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Created in 1928, the Rifle Team was the first WPIAL sport integrated at the High School. WPIAL teams compete in the prone “lying down” position. Athletes lay prone on a pad, with their dominant hand positioned on the trigger and their other hand acting as a stabilizer. A 10 by 12 inch piece of paper with 11 bulls-eyes roughly 2 inches in diameter is hung fifty feet down range. Competitors are given 15 minutes to complete their target, utilizing the center target for calibration, they then shoot 1 shot into the ten surrounding targets. The idea is to get 10 bull’s-eyes each worth 10 points, with each ring on the target decreasing the score by one point. It is possible to earn a score of 10 without it being considered a bulls-eye. A perfect score would be 100-10X with “X” signifying the number of bull’s-eyes.