88  Vance McDonald
	Class: Senior Hometown: Winnie High School: East Chambers Height / Weight: 6-5 / 260 Position: WR Experience: 3L

2011
Topped 1,000 career receiving yards with four catches for 48 yards at SMU...Shattered his previous career-bests with a monster effort in the Owls Homecoming win over UTEP... Caught eight passes for 157 yards and a touchdown... TD was the 13th of his career, moving him into a tie for 6th on the Rice career chart... Matched his career-long reception with a 49-yard scoring play at Marshall.... Led the team with a season-high six catches and two TD receptions at Baylor... Held to one catch vs. Tulsa, breaking a streak of 10 games with at least three catches... Has at least three catches in the last 11 of his last 12 games over the last two seasons... Has 12 career TD catches and needs one more to move into a three-way tie for sixth on the Owls' career list. .. Tied for the team lead with four catches for 25 yards in the opener at Texas.

2010
Named the Owls' top receiver after earning the George R. Brown Award for receivers... Caught five touchdowns over the final three games to finish with eight, sixth-best season total in school history.... Also caught 14 passes for 223 yards and rushed the ball three times for 19 more the final three games... Became the sixth Owl to catch at least three touchdown passes in the same game when he grabbed three at Tulane... Finished the day with five catches for a career-best 103 yards.... First Owl to top 100 yards in receiving since Toren Dixon vs. Tulane in 2009... Led the team with three catches at Tulsa, including a career long of 49 yards... Matched his career high with six catches against Houston, including the game-winning TD (13 yards from Nick Fanuzzi with less than five minutes left in the game... Caught his first two career touchdown passes at UTEP... Returned to action vs. SMU after missing two games with an injury sustained at North Texas... Made his second career start in the opener against Texas and caught one pass for four yards.

2009
Earned C-USA All Freshman honors after catching 12 pass in his first season... Caught a pair of passes for 35 yards at SMU, including a career-best 27 yarder.... Missed two games due to an injury sustained vs. Tulsa, but returned to action with a catch against UCF... Made his first start vs. Vanderbilt... Caught a career-best six for 50 yards at Oklahoma State... Picked up his first two career receptions at Texas Tech... Made his debut in the opener at UAB and partially blocked a punt on the first series of the season.

East Chambers High School
2008 graduate of East Chambers High School... Three-year letterman for coach Tony Valastro... Earned all-district 24-2A honors as both a tight end and defensive end as a senior... East Chambers won district titles in both his junior and senior year... Also competed in basketball and track... District defensive MVP and second-team, all-district as a senior center... Qualified for regionals in track for three seasons... competed in the long jump, triple jump and anchored East Chambers' sprint relay teams. A member of the National Honor Society and served as Treasurer... Senior class vice president and president of the student council... Ranked fifth in his graduation class.

Personal
Full Name: Vance Coman McDonald... Born: June 13, 1990 at Beaumont... Parents: Bret and Beverly McDonald (one brother, one sister)... Father was a linebacker at Texas... Rice major: Kinesiology - - -

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