With Olympic qualifying ramping up in several sports, I'm looking for folks to root for other than the fact that they are Americans. Any former or current C-USA athletes qualify for the Olympics yet? Are any going to?

For USM, Tori Bowie is all but assured a spot in the 100m and 200m sprints. She was an NCAA champ in the long jump at USM ( makes you wonder why she wasn't running here but whatever).

(07-03-2016 01:08 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  With Olympic qualifying ramping up in several sports, I'm looking for folks to root for other than the fact that they are Americans. Any former or current C-USA athletes qualify for the Olympics yet? Are any going to?

For USM, Tori Bowie is all but assured a spot in the 100m and 200m sprints. She was an NCAA champ in the long jump at USM ( makes you wonder why she wasn't running here but whatever).

Already covered.....did you read my post? Or can u read?

Read the title jacka$$

(07-03-2016 01:18 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 01:08 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  With Olympic qualifying ramping up in several sports, I'm looking for folks to root for other than the fact that they are Americans. Any former or current C-USA athletes qualify for the Olympics yet? Are any going to?

For USM, Tori Bowie is all but assured a spot in the 100m and 200m sprints. She was an NCAA champ in the long jump at USM ( makes you wonder why she wasn't running here but whatever).

Already covered.....did you read my post? Or can u read?

One of the first rules of Message Board etiquette is to not criticize someone by assuming they've read your post among the tens of thousands of posts in hundreds of threads. That's why on occasion a thread will go off on a tangent and someone will then create a new thread with a "title" specific to the new topic. Helps all of us to keep things organized here.

(07-03-2016 01:35 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 01:18 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 01:08 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  With Olympic qualifying ramping up in several sports, I'm looking for folks to root for other than the fact that they are Americans. Any former or current C-USA athletes qualify for the Olympics yet? Are any going to?

For USM, Tori Bowie is all but assured a spot in the 100m and 200m sprints. She was an NCAA champ in the long jump at USM ( makes you wonder why she wasn't running here but whatever).

Already covered.....did you read my post? Or can u read?

One of the first rules of Message Board etiquette is to not criticize someone by assuming they've read your post among the tens of thousands of posts in hundreds of threads. That's why on occasion a thread will go off on a tangent and someone will then create a new thread with a "title" specific to the new topic. Helps all of us to keep things organized here.

I haven't noticed any message board etiquette involved on here yet....but when I do I shall observe

Hey! All in good fun...I have enjoyed browsing thru here on occasion...and thought I would liven things up a bit today by joining. Folks don't know me on here, nor I them, which is why the internets are both entertaining and irritating at the same time.

Or, as the late Director Michael Cimino stated "When I'm serious I'm Kidding...and when I'm kidding I'm serious." Say wut?

(07-03-2016 01:54 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 01:35 PM)WKUApollo Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 01:18 PM)eaglebeaver Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 01:08 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  With Olympic qualifying ramping up in several sports, I'm looking for folks to root for other than the fact that they are Americans. Any former or current C-USA athletes qualify for the Olympics yet? Are any going to?

For USM, Tori Bowie is all but assured a spot in the 100m and 200m sprints. She was an NCAA champ in the long jump at USM ( makes you wonder why she wasn't running here but whatever).

Already covered.....did you read my post? Or can u read?

One of the first rules of Message Board etiquette is to not criticize someone by assuming they've read your post among the tens of thousands of posts in hundreds of threads. That's why on occasion a thread will go off on a tangent and someone will then create a new thread with a "title" specific to the new topic. Helps all of us to keep things organized here.

I haven't noticed any message board etiquette involved on here yet....but when I do I shall observe

Hey! All in good fun...I have enjoyed browsing thru here on occasion...and thought I would liven things up a bit today by joining. Folks don't know me on here, nor I them, which is why the internets are both entertaining and irritating at the same time.

Or, as the late Director Michael Cimino stated "When I'm serious I'm Kidding...and when I'm kidding I'm serious." Say wut?

Don't finish all the liquor today eaglebeaver, leave a few bottles to go with the fireworks tomorrow

Happy independence eve

Rice probably will just have 1 Olympian - Lennie Waite in women's 3000K steeplechase for United Kingdom. I guess there is an outside chance we have some other foreigner in an obscure sport, but I think that will be it.

Tech has Jamacian Shot Putter Jason Morgan and US 400m paraolympian JQ Hart

We had two qualify for the Olympics, both from Ghana, and both in the javelin.

http://www.dnj.com/story/sports/college/.../86949242/

Ex UTEP golfer and now of the LPGA, Gerina Piller is on the US Olympic golf team.

(07-03-2016 03:39 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Rice probably will just have 1 Olympian - Lennie Waite in women's 3000K steeplechase for United Kingdom. I guess there is an outside chance we have some other foreigner in an obscure sport, but I think that will be it.

Badminton?

Charlotte's Trey McRae, C-USA T&F Athlete of the Year, competed in the High Jump trials but did not make the team, coming in 5th.

Emmanuel Dasor a senior at Western qualified in the 200 meter dash will represent Ghana

Shandrack Kipchirchir, who competed for the Hilltoppers in 2010 and 2011, qualified in the 10,000 meter USA

Southern Miss has another young lady who will be running in a track event for another country. That's all I remember.

Naomi Ruele, a swimmer for FIU's team made her country's team (Bostwana, Africa) as the second ever female and first swimmer ever to represent her country in an Olympic Game: http://www.fiusports.com/news/2016/7/9/w...path=wswim

Actually Rice does have a 2nd athlete now as volleyballer Olaya Pazo is competing in sand volleyball for Venezuela.

http://www.riceowls.com/sports/w-volley/...16aaa.html

Do we root for our foreign athletes vs. USA ?

(07-14-2016 09:13 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote:  Do we root for our foreign athletes vs. USA ?

No...that's a stupid question

I say yes, we do.
Hell, I pull for Italy over the US in World Cup. Nobody has ever died because of it, that I can tell.

(07-12-2016 11:37 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(07-03-2016 03:39 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Rice probably will just have 1 Olympian - Lennie Waite in women's 3000K steeplechase for United Kingdom. I guess there is an outside chance we have some other foreigner in an obscure sport, but I think that will be it.

Badminton?

javelin or.....



this will be the most unnoticed/watched five rings ever on a percentage basis....until someone gets sick or shot....

olympiads once embodied soul and country.....now it's just a bunch of cuntries doing thingys that are dicktated by a handful of slum lords....

the olympics has become a joke during my lifetime relative to sport....