Rice redshirt junior Will Firth placed 29th at Friday's NCAA South Central Regional to lead the Owls men's cross country team to a 10th place finish in frigid conditions at Agri Park.

Rice sophomore Adam Davidson was selected to the C-USA All-Academic Team, the league office announced on Friday.

After a two week hiatus following the C-USA Championships, both the Rice men's and women's cross country teams will compete in the NCAA South Central Regional Championships in Fayetteville, AR on Friday.

Rice redshirt junior Will Firth took sixth place at Saturday's C-USA Cross Country Championships, the best individual finish by an Owl in nine seasons at the conference meet.

For a second straight year, the Rice Owls men's cross country team heads to Denton this weekend to partake in the 2014 C-USA Men's Cross Country Championships at the Eagle Point Cross Country Course on the campus of the University of North Texas.

Rice University student-athletes continue to be among the national leaders in the NCAA's Graduation Success Rate studies, according to the latest set of figures released by the organization today.