🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

TGIF Bears. Clear those schedules folks. We’ve got a HUGE weekend for the Baylor Fam!

Throw on the Green & Gold and have your phone charged, we’ve got plenty of action to keep up with today and all weekend long!

We’ll preview it all and much, much more in today’s Brew! Check it out below!

👏 Go Time
🏀 Sharp Shooter
🎥 Baylor+: Episode ✌️ is HERE!
🐻 And much, much more!

🎥 BAYLOR+: PART II IS HERE!

9 Straight National Titles… We think that’s what you call a Dynasty.

What goes into that run? What goes in to championship week?

Now available on Baylor+ brings you part two of the three part series that gives you behind-the-scenes look at the 2024 NCATA National Championship run by the Bears.

🎙 INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS

May 17th Edition:
A Big Weekend Ahead

On today’s show we preview the weekend ahead in Baylor Athletics,
which includes softball talking on Ole Miss in regional action,
baseball as well as golf. Plus, Baylor Men’s basketball adds
another frontcourt player in Jalen Celestine.

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Lights, Camera, Action. Today’s the day, Baylor Fam.

This is what it all leads up to. NCAA action is officially HERE!

Not one, but ✌️ Baylor squads open postseason play with the Baylor softball team taking on Ole Miss in the regional opener in Lafayette, La., as well as the women’s golf team

⛳️: Following The Plan - Baylor Golf at NCAA Championships Preview

🥎: Previewing The Regional In Lafayette

🔺 Sharp Shooter. And another one…

Coach Drew and the Bears added another big name for the upcoming 2024-25 season with the official introduction of Cal transfer Jalen Celestine.

The Ajax, Ontario, native brings 80 games of college experience with 45 starts in the Pac 12. Celestine finished second in the Pac 12 in three-point field goal percentage with a 44% clip last season, along with 8.7 points and 3.2 rebounds per game. Additionally, he shot 45.1% from the floor and recorded 11 double-figure scoring performances, including nine in Pac-12 play.

🏀: More On Celestine’s Resume

🔺 What Can Brown Do For You? A wholllle lot for the BU track & field squad.

For the second time in program history, a Bear grabbed a Big 12 conference outdoor accolade.

Senior Alexis Brown was named the Big 12 Women's Performer of the Year for the 2024 collegiate outdoor track and field season on Thursday.
 
Brown ended the 2024 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship, the first of the senior's career, with two titles in the long jump and the 4x100-meter relay.

The Kennedale, Texas, native is the first Bear to cross the 22-foot mark in the women's long jump in program history, landing a conference championship-winning 22-5 leap at the Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium. Brown set three program records in the event throughout the outdoor season (21-11, 21-11 ½ and 22-5) all at her home track in Waco.
 
She wrote history as the first outdoor women's long jump conference champion in program history in both Big 12 and Southwest Conference eras.

🏆: More On Brown’s Award-Winning Season
🎙: The Sic ‘Em Pod with Alexis Brown

🎙 SIC ‘EM POD: JOHNNY KEEFER

On today’s episode, we’re sitting down with one of Baylor’s best golfers in program history, Johnny Keefer.

From the moment he got to Waco, the graduate senior quickly became a staple in Coach McGraw’s lineups, and has continued to climb the all-time program ranks in a number of categories. 

Now, in his 5th year, Johnny is leading a surging Bears team to postseason play.

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

As we mentioned, Alexis Brown gave BU only its second Big 12 Performer of the Year Award winner.

Who was the only other Bear to achieve that honor?

Got a guess?

Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🎥 BAYLOR+: THE FOLLOW

Entering today’s NCAA Regionals, there’s not many teams hotter than the Baylor softball squad, winners of 10 of their past 12 contests.

In the latest episode of Baylor+’s The Follow, go behind-the-scenes and get the real access as the Bears swept through the Cougars of Houston in their final home series of the year.

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🗓 ON THE DOCKET

Friday, May 17th
⛳️ Women’s Golf at NCAA Championship (Carlsbad, Calif.)
⚾️ Baseball vs. UCF @ 6:30pm
🥎 Softball vs. Ole Miss @ 7pm (NCAA Regionals - Lafayette, La.)

Saturday, May 18th
⛳️ Women’s Golf at NCAA Championship (Carlsbad, Calif.)
⚾️ Baseball vs. UCF @ 1pm
🥎 Softball at NCAA Regionals @ TBD (Lafayette, La.)

Sunday, May 19th
⛳️ Women’s Golf at NCAA Championship (Carlsbad, Calif.)
🥎 Softball at NCAA Regionals @ TBD (Lafayette, La.)

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: Kiana Horton in 2018.

🐻 Let’s have a great weekend, y’all!

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