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2025-26 MIT Rifle Roster

Gil Talbot

Phoebe Xu

  • Height 5-2
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Fairbanks, Alaska
  • High School Fairbanks BEST Homeschool

Biography

Personal Best:
  • Smallbore: 555 vs. URI and Coast Guard (Oct. 5, 2024)
  • Air Rifle: 574 vs. URI and Norwich (Feb. 8, 2025)
  • Aggregate: 1123 vs. URI and Coast Guard (Oct. 5, 2024)
Accolades:
  • 2023-24 MAC All-Conference Varsity Smallbore First Team
  • 2023-24 MAC All-Conference Varsity Air First Team
  • 2023-24 MAC All-Rookie Team
  • 2023-24 CRCA Scholar All-American
  • MAC Air Rifle Athlete of the Week (Feb. 14, 2025)
2024-25: [INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS]
  • Competed in eight events
  • Averaged 533.57 points in smallbore and 563.14 points in air rifle
  • Ranked 15th in smallbore (531) and ninth in air rifle (568) at the NCAA Qualifier (Feb. 22, 2025)
2023-24:
  • Competed in eight events
  • Averaged 532.167 points in smallbore and 560.143 points in air rifle
  • Recorded season-high air rifle score of 565 in the NCAA Qualifier at Army
  • Posted best score of the season at the MAC Championship at 555 in smallbore
  • Finished third overall to help MIT capture the programs first MAC Championship
Before MIT:
  • Silver medal for Small-bore Junior Olympic State Championships
  • Current personal best of 578 for air rifle and 542 for smallbore
  • First place team in MAC rifle regionals
  • Academic Decathlon/
  • The Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics
  • Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Internship
  • Hunter Elementary School Volunteer
  • AP CSA Teaching Assistant
  • Highest overall Academic Decathlon scorer statewide
 Personal:
  • Favorite Sports Memory: “I don't have a favorite memory in particular. I just love how rhythmic and calming rifling is.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24First Year

    5'2"

  • 2024-25Sophomore

    5'2"

  • 2025-26Junior

    5'2"