🐻The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

TGIF Bears. You know what they say about first impressions, right?

Well, one former Bear made quite a first impression with his new squad!

We’ll recap that and more in today’s Brew! Check It Out Below!

⚾️ Feeling Grand
🙌 Helping Hands
🏀 Stacking Days
🐻 And much, much more!

⚾️ FEELING GRAND

Two years ago, he was launching balls out of Baylor Ballpark.

Now, he’s shining at the pro level.

Earlier this week, former BU standout Jack Pineda earned a promotion to Double-A in the Kansas City Royals organization.

In just his first week with the Northwest Arkansas Naturals, Pineda is making his presence felt as his first HR with his new team was a grand slam!

🙌 HELPING HANDS

Sure, our women’s hoops squad is getting plenty of work in on the court this summer.

But this week, that focused on the community as the Bears partnered with Student Opportunity & Achievement Resources to serve the Waco area.

🏀 STACKING DAYS

🎟 YOU PICK IT!

This week, Baylor Athletics unveiled a new Mini Plan option for the upcoming 2024 Football season.

The new “You Pick It” mini plan offers flexibility and allows fans to build their own mini-plan from three tiers of options to enjoy McLane Stadium this fall.

The Baylor Family can purchase the You Pick It mini plan for $225. Each plan includes the Bears' Homecoming Game on Oct. 26 against Oklahoma State and from there fans can build their plan based on their schedule for the remaining two games. 

🎙 SIC ’EM POD: BAYLEY HUMPHREY (PT. II)

On this week’s episode, John Morris is handing off the mic to
Baylor Athletics’ Justin Hoff, who recently caught up with
Acrobatics & Tumbling’s Bayley Humphrey.

The new Baylor graduate is fresh off of a 4th straight
national championship, and is getting us up to speed on an
incredibly busy summer and life after college.

🙌 OLYMPIC BEARS

At least one Baylor Bear has brought home the gold in seven of
the last eight Summer Olympics. What do you say we make it
eight of the past nine?

Seven different Bears will look to extend that run at the
2024 Olympics in Paris, which kicks off this weekend.

Those Bears will be representing four different nations: Brittney Griner (basketball) and Avery Skinner (volleyball) for Team USA; current Baylor student-athletes Nathaniel Ezekiel (400m hurdles) and Chinecherem Prosper Nnamdi (javelin) in track & field for Nigeria; John Peers (men’s tennis – doubles) and Kristy Wallace (basketball) for Australia; and Nuni Omot (basketball) for South Sudan. Baylor track and field head coach Michael Ford will also be in Paris as men’s sprints/hurdles coach for Team USA.

🗓 GOT PLANS?

Sure, we’re still a little over a month away, but the
inner planner in you NEEDS this.

You’ve got the dates, you’ve got the opponents,
now, you’ve got the THEMES!

The Baylor Athletics team released the six themes for the upcoming season at McLane and all the details you need to know for this fall!

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

During his two seasons in Waco, how many HRs did Jack Pineda hit with the Bears?

Got a guess?

Scroll to the bottom to find the answer!

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🗓 ON THE DOCKET

We’ll see you in August!

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 11.

The two-time All-Conference honoree hit 11 HRs in his two seasons with Baylor, including a career-high seven in 2022, when he was drafted in the 12th round by the Royals.

🐻 Enjoy the weekend, Baylor Fam!

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