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Born |
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania | December 31, 1988|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Center Back | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Current club | CB Atlético Guardés | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2019 | Team Rogue | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019– | CB Atlético Guardés | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014–present | USA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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 .
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]
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]
Source[5]
YEAR | Team | GP | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RBG | APG | BPG | SPG | PPG |
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2007–08 | Vanderbilt | 34 | 38.8% | 23.1% | 62.2% | 2.82 | 3.35 | 0.03 | 0.85 | 3.82 |
2008–09 | Vanderbilt | 35 | 49.7% | 25.0% | 83.9% | 2.31 | 3.77 | 0.34 | 1.20 | 6.31 |
2009–10 | Vanderbilt | 32 | 47.1% | 47.4% | 72.7% | 3.34 | 5.03 | 0.31 | 1.44 | 13.78 |
2010–11 | Vanderbilt | 29 | 45.0% | 20.0% | 61.2% | 4.93 | 4.83 | 0.45 | 1.03 | 11.72 |
Career | 130 | 45.8% | 32.6% | 69.7% | 3.28 | 4.21 | 0.28 | 1.13 | 8.71 |
YEAR | Team | GP | FG | FGA | 3P | 3PA | FT | FTA | REB | A | BK | ST | PTS |
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2007–08 | Vanderbilt | 34 | 52 | 134 | 3 | 13 | 23 | 37 | 96 | 114 | 1 | 29 | 130 |
2008–09 | Vanderbilt | 35 | 84 | 169 | 1 | 4 | 52 | 62 | 81 | 132 | 12 | 42 | 221 |
2009–10 | Vanderbilt | 32 | 188 | 399 | 9 | 19 | 56 | 77 | 107 | 161 | 10 | 46 | 441 |
2010–11 | Vanderbilt | 29 | 139 | 309 | 2 | 10 | 60 | 98 | 143 | 140 | 13 | 30 | 340 |
Career | 130 | 463 | 1011 | 15 | 46 | 191 | 274 | 427 | 547 | 36 | 147 | 1132 |
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]
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]
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]