Rice alumna and former NCAA Division All-American distance runner Becky Wade will be participating in a first-of-its-kind two-person marathon relay race featuring 10 of the best distance runners in America this Sunday, Dec. 13.

Rice redshirt senior and All-American thrower Claire Uke won the discus on Wednesday at the 11th All-Africa Games.

Former Rice All-American distance runner Lennie Waite set a lifetime best and won the 3000m steeplechase race Wednesday at the Karlstad Grand Prix at Tingvalla IP.

Four members of the Rice women's track and field squad were honored for their success in competition and in the classroom by the USTFCCCA on Friday.

For the eighth time in the past 10 years, Rice University student-athletes earned the Conference USA Institutional Excellence Award in 2014-15 by combining for an annual GPA of 3.246, the league office announced on Friday.

Seth Gearhart, Evan Karakolis, Belle MacFarlane and Brian Nordstrom have all been named recipients of the 2014-15 Conference USA Scholar Athlete of the Year awards for their respective sports, C-USA Commissioner Britton Banowsky announced Thursday (Jul...