The University of Akron Athletics
2023-24 Akron Rifle Roster
Rankin, Jakob
Jakob Rankin
- Weight:
- null
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Granbury, Texas
- High School:
- Granbury
Bio
2023-24: Registered a 1144.38 combined average for the campaign...posted a 577.69 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 565.93 mark in the smallbore...recorded season- and career-best combined score of 1152 at MIT (Feb. 4)...tallied season-high score of 586 and 576 in the air rifle and smallbore at West Virginia (Oct. 7) and vs. Morehead State (Jan. 20).
2023-24 ACCOLADES: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-America honoree.
2022-23: Registered a 1143.31 combined average for the campaign...posted a 578.57 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 564.62 mark in the smallbore...recorded season-best scores of 1151 and 576 in the combined and smallbore vs. Murray State (Oct. 7)...tallied season-best mark of 586 in the air rifle versus Ohio State and West Virginia (Jan. 22).
2021-22: Registered a 1144.21 combined average for the campaign...posted a 579.43 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 564.79 mark in the smallbore...tallied a season-and career-best score of 589 in the air rifle against Ohio State (Jan. 30)...garnered a career- and season-high score of 578 in the smallbore at Army (Oct. 30).
2020-21: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-American...recorded four-week hot streak tying/breaking air rifle personal record culminating in season-high scores of 585 air rifle, 577 smallbore, and 1162 aggregate against West Virginia...earned Dean's List honors for fall semester.
2019-20: Member of the Zips Rifle Club as a freshman where at the Intercollegiate Sectional was part of first-place air and smallbore teams...placed third overall IND air...finished first in all-conference air rifle team at Western Intercollegiate Rifle Conference Championships...first-place air rifle team.
PRIOR TO AKRON: Four-year MCJROTC rifle team (.5 year sporter & 3.5 years Precision “Varsity”) member at Granbury High School...rifle team logistics officer and Battalion Cadet Sergeant Major...as a junior, was Orion League regular- and post-season champions...placed first in 60 shot air rifle team, The Woodlands Cup match; third place JROTC regional and national team (other team was first for both) and was a 2019 Junior Olympic qualifier...turned in six OTC appearances and five Winter Air Gun at 2019 Junior Olympics.
PERSONAL: Majoring in pre-physical therapy...son of Andy and Amanda Rankin...one older sibling, Kaleb.
2023-24 ACCOLADES: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-America honoree.
2022-23: Registered a 1143.31 combined average for the campaign...posted a 578.57 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 564.62 mark in the smallbore...recorded season-best scores of 1151 and 576 in the combined and smallbore vs. Murray State (Oct. 7)...tallied season-best mark of 586 in the air rifle versus Ohio State and West Virginia (Jan. 22).
2021-22: Registered a 1144.21 combined average for the campaign...posted a 579.43 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 564.79 mark in the smallbore...tallied a season-and career-best score of 589 in the air rifle against Ohio State (Jan. 30)...garnered a career- and season-high score of 578 in the smallbore at Army (Oct. 30).
2020-21: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-American...recorded four-week hot streak tying/breaking air rifle personal record culminating in season-high scores of 585 air rifle, 577 smallbore, and 1162 aggregate against West Virginia...earned Dean's List honors for fall semester.
2019-20: Member of the Zips Rifle Club as a freshman where at the Intercollegiate Sectional was part of first-place air and smallbore teams...placed third overall IND air...finished first in all-conference air rifle team at Western Intercollegiate Rifle Conference Championships...first-place air rifle team.
PRIOR TO AKRON: Four-year MCJROTC rifle team (.5 year sporter & 3.5 years Precision “Varsity”) member at Granbury High School...rifle team logistics officer and Battalion Cadet Sergeant Major...as a junior, was Orion League regular- and post-season champions...placed first in 60 shot air rifle team, The Woodlands Cup match; third place JROTC regional and national team (other team was first for both) and was a 2019 Junior Olympic qualifier...turned in six OTC appearances and five Winter Air Gun at 2019 Junior Olympics.
PERSONAL: Majoring in pre-physical therapy...son of Andy and Amanda Rankin...one older sibling, Kaleb.
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