🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

Happy Hump Day Baylor fam. We got a water cooler or break room discussion topic for you today.

What athletic feat do you wish you could feel just once? Dunk a ball? Hole-in-one? Hit a ball 400+ feet to tie an MLB game?

Plenty of our Bears have shown the ability to those things and much more, but one particular former Bear is ripping through the pro ranks and helping his team surge into contention.

We’ve got the details on that and much more!

What else is stirring in today’s Brew? Check it out below!

⚾️ Mad Max
🗓 Cruising Into Your Calendars
🏈 Countdown to Kickoff
🐻 And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Mad Max. For three years, Bears fans watched plenty of balls launched way over the outfield fence at Baylor Ballpark by Max Muncy.

Over 10 years later, Muncy is still up to his old tricks.

Now in his eighth MLB season, the Midland, Texas native is on a tear recently, hitting four HRs and driving in 12 RBIs this week for the Dodgers, who have now surged, winning 12 of their past 20 and now sit as the second-best team in the National League.

The four HRs this week have now given Muncy four seasons of 25+ HRs with the Dodgers. He sits at 169 career long balls at the MLB level.

🔺 Wiz Kid. One of the most beloved smiles in Baylor history is lighting up rooms this week as former Bear Jared Butler signed a deal to join the Washington Wizards.

Butler, who starred on the 2021 National Championship team, will be in his third NBA season after spending the past two with Utah and Oklahoma City.

This summer, in four games with the OKC Thunder’s Summer League team, Butler shined, averaging 20.0 points, 4.3 assists, 2.0 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game, while shooting 50-percent from the field. In his last game of the summer, he poured in eight three-pointers en route to 31 points.

During those past two seasons, Butler has played in 48 NBA contests, averaging 4.8 points and 1.5 assists.

Last year in the NBA G-League, he posted averages of 16.7 ppg, 6.3 mpg, 3.3 rpg, and 0.9 spg in his 27 total games split between the Grand Rapids Gold and the Thunders’ G League affiliate, the Oklahoma City Blue.

🔺 For the Kids. Our Bears have been busy impacting future generations this week!

On Monday morning, student-athletes from the women’s basketball, football, volleyball, equestrian and acrobatics/tumbling squads all spent time at MELA Camp, which is run by the Baylor School of Education.

Through the use of numbers and mind games, the Bears helped the kids learn through sports and activities.

“Education is the investment current generations make into impacting the lives of generations to come.”

🔺 Get Out The IPhone Calendars. We guess you Android people can do the same too.

Let’s fill in some important dates for you all, the Green and Gold faithful.

• The 2023-24 Baylor Equestrian Schedule is out. The Bears have five home meets and will be hosting the 2024 Big 12 Championship. 

• Women’s Basketball season tickets go on sale TODAY!

• Single-Game Football Tickets go on sale on August 1st!

🔺 Next Stop: Houston! No, we’re not taking a spaceship to Houston, but that would be really cool. However, we are heading to H-Town TOMORROW!

Get an inside look at the Bears Football program and join Baylor family to hear John Morris, the Voice of the Bears, discuss the upcoming season with Baylor Football Head Coach Dave Aranda.

Baylor Alumni and the Touchdown Club of Houston present this special opportunity to hear how the program is building a culture of excellence that includes a commitment to the physical, social, and spiritual development of players. Registration for the event includes dinner.

The event will take place at the Omni Houston Hotel on Thursday night from 7-9 pm.

🔺 Youth Of A Nation. This August, incoming Baylor men’s tennis star Devin Badenhorst will be taking on the world for the second time in his young career.

The South African star has been selected as one of four players to represent his home nation of South Africa in the Davis Cup, known as the World Cup of Tennis, beginning in late August with the group stages.

Badenhorst will compete for South Africa in the prestigious event, including Philip Henning, Leo Matthysen and Dylan Salton. Badenhorst is the youngest South African team member and is making his second appearance in the Davis Cup, also participating in Feb. of 2022.

South Africa has won the Davis Cup once in its history, in 1974 and has been participating in the event since 1913.

The Davis Cup Africa Group III will begin on Aug. 23 in Pretoria and will feature Algeria, Benin, Namibia, Senegal, Togo, Ivory Coast, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It will feature two round-robin groups of four, with three teams promoted.

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 38 DAYS

We can smell the tailgate food.
We can see the Brazos lined with Green and Gold.
Baylor football is on the horizon.

To help count us down, we’ll give a daily countdown to look back on our favorite memories, players or a look into the record books.

For 38 days until kickoff, we look back to last November when a little trip to Norman ended with Baylor’s second-ever win in Sooner Country, a 38-35 nail biting victory.

That day, senior running back Craig “Sqwirl” Williams was the star, piling up a career-high 192 yards and two TDs on 25 carries.

🗓 SAVE THE DATE

Get it on your calendar now fans.

This event is one of the must attend on the Baylor Athletics calendar and we can’t wait to see everyone back at McLane Stadium next month for our annual “Meet the Bears” day.

Get a sneak peek at the rosters for the upcoming season. Meet student-athletes from 14 different sports. Snap some pictures. Get some autographs and get some cool prizes!

You don’t want to miss it!

⏱ BEAR (COUNT)DOWN

22 Days. That’s right folks.

We are just 22 days away from the start of the 2023-2024 Baylor athletic calendar. The Baylor women’s squad kicks things off (literally) when they travel to Oregon to take on the Ducks on August 17th at 9 pm CST.

Two weeks later, the soccer, volleyball and football teams are ALL in action at home. Block off that weekend and make sure you’ve got the Green and Gold ready!

Order those shirts. Secure those tickets. 

The Bears are coming.

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

Savoring Sooner Land Success. Earlier we highlighted last year’s 38-35 win in Norman over Oklahoma.

As we mentioned, it was the second time that Baylor had ever won in Sooner Land.

Can you name when the first win at Oklahoma happened?

Think you’ve got it? 

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

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📅 COMING SOON

Wednesday, August 16

🏐 Green vs. Gold Game @ Ferrell Center

Thursday, August 31

⚽ Soccer vs. Louisiana Tech @ 7:00pm CT (Home Opener) | Tickets

Saturday, September 2

🏈 Football vs. Texas State @ 6:00pm CT on ESPN+ | Tickets

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 2014.

That’s right, the other Baylor victory came in 2014 during the unforgettable run to the Big 12 Championship.

Bryce Petty had an unforgettable day, especially connecting with Corey Coleman as the Bears routed the Sooners back on Nov. 8, 2014 by the score of 48-14.

🐻 Have a great day, ya’ll!