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Paige Hildebrandt

  • Class Junior
  • High School Belgrade HS
  • Hometown Belgrade, Mont.

Biography

Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (2024, 2025)
Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medalist (2024, 2025)
CRCA Scholastic All-American (2024, 2025)


Career Marks: Smallbore (580) Air Rifle (587) Aggregate (1167) 

2024-25 | SOPHOMORE

  • Competed in 13 matches; served as counter 11 times in smallbore and twice in air rifle 
  • Fired career-high marks in UTEP’s win versus Nebraska (2/1): 580 smallbore, 587 air rifle, 1167 aggregate 
  • Top-10 shooter twice 
  • Season averages: 573 SB / 578 AR / 1151 AGG 
  • CRCA Scholastic All-American 

2023-24 | FRESHMAN

  • Competed and served as counter in all 12 matches on the season  
  • Led the squad once in smallbore at the NCAAQ hosted by Alaska Fairbanks and once in air rifle at the PRC Championships 
  • Registered the highest aggregate score twice: PRC Championships (2/4) and NCAAQ (2/17) 
  • Shot a season-high 569 in smallbore in the tri-match at Ohio State/Murray State (11/4) 
  • Fired a season-high 585 in air rifle versus Schreiner (9/30)  
  • Top-10 shooter nine times  
  • Season average in smallbore: 565 
  • Season average in air rifle: 578 
  • Best aggregate mark of the year was 1149 (568 SB, 581 AR) versus TCU (11/12) 
  • CRCA Scholastic All-American

BELGRADE HS 

  • 4.0 GPA 
  • Honor Roll 
  • National Honors Society 

CLUB TEAM | GALLATIN VALLEY SHARP SHOOTERS 

  • Finished 2nd & 3rd place at Sporter Nationals (2018) 
  • Team placed 3rd at Nationals (2018) 
  • 8th overall at CMP Regionals in Sporter Air Rifle (2019) 
  • Finished 1st and 2nd at Sporter Nationals (2019) 
  • Finished 5th nationally in top 15 sporter shooters at American Legion Nationals (2019) 
  • Set NRA national record in 40-shot standing of a 353 in the sub-junior category (2019) 
  • Set several 4H state records in sporter and one in smallbore (2017-19) 
  • Earned the CMP distinguished badge (2019) 
  • Earned distinguished expert in smallbore (2022) 
  • 1st place Precision team at CMP Regionals (2022) 
  • detailed stats

PERSONAL: Full name is Paige Elizabeth Hildebrandt … Born in Bozeman, MT … Daughter of Stacey and Katie Hildebrandt ... majors in Kinesiology with a minor in Spanish 

Historical Player Information

  • 2023-24Freshman

  • 2024-25Sophomore

  • 2025-26Junior