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2025-26 Track & Field Roster

Jim Agnew
Jim Agnew
Jim Agnew

Austin Rice

  • Position Sprints
  • Hometown Haymarket, Va.
  • High School Battlefield

Biography

2024-25 Season
Earned CAA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll distinction during the fall semester.
Indoor Track & Field: Named CAA Men's Track Athlete of the Week on 2/11/2025 … Ran the top four 400m times in program history, the fastest being 47.59 at the East Coast Invitational (2/7-8/25), the 24th-best mark in the Southeast Region … A member of the 4x400m relay team that broke the school record at the same meet before breaking it again at the CAA Championships (2/26-27/25), posting a time of 3:12.40 … Won the 500m at the Dick Taylor Carolina Challenge (1/17-18/25) … Set the 300m school record at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational (2/14-15/25), crossing the line in 33.86 … Placed third in the 400m at the CAA Championships (2/26-27/25) with a time of 47.79.
Outdoor Track & Field: Ran four of the top six 400m times in program history, the fastest being a school-record 47.32 at the Virginia Challenge (4/18-19/25), the 37th-best mark in the Southeast Region … A member of the 4x400m relay team that broke the school record at the Penn Relays (4/24-26/25) before breaking it again at the CAA Championships (5/14-15/25), posting a time of 3:09.63 … At the same meet, finished seventh in the 400m with a time of 47.52 … Set a personal best in the 200m at the Dan Stimson Memorial Invitational (3/29/25), becoming the school’s eighth-fastest all-time performer in the event.

2022-23 Season
Indoor Track & Field:
 Set the William & Mary 400m freshman record at the Brant Tolsma Invitational (1/21/23) with a time of 48.73… He shaved nearly two seconds off the previous record time, which was set at the 1984 IC4A Championships… Was just shy of the W&M freshman record at the Navy Invitational (12/03/22), running a 1:05.52. 
Outdoor Track & Field: Broke the William & Mary 400m freshman record in back-to-back competitions, lastly at the IC4A Championship (05/14/23), with a time of 47.98… Finished second in the 400m at the Duke Invitational (04/08/23) with a then-PR time of 48.91… Posted a top-20 finish in the 400m dash at the Colonial Relays (03/31/23).

Prep
Won a team state championship in track and field … A member of two national champion relay teams … Played varsity football at Battlefield … Achieved a high school GPA over 4.0 … Received local computer science awards … Member of the National Honor Society.
 
Personal
Son of Richard and Shannon Rice.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

    Sprints
  • 2023-24Sophomore

    Sprints
  • 2024-25Junior

    Sprints
  • 2025-26Senior

    Sprints