Jence Ann Rhoads
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Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania | December 31, 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Center Back | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current club | Team Rogue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2014-present | Team Rogue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014-present | USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jence Ann Rhoads (born 31 December 1988) is an American former professional basketball player and a member of the United States women's national handball team.
Basketball
College
Rhoads played for Vanderbilt from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, she garnered first-team All-SEC honors and second-team all-conference honors by the Associated Press.[1] She was the only player in the schools history to have at least 1100 points, 500 assists and 400 rebounds.[2]
Club career
Rhoads signed with Úrvalsdeild kvenna club Haukar in August 2011.[3] On October 2, 2011, she helped Haukar win the Icelandic Company Cup by defeating Keflavík, 63-61, in the cup finals. In the game, Rhoads had 34 points and 10 rebounds.[4] In the final 16 of the Icelandic Basketball Cup, she scored 6 unanswered points during the last 20 seconds of Haukar's game against KR, sending the game to overtime. She ended having 23 points in Haukar's 78-73 victory.[5] During the Úrvalsdeild playoffs, she helped Haukar sweep defending champions Keflavík in the semi-finals, 3-0, scoring 31 points in the third and deciding game.[6][7] In the finals, Haukar lost to Njarðvík 3-1.[8] For the season, she led the league with 7.5 assists per game.[9]
Rhoads spent the 2012–2013 season with Sepsi SIC of the Romanian Liga Națională, averaging 11.7 points and 5.8 assists. In August, 2013, Rhoads signed with rivals BC ICIM Arad.[10] She helped ICIM Arad win the Cupa României[11] and finish second in the league.[2] After the season she retired from professional basketball to fully focus on her handball career.[12]
Awards, titles and accomplishments
Individual awards
- First-team All-SEC: 2010, 2011
Titles
- Cupa României: 2014
- Icelandic Company Cup: 2012
Accomplishments
- Romanian All-Star: 2014[13]
- Úrvalsdeild kvenna assists leader: 2012
Handball
As she went back from Romania in 2014 and she was searching for an other basketball club her mother a 1984 Olympian was at the 30th Olympic reunion. There USA Team Handball told her mother about the USA Team Handball Residency Program at the Auburn University. A few months later Rhoads attended the tryouts for the program and was named to the United States women's national handball team in 2014.[14]
In 2015, she helped the team win bronze at the Nor.Ca. Handball Championship.[15]
She has won with Team Rogue which is basically the national team the National Championships twice 2017 and 2018. In 2018 she was the top scorer of the Nationals.[16]
Academic
During her Basketball College career she did at Vanderbilt University a Bachelor in Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies. t the Residency Program at Auburn University she startet with a Master degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science witch she finished in 2015. Since 2016 she is working on a PhD in Kinesiology.[17]
Personal life
Rhoads mother, Melinda Rhoads, played for the United States national handball team for 10 years[18] and was a member of the 1984 U.S. Women's Olympic Handball Team. Her father, Robert Rhoads, is a former professional basketball player who played college basketball at Wake Forest University.[19]
References
- ↑ "Jence Rhoads". seniorclassaward.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- 1 2 Scridon, Daniel (30 December 2017). "A scris istorie în două discipline sportive!". aradon.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (10 August 2011). "Haukar búnar að semja við fjölhæfan leikstjórnanda". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (2 October 2011). "Haukakonur Lengjubikarmeistarar í körfunni". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "Haukar sendu KR-inga úr leik". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 9 January 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Skúli B. Sigurðsson (29 March 2012). "Gjörsigraðar í sínu eigin sláturhúsi". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). p. 3. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Óskar Ófeigur Jónsson (28 March 2012). "Íslandsmeistarar Keflavíkur sendar snemma í sumarfrí". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Eiríkur Stefán Ásgeirsson (14 April 2012). "Umfjöllun og viðtöl: Haukar - Njarðvík 62-76 - Njarðvík Íslandsmeistari". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "Tölfræði leikmanna". kki.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Glasul Aradului (30 August 2013). "Rhoads, noua coordonatoare de joc a ICIM-ului". glsa.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Cezar Romaniuc (28 March 2014). "Cupa Romaniei la baschet feminin merge pentru a doua oara in vitrina Univ. Goldis ICIM Arad!". sptfm.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "A scris istorie în două discipline sportive!". jurnalaradean.ro (in Romanian). 4 January 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "Sud-Nord, scor 68-61, în All Star Game la baschet feminin de la Târgovişte (video)". stiridb.ro (in Romanian). 29 March 2014. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "USA Handball - Part 2/3 - Jence Rhoads". Athlete Minded (Podcast). 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- ↑ Gascon, Dave (6 April 2015). "Team USA Wins Nor.Ca Bronze with Stunning Comeback". teamusa.org. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ Rhoads, Jence (2018-07-21). "Back 2 Back!". Instagram. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- ↑ Rhoads, Jence. "Jence Rhoads". Linkedin. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
- ↑ Johnson, Jon (14 April 2016). "USA women's Team Handball squad to play in Dothan during Alabama State Games". Dothan Eagle. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
- ↑ "Vanderbilt Women's Basketball - Jence Rhoads". vucommodores.com. Retrieved 2 April 2018.