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Wednesday, April 02, 2025 — Houston, TX

Andersen Pickard









SPORTS 2/18/25 10:47pm

Communications veteran Chuck Pool powers Rice sports

In an office nestled near the elevator on the ground floor of Tudor Fieldhouse, Chuck Pool taps away at his keyboard, vowing to answer a few more emails before fielding questions from the Thresher. This is standard practice for Pool. The assistant athletic director and head of athletic communications has seemingly put Rice’s interests ahead of his own for decades.