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2025-26 MIT Rifle Roster

William Knowlton

  • Height 5-10
  • Class First Year
  • Hometown Torrington, Wyo.
  • High School Southeast
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Before MIT:
  • Graduated from Southeast High School
  • Crocket Herring Attitude and Effort Award
  • Three-time varsity letterwinner for track and field, two-time varsity letterwinner for football, and earned a varsity letter for both trap shooting and skeet shooting
  • Was a member of the football and track and field teams all four years and played basketball as a freshman and sophomore
  • 2023 4-H National Championships: Placed 25th overall in Smallbore rifle including eighth place in the CMP round
  • 2024 4-H Nationals: 25th overall in air rifle with highest event being 11th in 3p with a 529/600
  • 2025 4-H Nationals: 14th overall in Shotgun including fourth in Trap with 99/100
  • All-State trap and skeet, third in trap at the state meet 2025
  • Valedictorian
  • National Honor Society
  • Gold Honor Roll every semester
  • Rotary Club Student of the Semester Scholarship, Scotty Scott Outstanding Citizen Award
  • FFA Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, 4-H club secretary, Martial Arts Student Leader, Scouting assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, and junior assistant scoutmaster
Personal:
  • Favorite Sports Memory: “Placing 8th in the CMP course in smallbore rifle at 4-H Nationals 2023.”