Thursday, August 29
Houston, TX
7 PM
Rice University
vs
Alabama
Photo by: Maria Lysaker
Soccer Hosts Alabama Thursday Night
8/28/2019 10:56:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Start Time Set For 7 PM At Holloway Field
Alabama at RICE SOCCER | August 29 at 7 PM
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THIS WEEK: The Rice soccer team hosts SEC power Alabama on Thursday (Aug. 29). Start time at Holloway Field on the Rice campus is slated for 7 pm. Fans arriving early will receive a free Rice Water Bottle (while supplies last). The Owls are then on a small break for the remainder of the weekend and return to action on September 6.
MEET & GREET WEDNESDAY: The Rice soccer team hosts its annual Meet & Greet on Wednesday (Aug. 29). The event is scheduled for 6 pm in the Trauber Suite of Tudor Fieldhouse.
QUICK ON THE OWLS (2-0-0): With two-straight wins to open the season the Owls are off to the program's best start since 2008. Rice won the season opener on the road at Oral Roberts 2-1 (Aug. 22) before posting a convincing 3-0 victory over crosstown rival Houston on Sunday (Aug. 25). In 2019 Rice soccer team returns seven of 11 starters from last season's squad that went 7-9-1 and advanced to the Conference USA Tournament. The Owls return a total of 18 letterwinners from a year ago and welcome in a talented new recruiting class. Alabama enters Thursday's contest with a 1-1-0 record.
COACH'S CORNER: Rice soccer is under the direction of head coach Brian Lee, who is in his first season at the helm of the program. A 2018 finalist for National Coach of the Year and with 25 years of experience as a Division I head coach, Lee enters the 2019 campaign with a career record of 288-188-55. Lee's Rice coaching staff includes Megan Kinneman, Travis Curson and Allysha Chapman, all in their first year with the Owl program. Coach Lee's video preview is available at the above link.
THE RICE-ALABAMA SERIES: Alabama leads the soccer series with Rice 2-1-0. The Crimson Tide claimed a 5-1 win in Tuscaloosa, Ala., last season. Prior to that the teams have not played since the Owls claimed a 1-0 victory in Houston in 2003. Rice and Alabama met for the first time in 2002 where the Crimson Tide won a 2-0 decision in Tuscaloosa. With Dicky Maegle's run in the 1954 Cotton Bowl as a teaching moment, the Owls have long stayed clear of the Crimson Tide sideline!
HAIL SENIORS!: Four Rice players have scored the team's five goals – all of them seniors. Owl veterans Haley Kostyshyn, Louise Stephens, Lianne Mananquil and Erin Mikeska have led the Blue & Gray to the back of the opposing net (with Mikeska scoring twice against Houston last Sunday).
DID YOU KNOW?: Rice is looking to duplicate its best start to a season since beginning 2006 with a 3-0-0 record. The Owls began the 2007 campaign with a 2-0-1 ledger.
MANANQUIL ON HERMAN TROPHY WATCH LIST: Senior Lianne Mananquil is one of 61 Division I women's soccer players named to the inaugural 2019 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, presented by World Wide Technology, the United Soccer Coaches and Missouri Athletic Club announced on Aug. 1…. The MAC Hermann Trophy, presented by World Wide Technology, is the most prestigious individual award in college soccer and is presented annually to the most outstanding women's and men's players of the year. The award's respective watch lists are compiled by members of the United Soccer Coaches Men's and Women's NCAA Division I All-America Committees… A year ago Mananquil was named the Conference USA Midfielder of the Year as well as a First Team All-South Region honoree. The Jacksonville, Fla., native tied the Rice record in for assists in a single season (10) while did some scoring of her own. She netted the game-winning goal at Charlotte on the final weekend of the season to clinch Rice's spot in the C-USA Tournament. Her play on the field is only part of the story. Mananquil maintained a 3.74 grade point average to be named a Conference USA Academic Medalist and a Rice Honor Athlete. She started and played only 17 minutes in the Houston game before being sidelined for the remainder of the contest.
C-USA PRESEASON ACCOLADES: IRVING, Texas – Led by Lianne Mananquil as a preseason Conference USA selection, the Rice soccer team was picked third overall in the 2019 C-USA head coaches' poll announced on Aug. 12. The preseason all-conference honors and ranking were determined on a vote of the 14 C-USA head soccer coaches. It is the seventh-straight year for Rice to be picked to finish among the league's Top 3 teams in the annual head coaches' poll. Defending regular season co-champions North Texas and Florida Atlantic were picked first and second in the 2019 poll, respectively.
ACC STANDOUT JOINS OWLS: Coach Lee announced the addition of ACC junior transfer Mijke Roelfsema to the Owls' roster for the upcoming 2019 season. Roelfsema is a 5-8 defender from The Netherlands who played the last two seasons at Boston College. A year ago she started 15 matches and logged more than 1,300 total minutes for an Atlantic Coast Conference program that posted a 14-5-1 record and earned a Top 16 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. Where Roelfsma was a key part of swarming Golden Eagle defense that held opponents to an austere 8.5 shots per game, she also provided an attacking presence out of the backline. A year ago the native of Den Haag scored the game-winning goal against crosstown rival Boston University.
NEXT WEEK: The Alabama match is Rice's lone action of the weekend. The Owls are scheduled to return to the field on Sept. 6 (Friday) as one of four teams competing in the UTSA Roadrunner Invitational in San Antonio. Rice is scheduled to face national power South Florida and Cleveland State on Sept. 6 & 8, respectively.
WATCH
LIVE STATS
(features activate at game time)
THIS WEEK: The Rice soccer team hosts SEC power Alabama on Thursday (Aug. 29). Start time at Holloway Field on the Rice campus is slated for 7 pm. Fans arriving early will receive a free Rice Water Bottle (while supplies last). The Owls are then on a small break for the remainder of the weekend and return to action on September 6.
MEET & GREET WEDNESDAY: The Rice soccer team hosts its annual Meet & Greet on Wednesday (Aug. 29). The event is scheduled for 6 pm in the Trauber Suite of Tudor Fieldhouse.
QUICK ON THE OWLS (2-0-0): With two-straight wins to open the season the Owls are off to the program's best start since 2008. Rice won the season opener on the road at Oral Roberts 2-1 (Aug. 22) before posting a convincing 3-0 victory over crosstown rival Houston on Sunday (Aug. 25). In 2019 Rice soccer team returns seven of 11 starters from last season's squad that went 7-9-1 and advanced to the Conference USA Tournament. The Owls return a total of 18 letterwinners from a year ago and welcome in a talented new recruiting class. Alabama enters Thursday's contest with a 1-1-0 record.
COACH'S CORNER: Rice soccer is under the direction of head coach Brian Lee, who is in his first season at the helm of the program. A 2018 finalist for National Coach of the Year and with 25 years of experience as a Division I head coach, Lee enters the 2019 campaign with a career record of 288-188-55. Lee's Rice coaching staff includes Megan Kinneman, Travis Curson and Allysha Chapman, all in their first year with the Owl program. Coach Lee's video preview is available at the above link.
THE RICE-ALABAMA SERIES: Alabama leads the soccer series with Rice 2-1-0. The Crimson Tide claimed a 5-1 win in Tuscaloosa, Ala., last season. Prior to that the teams have not played since the Owls claimed a 1-0 victory in Houston in 2003. Rice and Alabama met for the first time in 2002 where the Crimson Tide won a 2-0 decision in Tuscaloosa. With Dicky Maegle's run in the 1954 Cotton Bowl as a teaching moment, the Owls have long stayed clear of the Crimson Tide sideline!
HAIL SENIORS!: Four Rice players have scored the team's five goals – all of them seniors. Owl veterans Haley Kostyshyn, Louise Stephens, Lianne Mananquil and Erin Mikeska have led the Blue & Gray to the back of the opposing net (with Mikeska scoring twice against Houston last Sunday).
DID YOU KNOW?: Rice is looking to duplicate its best start to a season since beginning 2006 with a 3-0-0 record. The Owls began the 2007 campaign with a 2-0-1 ledger.
MANANQUIL ON HERMAN TROPHY WATCH LIST: Senior Lianne Mananquil is one of 61 Division I women's soccer players named to the inaugural 2019 MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List, presented by World Wide Technology, the United Soccer Coaches and Missouri Athletic Club announced on Aug. 1…. The MAC Hermann Trophy, presented by World Wide Technology, is the most prestigious individual award in college soccer and is presented annually to the most outstanding women's and men's players of the year. The award's respective watch lists are compiled by members of the United Soccer Coaches Men's and Women's NCAA Division I All-America Committees… A year ago Mananquil was named the Conference USA Midfielder of the Year as well as a First Team All-South Region honoree. The Jacksonville, Fla., native tied the Rice record in for assists in a single season (10) while did some scoring of her own. She netted the game-winning goal at Charlotte on the final weekend of the season to clinch Rice's spot in the C-USA Tournament. Her play on the field is only part of the story. Mananquil maintained a 3.74 grade point average to be named a Conference USA Academic Medalist and a Rice Honor Athlete. She started and played only 17 minutes in the Houston game before being sidelined for the remainder of the contest.
C-USA PRESEASON ACCOLADES: IRVING, Texas – Led by Lianne Mananquil as a preseason Conference USA selection, the Rice soccer team was picked third overall in the 2019 C-USA head coaches' poll announced on Aug. 12. The preseason all-conference honors and ranking were determined on a vote of the 14 C-USA head soccer coaches. It is the seventh-straight year for Rice to be picked to finish among the league's Top 3 teams in the annual head coaches' poll. Defending regular season co-champions North Texas and Florida Atlantic were picked first and second in the 2019 poll, respectively.
ACC STANDOUT JOINS OWLS: Coach Lee announced the addition of ACC junior transfer Mijke Roelfsema to the Owls' roster for the upcoming 2019 season. Roelfsema is a 5-8 defender from The Netherlands who played the last two seasons at Boston College. A year ago she started 15 matches and logged more than 1,300 total minutes for an Atlantic Coast Conference program that posted a 14-5-1 record and earned a Top 16 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. Where Roelfsma was a key part of swarming Golden Eagle defense that held opponents to an austere 8.5 shots per game, she also provided an attacking presence out of the backline. A year ago the native of Den Haag scored the game-winning goal against crosstown rival Boston University.
NEXT WEEK: The Alabama match is Rice's lone action of the weekend. The Owls are scheduled to return to the field on Sept. 6 (Friday) as one of four teams competing in the UTSA Roadrunner Invitational in San Antonio. Rice is scheduled to face national power South Florida and Cleveland State on Sept. 6 & 8, respectively.
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