Division I-bound Junior Olympian in riflery highlights first round of Alaska's high school senior signings
Apr. 10—Like many kids born and raised in Alaska, Liv Crosby grew up around guns and learned how to shoot at an early age. However, the Lumen Christi High School senior never imagined that her passion for riflery in particular would pave the way for her to become not only a junior Olympian, but also a collegiate student-athlete.
"We've always kind of had guns in our life, in kind of the Alaskan way," Crosby said. "We have a cabin up north that we would shoot . 22s, just shooting cans out of the creek.
I've been doing that for as long as I can remember, since I could even hold a rifle. " Some of her earliest memories are of her father, Rich, helping her hold up a rifle. When he heard that her high school was starting a team, they thought it'd be a good idea for her to join.
Now, she's committed to compete at the NCAA Division I level at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, starting this fall. "I used to do track, and I was a really big runner, but I wasn't a super big fan of it," Crosby said. "As soon as I started riflery, I realized that there's actually a sport that I do enjoy doing.
" She first started riflery in seventh grade at 11 years old. In 10th grade, she joined the Borealis Bullseyes, a club team that consists of sharpshooters from schools all over town. When she was a junior, Crosby started thinking about continuing the sport competitively after high school but wasn't sure: She had only begun competing at the high school level a year prior and wasn't that confident in her abilities.
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