's upward trajectory continued with her 594-air rifle score. That tied her career-best in the event, the fourth time she'd done it in her career.
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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