🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

Happy Thursday Baylor Fam. Did you hear the news?!?

What a week in Chapel Hill for the Bears! We’ll recap it all and preview an upcoming gridiron matchup for the Green & Gold.

What all do we have stirring in today’s Brew? Check it out below!

⛳️ Punch That Ticket
🏈 Horsin’ Around
🎥 Baylor+: Episode ✌️ Drops Tonight!
🐻 And much, much more!

🎥 BAYLOR+: PART II TONIGHT!

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 16th Edition:
The Ticket Punchers

On today’s show we look at Baylor Men’s Golf advancing to the NCAA Championships, plus we discuss the evolution of a college sports fan in 2024.

📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Punch That Ticket. For the sixth time in the past eight years, the Bears are headed to the ‘Ship.

In a hard-fought battle for a top-five spot, BU held off a fast-charging Alabama squad, along with Long Beach State to take the fifth and final spot with a 15-under, one ahead of the Crimson Tide and two ahead of LBSU.

The Bears were led by senior Johnny Keefer, who finished tied for second with a 12-under 198, just a shot back of North Carolina's Austin Greaser. In the process, Keefer set a new NCAA postseason program record, three shots better than Cooper Dossey's 201 at the Stanford Regional in 2017.

⛳️: The Final Recap
🔢: The Full Leaderboard

🔺 Horsin’ Around. Who doesn’t love a little battle for bragging rights?

Those always come into play when facing off against in-state opponents and that’s exactly what the BU football program secured this week with the announcement of a home-and-home series with SMU.

The Bears will travel to face SMU on Sept. 6, 2025, and the Mustangs will return the trip to Waco, with Baylor hosting on Sept. 19, 2026 at McLane Stadium. In each of those seasons, Baylor will play 11 power-4 conference foes.

🏈: More On The Upcoming Matchups

🔺 Head Of Class. The Baylor women’s tennis program had plenty of success on the court this spring.

However, that success was not limited to just there. It carried over into the classroom as well.

This week, Isabella Harvison and Miska Kadleckova were named to the College Sports Communicators – formerly College Sports Information Directors Association – Academic All-District Team.
 
A native of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., Harvison is a graduate student with a communications major, sporting a 3.5 cumulative GPA. She is a two-time ITA Scholar-Athlete honoree, who has also earned Academic All-Big 12 Second-Team accolades and Southeastern Conference First-Year Academic Honor Roll honors in her career. 
 
Harvison posted a 12-6 record during the spring for the Bears in singles, including a 5-1 mark in Big 12 play.
 
Kadleckova stepped right into the Baylor lineup and led the Bears to the NCAA Tournament in 2024. A senior health, kinesiology and leisure studies major, she earned a 3.73 cumulative GPA. A native of Baska Bystrica, Slovakia, Kadleckova starred for the Bears in 2024, going 17-4, including a 16-4 mark on court 1, and finished the year ranked No. 95 in singles by the ITA.

📚: More On The Scholarly Success

🎙 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.

🎥 BAYLOR+: DAY IN THE LIFE

What’s a day in the life of a BU
football star right now?

Spring ball done, but finals and preparation for
the fall season are in full swing.

Jump along for a ride with Caden Jenkins as
he takes us through a day in the life.

🤔 SIC ’EM TRIVIA

How many schools have both the men’s and women’s golf programs competing at the NCAA Championship?

Got a guess?

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

🎥 BAYLOR+: THE FOLLOW

Entering this week’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

Thursday, May 16th
⚾️ Baseball vs. UCF @ 6:30pm

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.)

🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 14.

Out of the nearly 300 schools that participate in men’s and women’s Division I golf, only 14 schools have both programs competing in the NCAA Championships. Baylor is among those 14 yet again this spring.

🐻 Enjoy your Thursday, y’all!

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