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Many Rice traditions are either suited or unsuited for the camera, depending on your personal taste. From school-sanctioned alcohol consumption at Beer Bike to the innocent (and not so innocent) displays of skin at Baker 13 and Night of Decadence, Thresher photographers have been there to snap the shutter, and editors have been more than willing to ink the results.
It is easy for Rice varsity athletic teams to gain campus-wide recognition for their achievements. For other, unaffiliated students, however, athletic accomplishments often go unlauded. A group of Rice students recently competed in the Texas Strength Classic powerlifting competition in San Antonio, and collectively earned six medals and two first-place titles.
Introducing Rice Athletics' new marketing campaign.
What do free pizza, a $5,000 iPhone app and Shia LaBeouf memes have in common? They are all tactics used by the Rice Athletics marketing team to promote game attendance and ticket sales.
Rice women’s basketball continued its losing streak this week with its third and fourth consecutive conference losses. The Owls fell to the University of Alabama Birmingham (64-55) and Middle Tennessee State University (61-60). In their past four games, the Owls have started slowly–at halftime, Rice trailed against Western Kentucky University (27-19), Marshall University (42-24), UAB (32-21) and Middle Tennessee (30-26).
Selfoss, Iceland rests on the southern edge of Iceland’s Golden Circle. With a population of only 6,500, it is nevertheless the largest town in southern Iceland and a hub of commerce. Along with its impressive natural scenery, Selfoss boasts a highly ranked, fifty-year-old soccer club. That club, UMF Selfoss, signed Rice’s senior forward Lauren “Lo” Hughes on Wednesday Jan. 20, and she will begin her professional rookie season in early May. Currently, the women's team is ranked third in its league, Urvalsdeild kvenna. Urvalsdeild kvenna is Iceland's premier division for women's soccer, and its 10 participating clubs play a double round robin to determine its champion every season.
Are you constantly seeking insider information about the Rice men's basketball team? You're in luck, because head coach Mike Rhoades’ radio show is back on the air.
Men’s basketball senior guard Max Guercy scored his 1,000th point in a game against the University of Texas, San Antonio over winter break. Despite Guercy joining the 1,000-point club with 11 points, Rice fell to UTSA (85-80). Guercy is the 32nd Owl to earn the coveted distinction. He also managed to snag six rebounds and provide six assists, which made him the second player in Rice history to accumulate 1,000 points, 400 assists, 300 rebounds and 100 steals.
Rice volleyball opened its 2015 season with a trip to Austin, Texas for the American Campus Classic this weekend. The Owls began the tournament with a 0-3 loss against the nationally ranked No. 3 University of Texas, Austin on Friday afternoon. On Saturday, Rice made a dramatic comeback against Louisiana State University following a 2-0 deficit and completed the tournament with a 3-1 win against University of California, Irvine.
Following a successful 2014 campaign, Rice volleyball will look to build off of its momentum to capture a Conference USA title and an NCAA tournament bid this fall.
In response to Greg Williams’ recent retirement, the Rice University Athletic Department has appointed a new women’s basketball coach: former Maryland University Assistant Coach Tina Langley. Langley will be stepping down from her current position as Associate Head Coach at Maryland to join the Rice women’s team next season. The new head coach made an official visit to Rice last week to assess the campus and the team and to share her vision with the community.
The Rice University women’s track team took third and won four individual titles at the Conference USA Indoor Championships last week. Senior thrower Claire Uke brought home the most accolades. With one throw, Uke won the women’s shot put title, solidified herself as the second-best thrower in the country and broke a 29-year-old Rice record.
The Rice community has a new digital source for Rice athletics news, a podcast dedicated to Rice sports coverage. Duncan College sophomore Jeremy Reiskind and Wiess College senior Trevor Caswell founded the podcast, JR and Caz, this January. The podcast is updated weekly and consists of four segments, including an update on Rice athletics, an interview with a student athlete, a debate between Reiskind and Caswell called “The Struggle” and a preview of upcoming events in Rice Athletics.
On the heels of two University of Oregon players’ suspension from the college football National Championship game after testing positive for marijuana use, the NCAA announced that it will be reexamining its drug policy.
The Rice Athletic Department recently announced the proposed construction of a new student athlete development building. The Brian Patterson Sports Performance Center will be located at the north end of Rice Stadium and will cost $31.5 million to build. The 60,000 square-foot building will house a weight room, a home team locker room, staff offices, an auditorium, a football team lounge and areas dedicated to training and sports medicine. These facilities will be available to all Rice student athletes.
When he came to Rice University in the summer of 2013, Athletic Director Joe Karlgaard knew the limitations he had to work with. Having worked in the athletic departments at Stanford University and Oberlin College, Karlgaard knows what it takes to run an athletic department at a school that values academics as its first priority.
Rice University women’s basketball opened its 2014-15 season at home on Friday, Nov. 14. Rice faced off against Prairie View A&M University (0-1), and bested the Panthers with a final score of 70-58. Rice is now 1-0 on the season, 12-3 all-time against Prairie View and 29-8 all-time in season openers.
Following the loss of Rice University’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder Jessica Kuster, senior forward Christal Porter looks to step up and become a senior leader on the Rice women’s basketball team.
This season, the Rice University men’s basketball team gained an unconventional new guard. Graduate student Van Green is eligible to play for the Owls for the 2014-15 season because of an untimely end to his undergraduate basketball career at Columbia University. Due to an injury, Green was unable to play for the Lions during his junior and senior years at Columbia. According to NCAA rules, Green is still eligible to compete in a final season.
The Rice University men’s and women’s cross-country team competed in the Conference USA Cross Country Championship at the University of North Texas this weekend. The women’s team placed second overall in the meet with 62 points, trailing only Middle Tennessee State University with 55 points. The men’s team placed fourth in the meet, led by redshirt junior Will Firth, who finished sixth overall and had the best finish in the conference tournament in Rice history with a time of 24:29 in the 8K race.
