| Jence Ann Rhoads | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 31 December 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position: | Center Back | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Currentclub: | CB Atlético Guardés | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years1: | 2014–2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clubs1: | Team Rogue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years2: | 2019– | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Clubs2: | CB Atlético Guardés | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationalyears1: | 2014–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationalteam1: | USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
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]
2014
2012
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]