Soccer resumes season, hosts East Carolina tonight
· After an unexpected weekend off from competition, the soccer team resumes its season this weekend in its first two league games as a member of Conference USA. Rice will host East Carolina University (4-6) tonight at 7 p.m. and Marshall University (1-7) Sunday at 1 p.m. Both games are at the Rice Track/Soccer Stadium and mark the first time the Owls have played either opponent.
Football opens C-USA play at UAB
· After two tough losses, the football team hopes to pick up the pieces and rebuild. With last week's game against the United States Naval Academy postponed due to Hurricane Rita, the football team opens its first season of play in Conference USA tomorrow night on the road at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Volleyball to face Green Wave in College Station
· Second-year head volleyball coach Genny Volpe returns to her alma mater, Texas A&M University, today for the first time since coming to Rice. Volpe was an assistant coach at A&M for three seasons before accepting the Rice position in February 2004. Volpe, a four-year letterwinner for the Aggies, will get her first glimpse of the visiting locker room as the Owls take on the displaced Tulane University, which has adopted A&M as its temporary home for volleyball.