Rice Baseball This Week, June 9-15
Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, June 23-29
No Events
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, June 23-29
Until June 29 – Moody Center: ArtLab: Stories + Silhouettes
Monday (8 pm CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: The Advantages of Rejection
Tuesday-Saturday – Moody Center: The Reading Room
Friday (3 pm CT) – A Celebration of Robert Flatt's Life
Saturday (6:30 pm CT) – Houston l Mission Alumni: Journey Beyond the Stars
Shepherd School Events This Week, June 23-29
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Episode 203: 2025 Rice Football Opponent Previews: North Texas (The Roost)
Professional Baseball News
Dane Myers:
On Thursday, OPSBaseball tweeted “Dane Myers has been a well-above-average OF this year for the Marlins The 29-year-old is currently posting 2 OAA while having top 4% arm strength in Major League Baseball. He's hitting .303, with a .357 OBP, and has great AVG EVs combined with a 41.4% LA Sweet Spot%".
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Dane Myers (.304) singled for the Marlins. Tristan Gray (.285) walked for AAA Charlotte.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Per the D1Baseball Transfer Tracker (subscriber content), Barrett Eldridge, who entered the transfer portal on June 3, has committed to Young Harris.
Other Sports News
Mitchell Meissner '18:
When round 2 play was suspended yesterday due to lightning, Mitchell Meissner was T105 at -2 at the Memorial Health Championship in Springfield IL on the Korn Ferry Tour. Leaderboard here.
Other News
OpenStax:
OpenStax partners with Microsoft for AI-enhanced learning (Rice News)
Fondren Library:
Rain garden takes root at Fondren Library (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
2025 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Mike Wilks ’01 won the 2001 Bob Quin Award. Also, he won an NBA title as a player with San Antonio in 2005 and won another NBA title as an assistant coach with Oklahoma City on Sunday night.
The 2025 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be Friday, October 24. Read more.
Way to go, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Bob Toone, Betty Bixby, Kirkwood Johnston, Jimmy Disch, Martha Proctor Gano, Steve Lukingbeal, Walt Greenberg, Art Gottschalk, Andy Williams, David Ownby, Ann Bixby, Paul Reese, Guy Rollins, James Walker, Arthur Rogers, Chris Kohnhorst, Nancy Bailey, Nancy Burch, Jeff Ross, Bob Reinhold, Melinda Clark, Mike Ross, Larry Nettles, Brian Lattimer, Greg Williams, Richard Avant, Sallie Schwall and Ted Richard!
Next trivia question next Tuesday!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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