Player Profiles
AKIHITO SHIMIZU 2020-21 (SO.) • All-GARC Air Rifle First Teams • All-GARC Combined First Team • All-GARC Smallbore Second Team • CRCA All-America Air Rifle First Team • Ninth place, air rifle, NCAA Championship • Finished 10th overall at the GARC Championships with a career high aggregate score of 1175 • Shot a career high 599 in air rifle against Ole Miss
SHIMIZU’S PERSONAL BESTS Air Rifle 599 ������������������������������������� Ole Miss, Jan. 31, 2021 Smallbore 590 ���������������������������������� at Ole Miss, Nov. 3, 2019 Career Air Rifle Year Matches Avg. High 2021 8 596.33 599 2020 11 592.818 595 Career Smallbore Year Matches Avg. High 2021 8 574.833 587 2020 11 581.636 590
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2019-20 (FR.) • NRA All-America First Team Air Rifle • NRA All-America Second Team Smallbore • CRCA All-America Second Team • All-GARC Air Rifle and Combined Score First Teams • All-GARC Smallbore Second Team • Matched his career-high air rifle mark of 595 three times • Won his first collegiate competition at Ole Miss, posting an 1185 aggregate total for a personal-best mark; shot a career-high 590 smallbore score to finish first and equaled his air rifle career-high total of 595 to place second • Competed at the 2020 GARC Championship, shooting 579 smallbore and 590 air rifle HIGH SCHOOL • Member of the Japanese Junior National Team, competing in multiple world cups • Claimed top-35 finishes in the junior men’s 50m rifle prone and the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions at the 2019 ISSF Suhl Junior World Cup • Earned a ninth-place finish in the junior men’s 10m air rifle at the 2017 Asian Championships • Placed seventh in the youth men’s 10m air rifle at the 2016 Asian Championships • Finished as high as 13th in the men’s 10m air rifle competition at the 2016 ISSF Gabala Junior World Cup PERSONAL • Son of Hidetsuna and Hiroko Shimizu • Birthday is April 28 • Majoring in sport management
