When Mindy Miles’ rifle inadvertently fired at the 2016 NCAA championships, she didn’t hesitate to call a penalty on herself.

Ginny Thrasher’s breakout freshman season at West Virginia – during which she shot alongside four Mountaineers seniors at the NCAA championships – set the table for an even bigger opportunity in Rio.

In the late 1990s, one of the most sought-after high school recruits in the nation didn’t play basketball or football. Instead, he was a marksman from Mount Holly, New Jersey, who had already set a junior world record as a 16-year-old in the 50-meter rifle three-position event.

Only last year’s West Virginia rifle team was more accurate than this spring’s Mountaineers, who came just three points short of matching their championship-record performance in 2014. And they needed every one of them.