Four Owls Nominated for Good Works Team

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HOUSTON – Four Rice athletes have been honored as nominees for the Allstate NACDA (AFCA for soccer) Good Works Team, with Darby Harris (volleyball), Kate Twede (ladies’s cross nation), Plae Wyatt (AFCA – soccer) and Sophie Zhang all receiving nominations.
 
The Allstate NACDA Good Works Team is an initiative to acknowledge and honor student-athletes who show ranges of volunteerism and civic engagement which can be above and past their success and achievements within the classroom and competitors. The purpose of this system is to supply recognition for these future neighborhood leaders, their groups, educational establishments, and the communities they assist
 
Harris returns to Rice for her ultimate season of collegiate volleyball, the place she has been an excellent teammate, neighborhood chief, and group chief. She earned Rice Volleyball’s WE/ME award within the fall, symbolizing a group member who places the group above herself. For the 2024 season, Harris moved to a defensive specialist function and excelled, posting the second-most digs on the group at 290. The former CSC Academic All-District honor recipient has additionally earned a litany of different educational honors, together with the Rice Scholar Athlete Award, President’s Honor Roll, a number of convention educational honors, and has been named Rice Volleyball’s Most Studious Award winner twice. Harris volunteered for a number of organizations for neighborhood service this season, together with Achilles Houston, Belmont Village, and Star of Home.
 
Twede enters her senior yr for cross nation and has earned convention educational honors in every of her three seasons on the group. This previous yr, Twede has volunteered with Team Impact, Texas Children’s Hospital, Rice Holistic Garden, the Houston Marathon and as a Spanish interpreter for the San Jose Clinic, on prime of educational advising, volunteer conferences and organizational conferences.
 
Wyatt noticed his hopes to construct on a profitable 2023 season when he led the Owls in tackles come to an early finish when he was injured within the 2024 season opener vs. Sam Houston. But whereas sidelined from sport motion, he accomplished work on his undergraduate diploma in Sport Management and continued his dedication to varied neighborhood actions. His educational honors embody 4 convention educational honors and a Rice honor athlete recognition in 2025. Through the McKinney Yellow Jackets, based by his father, he has mentored and coached at-risk youth for over six years and prolonged this mission by founding the Plae Wyatt Free Youth Football Camp. At Rice, he actively serves the Houston neighborhood via metropolis occasions, mentoring, and outreach.
 
Zhang is coming off a profitable 2024 marketing campaign, the place she scored the game-winning purpose towards UAB within the American Quarterfinals, incomes a spot on the AAC All-Academic Team. The junior has collected American All-Academic honors her first two seasons with the Owls. Zhang has volunteered with the Memorial Herman Hospital, PAIR (Partnership for the Advancement and Immersion of Refugees) and Houston Food Bank, together with serving to at Hanszen College and Herman Park.
 
The Good Works Teams can be introduced on Tuesday, August 26.
 
 
 


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