The Rice Owls are preparing for the 2014 Conference USA Championships in Atlanta, Georgia next weekend, and volunteer assistant Mike Peron made a video with some highlights from the team’s regular season. In true intelligentsia fashion, Rice has eschewed mainstream American pop in exchange for the #1 Brit single Love Me Again by John Newman.
The lyrics of the song are perhaps a plea to their fans to “Love them Again,” given that most of the video was shot at the pool of cross-town rivals the University of Houston. Kidding!
Conference-USA Women
- Dates: Wednesday, February 26th – Saturday, March 1st
- Location: Georgia Tech Aquatic Center, Atlanta, GA (Eastern Time Zone)
- Defending Champion: Rice (results)
- Live Results:
- Live Video (If available):
- Championship Central: Here.
Quick Hit: The new-look C-USA returns defending champions Rice, along with their stud breaststroker Rachel Moody, who has really broken out as a junior. SMU and Houston are gone to the AAC, but the conference is now up to 9 teams, including East Carolina, FIU, Florida Atlantic, Marshall, North Texas, Old Dominion, Tulane and Western Kentucky.
Editor’s note: Western Kentucky has jumped ahead of the other sports by a season into Conference USA as an affiliate member since the Sun Belt dropped women’s swimming.
There’s nine teams in C-USA. Not eight. Rice, ECU, WKU, North Texas, FIU, FAU, Marshall, ODU and Tulane.
Good call Coach. WKU doesn’t formally join the conference until the summer, but are an affiliate in swimming this year with the dissolution of the Sun Belt. Will correct above.
Super cute video – Go Owls!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRfZhW9_O8s
http://www.riceowls.com/sports/w-swim/spec-rel/021714aab.html