Samantha Shultz

Class:
Senior
High School:
Bishop Dwenger
Hometown:
Fort Wayne, Ind.

2023-24: Registered a 1142.93 combined average for the campaign...posted a 578.94 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 563.93 mark in the smallbore...recorded season-best combined and air rifle scores of 1157 and 586 vs. Navy and West Virginia (Jan. 27)...tallied season-high score of 572in smallbore at the Zippy Open (Oct. 1).

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

2022-23: Registered a 1138.17 combined average for the campaign...posted a 579.14 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 559.33 mark in the smallbore...recorded a season-best combined score of 1148 at Morehead State (Oct. 15)...tallied season-best marks of 589 in the air rifle against Murray State and Kentucky (Oct. 8) and 569 in the smallbore at VMI (Feb. 4).

2021-22: Registered a 1155.20 combined average for the campaign...posted a 587.88 average in the air rifle, while tallying a 567.20 mark in the smallbore...tallied a season-best score of 592 in the air rifle at Memphis (Oct. 17)...garnered a career- and season-high score of 578 in the smallbore at Memphis (Oct. 17).

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

2020-21: Collegiate Rifle Coaches Association Scholastic All-American…tied school record in air rifle twice with a 595 against West Virginia and again in the GARC Champion finishing eighth as an individual…posted season-high smallbore score of 582 against West Virginia…finished with a season-high combined score of 1177…third-place overall finish in smallbore at the 2021 Palmyra Invitational with a score of 579…placed second in air rifle team event at Camp Perry Open with teammates Gavin Perkowski and Kayla Andreoli…Junior Olympic air rifle auto-qualifier...Dean’s List honoree.

PRIOR TO AKRON: Captain of the Bishop Dwenger rifle team for three years...holds the Indiana individual state records in precision air prone, precision air 3P, international air, and smallbore 3p...graduated in the top ten percent of her class and was a member of the National Honors Society...Tom Lorenzen Recipient (highest aggregate in air rifle IA, air rifle 3p, smallbore 3p) at state competition and individual and team state champion in all disciplines in 2020...qualified for Air Rifle Junior Olympics - third-place IA finish at Camp Perry, Ohio Open...qualified/competed for air rifle at Junior Olympics at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO in 2019...individual champion IA CMP nationals in Camp Perry, Ohio...earned third-place finishes for team smallbore 3p Freedom Fire match at Camp Perry, Ohio...individual state champion 3p air and runner up in IA, Team state champion in IA and 3p air and runner up in smallbore and Tom Lorenzen Recipient in 2019...in 2018, qualified fourth individually for air rifle nationals and placed fifth as a team at Fort Benning, Ga...team state champion IA, team runner up smallbore in 2018...in 2017 was team state champion smallbore.

PERSONAL: Majoring in bio-medical science and is in the Williams Honors College...daughter of Brad and Elizabeth Shultz...has two younger brothers, Brandon and Tristan.