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Goliard Travel Scholar Caroline Shaw ‘04 is the 2026 ARA Laureates Award recipient with a Pulitzer Prize and four Grammy Awards. The 2026 ARA Awards Dinner will take place on Thursday, May 7 at The Revaire (7122 Old Katy Road). Click here for a list of the 2026 Laureates Awards Honorees. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
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Name the 2026 ARA Laureates Award recipient who was won a Pulitzer Prize as well as four Grammy Awards. Email your answer here.
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Current freshman hurdler and sprinter Max Bacon is the great grandson of the legendary Eddie Dyer Sr., a three-sport athlete at Rice for baseball, football and track. Click here for the Rice History Corner by Melissa Kean blog entry dated June 24, 2019 about him. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the current freshman member of the Rice track and field team whose great grandfather was a three-sport athlete at Rice for baseball, football and track. Email your answer here.
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Rachel Shoemaker, the sister of freshman distance runner Amelia Shoemaker, was a four-year member of the Rice track and field team (2019-23). (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the current freshman member of the Rice track and field team whose sister was a four-year member of the Rice track and field team. Email your answer here.
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Hanna Huston ’19, the daughter of head Swimming coach at Rice Seth Huston, is head Swimming coach at St. Thomas. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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Name the current Rice head coach whose daughter, a Rice alum, is also a head coach in the same sport at another NCAA school. For a bonus point, name the school. Email your answer(s) here.
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In 2017, Rice head coach Jim Bevan was inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame and into his alma mater’s Hall of Fame (Adams State). Earlier this week, he announced his retirement after four decades at Rice. Read more. (Thanks, Chris Kohnhorst and Mike Ross!)
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First, Frank Jones and Don Schaffer also correctly answered Tuesday’s trivia question!
Name the current Rice head coach who was inducted into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame and into his alma mater’s Hall of Fame in the same year. Email your answer here.
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Norman Hackerman served as president of the University of Texas at Austin from 1967-70 and then president of Rice from 1970-1985. (Thanks, Art Gottschalk, Scott Hochberg, Chris Kohnhorst, Mike Ross and Boyd Harrison!)
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Who served as president of both the University of Texas at Austin and Rice University? Email your answer here.