Card-Childers and Cunningham Take Home Top Honors at Night of the Owl
4/15/2019 12:41:00 PM | General, Men's Track & Field, Women's Volleyball
HOUSTON — Rice student-athletes celebrated a successful year Monday evening at the annual Night of the Owls event, presented by the R Association. Men's track and field athlete Charlie Card-Childers and volleyball player Lee Ann Cunningham took home the Bob Quin and Joyce Pounds Hardy Awards, respectively.
Card-Childers earned his first career C-USA Indoor All-Conference honor with a second place finish in this year's heptathlon, accumulating 5461 points. Card-Childers won the 60m hurdles (8.53) to begin Sunday competition and then placed second in the pole vault, clearing 4.80m (15-09.00). He also accumulated a personal record 7,529 points in the decathlon to place third overall at the Texas Relays. Card-Childers set personal best marks in the 100m (11.19) and the 110m hurdles (15.05). He was named to the C-USA All-Academic Team last year and the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team in 2017.
He is the 24th track athlete to win the Quin Award.
Cunningham, a junior libero from Louisville, Ky., was named an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention and an AVCA South All-Region Honorable Mention. She was selected to the C-USA First Team for the first time in her career and was a four-time recipient of the C-USA Defensive Player of the Week. Cunningham led the Owls in total digs (574; 2nd C-USA) and digs per set (4.86; 3rd C-USA) and posted 20 or more digs in 12 matches while helping anchor a Rice defense that led all of C-USA in opponent's hitting percentage (.165). She was named to the Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 Second Team and has twice been named to the C-USA Academic Honor Roll.
Cunningham becomes the eighth volleyball player to earn the Pounds Hardy Award and the first since 1974-75.
Alex Dunbar (men's track and field) and Elsa Racasan (women's track and field) were honored with the Dr. Hubert E. Bray and Margie E. Sass Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards, recognizing them as Rice's top student-athletes.
Chris Mullins (men's basketball) and Anota Adekunle (volleyball) were named the Male and Female Newcomers of the Year. Both earned Conference USA All-Freshman honors while Adekunle was also named Second Team All-CUSA.
Rice women's basketball coach Tina Langley was named Head Coach of the Year for the second time, while volleyball assistant coach John Klanac was named Assistant Coach of the Year.
Shani Raney (women's basketball) was presented with the inaugural Dr. Leland Winston, MD Courage and Diligence Award, presented to the student-athlete who displayed exceptional courage and diligence in the face of a serious injury.
The Stancliff-Sass R Association Scholarship was presented to Elsa Racasan (women's track and field) and Josh Cummings (football).
Card-Childers earned his first career C-USA Indoor All-Conference honor with a second place finish in this year's heptathlon, accumulating 5461 points. Card-Childers won the 60m hurdles (8.53) to begin Sunday competition and then placed second in the pole vault, clearing 4.80m (15-09.00). He also accumulated a personal record 7,529 points in the decathlon to place third overall at the Texas Relays. Card-Childers set personal best marks in the 100m (11.19) and the 110m hurdles (15.05). He was named to the C-USA All-Academic Team last year and the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team in 2017.
He is the 24th track athlete to win the Quin Award.
Cunningham, a junior libero from Louisville, Ky., was named an AVCA All-American Honorable Mention and an AVCA South All-Region Honorable Mention. She was selected to the C-USA First Team for the first time in her career and was a four-time recipient of the C-USA Defensive Player of the Week. Cunningham led the Owls in total digs (574; 2nd C-USA) and digs per set (4.86; 3rd C-USA) and posted 20 or more digs in 12 matches while helping anchor a Rice defense that led all of C-USA in opponent's hitting percentage (.165). She was named to the Google Cloud CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 Second Team and has twice been named to the C-USA Academic Honor Roll.
Cunningham becomes the eighth volleyball player to earn the Pounds Hardy Award and the first since 1974-75.
Alex Dunbar (men's track and field) and Elsa Racasan (women's track and field) were honored with the Dr. Hubert E. Bray and Margie E. Sass Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards, recognizing them as Rice's top student-athletes.
Chris Mullins (men's basketball) and Anota Adekunle (volleyball) were named the Male and Female Newcomers of the Year. Both earned Conference USA All-Freshman honors while Adekunle was also named Second Team All-CUSA.
Rice women's basketball coach Tina Langley was named Head Coach of the Year for the second time, while volleyball assistant coach John Klanac was named Assistant Coach of the Year.
Shani Raney (women's basketball) was presented with the inaugural Dr. Leland Winston, MD Courage and Diligence Award, presented to the student-athlete who displayed exceptional courage and diligence in the face of a serious injury.
The Stancliff-Sass R Association Scholarship was presented to Elsa Racasan (women's track and field) and Josh Cummings (football).
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