The University of Akron Athletics
2023-24 Akron Rifle Roster
Seitz, Brendan

Brendan Seitz
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Milford, Mass.
- High School:
- Mount Saint Charles Academy
Bio
2023-24: Registered a 1160.94 combined average for the campaign...posted a 587.19 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 573.75 mark in the smallbore...recorded season- and career-best combined and air rifle scores of 1172 and 593 at West Virginia (Oct. 7)...tallied season-high score of 585 in smallbore vs. Kentucky (Nov. 18).
2023-24 ACCOLADES: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-America honoree.
2022-23: Registered a 1159.38 combined average for the campaign...posted a 585.38 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 574.87 mark in the smallbore...recorded a season- and career-best score of 584 in the smallbore at Ohio State (Feb. 18)...tallied season-best marks of 1166 in the combined vs. NC State (Oct. 29) and 590 in the air rifle vs. Kentucky and Murray State (Oct. 6).
2021-22: Registered a 1155.88 combined average for the campaign...posted a 585.69 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 570.19 mark in the smallbore...tallied a season-and career-best score of 592 in the air rifle at Army (Oct. 30)...garnered a career- and season-high score of 578 in the smallbore at the GARC Championships (Feb. 26).
2020-21: Fired season high air rifle score of a 587 against West Virginia with an average of 575.50...shot season-high smallbore score of 570 against Army with an average of 563.64...earned Dean's List honors for spring semester.
2019-20: Averaged 565.8 in smallbore, including a personal-best 575...averaged 583.2 in air rifle, including a personal-best 588.
PRIOR TO AKRON: Graduated with high honors...member of the National Honors Society and International Thespian Society...Junior Class President...four-year varsity soccer player and two-time captain...four-time Junior Olympian...invited for both Air Rifle and Smallbore and competed 2016,17,18 and 19 at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo....competed at the USAS Nationals...Winter Air Gun Championships and Robert Mitchell Invitational (placed second in junior category at Robert Mitchell)...Palmyra Invitationals in PA (second J1 and first place Air Rifle J1 Team)...Eastern AMU Smallbore and Air Rifle Championships (SB- ’17 and ’19 third place; Air- '16 first,’17, ’19 third)...The West Point Opens (second place and High J1 in 2018 for Air and Smallbore) and the Canadian Airgun Grand Prix (first-place team and record holder ’18 and ’19 and second place Junior ’18 and ’19).
PERSONAL: Pursuing a master's degree in biology...son of Ken and Melissa Seitz...has two older siblings, Lauren and Kenny.
2023-24 ACCOLADES: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-America honoree.
2022-23: Registered a 1159.38 combined average for the campaign...posted a 585.38 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 574.87 mark in the smallbore...recorded a season- and career-best score of 584 in the smallbore at Ohio State (Feb. 18)...tallied season-best marks of 1166 in the combined vs. NC State (Oct. 29) and 590 in the air rifle vs. Kentucky and Murray State (Oct. 6).
2021-22: Registered a 1155.88 combined average for the campaign...posted a 585.69 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 570.19 mark in the smallbore...tallied a season-and career-best score of 592 in the air rifle at Army (Oct. 30)...garnered a career- and season-high score of 578 in the smallbore at the GARC Championships (Feb. 26).
2020-21: Fired season high air rifle score of a 587 against West Virginia with an average of 575.50...shot season-high smallbore score of 570 against Army with an average of 563.64...earned Dean's List honors for spring semester.
2019-20: Averaged 565.8 in smallbore, including a personal-best 575...averaged 583.2 in air rifle, including a personal-best 588.
PRIOR TO AKRON: Graduated with high honors...member of the National Honors Society and International Thespian Society...Junior Class President...four-year varsity soccer player and two-time captain...four-time Junior Olympian...invited for both Air Rifle and Smallbore and competed 2016,17,18 and 19 at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo....competed at the USAS Nationals...Winter Air Gun Championships and Robert Mitchell Invitational (placed second in junior category at Robert Mitchell)...Palmyra Invitationals in PA (second J1 and first place Air Rifle J1 Team)...Eastern AMU Smallbore and Air Rifle Championships (SB- ’17 and ’19 third place; Air- '16 first,’17, ’19 third)...The West Point Opens (second place and High J1 in 2018 for Air and Smallbore) and the Canadian Airgun Grand Prix (first-place team and record holder ’18 and ’19 and second place Junior ’18 and ’19).
PERSONAL: Pursuing a master's degree in biology...son of Ken and Melissa Seitz...has two older siblings, Lauren and Kenny.
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