Showcasing a variety of Rice Athletics programs who don’t always get the spotlight was a focal point of the 2020 Extended Offseason. Check out key storylines across many Owls’ sports.
When sports were canceled in March the offseason calendar was more than doubled almost overnight. The silver lining in the midst of the heavy situation was additional time to shed some light on a few Rice Athletics programs that hadn’t been given as much of a spotlight on the site before. Over the span of the last few months, we’ve run weekly series on other programs beyond the revenue sports that typically get the most attention (although we wrote about those too). Here’s a summary of those series, all in one place:
Volleyball
- Owls soar to new heights in 2019 season
- Senior sendoff: Owls must replace important pieces next season
- Up next, the Owls seek to continue building from within
- From good to great: The ascent of Rice Volleyball’s Nicole Lennon
- Raising the bar for 2020 and beyond
Soccer
- Coach Brian Lee confident move to Rice soccer will bear fruit
- Outgoing seniors leave big roles to fill
- Navigating the Transfer Portal: How Rice soccer found a recruiting edge
- “She’s Good”: Rice soccer has high hopes for senior Haley Kostyshyn
- Rice soccer sets big goals for the future
Swimming
- Rice Swimming: The last Owls standing this spring
- Owls say goodbye to faithful senior class
- The Next Wave: Rice swimmers ready to step up next season
- Marta Cano-Minarro surges toward success
- Owls chart course for greater consistency
Tennis
- The Zoom call heard ’round the world
- Tough injury luck has Owls’ looking for 2019 mulligan
- Trial by fire sets stage for Rice in 2020
- Sumit Sarkar resilient through adversity
- Culture the tone-setter for Owls post-pandemic
Baseball
- Gleanings from a quarter season
- What’s next for Roel Garcia?
- New faces give hope for the future
- Adding talent to a strong culture the key for 2021
- Owls make progress on the recruiting front
Men’s Basketball
- Making sense of an up and down season
- Owls bid goodbye to pair of senior leaders
- Young talent the backbone for future success
- How Robert Martin found a home as Owls’ sixth man
- Transfers plunge promising offseason into uncertainty
Women’s Basketball
- ’19-’20 Season a reminder there are no sure things
- Lauren Schwartz shines in debut season
- Owls are still built to win now
- Tina Langley’s program continues to climb
- Rice stocked with plenty of young talent
