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WACO, Texas (March 1, 2023) – Nearly 120 students and their faculty and staff leaders will serve with Baylor Missions over Spring Break March 4-12, combining faith, service and learning in a variety of domestic and international locations while supporting the ongoing efforts of the University’s global partners.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball (2-6) lost its Tuesday night tilt against UTSA (7-2) by a score of 8-3 at Baylor Ballpark in Waco.
WACO, Texas – No. 21 Baylor softball took down UT Arlington Tuesday night, defeating the Mavericks, 8-0, in five innings.
WACO, Texas – Baylor track and field will send six entries and six individuals to the 2023 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships next week in Albuquerque, N.M., the committee announced late Tuesday night.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Baylor women's golf is in eighth place after the second round of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate Tuesday at the Long Cove Club.
Even as he worked his way up as a special teams coordinator at four different schools, including Baylor (2020-21), Matt Powledge got more and more involved on the defensive side and knew he wanted to lead a defense one day.
IRVING, Texas – Baylor Softball's Shaylon Govan was named the Big 12 Player of the Week, announced by the conference Tuesday afternoon.
Baylor volleyball assistant coach Joshua Walker was one of 45 coaches across the country to assist with USA Volleyball National Team's Open Program from Feb. 24-26 in Colorado Springs, Colo. BU's Averi Carlson, Allie Sczech and Riley Simpson all participated in the tryouts. Walker outlines the weekend and how the program worked for both the staff and participants.
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's basketball head coach Scott Drew has been named the Coach Wooden "Keys to Life" Award winner for 2023, announced by Athletes in Action on Tuesday.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 28, 2023) – Baylor University will celebrate Women’s History Month, highlighting the contributions of women to events, history and contemporary society through a series of events in March.
DALLAS, Texas (Feb. 28, 2023) – The Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing (LHSON) has received a five-year renewal of its program in cooperation with the United States Army Graduate Program in Anesthesia Nursing (USAGPAN).
Down two of its top four guards, seventh-ranked Baylor got double-digit points from the backcourt trio of LJ Cryer, Adam Flagler and Dale Bonner and survived a late rally to defeat Oklahoma State, 74-68, Monday night at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – Rosie Belsham shot the only bogey-free round on Monday at Long Cove Club, leading Baylor women's golf to a tie for fourth after round one of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate.
For the seventh time this season, and fourth time in five weeks, Baylor women's basketball's Darianna Littlepage-Buggs has been selected as the Big 12 Freshman of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.
Even before Facebook and Instagram opened up the world to everyone else, Ben Dalton was traveling to the ends of the earth "to find the best athletes we could."
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's basketball freshman Keyonte George suffered a mild ankle sprain on Saturday in BU's 81-72 win over No. 8 Texas.
DURHAM, N.C. – Baylor baseball (2-5) fell in the series finale at Duke (5-2) by a final of 10-3 Sunday afternoon at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
The Baylor women's basketball team will play its second game in three days when it takes on No. 19 Texas at the Moody Center on Monday night.
The No. 25-ranked Baylor softball team needed just five innings to win the 2023 Baylor Invitational, running away with a 15-2 victory over Minnesota at Getterman Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – No. 9 Baylor women's golf opens play at The Darius Rucker Intercollegiate on Monday, as one of 12 top-25 teams in the field at The Long Cove Club.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 26, 2023) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on the history of Black gospel music, the combination of faith and sports and research on safer materials in environmental resources.
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's tennis secured back-to-back victories on Saturday, defeating both Abilene Christian and Brown, 7-0 at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center.
DURHAM, N.C. – Baylor baseball (2-4) dropped the second game of its series at Duke (4-2), 22-3, Saturday at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
LUBBOCK, Texas. – Baylor track and field wrapped up the 2023 Big 12 Indoor Championship meet on Saturday night at the Sports Performance Center. Two titles came home to Waco, with 19 additional All-Big 12 honors in the second day of competition.
WACO, Texas – No. 25 Baylor softball took down Texas A&M Commerce twice Saturday afternoon, defeating the Lions, 7-3, in game one and 9-2, in game two at the Baylor Invitational.
Caitlin Bickle hit two 3-pointers and scored 11 of her game-high 21 points in the fourth quarter to lift the Baylor women to a 71-61 victory over Texas Tech Saturday night at the Ferrell Center.
With freshman Keyonte George leaving the game with an ankle injury early in the first half, Dale Bonner came off the bench to hit two 3-pointers and score 13 points to help ninth-ranked Baylor knock off No. 8 Texas, 81-72, Saturday afternoon at Ferrell Center.
WACO, Texas – No. 25 Baylor softball defeated Minnesota, 3-2, in eight innings Friday night at Getterman Stadium.
The Baylor women's tennis team (7-5) fell to the Washington Huskies (7-3), 5-2, at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center on Friday evening.
LUBBOCK, Texas. – Baylor track and field completed the first day of competition at the Big 12 Indoor Championships. Five Bears won All-Big 12 honors from their top-8 finishes on the day, and one set a new program record in the preliminary round.
DURHAM, N.C. – Baylor baseball (2-3) fell to Duke (3-2), 20-1, Friday evening at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in Durham, N.C.
The Baylor women's basketball team returns to the Ferrell Center on Saturday when it hosts Texas Tech at 5 p.m.
Dariana Orme Spins No-Hitter in 5-0 win over Maryland
WACO, Texas – Baylor men's tennis returns home for a doubleheader against Abilene Christian and Brown on Saturday. Action begins at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center for the first match against the Wildcats and noon, followed by the Brown Bears at 6 p.m.
Gift from Jay Allison and Jenny Reid Allison provides significant momentum for the Paul & Alejandra Foster Pavilion
WACO, Texas (Feb. 24, 2023) – Baylor University today announced a $3.7 million gift from Jay and Jenny Allison of Frisco, Texas, to support the Give Light Capital Fund, as well as scholarships benefiting Baylor Law and the George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Baylor will recognize the couple’s philanthropic support through the naming of the Jay and Jenny Allison Development Center within the Paul and Alejandra Foster Pavilion.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 24, 2023) – At its regular February meeting, the Baylor University Board of Regents took action on several committee recommendations and received reports on a number of strategic University matters, including Baylor’s pioneering Faith and Character Study.
The Baylor women's tennis team hosts the Washington Huskies, who are just outside the ITA Top-25 rankings, on Friday at the Hurd Tennis Center.
Baylor volleyball has three student-athletes attending the U.S. Women's National Team Open Program at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Feb. 24-26.
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. Mallory Talbert, who played her final season at Baylor after four years at Texas A&M, earned first-team All-Big 12 honors at middle blocker. She ranked third in the league and top-25 nationally with a .391 attack percentage and finished with 227 kills, 99 blocks and 26 service aces. Mallory graduated with a degree in nutrition from Texas A&M and is working on a master's in communication sciences and disorders at Baylor.
LUBBOCK, Texas – Baylor track and field will compete at the 2023 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Friday and Saturday on the campus of Texas Tech.
The Baylor University Board of Regents is on campus today and tomorrow for its quarterly meeting. As the official governing body of the University, our Regents have in common a genuine love for Baylor and a commitment to our Christian mission and their fiduciary responsibility. As is our custom, we will provide a summary of the Board meeting late Friday to the Baylor Family.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 23, 2023) – Baylor University today announced a gift of approximately $6 million from the estate of Harold W. Dunn of Ballwin, Missouri, supporting the School of Music’s Center for Christian Music Studies. Dunn, an alumnus and retired elementary school music teacher, gave the entirety of his estate to the University, making the largest gift in the School of Music’s 100-year history.
LA QUINTA, Calif. – Baylor men's golf recorded another strong showing with a 20-over 872 en route to an eighth-place finish on Wednesday at the Prestige.
FORT WORTH, Texas – Fourth-quarter Bella Fontleroy came up big again, when the Baylor Bears needed her the most.
Baylor acrobatics & tumbling's Bayley Humphrey was the Specialist of the Week by the NCATA, the organization announced Wednesday.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball (2-2) downed HCU (0-4) by a final of 11-4 Tuesday evening at Baylor Ballpark in Waco.
Wrightson Leads the Bears in Second Round
Ninth-ranked Baylor's second-half struggles continued Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum, getting outscored by 13 over the last 14 minutes and falling to No. 14 Kansas State, 75-65, to complete a series sweep by first-year head coach Jerome Tang and the Wildcats (21-7, 9-6).
The Baylor women's basketball team will close out the season series with TCU on Wednesday night at the Schollmaier Arena.
A four-star linebacker at Greater Atlanta Christian School who missed his freshman season because of a back injury, Christian Robinson remembers getting into it with his high school coach after "one of the first games that I didn't perform well."
WACO, Texas – Baylor softball junior Dariana Orme was recognized as the top pitcher by both the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and the Big 12 Conference for the previous week of competition, announced by the organizations on Tuesday afternoon.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 21, 2023) – Marking the anniversary of Russia's heightened aggression in Ukraine, two Ukrainian scholars will present the current situation in Ukraine and explain it from a historical perspective. The multidepartment-sponsored event will be held from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, in Kayser Auditorium of Hankamer Cashion Building, 401-499 Speight Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
DALLAS and WACO, Texas – Leaders from the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) and Baylor University have jointly reviewed the relationship agreement between the two organizations and deemed no changes are necessary. The special agreement, initially agreed upon on November 4, 2011, calls for a joint review by the BGCT and Baylor every 10 years. The most recent review was delayed two years as both organizations managed through the COVID-19 pandemic.
LAQUINTA, Calif. – Baylor men's golf got off to a good start at the Prestige with a 3-under 281 on Monday, to wrap the first round in a tie for fifth.
Baylor Bold Weekend to Feature 13 Events in Four Days
WACO, Texas (Feb. 20, 2023) – Forty-four students from 11 Central Texas schools were awarded medals from the Waco Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation for their winning projects in the 2023 Heart of Texas Regional History Fair (HOTRHF), held Feb. 16 on the campus of Baylor University.
WACO, Texas – After knocking off the No. 1 team in the nation, Baylor softball two-hit Army, defeating the Black Knights, 7-0, Sunday afternoon at Getterman Stadium.
No. 1 Baylor acrobatics & tumbling took the meet, 274.055 – 243.375, over Presbyterian on Sunday afternoon in the Ferrell Center by 30.68 points.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball (1-2) fell in the series finale to Central Michigan (2-1), 4-3, Sunday afternoon at Baylor Ballpark in Waco.
Baylor Takes Down No. 1 Oklahoma behind Govan's Three-Run Blast
CHICAGO – Baylor men's tennis closed out the ITA Indoor National Team Championships on Sunday afternoon with a 4-2 loss against the 16th-ranked Florida Gators.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – Fresh off a win last week in Laredo, No. 21 Baylor men's golf returns to action at the Prestige at PGA West on Monday morning.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 19, 2023) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on the history of revivals at colleges founded by church groups, issues to consider around going to a four-day school week and political controversy over the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course.
Lexi Donarski forced a second overtime with her second 3-pointer of the night and Ashley Joens had a double-double with 27 points and 11 rebounds to lift 22nd-ranked Iowa State to an 81-77 double-overtime win over the Baylor Bears Saturday night at the Ferrell Center.
WACO, Texas – No. 8 Baylor equestrian (5-6, 2-3) dropped a narrow 10-9 contest to No. 7 Oklahoma State on Saturday at the Willis Family Equestrian Center in Waco.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball (1-1) dropped a Saturday afternoon contest to Central Michigan (1-1), 20-5, at Baylor Ballpark in Waco.
Bears work second straight shutout in Getterman Classic
Unable to hold on to a 16-point first-half lead, the ninth-ranked Baylor men lost for the 20th time in 21 trips to Allen Fieldhouse, falling to No. 5 Kansas, 87-71, Saturday afternoon.
Haven Terry (soccer), Darianna Littlepage-Buggs (women's basketball), Tadeas Paroulek (men's tennis) and Tyrone Brown (football) have been selected as the Student-Athlete Center for Excellence (SACE) February Champions of the Month.
CHICAGO – Baylor men's tennis open consolation play at the ITA Indoor Team Championships on Saturday with a 4-0 loss to No. 8 South Carolina.
The Baylor women's tennis team (7-4) battled Friday night against the Arkansas Razorbacks (5-1), dropping the 5-2 decision at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball (1-0) walked-off Central Michigan (0-1) Friday, 6-5, in 10 innings to win an Opening Day thriller at Baylor Ballpark in Waco.
Dariana Orme Fans 10 in a Seven-Inning Perfect Game
No. 1 Baylor acrobatics & tumbling returns to the Ferrell Center on Sunday with a 3 p.m. start time against No. 14 Presbyterian.
With a background on the marketing side, Gina Gonzales has a unique way of thinking outside the box when it comes to new ideas in generating funds for Baylor Athletics through her role in the Bear Foundation.
CHICAGO – Baylor men's tennis lost the ITA Indoor National Championship first round match, 4-0, on Friday morning against conference foe, TCU at the XS Tennis Village.
The Baylor women's basketball team returns to the Ferrell Center on Saturday when it hosts No. 22 Iowa State in its annual Play4Kay game at 5 p.m.
WACO, Texas – No. 8 Baylor equestrian (5-5, 2-2) hosts No. 7 Oklahoma State (3-3, 2-1) at the Willis Family Equestrian Center on Saturday, Feb. 17, at 11 a.m.
Even though Baylor has been classified as a “Research 1,” or R1, university only since December 2021, our recognition as a top research institution continues to grow.
The Baylor women's tennis team is back in action on Friday at 5 p.m. for a matchup against Arkansas at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center.
CHICAGO – No. 10 Baylor men's tennis travels to the ITA Indoor Team Championships in the windy city, held Friday through Monday, at the XC Tennis Village indoor courts.
Annual Scrimmage anchors a Green & Gold Weekend of events
Kansas State is a completely different team at Bramlage Coliseum.
Baylor acrobatics & tumbling swept the weekly awards from the NCATA, the organization announced Wednesday.
Even when Jeff Grigus's plate is overflowing, he keeps asking for more.
WACO, Texas (Feb. 15, 2023) - Smartphone use has quickly become a fixture of everyday life, including during church services. Drawing from the Theory of Reasoned Action and the Technology Acceptance Model, Baylor researchers have developed a new model to identify key drivers of smartphone use during church services.