Junior thrower Evan Karakolis represented Canada and Rice University proudly by finishing seventh in the men's javelin final on Friday afternoon at the 2015 Pan American Games.
Former Rice All-American distance runner Lennie Waite set a lifetime best and won the 3000m steeplechase race Thursday at the Karlstad Grand Prix at Tingvalla IP, qualifying for the IAAF World T&F Championships in Beijing in August.
A week after announcing the signing of 25 student-athletes for the 2015-16 school year, East Carolina head track and field coach Curt Kraft has added incoming freshman Hakeem Horton to the roster.
Five Miners (four women and one male) were named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Academic team for their accomplishments in the classroom and on the track.
The East Carolina track and field program announced the signing of more than two dozen incoming student-athletes for the 2015-16 school year. The signing class is comprised of six men and 19 women who will compete under head coach Curt Kraft.
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.
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...