Donate blood and support your Rice Owls baseball team. Come out early to the Rice-Texas baseball game on Tuesday, March 16 between 1:00-5:00 p.m., and donate blood at the Rice Athletics Blood Drive sponsored by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the Methodist Hospital System. Please note it must be at least 56 days since you have last donated blood to be eligible. Those who participated in the January blood drive will need to wait until the April 8 blood drive. Opportunities to be swabbed to be matched with a bone marrow transplant will also be available.

The event will take place in Fox Gym prior to Rice-UT. T-shirts and refreshments will be provided to donors. For more information, please contact Angela Wo at awo369@gmail.com

Said Wo, a senior swimmer and co-president of SAAC: "SAAC has participated in a variety of community projects including a food drive and a cell phone drive, but this is our first year hosting a blood drive in conjunction with the Methodist Hospital System. It gives us an opportunity to host an on-campus event that integrates our students, faculty, staff, and fans. In addition, this blood drive allows us to be able to do good for the citizens of the Houston area who are in need of donated blood. The Methodist Hospital System has been a great supporter of Rice Athletics and we are pleased to be able to collaborate with them."