School: Fanshawe
Program: Police Foundations
Year of Eligibility: 2
Sport: Cross Country
Hometown: Ingersoll, Ont.
Rice became the new OCAA individual cross country champion, winning the women's 6km race in a time of 24:56.7, thirty-eight seconds ahead of silver medalist and defending champion Catherine Irwin of St. Lawrence at the Lappe Nordic Ski Centre in Thunder Bay on Oct. 29. Rice also helped the Fanshawe Falcons successfully defend their OCAA women's team championship. The second-year runner is also a member of the OCAA All-Ontario First-Team. Rice is now bound for Medicine Hat, Alta., for the national championship race on Nov. 12.

All OCAA Stars of the Week will receive an acrylic bag tag courtesy of Nothers, the Preferred Awards Supplier of the OCAA.