The Rice Owls track and field team is the
track and field
Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...
program that represents
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres.
Rice University comp ...
. The Owls compete in
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...
as a member of the
American Athletic Conference
The American Athletic Conference (AAC), also known as The American, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the United States, featuring 13 full member universities and 6 affiliate member universities that compete in t ...
. The team is based in
Houston, Texas
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at the
Wendel D. Ley Track and Holloway Field.
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The program is coached by
Jon Warren. The track and field program officially encompasses four teams, as the NCAA regards men's and women's indoor track and field and outdoor track and field as separate sports.
Two Rice athletes have gone on to win Olympic medals in track and field, both men's pole vaulters
Fred Hansen and
David Roberts. A third Rice track and field athlete,
Heather McDermid, has also won Olympic medals, but in the
eight competition of
rowing
Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically a ...
.
Postseason
AIAW
The Owls have had 2
AIAW
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was a college athletics organization in the United States, founded in 1971 to govern women's college competitions in the country and to administer national championships (see AIAW Cham ...
All-Americans finishing in the top six at the
AIAW outdoor or
indoor championships.
NCAA
, a total of 69 men and 34 women have achieved individual
All-America
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n status at the
men's outdoor,
women's outdoor,
men's indoor, or
women's indoor national championships.
See also
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References
External links
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College track and field teams in the United States
Women's sports in Texas
American Athletic Conference track and field
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