Rifle team posts school best score at Nevada competition

Sparked by new school records in the air rifle for an individual and as a team, TCU rifle opened the season with a second-place finish at national-power Nevada.

Leading the way for the Horned Frogs was freshman Celeste Green, who set a new TCU individual record by posting back-to-back scores of 387 and paced the Frogs’ record-setting 1,518 performance as a team.

The meet consisted of two matches in which TCU shot 1,496 and 1,518, respectively. Both scores beat the previous school record of 1,465 set last Nov. 10 at Army. The Frogs’ 1,507 average was second to the 1,553 posted by the Nevada Blue team, which finished fourth nationally last season. Green’s 387 average was good for a tie for second at the competition, behind only Nevada’s Ryan Tanoue, who placed third in the 2002 NCAA Championships.

The marks break the school record of 379 set by her sister, Jessica, on Oct. 28, 2001, at Memphis.

In addition to Green’s record-setting performance, the Horned Frogs received impressive outings from each of its other three shooters en route to the new school standard.

Freshman Sherri Gallagher shot an average of 379.5, good for seventh-place overall.

Despite battling the flu, senior Jessica Green placed ninth with an average of 370.5 while fellow senior Stacy Hughes, paced by a career-high 375 in the second match, finished 10th with an average of 370 points.

— Danny Gillham