February 28, 2025
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts – The Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference has announced its end-of-season honors ahead of the 2025 conference championship tournament.
The Smallbore and Air Rifle Achievement Awards, given to the athlete firing the highest single score in each event during the regular season, went to University of Rhode Island's Sophia Wood (578) and Mount Aloysius College's Molly Miller (594), respectively. Miller also earned MAC Rookie of the Year recognition as the highest-averaging first-year athlete in the two-gun aggregate at 1147.43. Senior of the Year went to MIT’s Rose Alsalman with a two-gun aggregate average of 1122.20. The overall Athlete of the Year honor went to Trinkle, who averaged 1149.71 over the season.
As for the Most Improved Smallbore Team, that honor went to S.U.N.Y. Plattsburgh, while S.U.N.Y. Maritime earned the recognition for Air Rifle Team. On the individual side, Coast Guard’s Dylan Prince earned the smallbore Most Improved honors and S.U.N.Y. Plattsburgh’s Kyle Smith took home the award for air rifle.
The MAC Elite Scholar Award, given to the individual with the highest cumulative GPA competing at the conference championship, went to John Jay College’s Danny Canning.
The All-MAC First Team, Second Team, Rookie Team and Academic Team were also named for 2025. See them listed below.
All-MAC First Team Smallbore
Kayla Trinkle, Mount Aloysius College
Sophia Wood, Rhode Island
Elissa Barron, Mount Aloysius College
Molly Miller, Mount Aloysius College
Sophia Ashford, Norwich University
All-MAC Second Team Smallbore
Rose Alsalman, MIT
Danny Canning, John Jay College
Aiden Burris, Norwich University
Alex Travison, Rhode Island
Eleanor Yang, MIT
All-MAC Rookie Team Smallbore
Samantha Hayman, Mount Aloysius College
CJ Anderson, Schreiner University
Sydney Castel, Mount Aloysius College
Annabelle Schneider, Coast Guard Academy
Makeda Watson, Norwich University
Alexis McCoy, Coast Guard Academy
Avaneesh Pal, MIT
Helena Dimiati, MIT
Lucy Voelkl, SUNY Plattsburgh
Amelie Przedwiecki, SUNY Plattsburgh
All-MAC First Team Air Rifle
Molly Miller, Mount Aloysius College
Kayla Trinkle, Mount Aloysius College
Elissa Barron, Mount Aloysius College
Eleanor Yang, MIT
Sophia Wood, Rhode Island
All-MAC Second Team Air Rifle
Danny Canning, John Jay College
Sophia Ashford, Norwich University
Rose Alsalman, MIT
CJ Anderson, Schreiner University
Sydney Castel, Mount Aloysius College
All-MAC Rookie Team Air Rifle
Samantha Hayman, Mount Aloysius College
Annabelle Schneider, Coast Guard Academy
Avaneesh Pal, MIT
Sarah Clark, Schreiner University
Szu Chen, SUNY Maritime
Alexis McCoy, Coast Guard Academy
Amelie Przedwiecki, SUNY Plattsburgh
Helena Dimiati, MIT
Mary Russell, SUNY Plattsburgh
Mary Wahlin, Coast Guard Academy
All-MAC Academic Team
(* = denotes Scholastic Excellence Designation)
SUNY Maritime
Andrew Florez
Clifford Fischer
James Kretschmer
Jieun Oh
John Bliss
Nikolas Bennett
Shararth Peddapalli
Szu Chen
Zhipeng Dai
John Jay College
Alana Dan
Angel Minchala
Bryan Gomez*
Danny Canning*
Elaine Yue*
JB Zhao*
Kaitlyn Ayers
Maria Belov*
Natalia Alegarbes
Noelia Gonzalez*
Rochelle Redwood
Sixmeiry Jimenez*
University of Rhode Island
Alex Travison
Riley Johnson
Sophia Wood
SUNY Plattsburgh
Amelie Przedwiecki*
Lucy Voelkl*
Madelynne Solan*
Norwich University
Aiden Burris*
Brady Simmons*
Grace Richardson
Jacob Cohn
Jasmin Mann*
Jayden LaVecchia
Makeda Watson*
Sophia Ashford*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Danny Antonelli*
Farin Liani
Phoebe Xu
Rose Alsalman*
Spencer Sindhusen*
Spruce Campbell*
Mount Aloysius College
Kayla Trinkle*
Samantha Hayman
Sydney Castel
Schreiner University
Hope Kindred