The University of Rhode Island walked away from Game 8 of the inaugural National Intercollegiate Rifle League season with a 2343.3 in standing air rifle to clinch the league’s first-ever team championship.
The National Intercollegiate Rifle League fires a 60-shot standing course of fire and is for collegiate air rifle clubs with at least four students.
Rhode Island won six of the season’s eight matches and finished with a 2349.6 team average, a figure that steadily climbed as the season progressed. The numbers tell the story of a team that found its footing in the fall and hit its stride in the winter. After opening the season with a 2208.9 in Game 1, the Rams improved in nearly every outing, posting their season-best 2356.9 in Game 4 and staying above 2320 for every match in the spring semester.
Sookhoo: A Season Without Blemish
If Rhode Island’s team title was built on depth and consistency, the individual crown belonged entirely to one athlete.
MacKenzie Sookhoo of Georgia Military College swept all eight individual competitions, finishing the season with a 618.3 average. In a discipline where athletes fire 60 decimal-scored shots from the standing position, Sookhoo’s dominance was the kind of sustained excellence that rarely announces itself with drama. She simply never lost.
Her Game 8 score of 608.8, while her lowest of the season, was still more than enough to win the individual finale by a comfortable margin. Sookhoo’s best performance came in Game 3, where she fired a 619.4, a score that, in the standing air rifle competition world, borders on the extraordinary. Across eight games, she never dipped below 608.8 and topped 617 on four occasions.
Sophia Wood of Rhode Island finished second in the individual standings with a 607.6 average—an excellent mark in its own right, but one that only underscored the gap Sookhoo maintained all season. Cheyenne Malone (599.7), Alex Travison (597.6) and Skylar Sanford (597.4) rounded out the top five.
Game 8: How It Ended
In the finale, Rhode Island’s four-count came from Wood (595.3), Emily Lopez (590.7), Travison (586.1) and Annika Reilly (571.2). It was a balanced team effort: no single shooter carried the load.
Georgia Military College, competing with only two athletes instead of four, posted 1210.7 in Game 8. Sookhoo led with her 608.8, while teammate Skylar Sanford contributed 593.8, good for third overall in the individual standings for the match. Georgia Military College finished second in the final team standings with a 2297.7 average.
A League Takes Root
The inaugural National Intercollegiate Rifle League season featured two teams, Rhode Island and Georgia Military College, competing across an eight-game schedule split into two parts: four games in the fall and four in the winter and spring, with matches held every two weeks. Each athlete fires 60 shots scored in decimal, with team totals drawn from the top four shooters.
It is a small league, yes. Two teams, a dozen athletes, a schedule that could fit on a napkin. But every great competition has to start somewhere. The NCAA rifle season, now a fixture of the collegiate landscape, was once a niche curiosity too. What the Intercollegiate Rifle League has going for it is structure, a match platform in Scopos that brings real-time transparency to the results and, perhaps most importantly, athletes like Sookhoo, Wood, Travison and Sanford who are already competing at levels that demand attention.
The top teams in the overall standings at season’s end receive awards. College shooting programs interested in joining future leagues can contact Scopos at [email protected].
Full season results and match data are available at rezults.scopos.tech.
2025–2026 National Intercollegiate Rifle League Leaderboard
Team
- University of Rhode Island (Kingston, R.I.) — 2349.6 average, six wins in eight games
- Georgia Military College (Milledgeville, Ga.) — 2297.7 average
Individual
- MacKenzie Sookhoo, Georgia Military College — 618.3 average (8-for-8 individual wins)
- Sophia Wood, University of Rhode Island — 607.6
- Cheyenne Malone, University of Rhode Island — 599.7
- Alex Travison, University of Rhode Island — 597.6
- Skylar Sanford, Georgia Military College — 597.4
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