Baseball opens the season with high hopes
What’s the only thing better than 20 consecutive conference championships? 21. This season, the Rice University baseball team will look to earn its 21st successive Conference USA title.
What’s the only thing better than 20 consecutive conference championships? 21. This season, the Rice University baseball team will look to earn its 21st successive Conference USA title.
As we approach the end of the basketball season, there is little interest surrounding both the men’s and women’s teams.
This past week I was tasked with writing the 2016 Rice Owls baseball season preview for the Thresher.
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Recruiting students is not a problem for Rice University. Rice is one of the top academic institutions in the nation and boasts some of the best resources and facilities of any school in the country.
The Rice University football team added 18 players to its program, with athletes from around Texas signing their National Letters of Intent on Feb.
Despite an up-and-down year, scoring has been one thing the Rice University men’s basketball team has done consistently throughout this season. Yet again, on Saturday night, the Owls showcased their offensive firepower. Freshman guard Marcus Evans starred as the Rice University men’s basketball team won a shootout against the University of North Texas Saturday night at Tudor Fieldhouse by a score of 95-87. Evans, the leading freshman scorer in the country, poured in 25 points to lead the Owls to their seventh victory and earn his fifth Conference USA Freshman of the Week award. According to Evans, the Owls’ offensive success was a product of their confidence.
Last Tuesday, the Rice Owls baseball team and I took a trip to Shriners Hospital for Children located just down Main Street. If you read the first sentence again you will realize that I purposefully separated myself from the remainder of the team. It is “the Rice Owls baseball team” and then there is “I.” This mentality has been instilled in me and will probably never leave me; growing up with cerebral palsy, there was always just me. I had no team because I was different, I was the outcast who was picked last, the one who could never contribute worth a darn. That was until I came to Rice University.
Rice has recently demonstrated a commitment to increasing its athletic fan base. Specifically, they’ve been focusing on increasing student support and turnout at games, and I commend them for that.
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.
Over the past two seasons, “Rice Rising” has defined the recent zeitgeist surrounding the Rice men’s basketball team.
Rice women’s basketball continued its losing streak this week with its third and fourth consecutive conference losses.
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This summer, the best swimmers in the country will convene in Omaha, NE to vie for the opportunity to represent the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Two Rice University students, sophomore Kaitlyn Swinney and freshman Marie-Claire Schillinger, will be among those competitors. During the Arena Pro Swim this weekend, the Owls secured their spots in the Olympic Trials with qualifying times.
Rice University freshman guard Marcus Evans is currently leading all freshmen in the nation in points per game.
In front of a wild home crowd — along with Houston Rockets superstar James Harden in attendance — the Rice University men’s basketball team closed the game on a 21-3 run to overcome a 13-point second half deficit and win 83-73 over Western Kentucky University on Thursday night at Tudor Fieldhouse.
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The Rice University women’s basketball team fell back into bad habits as it lost both of its games this week to conference foes.
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.
The Rice University swim team could hardly consider winter break a “break,” as it competed in two meets despite the time off from classes.