The Blue Ridge Rifles, established in 1950, is a military precision drill team within the ROTC program at the University of North Georgia.

In June 1861, the city of Dahlonega, Georgia sent their second group of 89 volunteers, the Blue Ridge Rifles to the Civil War front under the command of Capt.

[3] Since its early beginnings, the Blue Ridge Rifles Drill Team has earned state and national recognition.

[3] Their earliest first-place victory came in 1971 at the East Tennessee State University Drill Meet in Tennessee, and have since won First Place honors at the nationally recognized Mardi Gras Invitational Drill Meet in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted by Tulane University.

The 1981-82 unit has been heralded as the greatest Blue Ridge Rifles team in school history, as it won first-place overall in all the meets entered that year.