RICEOWLS.COM HOME
RICEOWLS.COM OWLS ON TWITTER


 
19  Clay Van Hook
Clay Van Hook

Position:
Assistant Coach

At Rice:
1st Season


05/17/2012

Owls Meet UCF Thursday In Crucial C-USA Series

League's Regular Season Championship Is On The Line In Orlando

05/14/2012

Owls Play Four Big Road Games This Week

Listen To The Rice Broadcast On-line

05/10/2012

Owls Host Blazers In Final Regular Season Home Games

Join Us For Senior Day On Sunday (May 13)

05/07/2012

Owls Host Stephen F. Austin Tuesday At 6:05 PM

Game Set For A Television Broadcast By Comcast Sports Southwest

05/03/2012

Owls Host Houston Friday Night At Reckling Park

All Three Silver Glove Games To Be Televised This Weekend

04/19/2012

RIce 5, Texas A&M 4

The Owls rallied to down the Aggies 5-4 in College Station on April 17.

02/23/2012

Clay Van Hook

Images from his career as an Owl

02/22/2012

Rice 5, FIU 4 (12 innings)

Rice downed FIU 5-4 in 12 innings on Saturday, February 18

02/19/2012

Rice 8. FIU 1 2/19/2012

Rice completed a three-game sweep of FIU with an 8-1 win on Sunday

Clay Van Hook is in his first year with the Rice coaching staff after serving the previous two seasons as an assistant at McNeese State.

While at McNeese State Van Hook worked with infielders, helped with the team's hitting, and served as the Cowboys' third base coach. He had a role in recruiting and helped MSU post its first winning record in four years in his very first season with the program in 2010.

Rice head coach Wayne Graham stated that the addition of Van Hook in the summer of 2011 helped foster some new chemistry on the coaching staff while simultaneously paying respect to the past.

"Clay has been coaching a few years and he's from a baseball family who has been a student of the game his whole life,"Graham said. "His work-ethic is off the scale. He's been able to get the most out of his own ability and he will be able to do the same with the players around him.

"His father (Kyle Van Hook) was an assistant coach for me at San Jacinto for two years, and we won the national championship in both years (1989 & `90). The Van Hook family and I are 2-0 in winning national championships," Graham quipped.

A native of Brenham, Tex., Clay played one season at Navarro College before becoming a three-year letterman at the University of Texas (2005-07). He earned second team all-Big 12 and was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the major league draft.

Van Hook earned his degree at Texas in 2008 while serving one season as a student-coach with the Longhorns. On game days Van Hook will coach first base. In addition to his on-field duties at Rice, he will take over the administering of the Owls' popular Youth Baseball Camps (a role formerly held by current assistant coach Patrick Hallmark).

Van Hook and his wife, Selina, live in Pearland, Tex.

GAMEDAY CENTRAL
 
ASK THE AD
RICE.EDU CONFERENCEUSA.COM NCAA.COM RICE UNIVERSITY - 100 YEARS