The state’s 2019-20 Gatorade Player of the Year, the 6-foot senior guard had led the Quakers to a 26-0 record and a berth in the DCSAA Tournament semifinals at the time of her selection. Rice averaged 15.8 points, 7.2 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 2.7 steals per game through 26 games. A member of the 2021 USA Basketball U18 Junior National 3x3 Team that won a gold medal at the World Cup in Hungary, Rice also won a gold medal with the U16 National Team at the 2019 FIBA Americas Championships in Chile. She is a McDonald’s All-American Game selection and a finalist for the 2022 Naismith Award.
Rice has maintained a B-plus average in the classroom. She has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at UCLA this fall.
Also the 2018-19 Washington D.C. Girls Soccer Player of the Year, Rice has volunteered locally with So Others Might Eat and as a mentor to younger Sidwell Friends students. She has also donated her time as a veteran leader in the Sidwell Friends Athletic Leadership Academy.
