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IRVING, Texas – Baylor's Scott Drew was named Big 12 Men's Basketball Coach of the Year, Davion Mitchell was named the league's Defensive Player of the Year and Jared Butler, MaCio Teague, Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua and Mark Vital were also recognized as part of the 2020-21 Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men's Basketball Awards chosen by the league's head coaches.
WACO, Texas – Baylor senior guard MaCio Teague picked up National Player of the Week honors from the NCAA and was selected as Big 12 Conference Player of the Week, as announced Monday by the conference office.
WACO, Texas – Baylor soccer's match vs. Texas has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 1 at Betty Lou Mays Field with kickoff slated for 6 p.m.
WACO, Texas (March 8, 2021) – Baylor University today announced plans for summer classes through Accelerate, the University’s pre-college program for rising high school juniors and seniors, and a second year of Baylor’s innovative Summer of Discovery program with discounted summer course offerings for current students as well as incoming freshmen and transfers.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball secured its first four-game sweep since 2011 after the 8-7 win over Memphis at Baylor Ballpark on Sunday. The Bears (7-4) led for the whole game against the Tigers (4-5).
WACO, Texas – The No. 15-ranked Baylor women's tennis rebounded from Saturday's loss to No. 2 Texas with a 4-2 win over No. 29 Texas Tech, Sunday at the Hurd Tennis Center.
WACO, Texas – The No. 6/6 Baylor Lady Bears face West Virginia Monday at 7 p.m. on ESPN+ at the Ferrell Center.
WACO, Texas (March 7, 2021) – Baylor University researchers and faculty experts were featured in national and local media stories as they shared their thoughts and expertise on COVID-19 testing and vaccinations, the evolution of Black Twitter, COVID's effect on the mental health of children and on worship, how bundled payments with co-pay waivers can create substantial cost savings for patients and the classical music that underlies memorials and solemn occasions.
WACO, Texas – The Baylor baseball team dominated the Saturday doubleheader against Memphis with a 9-0 shutout victory in the first game and a 20-4 beatdown in the second at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears (6-4) clinched the series win over the Tigers (4-4) and will go for the four-game sweep tomorrow afternoon.
Baylor track & field recorded several personal bests and three runner-up finishes to highlight the outdoor season opener Saturday at the Longhorn Invitational in Austin, Texas.
WACO, Texas – The No. 1-ranked Bears traveled to Eugene, Oregon, where they lost their first meet since 2017 to No. 2 Oregon on Saturday night at the Matthew Knight Arena. The Bears (1-1) earned a total score of 280.660 and the Ducks (2-0) earned a total score of 281.635.
WACO, Texas – The No. 15-ranked Baylor women's tennis team fell, 4-3, to No. 2 Texas Saturday at the Hurd Tennis Center. The Longhorns beat Baylor for the second time this season, and Saturday's match was a non-conference win for Texas.
WACO, Texas – Baylor junior power forward NaLyssa Smith earned a spot on the 2021 National Ballot for the John R. Wooden Award presented by Wendy's, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced Saturday. Smith joins 14th other college basketball elites who are candidates for the Wooden Award All-American Team and Wooden Award Trophy.
WACO, Texas – No. 2 Baylor men's tennis welcomes No. 21 Arizona State to Waco for a 3 p.m. match on Sunday at the Hurd Tennis Center.
WACO, Texas – Baylor baseball pulled out a gritty 5-4 win over Memphis, in the first game of the four-game series at Baylor Ballpark on Friday night. The Bears (4-4) jumped to a 3-1 edge in the first inning and managed to hold on to defeat the Tigers (4-2).
WACO, Texas – No. 6 Baylor volleyball's Saturday match against Oklahoma has been postponed due to the Big 12 Conference volleyball interruption guidelines.
WACO, Texas – The No. 15-ranked Baylor Bears will play host to No. 2 Texas in a non-conference matchup Saturday at the Hurd Tennis Center. Baylor (11-1) will look to knock off the 9-1 Longhorns and avenge its only loss of the season when Texas beat the Bears, Jan. 24, 4-0, in Austin.
WACO, Texas — The No. 1-ranked Baylor acrobatics and tumbling team will hit the road to take on rival No. 2-ranked Oregon in Eugene on Saturday at 5 p.m. CT inside Matthew Knight Arena.
While the NCAA Indoor Championships await next weekend, Baylor track & field will send 12 student-athletes down to Austin for the Longhorn Invitational Saturday to open the outdoor season.
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.