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Baylor Brew 4/30: Let's Dance!
Bears Learn NCAA Tournament Fate
Baylor Brew Crew
April 30, 2024
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🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics
Happy Tuesday Baylor Fam. Someone call Kevin Bacon… it’s time to dance.
No, we’re not re-enacting Footloose, we’re talking about the Bears! We’ve got two Green & Gold squads headed to the NCAA Tournament this week!
What a Brew we have for y’all today! Check it out below!
🎾 Let’s Dance!
👏 Forever A Legend
🤸♀️ Awards Aplenty
🐻 And much, much more!
🎥 FACE-TO-FAITH
No better way to prepare for the upcoming NCAA Tournament than taking an in-depth look at one of BU’s tennis stars, Christopher Franzten from the perspective of a fellow student-athlete.
Baylor+’s Faith Lynch sat down with Franzten earlier this year to talk about his journey and this year’s squad.
🎙 INSIDE BAYLOR SPORTS
April 30th Edition:
Provo Sweepin’
On today’s show we look back on the weekend that was
on the diamond as Baylor Baseball took on WVU,
and Baylor Softball brought the brooms to Provo.
Plus, Baylor Men’s and Women’s Tennis
get selected to the 2024 NCAA Tournament.
📈 STOCK UP
🔺 Let’s Dance. The calendar is turning to May tomorrow and that means one thing… It’s time to dance.
The Baylor men’s and women’s tennis earned spots in the NCAA Tournament for the 26th and 25th time, respectively.
The 35th-ranked women’s team is headed to the Stanford regional and will open with 31st-ranked LSU on Friday in California. A win would set the Bears up with a Saturday showdown with the winner of Stanford, the #3 ranked team in the country and UMass.
Baylor is 39-20 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and is making its 18th appearance under the direction of head coach Joey Scrivano. The Bears' selection is the fourth-straight for the program.
On the men’s side, the 40th-ranked Bears are headed to College Station to battle with San Diego in the first round. With a first-round win, the Bears face the winner of the hosting Texas A&M Aggies and Rice Owls in the second round.
The Bears' at-large bid is the 26th consecutive in program history.
Baylor holds a combined record of 42-5 in the first two rounds of the tournament and an overall mark of 67-24.
🔺 Forever A Legend. He’s been a legend in Waco for decades.
No matter where he is. That position will never change.
Former BU standout and longtime member of the athletic department, Walter Abercrombie announced his retirement as the Executive Director of the "B" Association, following the completion of his twentieth year leading Baylor's athletics letterwinners' organization.
Abercrombie was named to the position in 2004, where he served as the executive director of the athletic department's 4,500-member letterwinners' organization. During his tenure, the "B" Association increased its membership by 50%, its support programs by 70% and its endowments and financial contributions by 400%.
🔺 Awards Aplenty. Ninth straight national title and seven individual titles.
The trip back from Fairmont, W. Va. was already one filled with plenty of extra hardware for the National Champion BU Acrobatics & Tumbling program.
Well, the Bears are packed even tighter now.
Riley Chimwala earned Athlete of the Year, Jordan Gruendler was named Specialist of the Year and Payton Washington is Freshman of the Year for the NCATA among Division I programs. This is Gruendler's second-straight season earning Specialist of the Year. Gannon swept the DII awards while UMHB swept for DIII.
Chimwala, Gruendler, Washington and Bayley Humphrey were each named NCATA All-America. It was Humphrey's third time being named All-America, and Chimwala's fourth. A total of 62 student-athletes were nominated for the distinction from 21 institutions and only 16 individuals were selected.
🎥 BAYLOR+: STATE OF THE PROGRAM
Sit down with Baylor Football Head Coach Dave Aranda
as he reflects on the spring and looks ahead to his fifth year at Baylor.
🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA
As we mentioned above, the Baylor tennis squads are making their 25th (women) and 26th (men) NCAA Tournament appearances this spring.
When was the FIRST year that BOTH tennis program reached the NCAA Tournament?
Got a guess?
Scroll on down to the bottom of this email for the answer!
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🎉 CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES
Long ago, Kool & The Gang taught us to Celebrate Good Times and on Nov. 2nd, Baylor will do exactly that.
A pair of 11-2 and Big 12 Conference Championship teams will be celebrated during the upcoming 2024 Baylor Football season, as the Bears plan to recognize student-athletes from the 2013 and 2014 teams.
On Nov. 2 when Baylor plays TCU at McLane Stadium, the program will commemorate the 2013 and 2014 Big 12 Conference Championship teams.
🗓 ON THE DOCKET
Tuesday, April 30
⚾️ Baseball vs. UT-Arlington @ 6:30pm
Friday, May 3
🎾 Men’s Tennis vs. San Diego (NCAA Tournament - College Station, Tex.)
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. LSU (NCAA Tournament - Palo Alto, Calif.)
🥎 Softball vs. Houston @ 6:30pm
⚾️ Baseball vs. TCU @ 6:30pm
🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER
Answer: 1998.
This spring is the 23rd time in school history that both the men’s and women’s teams earned NCAA Tournament berths in the same season, the first time coming in 1998.
🐻 Enjoy your day, y’all!
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