Rice Baseball This Week, June 9-15
Friday (June 13) – Monday (June 23) – College World Series
RICE UPDATE
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Selected Rice Athletics Events This Week, August 18-24
Thursday (6 pm CT) – Soccer vs. UIW
Saturday (6 pm CT) – Volleyball vs. UH (EXH)
Sunday (11 am CT) – Soccer at North Carolina
Selected Rice Non-Athletics Events This Week, August 18-24
Monday-Saturday – O-Week
Monday (5 pm CT) – Owl Have You Know: A Conversation with Al Danto
Tuesday (11 am CT) – ContinuOWL Learning: Stop Networking, Start Thriving
Tuesday (3:30 pm CT) – Celebration of Service Honoring Paul Padley
Shepherd School Events This Week, August 18-24
A listing of Shepherd School events can be found here.
Football News
Rice Football:
Rice names Chase Jenkins starting quarterback (Houston Chronicle)
Professional Baseball News
Brock Holt:
This week, Jimmy Fund co-chair Brock Holt participated in the WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon. The Jimmy Fund community gives and fundraises to support cancer research and comprehensive clinical care for adults and kids at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Watch him being interviewed here.
Owls in MLB:
Update: August 19 (The Roost)
MLB/MiLB Scoreboard Yesterday:
Tristan Gray (.118) singled for the Rays. Trei Cruz (.293) went 3-for-5 with a double, a homer, 2 runs and 2 RBI for AAA Toledo.
Complete Owls stats are here.
College Baseball News
Rice Baseball:
Summer Transfer Portal Additions (The Roost, Subscriber content)
Other Sports News
Rice Volleyball:
Owls Picked First in American (Rice Owls)
Bryan Blair:
Toledo AD's contract extended through 2030 (UT News)
Other News
FirstGen Forward Network:
Rice joins national initiative to strengthen support for first-generation students (Rice News)
Rice Trivia
Trivia Answer:
Stacy Jones ‘87, the wife of 2025 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Jon Warren ‘88, was a four-year Rice swim letterwinner (1984-85-86-87). (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
The 2025 Rice Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be Friday, October 24. Read more and/or make a reservation here.
Way to go, Ann Bixby, Grungy, Bev Schorre, Bryant Wilkinson, Martha Proctor Gano, Jeff Ross, James Walker, Anne Eldredge, Russell Henderson, Kirwin Drouet, Betty Bixby, Ted Richard, Jimmy Disch, Andy Williams, Melinda Clark, Paul Reese, Bob Reinhold, Brian Lattimer, Michelle Hicks, Sallie Schwall, Chris Kohnhorst, Mike Ross and David Ownby!
Next trivia question tomorrow!
Rice Update by Alan Shelby
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Corrections, comments and updates welcome