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(09/10/10 12:00am)
Last weekend, the soccer team traveled to the Bay Area to play a pair of matches against the University of California at Berkeley and the University of San Francisco.On Friday evening, Rice faced off against No. 19 Cal, the first ranked team the Owls have faced all season. Almost immediately after the opening of the match, the Bears proved why they have earned their ranking, scoring in the fifth minute of the match. With hardly any time for Rice to rebound, Cal again scored off of a penalty kick in the 10th minute. In the 11th minute, the Golden Bears had extended their lead to 3-0 with a direct free-kick by forward Alex Morgan.
(09/10/10 12:00am)
While the California sunshine may have brought temporary smiles to the volleyball team, it still left unsatisfied after a 1-2 performance in the Asics Classic that was hosted by Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif. In Rice's first match against Pepperdine last Friday, the Owls lost the first set 25-20 and lost a hard-fought second set 25-22. The match ended quietly with a 25-15 loss by Rice in the third and final set and giving the Waves a 3-0 win.
(09/10/10 12:00am)
Even though every other Conference USA women's cross country team began their seasons last week, the Rice cross country team stayed in Houston last weekend to keep training. That decision by Head Coach Jim Bevan exemplifies the team's decision this year not to rush anything. After redshirting four upperclassmen in 2009 for a variety of reasons, this year's team aims to bring a full-force squad into postseason competition. Rice should have no problem this year bringing a loaded squad to most meets, considering that the team lost only one senior, Claire Shorall (Duncan '10), to graduation. That means the team will not be lacking in depth.
(08/27/10 12:00am)
Looking for something to do tonight between dinner and the first public party of the year? I have a suggestion: Watch the volleyball team take on Texas Tech University at 7 p.m. in Tudor Fieldhouse.This is the team's first chance to see all that preseason work pay off. The team has been practicing twice a day since Aug. 9. When school started, the team kept practicing three hours a day, with weights twice a week. When most members of the class of 2014 were enjoying their last weeks at home with friends and family, Lindsay Daniel, Tyler Jenkins, Mariah Riddlesprigger and Megan Shepard were already on campus. And while I've been napping in the afternoons this week trying to recover from O-Week, they've been in the gym trying to make sure the Red Raiders are sorely disappointed by the outcome of tonight's match.
(08/20/10 12:00am)
During O-Week, new students are bombarded with advice from advisers, coordinators, fellows, head fellows, PAAs, diversity facilitators, masters and RAs. For the most part, this advice is helpful and does point new students in the right direction. However, if I could give one piece of advice to every female new student, it would be the best advice I received during my O-Week: Play powderpuff football. Some of you may think I'm crazy to regard this as the best piece of information I received during my O-Week, more than academic counseling, encouragement to get enough rest and to find balance in my life. And as a head fellow at Wiess College, I know that all of those things are important. But, encouragement from my fellows to play powderpuff was the advice that has made the biggest impact on my time at Rice.
(05/17/10 12:00am)
Repeating a championship in any collegiate sport is a challenge. With the revolving door of outgoing seniors and incoming freshmen, the team dynamic is always in flux. But over the past three seasons, the women's track and field team has maintained a high level of excellence and won three-straight outdoor Conference USA Championships. This weekend, they were heading for a fourth. A title there would make them the first women's team to win four straight conference championships, a feat previously accomplished only by the Rice baseball team and men's tennis team. Before the C-USA Outdoor Championships, the women's track team competed in three meets since classes ended April 23. On April 24, Rice hosted the Fred Duckett Twilight meet at the newly christened Holloway Field and Ley Track. There, the team had several lifetime bests and improvements on previous times.
(04/23/10 12:00am)
For 18 years, Pam Klassen (Jones '88) held Rice's women's track record in the 5,000-meter run at 16:31.62. Then, in 2006, Marissa Daniels (Jones '08) broke the record, setting a new time to beat at 16:28.87 and shaving almost three seconds off the previous benchmark. Since Daniels' efforts, the record has been broken four times, most recently by senior Britany Williams last weekend.
(04/16/10 12:00am)
With only a week of classes remaining, many students are trying to ace that last test or paper to bring up their grade before finals. With only two weekends remaining in the women's track season, many members of the team have a similar goal: finally hit the mark that has eluded them all season in time to get on the national list. Head Coach Jim Bevan said this weekend's meet at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, will give them a chance to do just that.
(04/09/10 12:00am)
As the saying goes, everything's bigger in Texas. Even track meets. Last weekend, the women's track team competed in the 83rd-annual Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, the second-largest track meet in the nation, behind only the historic Penn Relays in size.
(03/12/10 12:00am)
Two weeks ago, the women's track team stood on the threshold of history, one event away from winning four consecutive Conference USA Indoor Track and Field Championships, a feat unmatched in women's C-USA history. Headed into the final event of the meet, the 4x400 relay, Rice stood half a point ahead of its nearest competitor, the University of Texas - El Paso. UTEP's relay team finished the event in 3:46.83 in a heat preceding the Owls' run. Rice needed to beat that time to win the meet, but the Owls posted only a 3:49.38 finish. With that, UTEP surged ahead to defeat Rice in point total, 113.5 to 110.
(02/19/10 12:00am)
As the baseball team begins its campaign for the 2010 College World Series, anyone can see that its path will not be an easy one. On Rice's regular season schedule, the fifth-ranked Owls will face five preseason Baseball America top-25 teams, including three matches against top-ranked University of Texas, who finished as national runner-up in last year's CWS. Rice will also meet No. 11 Texas Christian University, No. 18 East Carolina University, No. 19 University of San Diego and No. 21 University of Southern Mississippi in their regular season slog.And if that weren't enough, the team will start its season today with a three-game series against a Stanford University squad that is ranked 25th by USA Today.
(02/19/10 12:00am)
The indoor track season has a lot in common with its own fastest event, the 60-meter dash. Blink, and you'll miss it. The 2010 indoor track season spans just under two months, from the first meet to the end of the NCAA Championships. Last weekend marked the midpoint of the short season, as the team competed in the Texas A&M Challenge, its final meet before the postseason at the Conference USA Championship.
(02/12/10 12:00am)
What do the 1985 University of Indiana men's basketball team and the 2010 Rice women's track team have in common? Early in their seasons, both could be described as teams on the brink of greatness.
(02/05/10 12:00am)
It's never too early to make history. In only the second meet of the indoor track season, senior Shakera Reece set Rice's second-fastest time for the women's 60-meter dash, with a time of 7.39 seconds. The mark was just one one-hundredth of a second away from the school record, 7.38, set by TaNisha Mills (Jones, '98) in 1997.
(01/22/10 12:00am)
Despite their first-place finish at last weekend's Leonard Hilton Memorial, the women's track team still has plans for improvement across all events.For now, though, Head Coach Jim Bevan said the team achieved its goal of discovering where everyone on the team stood heading into the season.
(01/15/10 12:00am)
There is also this special video report on women's track for this week's issue.With six conference championships in three seasons, sweeping both indoor and outdoor competition, success has become an expectation, not just a goal, for the women's track and field team. Last season, then-senior Lennie Waite helped lead the team to their success, qualifying for nationals in two events and earning an All-American status in the 3,000 meter steeplechase.
(12/04/09 12:00am)
From Nov. 19-22, the swim team competed in the University of Nebraska Cornhusker Invitational. After four days of competition, Rice placed second to host Nebraska, who finished with 1,902 points to the Owls' 1,309. South Dakota State University placed third with 725.5, while the University of Nebraska-Omaha finished fourth with 568.5. Rice's performance is especially impressive considering the Owls do not compete in diving events, thus lowering the number of possible points for them to earn. Senior Angela Wo led Rice in the Invitational, winning the 100- yard butterfly with a season-best time of 56.10 seconds and the 100-yard backstroke in another season-best 57.87. Wo also swam on both of Rice's top-finishing relays, the 200-medley relay and the sprint medley. Wo's performance was strong enough to earn her Conference USA Swimmer of the Week.
(11/20/09 12:00am)
On a campus with a football team that boasts a single win this season, a soccer squad that did not quite live up to expectations and two basketball programs dying to bounce back from disheartening 2008-09 seasons, the women's cross country team, competitors at the national tournament over the past two seasons, had the athletic hopes of an entire university on their shoulders. However, with five upperclassmen out of the mix this season, those expectations fell on the shoulders of an extremely young team - one comprised entirely of underclassmen, save for a single fifth-year senior.
(11/06/09 12:00am)
For most sports teams, the loss of four top athletes would be a season-ending handicap. But not, apparently, for the women's cross country team. Six underclassmen and one senior were burdened with carrying a team whose coach had elected to redshirt four talented veterans earlier this season, and did so impressively and admirably. The Owls took third place at the Conference USA Championship meet on Saturday, finishing behind behind second-place University of Texas-El Paso and first-place Southern Methodist University.
(10/23/09 12:00am)
In atypical fashion, the women's cross country team elected to have the bulk of its runners forgo having their first meet at a small event. Instead, six out of the seven runners ran their first 6,000-meter race at the largest meet in the country last weekend, the Pre-National Meet held at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Ind. Fifth-year senior Claire Shorall was the only Owl competing who had run a 6,000 for Rice previously, meaning that sophomores Halsey Fowler, Marie Thompson and Michaela Reynolds and freshmen Heather Olson, Johanna Ohm and Katherine Zebrowski ran the longer distance for the first time in their collegiate careers.
