67  Preston Thompson
	Class: RS Junior Hometown: El Paso High School: Coronado Height / Weight: 6-6 / 290 Position: OL Experience: 2L

Rice-- Opened the year as the starter at left offensive tackle and made seven starts before illness and an ankle injury limited his playing time...injury continued to plague him in the spring and he heads into fall camp listed as the No. 2 right tackle.

2007: Made his first career start in his first career collegiate action against Nicholls... started the first seven games this season to earn his first letter, then missed the Marshall and UTEP games with an illness...returned to play against SMU, but then injured an ankle and missed the final two games of the year.

2006: Reserve

2005: Redshirt.

High School -- 2005 graduate of Coronado High in El Paso... Two-year letterman and starter for coach Don Brooks... All-District 1-5A lineman... First-team all-city selection by the El Paso Times... Honorable mention all-state and member of the THSCA academic all-state squad... The Thunderbirds' team captain... Listed among the top 300 recruits by Dave Campbell's Texas Football and Rivals.com, and tabbed one of 10 "players to watch" by the Times... Participated in the Nike Training Camp/Combine at College Station in 2004... Also competed in the weight events in track for the Thunderbirds... National Honor Society... Who's Who Among American High School Students... National Honor Roll... Participated in the National Leadership Forum-Medicine at UCLA... Chose Rice over UTEP, New Mexico State, Colorado State, Texas Tech and Michigan State.

Personal -- Full Name: Preston Forbes Thompson... Born: May 15, 1987, at El Paso... Parents: Mark and Gay Thompson, El Paso (one brother).. Rice major: kinesiology.

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