Katie Paltz

Class:
Redshirt Senior
High School:
Union Catholic
Hometown:
Edison, N.J

2023-24: Registered a 1145.93 combined average for the campaign...posted a 575.00 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 570.93 mark in the smallbore...recorded season- and career-best combined and air rifle scores of 1160 and 590 at the GARC Championships (Feb. 25)...tallied season- and career-best score of 590 in smallbore vs. Ole Miss (Feb. 10).

2023-24 ACCOLADES: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-America honoree.

2022-23: Registered a 1131.23 combined average for the campaign...posted a 568.62 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 562.86 mark in the smallbore...recorded career-best combined score of 1150 at Memphis (Oct. 7)...tallied season-best scores of 576 and 575 in the air rifle and smallbore, respectively, against Memphis (Nov. 12) and NC State (Oct. 30)...named GARC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

2022-23 ACCOLADES: GARC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

2021-22: Registered a 1125.36 combined average for the campaign...posted a 566.50 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 559.67 mark in the smallbore...tallied a season- and career-best score of 579 in the air rifle at the Zippy Open (Sept. 26)...garnered a career- and season-high score of 571 in the smallbore at the NCAA Qualifier versus Ohio State (Feb. 19).

2021-22 ACCOLADES: Named a CRCA Scholastic All-American.

2020-21: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-American…air rifle season-high of 584 against Morehead…391 smallbore slings high against Nebraska...recipient of Department of Defense SMART Scholarship program and headed to work at Picatinny Arsenal in NJ after graduation in 2024...interned at Charter Next Generation Films as a Research and Design Lab assistant over the summer of 2021...Dean’s List honoree.

2019-20: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-American...averaged 558 in smallbore, including a season-best 564...averaged 575.8 in air rifle including a season-best 581.

PRIOR TO AKRON: Member of the Lake Island Junior Rifle Team and began shooting at the age of 15...competed at the Junior Olympics in Colorado Springs Colorado in both smallbore and air rifle, CMP National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, ASSA National Matches in Marengo Ohio, USMA West Point Shooting League, Palmyra Invitational Match and the Zippy Open...Ten-time New Jersey NRA/USA Shooting Junior State Champion...2019 High Women Shooter 3-position ASSA National Matches, High Junior Women 3-Position, Julian B. Alfonzo Memorial Match at West Point, 2019 bronze medalist 2-person 3-position team at ASSA Nationals.

PERSONAL: Majoring in chemical engineering and in the Williams Honors College...minoring in chemistry and business for engineers...certificates in bio technology and polymer science...daughter of Art and Maryann Paltz...has an older sister, Kim.