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WACO, Texas – After four weeks off, No. 7 Baylor equestrian (1-1) returns to action with two meets this weekend at No. 6 Oklahoma State (0-1) and against No. 5 Fresno State (2-0).
LAWRENCE, Kan. – The No. 6/6 Baylor Lady Bears face Kansas Saturday at 4 p.m. on ESPN+ at Allen Fieldhouse.
WACO, Texas (March 5, 2021) – After winter storms postponed committee meetings during February's quarterly meeting, the Baylor University Board of Regents reconvened committee meetings virtually this week with the full Board taking subsequent action to approve construction of an Autism Center and appointment of a new Student Regent. In addition, the Board announced the slate of Alumni-elected Regent candidates for the upcoming election this spring.
WACO, Texas – The bottom half of the singles lineup took wins and the No. 15-ranked Baylor women's tennis team took the doubles point up front to beat TCU Thursday in a non-conference matchup at the Hurd Tennis Center, 4-3.
KC Lightfoot was named Men's Performer of the Year and Ackera Nugent earned Women's Outstanding Freshman of the Year as the Big 12 Conference announced its 2021 indoor track & field honors Thursday afternoon.
Asking Glenn Moore to name Baylor softball's best player of all time would be like asking him to pick his favorite child.
WACO, Texas – Baylor will host its first weekend series of 2021 when it welcomes in Memphis to Baylor Ballpark beginning on Friday at 6:30 p.m. The two teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 2 p.m. with the first game going seven innings and the second the full nine innings. The series will finish up on Sunday at 12 p.m.
Baylor track & field will send nine student-athletes to the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark., it was officially announced by the NCAA.
WACO, Texas – Baylor's Bayley Humphrey was named the NCATA Freshman of the Week, the organization announced on Thursday. Humphrey is only the second player in program history to win the weekly award.
WACO, Texas – Baylor junior power forward NaLyssa Smith earned a spot on the Naismith/WBCA Katrina McClain Award 'Final Five' list, Thursday. The McClain Award, in its fourth year, recognizes the top power forward in women's NCAA Division I college basketball.
Baylor junior guard Jared Butler has been named one of 10 semifinalists for the Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Men's Player of the Year, as announced Thursday by the Atlanta Tip-Off Club.
For the second-consecutive year, KC Lightfoot has been named U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division I South Central Region Men's Field Athlete of the Year, as the USTFCCCA announced its awards for the 2020 indoor track & field season on Thursday.
Champions' TriBUne is a special feature through Baylor Athletics that gives you the student-athlete's perspective and the chance for them to share their own story. Andy Thomas, a fifth-year senior catcher from Murrieta, Calif., is a career .320 hitter with 10 homers, 34 doubles and 89 RBI. Awarded a Prentice Gautt Big 12 Postgraduate Scholarship, Thomas is working on an MBA after earning his undergrad degree in marketing. Baylor baseball hosts Memphis in a four-game series this weekend at Baylor Ballpark, starting with Friday's 6:30 p.m. game.
The health and well-being of our campus community is our top priority, particularly as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on and we near the end of the spring semester.
WACO, Texas (March 4, 2021) – Stephanie Gerow, Ph.D., assistant professor of educational psychology in the Baylor University School of Education, has earned a coveted grant from the U.S. Department of Education to fund research that will provide early childhood professionals with behavioral intervention training for children with developmental disabilities.
WACO, Texas (March 4, 2021) – Baylor University today announced a $1.5 million gift from Stephen and Lori Angel of Connecticut, and their children, Logan Angel (B.A. ’13) of Dallas, and Mason Angel of Venice Beach, California, through the Angel Family Foundation to support student scholarships within the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work’s Global Mission Leadership (GML) Program.
Irving, Texas – Fourteen Bears from 10 different sports have been awarded the 2021 Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12 Conference's highest academic honor, the league announced on Wednesday.
WACO, Texas – After a 10-day layoff, the No. 15-ranked Baylor Women's Tennis Team will play host to TCU in a non-conference match Thursday at Noon at the Hurd Tennis Center.
IRVING, Texas – No. 6 Baylor volleyball's senior MB Preslie Anderson has been named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, as announced by the conference office Wednesday morning.
WACO, Texas (March 3, 2021) – During the recent winter storms that wreaked havoc across Texas, The Store food pantry at Baylor University provided food items for students in need, as well as for those who found themselves without power, heat or water at their apartments or homes.
WACO, Texas – Five Baylor pitchers combined for a three-hit shutout in the 4-0 win over Sam Houston in the home opener at Baylor Ballpark on Tuesday. The Bears (3-4) earned its first midweek victory of the season over the Bearkats (1-4).
Maybe this is what it's like when actors or directors watch their own movies and see every flaw, every misstep, every scene that wasn't exactly what they had pictured in their minds.
WACO, Texas – Baylor junior power forward, and Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year, NaLyssa Smith was named as one of 11 semifinalists for the Naismith Trophy honoring the top player in women's college basketball, Tuesday.
RALEIGH, N.C. – The second-ranked Baylor men's tennis match at No. 16 NC State that was scheduled to be played on Tuesday, March 2, has been canceled. The match will not be rescheduled.
WACO, Texas – In accordance with Big 12 Conference soccer game interruption guidelines, Baylor soccer's game at TCU scheduled for Saturday, March 6 has been canceled.
WACO, Texas (March 2, 2021) – Baylor University will honor and celebrate unsung heroes of Baylor’s past and present through Champions of Change, a new program that recognizes and acknowledges the accomplishments of faculty, staff and alumni who have demonstrated efforts to foster greater appreciation and advancement of diversity, inclusiveness and equity for communities of color at Baylor and in Waco.
WACO, Texas (March 2, 2021) — Baylor University’s John F. Baugh Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise has announced its top 10 finalists for the 10th annual New Venture Competition, a two-day business plan and elevator pitch competition for collegiate entrepreneurs around the world held March 25-27.
WACO, Texas (Jan. 17, 2021) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on solutions to hunger and poverty, the importance of sleep, test-optional admissions, protests, violence and COVID-19, autism research and Christian nationalism.
WACO, Texas – Due to rescheduled men's and women's basketball games at the Ferrell Center, Baylor volleyball has moved its match against Oklahoma to Saturday, March 6, at 5 p.m. CT.
WACO, Texas – Baylor equestrian head coach Casie Maxwell announced a trio of schedule revisions on Monday, following BU's previous postponements.
WACO, Texas – For the first time in 356 days, the Baylor baseball team will host a game in Baylor Ballpark when they welcome in Sam Houston for a midweek matchup on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Individual tickets to the game and season tickets are on-sale to the public.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – Baylor volleyball's senior outside hitter Yossiana Pressley was named one of 30 candidates amongst NCAA volleyball student-athletes considered for the 2021 Senior CLASS Award, recognizing excellence both on and off the court.
WACO, Texas – No. 2 Baylor men's tennis hits the road for a tough test at No. 16 NC State and No. 13 Wake Forest this week, with matches set for Tuesday, March 2, and Thursday, March 4.
WACO, Texas – Baylor senior point guard DiDi Richards earned a spot on the Naismith/WBCA Nancy Lieberman Award 'Final Five' list, Monday. The Lieberman Award, in its 22nd year, recognizes the top point guard in women's NCAA Division I college basketball.
ROUND ROCK, Texas – Baylor baseball finished up the Round Rock Classic with a 9-3 loss to No. 25 Oklahoma at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas on Sunday. The Sooners (4-3) led by as many as seven runs and handed the Bears (2-4) their second loss of the event.
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's golf returns to action Monday in the Cabo Collegiate at TPC San Antonio. The Bears will take on a 16-team field in the three-day, 54-hole tournament.
WACO, Texas – Baylor's No. 1-ranked women's golf team will put its undefeated record on the line and go for six tournament wins in a row at the Gamecock Intercollegiate, which runs Monday through Wednesday at Columbia (S.C.) Country Club.
WACO, Texas – The No. 7/7 Baylor Lady Bears face Texas Monday at 6 p.m. on ESPN2 at the Ferrell Center.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 28, 2021) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, the church’s role in issues of conflict, social injustice and food insecurity, crises faced by the Black church and the leaders who have helped them overcome, smartphone use during the pandemic, and dust bunnies, plasmas and outer space.
Deshaun Jones won the men's 60-meter hurdles, Aaliyah Miller cruised to victory in the women's 800 meters, and the Baylor women's 4x400-meter relay won to close the final day of the 2021 Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championship Saturday at the Sports Performance Center.
ROUND ROCK, Texas – Second-year freshman Jared McKenzie put on a show as Baylor upset No. 17 Auburn, 12-6, at the Round Rock Classic at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas on Saturday. McKenzie finished with his second multi-home run game of the season and finished 3-for-5 with three RBI to help the Bears (2-3) down the Tigers (5-2).
KC Lightfoot and Tuesdi Tidwell swept the pole vault titles, and Ackera Nugent ran the fastest time in the NCAA 60-meter hurdles this season to lead Baylor on day one of the 2021 Big 12 Indoor Track & Field Championships on Friday at the Sports Performance Center.
Having already loaded up on quarter-milers in the last two recruiting classes, Baylor associate head coach Michael Ford was convinced the 4x400-meter relay teams "were going to be a lot better than last year."
WACO, Texas - For the first time since March 9,2020, the five-time defending national champion and preseason No. 1 ranked Baylor acrobatics and tumbling team will be back on the mat to host the season opener against University of Mary Hardin-Baylor at the Ferrell Center on Saturday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. CT.
WACO, Texas – In accordance with Big 12 Conference soccer game interruption guidelines, the Texas A&M exhibition scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 27 has been canceled.
WACO, Texas – The National Collegiate Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) announced today that Baylor will host the 2021 National Championships event on April 22 and 23 at the Ferrell Center in Waco, Texas.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 26, 2021) – Baylor University will engage in dedicated outreach with prospective students and their families as part of the Topgolf Live Stadium Series held Feb. 25-28 at McLane Stadium. The event is the first of seven at Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college stadiums this spring, followed by events at the universities of Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee.
IRVING, Texas – Tickets for the 2021 Phillips 66 Big 12 Women's Basketball Championship in Kansas City are on sale beginning at Noon CT on Friday, February 26. The Championship is being contested in Kansas City for the 12th time and will be held at Municipal Auditorium from March 11-14.
WACO, Texas – The No. 15-ranked Baylor women's tennis team took the doubles point and five of six singles matches Thursday at the Hurd Tennis Center and the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center for a 6-1 win over Tyler Junior College.
(This is the 15th in a series of features on Baylor Athletics' 25 for 25, which honors Baylor's top 25 athletes in the 25-year history of the Big 12 Conference (1996-21). Selected by a panel of Baylor experts, the final list was picked from a pool of over 100 candidates that came from all 19 intercollegiate sports that the school offers. Over the next couple of months, two honorees per week will be released and will also be featured during game broadcasts on the Baylor Sports Network from Learfield IMG College.)
WACO, Texas – Two Baylor equestrian meets have been postponed due to the Big 12 Conference equestrian interruption guidelines, head coach Casie Maxwell announced on Thursday.
ATLANTA – For the second-straight season, Baylor is the nation's only team with two Naismith Defensive Player of the Year semifinalists, as announced Thursday by the Atlanta Tipoff Club.
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Returning to Texas Tech's Sports Performance Center for the fourth time this season, Baylor track & field will compete at the 2021 Big 12 Indoor Championship Friday and Saturday.
ROUND ROCK, Texas – The Baylor baseball team is set to play in the second annual Round Rock Classic at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas, beginning on Friday night at 6 p.m. against Texas A&M (2-3). The Bears (1-2) will also take on No. 17 Auburn (5-0) on Saturday at 12 p.m. and Oklahoma (2-2) for a non-conference matchup on Sunday at 5 p.m. to close out the event.
The challenges of last week’s Winter Storm Uri placed a tremendous burden on our state, city and campus. Loss of power and water, property damages because of burst pipes, families bunkering down in warming shelters and interruptions to the food supply chain added to the collective traumas we continue to endure as a community in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 25, 2021) – Ahead of the public release of the full, independent report of the Commission on Historic Campus Representations by the end of March, Baylor University will hold three "Baylor Conversation Series" events on March 2, March 9 and March 16.
During a winning streak in baseball, you don't dare change socks, much less make any significant adjustments to the lineup.
WACO, Texas – No. 2 Baylor men's tennis wraps up its three-match homestand with a midweek tilt against UT Arlington on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center.
WACO, Texas – The Big 12 Conference announced a revised men's basketball schedule for all league teams on Tuesday, resulting in the addition of three games to Baylor's schedule during the week of March 1-7 and the removal of the WVU home game on Feb. 25. This week's Tuesday home game against Iowa State and Saturday game on the road at Kansas are unaffected.
WACO, Texas – 2021 Baylor women's basketball signee and Bentonville High School (Ark.) standout Maryam Dauda earned a selection to the 2021 McDonald's All-American team, announced Tuesday.
WACO, Texas – The No. 7/7 Baylor Lady Bears face Oklahoma State Wednesday at 7 p.m. on ESPN+ at the Ferrell Center.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Baylor senior guard MaCio Teague has been selected as one of five finalists for the 2021 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award, as announced Tuesday by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
When Scott Drew signed Johnathan Motley out of Houston North Shore High School, he saw the raw potential in a 6-8, 200-pound forward who was the 83rd-ranked player in the country by 247sports.com.
WACO, Texas – Baylor's DIDi Richards was among 10 student-athletes put on the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Semifinalist List by the Atlanta Tipoff Club on Tuesday.
WACO, Texas – No. 18 Baylor softball added a doubleheader at Louisiana to take place Thursday, March 4 at 4 p.m.