Rice University Women's Track & Field

Email Coach Bevan 2025 TTFCA Hall of Fame 2023 Conference USA Outdoor Coach of the Year 2021 USTFCCCA South Central Cross Country Coach of the Year 2020 Conference USA Indoor Coach of the Year 2017 Elizabeth Gillis Award for Exemplary Service by Rice University (Award given to the one faculty/staff member at Rice for outstanding service to the school) 2016 Conference USA Cross Country Coach of the Year 2016 Conference USA Outdoor Coach of the Year 2015 Conference USA Cross Country Coach of the Year 2008 Conference USA Indoor Coach of the Year 2008 Conference USA Outdoor Coach of the Year 2007 NCAA South Central Regional Cross Country Coach of the Year 2007 Conference USA Cross Country Coach of the Year 2007 Conference USA Outdoor Coach of the Year 2007 Conference USA Indoor Coach of the Year 2005 Conference USA Cross Country Coach of the Year 2002 Western Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year 1999 Western Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year 1994 Southwest Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year Veteran cross country and track and field coach Jim Bevan enters his 40th season (2025-26) with the Rice women’s track and field program and his 21st year as head coach of the Rice Owls. During Rice's stay in Conference USA under Bevan’s tutelage, the Owls were one of the league’s annual contenders for the team trophy and captured 13 team titles between cross country (2005, 2007, 2015, 2016), indoor (2007, 2008, 2009, 2020) and outdoor (2007, 2008, 2009

Balandran enters her first season as a volunteer coach for the women's track and field team in 2023-24 after spending five seasons as a cross country and tra...

One of the greatest women's track and field athletes in Rice history, Andrea Blackett, is set to rejoin the Rice women's track and field coaching staff as th...

Cutter Bernhard enters his third season with the Rice women's track and field team in 2025-26. With the Owls, Bernhard works with the multis and jumps. Durin...

Email Coach Butler Widely regarded as one of the top technicians in the world, the "Zen Master of the pole vault," David Butler begins his 25th year as an assistant coach of both the men's and women's pole vaulters at Rice University, where he has produced over 70 conference and NCAA medal winners. Butler brings over 50 years of experience as a pole vaulter, educator, coach, clinician and historian. Most recently, Butler has worked with Alexander Slinkman, who earned First Team All-American honors at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships after placing seventh. A year prior, he earned Second Team All-American honors at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships (11th place) and also at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships (10th place). Under Butler's guidance, Slinkman has grabbed four C-USA pole vault titles and swept the indoor/outdoor pole vault titles at the conference meets in 2023 while setting a meet record at both (5.39m indoor, 5.43m outdoor). Slinkman was also a 2022 NCAA Outdoor All-American Honorable Mention after an 18th-place finish. So far, out of the many highlights of Butler’s coaching career at Rice, the number one highlight has to be Jason Colwick capturing both the Indoor and Outdoor NCAA Championships in the Pole Vault in 2009. During that campaign Colwick cleared 18-9.25 (5.72) outdoors and 18-7.25 indoors (5.67). These are both school records and were the top marks in the NCAA that year. Colwick, who graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, also posted the

Mark Rodriguez enters his first season with the Rice men's and women's track & field teams in 2023-24. A veteran coach of 35 years, Rodriguez joins the Owls ...

Hunter-Galvan returns to South Main for her first season on the women's track and field staff in 2025-26, where she will serve as the Director of Track & Fie...

Vince Anderson is in his 38th year of coaching sprinters and hurdlers. Based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, he currently trains seven athletes striving to make their respective national teams for the 2023 World Championships. Starting in 1986, Anderson coached 34 years at the NCAA Division1 level. Most recently, he coached 15 years at Texas A&M. Prior to his stint with the Aggies, he coached 16 years at the University of Tennessee and three years at the University of Houston. He has trained NCAA Champions in every sprint and hurdle event. Since 1995, Anderson has trained 12 Olympians and 19 athletes who competed at the IAAF World Championships, including Phyllis Francis, 2017 World Champion at 400 meters and Bryce Deadmon, 2023 USA champion at 400 meters. Heavily influenced by athletes of the mind, Anderson aspires to develop “worldly athletes” – educated men and women who put their education into maximum effect.