HUTCHINSON INITIATIVE

Rice Sport Analytics Team

The Rice Sport Analytics Team (RSAT) is a student-run organization that functions much like an internal analytics department for Rice Athletics. The club features separate student divisions dedicated to supporting Baseball, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, Football, Soccer, and Volleyball.

Members of RSAT are actively involved in collecting data, scouting upcoming opponents, and completing sport-specific research projects. Students regularly attend practices and games, communicating directly with coaches and sometimes sitting in the dugout or on the team bench during games. This close collaboration helps coaches make data-informed decisions while giving students true on-the-job experience.

Students work with advanced data sources, including tracking data, event data, and kinematic data from our baseball facilities, to deliver professional-grade insights for varsity coaches. Beyond their on-campus work, RSAT members regularly showcase their skills by winning national analytics hackathons and case competitions against other universities.

For more details, visit the RSAT website.

If you are a Rice student interested in getting involved with the Rice Sport Analytics Team, contact RSAT President Owen Marye or the Sport Analytics Lead for your sport of interest.

Featured Leadership

Featured Alumni

Alum Debut Org Debut Role
Nathaniel Ascher ’26 Chicago Cubs Jr Data Scientist
Kushal Gupta ’26 Houston Dynamo Data Analyst
Ian Kleppinger ’26 Arizona Diamondbacks Baseball Research & Development Associate
Dante Maurice '26 Kansas City Royals Research & Development Analyst
Savan Patel ’26 Miami Dolphins Football Analytics Staff Assistant
Robert Cowan ’25 Phoenix Suns Applied Scientist
Jacob Hahn ’25 Chicago Cubs Baseball Operations Analyst
Jonah Lubin ’25 Oakland Raiders Football Data Scientist
Elizabeth (Ellie) Sepúlveda ’25 Minnesota Twins Sports Science Analyst
Jeff Brover ’24 Seattle Mariners Data Strategist
Taylor Shui '24 Houston Astros Integration Engineer