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Quote:Rice volleyball announced the signing of three student-athletes on Wednesday to enroll in school and join the team in 2019. Ellie Bichelmeyer (Mission Hills, Kan.), Maddie Fowler (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Satasha Kostelecky (Decatur, Texas) signed National Letters of Intent with the Owls.

Bichelmeyer is a 6'2" outside hitter... helped guide her team to district titles, sectional championships, and state final four appearances in all four seasons.

For her career, Bichelmeyer has amassed 650 kills (while hitting .347), 165 blocks, 278 digs, and 75 aces. In her senior season alone, Bichelmeyer has 350 kills (.298), 75 blocks, 169 digs, and 30 aces.

Fowler is a 6'3" right side/middle blocker... played a big role in helping lead the Panthers to a regional championship in 2018 and a state-semifinals finalist her junior season.

Over her career, Fowler amassed 491 kills (hitting .276), with 183 blocks and 47 aces. While with the Panthers her senior season, Fowler has recorded 235 kills (.285) to go along with 70 blocks and 28 aces.


Kostelecky is a 6'4" middle blocker ... helped lead the Lady Eagles to this year's 4A Semifinals of the UIL State Tournament and will face Melissa this Friday, Nov. 16.

Last season Kostelecky recorded 212 kills and 131 blocks and the Lady Eagles advanced to the third round of the playoffs. Kostelecky earned Second Team 4A All-State honors and was the All-Wise Blocker of the Year.

Last summer, Kostelecky helped USA Volleyball club team (Team Advantage) earn a silver medal at Junior Nationals in Minneapolis and earned Wise County Defensive Player of the Year honors as a sophomore with 133 blocks along with 337 kills.

https://riceowls.com/news/2018/11/13/wom...-owls.aspx

Nice. I like the height.

Decatur advanced to the 4A state final earlier today. Ridge Point just advanced to tomorrow's 6A state finals.

(11-16-2018 08:15 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]Decatur advanced to the 4A state final earlier today. Ridge Point just advanced to tomorrow's 6A state finals.

Ridge Point will face Flower Mound at 5pm tomorrow.

Volleyball announced the addition of two more signees.

Quote:Graduate transfer Tabitha Brown (Wichita State) and freshman Jaime Samojedny (Aurora, Ill.) complete a five-person signing class for the Owls, which also includes Ellie Bichelmeyer, Maddie Fowler, and Satasha Kostelecky.

Brown, a 5'10" outside hitter from Houston, played and started in all 32 matches and 126 sets for WSU in 2018. In her senior season, Brown posted a team-best 368 kills to go along with 326 digs. She tied the WSU single-match record with 28 kills in a match vs. Cincinnati and recorded a team-best 11 double-doubles on the season.

Samojedny, a 5'8" libero/DS from Naperville and Aurora, Ill., will graduate from Metea Valley High School after breaking the school's single-season digs record as a senior and earning team MVP honors. Samojedny totaled 382 digs her senior campaign and 650 for her career to go along with 119 assists. She helped guide the Mustangs to back-to-back Willowbrook Tournament titles and an undefeated conference championship in her junior season.

https://riceowls.com/news/2019/4/24/wome...jedny.aspx

I think an All-Wise blocker is just what we need.

Wow, Brown is a major addition looking through her stats (she was 1st team all-AAC as a junior in 2017 when her team made it to the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament, and also honorable mention all-America). Her other two years at Wichita were impressive too (they also made the NCAA's in 2016) - she should be an immediate starter at Rice. The odd thing though is she has played four years of collegiate volleyball already (she played her freshman year at Alabama - but just half of that season so I guess they are getting a redshirt season for her?).

I'm thinking we'll have two top-25 teams most of next year on the women's side - both volleyball and basketball.

https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wi...02325.html

Article (from January) on Brown's transfer. She did get hurt at Alabama her freshman year.

Wow, reading some more on Brown. I was her mom's volleyball SID at UH 33 years ago when I first came to the city just out of college at UCLA. I remember her mom well. She's now a minister/author/motivational speaker (and volleyball coach) in Houston. Glad to see someone hasn't aged a day (can't say the same about me).

https://www.latishabrown.com/

(04-24-2019 03:09 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote: [ -> ]https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/wi...02325.html

Article (from January) on Brown's transfer. She did get hurt at Alabama her freshman year.

Wow, reading some more on Brown. I was her mom's volleyball SID at UH 33 years ago when I first came to the city just out of college at UCLA. I remember her mom well. She's now a minister/author/motivational speaker (and volleyball coach) in Houston. Glad to see someone hasn't aged a day (can't say the same about me).

https://www.latishabrown.com/

My daughter played club VB for Coach Brown with Tabitha at Willowbrook in their Jr. High years. Tabitha is a vey talented young lady from a great family.

Welcome to Rice!

Really great job by the coaching staff. The transfer phenomena has really help women sports at Rice. I wonder if soccer will start looking at transfers with the new coaching staff.