New offer out to Emirson Devenie of Australia (now playing in Canada). She's a 6-1 guard with a bunch of other offers (not high level ones). I've seen her listed as Class of 2021 on some listings, but I think she's now considered a Class of 2022 recruit. But if she could somehow reclassify as a 2021 recruit, I think she can help the team now and I say bring her aboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqAdqFmmIM8

(07-27-2021 08:13 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  New offer out to Emirson Devenie of Australia (now playing in Canada). She's a 6-1 guard with a bunch of other offers (not high level ones). I've seen her listed as Class of 2021 on some listings, but I think she's now considered a Class of 2022 recruit. But if she could somehow reclassify as a 2021 recruit, I think she can help the team now and I say bring her aboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqAdqFmmIM8

Her twitter profile says Class of '22.

Jaquez commits to UCLA which isn't too surprising. California through and through and follows in her brother's footsteps. A real bummer because she would've been dynamite scoring the ball in CUSA.

(06-06-2021 11:25 AM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(06-06-2021 10:13 AM)elw4796 Wrote:  

(06-05-2021 10:31 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(06-05-2021 10:20 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Edmonds first offer-- shooting guard/small forward, class of '22...

Quote:Laila McLeod
@laila_mcleod
Extremely grateful to receive an offer from Rice University! Blue heart
@RiceWBB
@LindsaySEdmonds
@CoachNick_G
@sthoyas

A 5-10 PF from Duncanville, Tex.

Link to her Hudl page: https://www.hudl.com/profile/10615252/Laila-McLeod

Offers from TCU, SMU, Penn, Columbia, and a bunch of CUSA programs.

Duncanville won the 6A championship this past year.

Other offers include Cleveland State, Grand Canyon, Austin Peay, East Tennessee State, Morgan State, South Alabama, and Morgan State.

McLeod picks....Grand Canyon.

(08-02-2021 10:01 AM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(06-06-2021 11:25 AM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(06-06-2021 10:13 AM)elw4796 Wrote:  

(06-05-2021 10:31 PM)Almadenmike Wrote:  

(06-05-2021 10:20 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  Edmonds first offer-- shooting guard/small forward, class of '22...

A 5-10 PF from Duncanville, Tex.

Link to her Hudl page: https://www.hudl.com/profile/10615252/Laila-McLeod

Offers from TCU, SMU, Penn, Columbia, and a bunch of CUSA programs.

Duncanville won the 6A championship this past year.

Other offers include Cleveland State, Grand Canyon, Austin Peay, East Tennessee State, Morgan State, South Alabama, and Morgan State.

McLeod picks....Grand Canyon.

Well they’ve shown a bigger commitment to basketball than Rice ever has.

McLeod was offered by Grand Canyon 8 months ago, by Rice 2 months ago. Pretty sure that's the reason for the decision.

(07-26-2021 12:27 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  

(07-26-2021 12:02 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(10-15-2020 01:44 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Jada Brown (Bentonville, AR), Class of 2022, committed to Rice.

https://www.hudl.com/profile/11541733/Jada-Brown
https://twitter.com/jadabrown__

Quote:Jada Brown
@jadabrown__

Jul 13
After much prayer, consideration, and with the support of my family, I have reopened my recruitment.

She has recently been offered by Oklahoma and Marquette.

Keeping 2/4 recruits in this day and age isn't actually all too bad. A shame that both will end up playing power conference ball, but nothing you can really do with a coaching change.

Brown commits to Vanderbilt.

(08-02-2021 12:26 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(07-26-2021 12:27 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  

(07-26-2021 12:02 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  

(10-15-2020 01:44 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Jada Brown (Bentonville, AR), Class of 2022, committed to Rice.

https://www.hudl.com/profile/11541733/Jada-Brown
https://twitter.com/jadabrown__

Quote:Jada Brown
@jadabrown__

Jul 13
After much prayer, consideration, and with the support of my family, I have reopened my recruitment.

She has recently been offered by Oklahoma and Marquette.

Keeping 2/4 recruits in this day and age isn't actually all too bad. A shame that both will end up playing power conference ball, but nothing you can really do with a coaching change.

Brown commits to Vanderbilt.

She jumped from Rice to the Rice of the power conferences. But education + SEC + struggling program at which minutes might be available for a freshman is a good combo.

Women picked up a commitment, per Twitter chatter. Don't know who, though.

(08-08-2021 08:13 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Women picked up a commitment, per Twitter chatter. Don't know who, though.

Hope it's a transfer.

(08-08-2021 09:49 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(08-08-2021 08:13 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Women picked up a commitment, per Twitter chatter. Don't know who, though.

Hope it's a transfer.

Still no news about this which makes me lean transfer over recruit. I can't recall a time when a coach announced an addition who was a HS recruit and there wasn't news within a couple days (because it's basically just an announcement on social media). Delay makes me think paperwork prior to announcement. Of course now that I write that it's definitely going to be a high schooler.

Madison Cockrell, who the staff was really after during tournament play, committed to UTSA. Still no news about the player that Grant and Edmonds' husband tweeted about two weeks ago.

(reminder that the semester starts soon and we don't have a backup PG to Jackson or a backup Post)

https://riceowls.com/sports/womens-baske...ehead/7454

New addition to the roster - Robin Whitehead, 5-8 guard from Atascocita. She looks pretty good on tape - had some injuries which set her back a bit her senior year but she finished very strong in the playoffs (including scoring 30 in one playoff game).

Offer out to Reychel Douglas. Class of 2023, 6'0" gaurd out of Raleigh, NC.
Looks to have offers from Georgetown, Mississippi State, Georgia, Virginia Tech, ECU, Pitt, Florida, Vanderbilt, James Madison, Charlotte, Northeastern, Wofford, Hampton.
http://www.espn.com/high-school/girls-ba.../id/239031

https://twitter.com/ReychelDouglas

(07-13-2021 05:51 PM)dragon2owl Wrote:  Offer out to Victoria Flores, 2023, a 5'8" gaurd from Pinkston High School (Dallas). Also has offers from SFA and UTSA.

https://twitter.com/victoriaf2023

https://twitter.com/victoriaf2023

Looks like Victoria is at Rice right now on an unofficial visit.

Looks like the staff hosted 2023 Layla Conley and 2023 Zanai Barnett this weekend. We've offered Conley (she also has offers from a few of the smaller Texas schools). Don't really know anything about Barnett.

Same for Laci Steele, also a 2023 whom we've offered.

Add 2023 PG Malia Samuels to the list of visitors this past weekend. Ranked #45 in ESPN's 2023 Super 60. Has taken unofficial visits to Washington State and Cal and has a bunch of other high-major programs interested.

Ton of talent in Texas this past weekend for John Lucas's elite camp, which is why so many unofficial visitors. Other players we're recruiting who were also there: Kymora Johnson (2023 #33), Reychel Douglas (2023 #49), Gisella Maul (2023 #51), Laci Steele (2023 top ranked OK prep player), Mary Carter (2023), Jadyn Atchison (2023).

(09-06-2021 10:16 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Add 2023 PG Malia Samuels to the list of visitors this past weekend. Ranked #45 in ESPN's 2023 Super 60. Has taken unofficial visits to Washington State and Cal and has a bunch of other high-major programs interested.

Ton of talent in Texas this past weekend for John Lucas's elite camp, which is why so many unofficial visitors. Other players we're recruiting who were also there: Kymora Johnson (2023 #33), Reychel Douglas (2023 #49), Gisella Maul (2023 #51), Laci Steele (2023 top ranked OK prep player), Mary Carter (2023), Jadyn Atchison (2023).

Zanai Barnett (2023), as well.

(09-06-2021 11:10 PM)waltgreenberg Wrote:  

(09-06-2021 10:16 PM)elw4796 Wrote:  Add 2023 PG Malia Samuels to the list of visitors this past weekend. Ranked #45 in ESPN's 2023 Super 60. Has taken unofficial visits to Washington State and Cal and has a bunch of other high-major programs interested.

Ton of talent in Texas this past weekend for John Lucas's elite camp, which is why so many unofficial visitors. Other players we're recruiting who were also there: Kymora Johnson (2023 #33), Reychel Douglas (2023 #49), Gisella Maul (2023 #51), Laci Steele (2023 top ranked OK prep player), Mary Carter (2023), Jadyn Atchison (2023).

Zanai Barnett (2023), as well.

I mentioned Barnett a couple posts up because she was actually on campus. The above (outside of Steele) were at the camp but didn't make it to campus.

A recruit who I admittedly didn't even know we were targeting has announced her top 6 and Rice is on it. Elle Ladine, a 2022 G who's ranked #75 by ESPN. Rice makes the final 6 along with USC, Iowa State, Cal, Colorado, and Washington. Obviously would be a massive commitment, however likely or unlikely. You could probably guess but she's from California, which explains the Pac-12 heavy list. It's typically pretty difficult to pry west coasters from the west coast. Though I'd hope it'd be easier to sell her on Houston than Ames, Iowa.

And some fun notes! This means that Grant is recruiting against his wife (USC) and that as a program we're up against Langley, King, Alejandro, and co.

Per this article, her rise came from seemingly nowhere. https://almanacnews.com/news/2021/08/18/...the-making