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(04/11/17 5:45pm)
From its founding in 1912, Rice Institute, later changed to Rice University, has featured the owl. As the years have passed, Rice’s owl has taken many forms, from an Athenian owl to a pygmy owl to a horned owl. That evolution and constant changing related to athletics has taken its next step. As part of a nearly two-year-long study, the Rice Athletic Department has launched a rebranding initiative, complete with new owl logos and letter marks. The new logos, first revealed in a leaked design on Reddit, include a proprietary script logo and a blue and white owl, one version with its beak open and one version swooping down with its talons extended.
(03/07/17 4:33am)
Sometimes the demands of a student-athlete’s hectic schedule call tight windows to get things done. This was the case for Wendy Zhang, a junior on the Rice women’s tennis team, who had to speak with me while waiting for a flight back home from Lubbock, Texas following last Sunday’s Rice vs. Texas Tech University tennis match. Zhang said she has always been used to this hectic lifestyle, and that playing tennis competitively since the age of seven has prepared her to play at an elite level at the Division I ranks.
(02/14/17 4:23am)
During my freshman fall, I emailed a member of the Rice baseball staff to get information about an open position to be the manager of the baseball team. I distinctly remember sitting in my room one afternoon going over how to frame the email so that it would come across as this perfect mix of professionalism, excitement and maturity.
(01/31/17 5:49pm)
Super Bowl LI is just around the corner, and the excitement is mounting all over the nation for the biggest sporting event in the world. According to Neilsen Holdings, a company that specializes in viewership and television ratings, Super Bowl 50 was watched by approximately 112 million people in the United States. Super Bowl LI could very well exceed that number. And Rice University is making its mark. Students and staff have worked hard to contribute to Houston’s Super Bowl.
(01/24/17 4:15am)
Since senior Katherine Ip first stepped onto the courts at Rice, she has been a constant in the lineup for the women’s tennis team. A native of Hong Kong, Ip qualified for the junior championships in the Australian Open, French Open and U.S. Open before she came to Rice. She posted a career-high No. 35 ranking in the 2013 International Tennis Federation junior rankings before coming to Rice.
(11/15/16 4:34am)
Two pieces of exciting new apparel just arrived at Reckling Park in anticipation of Rice University baseball’s trip to Cuba beginning on Nov. 23. Just last week, the team received customized Rice baseball caps with the American flag and Cuban flag intertwined and proudly stitched on the side. The team has also received new custom-made jerseys that will be worn once the squad touches down in Cuba. Staying ever true to Rice, the jerseys read “Los Buhos” (translated to “The Owls”). Two cultures are set to collide over one common passion, as baseball is a key fixture not only to Rice University but also to Cuba.
(11/01/16 2:50pm)
The Rice University soccer team has not lost since September. Following a 1-2 start in Conference USA, the Owls had every right to be discouraged. However, as head coach Nicky Adams and multiple players will tell you, they have turned those early season frustrations into the motivating force behind the longest win streak a Rice soccer team has ever seen. With a school record seventh consecutive win on Sunday night versus Florida Atlantic University, Rice clinched the No. 2 seed in the upcoming Conference USA tournament and will face the No. 7 seed, the University of Texas, El Paso, on Wednesday, Nov. 2 in Charlotte, North Carolina in the opening round of the 2016 C-USA Women’s Soccer Championship.
(10/25/16 4:16am)
One of the first signs that made me realize the end of my Rice journey was coming near was when I glanced over the roster prior to the season opener and noticed Jenny, Ruthie, and Mia, all players I have known and grown to love since freshman year, were designated as seniors. I got to know Jaz and Maddie later on in my Rice career but all in all, things got real that day and became even more apparent on Sunday when I attended both the Rice Soccer final home game and the annual Rice Baseball RBI Dinner.
(10/18/16 6:45pm)
Rice soccer is clicking at the perfect time. With just three Conference USA games remaining before the conference tournament begins, the Owls (8-4-1, 5-2 in C-USA) are riding a season-long four-game win streak and are within striking distance of Western Kentucky University, which sits atop the C-USA standings with 18 points. Thanks to their recent hot streak, the Owls have a chance at a special season.
(09/27/16 4:15am)
“A person being ‘too busy’ is a myth,” Mandy Hale, a British actress, said. “People make time for the things that are really important to them.”
(09/20/16 3:38am)
Over the past four years at Rice, I’ve had the privilege of covering sports for the Thresher, meeting many incredible athletes and coaches along the way. It’s been a lot of fun for me, and on the same token, I become very invested in the teams I cover, particularly the women’s soccer team every fall and the men’s baseball team every spring.
(09/06/16 2:59am)
Rice soccer appears to be on a mission to abolish 0-0 draws. Four games into the 2016 soccer season, the Owls have scored 11 goals on their way to a 2-1-1 record. Amid the wild start to the year, the one thing that has been constant is the Rice attack, which has scored first in each of its four matches this season.
(08/30/16 3:51am)
Senior defender Jasmine Isokpunwu played in all but one of the Rice soccer team’s games last season, totaling 1,754 minutes over a span of 19 games, all as a starter. In a sport like college soccer, namely one that takes a tremendous physical toll on the body, those numbers are uncommon. Isokpunwu held the team-high in both minutes and starts, and she did so while coming off an injury-plagued junior campaign during which she saw just 34 minutes of action.
(08/23/16 3:19am)
The 2016 season is officially underway for the Rice Owls women's soccer team. Rice is returning seven of 11 starters from the 2015 squad and is welcoming six freshmen. Although the Owls lost key members of the squad, including midfielder Danielle Spriggs (Wiess ’16), goalkeeper Zoe Pochobradsky (Brown ’16) and forwards Holly Hargreaves (Wiess ’16) and Lauren Hughes (Will Rice ’16), the Conference USA media picked them to finish second in the conference this season.
(04/12/16 3:20am)
Paul Damon Thames received the 1998 ABCA National Player of the Year Award and smacked 60 career doubles before he became a ninth round draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1999. Thames also was a two-time All-American shortstop who collected a whopping 187 RBI’s in two seasons with the Owls while maintaining a school record .399 career batting average.
(04/06/16 1:57am)
“Ancora Imparo.” These two words rest, fully visible in a beautifully decorated frame, at the center of legendary head coach Wayne Graham’s office in Reckling Park. Over the course of the conversation I had with coach Graham, he reached out to the plaque and handed it to me so I could read the description on the back. I silently read to myself the background of the phrase traced back to Michelangelo during the mid-16th century before reading aloud: “A wise man knows that he knows nothing.”
(03/16/16 6:59pm)
Last Wednesday, both of the Rice basketball teams were in action fighting to keep their seasons alive in the Conference USA tournament in Birmingham, Alabama. Heading into these marquee matchups, there were many similarities between the two teams. Both squads received No. 10 seeds in the tournament and faced No. 7 seeds in the opening round. Each team had experienced an up-and-down final month of the year. Over a span of two weeks in mid-February, the women won four out of five contests before dropping the last two of the season. The men performed similarly, winning four straight games to rise to the middle of the C-USA standings before losing their last three regular season games.
(03/08/16 3:47am)
The Rice men’s and women’s track and cross country teams along with the women’s soccer team have seen recent increases in conference success. The soccer team and the women’s cross country team earned conference titles in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Junior decathlete Scott Filip, senior javelin thrower Evan Karakolis, discus thrower Claire Uke (2015) and junior high jumper Daisy Ding have earned All-American honors. Athletes such as soccer senior forward Lauren Hughes and junior long distance runner Cali Roper have both broken long-standing Rice records and received national and international attention. Hughes, for instance, has signed to play professionally for an Icelandic soccer club.
(02/23/16 4:07am)
Back in 1986, Baseball Digest Magazine published an article explaining how to play the game of baseball “the right way” or in a manner that preserved and respected the great history of what has become known as “America’s Pastime.” Titled “The Book of Unwritten Baseball Rules,” the article covered rules that would not be found in an MLB or NCAA rule book but rather those that are generally known or, in some cases, not even spoken of. I want to describe these rules and their application to the games that occurred over the past weekend against the University of Arizona. I feel that there are three primary ways to see these “unwritten rules”: as traditions, strategies and baseball etiquette.
(02/17/16 1:25am)
What’s the only thing better than 20 consecutive conference championships? 21.
