Jence Ann Rhoads

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Jence Ann Rhoads
Personal information
Born (1988-12-31) December 31, 1988 (age 35)
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
NationalityFlag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Center Back
Club information
Current club Flag of Spain.svg CB Atlético Guardés
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2014–2019
 Flag of the United States.svg Team Rogue
2019–
 Flag of Spain.svg CB Atlético Guardés
National team
YearsTeam
2014–present
 USA
Medal record
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Women's Handball
Nor.Ca. Handball Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Salinas Team competition
Basketball career
Career information
High school Slippery Rock
College Vanderbilt (2007–2011)
WNBA draft 2011: undrafted
Playing career2011–2014
Position Point guard
Number10, 22
Career history
2011–2012 Flag of Iceland.svg Haukar
2012–2013 Flag of Romania.svg Sepsi SIC
2013–2014 Flag of Romania.svg ICIM Arad
Career highlights and awards

Jence Ann Rhoads (born 31 December 1988) is an American professional handball player, a member of the United States women's national handball team and former professional basketball player .

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Personal life

Rhoads mother, Melinda Rhoads, played for the United States national handball team for 10 years [1] 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. [2]

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. [3] She was the only player in the school's history to have at least 1100 points, 500 assists and 400 rebounds. [4]

Vanderbilt statistics

Source [5]

Ratios
YEARTeamGPFG%3P%FT%RBGAPGBPGSPGPPG
2007–08Vanderbilt3438.8%23.1%62.2%2.823.350.030.853.82
2008–09Vanderbilt3549.7%25.0%83.9%2.313.770.341.206.31
2009–10Vanderbilt3247.1%47.4%72.7%3.345.030.311.4413.78
2010–11Vanderbilt2945.0%20.0%61.2%4.934.830.451.0311.72
Career13045.8%32.6%69.7%3.284.210.281.138.71
Totals
YEARTeamGPFGFGA3P3PAFTFTAREBABKSTPTS
2007–08Vanderbilt3452134313233796114129130
2008–09Vanderbilt3584169145262811321242221
2009–10Vanderbilt3218839991956771071611046441
2010–11Vanderbilt2913930921060981431401330340
Career13046310111546191274427547361471132

Club career

Rhoads signed with Úrvalsdeild kvenna club Haukar in August 2011. [6] 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. [7] 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. [8] 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. [9] [10] In the finals, Haukar lost to Njarðvík 3–1. [11] For the season, she led the league with 7.5 assists per game. [12]

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. [13] She helped ICIM Arad win the Cupa României [14] and finish second in the league. [4] After the season she retired from professional basketball to fully focus on her handball career. [15]

Awards, titles and accomplishments

Individual awards

  • First-team All-SEC : 2010, 2011

Titles

Accomplishments

Handball

As she went back from Romania in 2014 and she was searching for another 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. [17]

In 2015, she helped the team win bronze at the Nor.Ca. Handball Championship. [18]

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. [19]

In March 2019 she received a contact to play until the end of the season for the Spanish handball club CB Atlético Guardés with an extension option. [20]

Academic

During her Basketball college career she did at Vanderbilt University a Bachelor in Multi / Interdisciplinary Studies. At the Residency Program at Auburn University she started with a master's degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science which she finished in 2015. In 2016 she started on a PhD in Kinesiology. [21]

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