JT Schnering

Former two-time All-American JT Schnering is in his second season as an assistant coach after joining the Husker program in July of 2021.  Schnering joined the Husker staff in 2021 as an assistant coach under Mindy Miles. 
With his assistance in 2021-22, rifle athletes earned honors on and off the range. Cecelia Ossi represented the Huskers at the NCAA Championships and placed ninth in the smallbore. She also broke the  school record for smallbore average over a year (586.30) and tied the range air rifle record (597).  

Ossi earned CRCA Second-Team Smallbore All-America honors and Madelynn Erickson earned CRCA Honorable Mention Smallbore All-America honors.

Five Huskers (Ossi, Emily Cheramie, Elena Flake, Payton Fry and Mackenzie Strauch) earned CRCA Academic All-American honors. Five Huskers also earned Academic All-Big Ten awards - Cheramie, Ossi, Flake, Erickson and Kinga Aletto.

Schnering earned All-America honors for Alaska Fairbanks in both 2017-18 and 2018-19, as he helped the Nanooks qualify for the NCAA Championships in each of his four seasons at the school. He competed in 52 matches during his four-year career and posted 39 top-10 finishes as a competitor. His best season was as a senior in 2018-19, when he placed fourth in air rifle and earned second-team NRA All-America honors in the smallbore. He tallied 13 top-10 finishes that season, including a trio of first place showings, as was named team MVP and UAF’s Male Athlete of the Year. In his career, he posted personal best scores of 597 in air rifle and 586 in smallbore.

Schnering earned a degree in psychology from UAF in 2019 and in sports and recreation business in 2020. He also helped out the UAF program while working on his second degree and coached club shooters at his home club in Fairbanks.