“I LIKE A few shots of excitement
here and there,” says FBI special
agent Sherry Rice—and she means that literally. A gold
medalist in pistol shooting at last year’s Texas Police
Olympics, where all her competitors were men, Rice specializes
in firearms instruction, counterterrorism and crime-scene investigation.
She has been called from her Houston base to comb through high-profile
disaster sites including Nairobi (2001 embassy bombing), Staten
Island dump (September 11) and, most recently, East Texas (space
shuttle explosion). In her next assignment, she’ll investigate
crimes on New Mexico’s Indian reservations. As for the
pistol shooting, she confesses with a laugh, “I really
don’t care that much about it. I just like beating the
men and then gloating.”
