🐻 The Official Daily Newsletter For Baylor Athletics

TGIF Baylor Family. The only way to possibly explain our excitement is Buddy the Elf on Christmas morning after demolishing a plate of spaghetti and syrup.

If you know, you know.

It’s been nine months since our Bears soccer squad took the field, but tonight, they are officially back in action and we CAN’T WAIT!

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

⚽️ Let’s Gooooooo
🏐 Net Talk
🏈 Going Camping
🐻 And much, much more!

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📈 STOCK UP

🔺 Let’s Goooooo. Only way way to describe our feeling.

The time has come. The work has been done. It’s time to show out.

7 pm CST from Eugene, Oregon.

🎥: Tune in live on the Pac 12 Network

📊: Follow Along Live

🎥: Final Prep

🔺 Net Talk. Baylor fans, we promise you do not want to miss this fall at the Ferrell Center.

This Baylor team is prepared and ready to make some noise and y’all saw some of that last night at the annual Green and Gold scrimmage.

The season is just around the corner, which means preseason national rankings (#15) and some national 🖥 time. Plenty to get excited about!

🖥: Bears on National TV 3 Times This Fall

📈: BU slotted #15 in Preseason National Rankings

🙌: The Gear Goddess Delivers!

🔺 Going Camping. Kickoff is just over two weeks away and the Bears are READY.

Who’s ready for a breakout year?
What newcomers do you need to know about?
What’s the offense going to look?

We’ve got you covered!

📝: View From The Hill: Roll Up Your Sleeves
🎥: Reeling It In
📝: View From The Hill: Getting ‘Veteran’ Treatment
🎥: The Bear Walk Experience

🔺 Twice As Nice. For the first time in Big 12 men’s golf history, the Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award has gone to the same person for two straight seasons.

That person? Baylor’s own Johnny Keefer.

With Keefer's second selection, BU men's golf has now claimed the Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in four of the last seven seasons. He joins Matthew Perrine (2017) and Colin Kober (2019), contributing to Baylor's 30 scholar-athletes of the year, which is second-most in the Big 12.

An accounting major from San Antonio, Texas, Keefer enjoyed another successful season on and off the golf course leading the team in stroke average for a second-straight season (71.62), with a team-high 90.3% of his rounds counting towards the teams' score, his 19 rounds at par or better also paced the Bears, as did his five top-10 finishes.
 
Carrying a 3.68 GPA, Keefer was also named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team for a third time, in addition to being selected as a GCAA All-American Scholar and a College Sports Communicators All-District honoree.

🏆 CHAMPIONS FOR LIFE

🔺 This is what it’s all about. We can give you all the highlights. We can give you all the previews. We can give you all the stats.

But this, this short clip is what the Baylor Experience is truly about.

Jalen Pitre - thanks for shining your light wherever you go!

🏈 COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 16 DAYS

No better place to go with #16 than our guy Hal Presley.

#16 is one of the players that fans are most excited to see on the field this fall after a breakout sophomore season, finishing second on the team with 31 catches, 382 yards and four TDs.

He earned Honorable Mention All-Big 12 accolades and caught a pass in all 13 of Baylor’s games last fall.

A native Texan himself, Presley had an All-State career at Mansfield Summit High, piling up over 1,000 yards receiving during his senior season. He caught 29 TDs in his final three high school seasons.

⏱ BEAR (COUNT)DOWN

0️⃣! 0️⃣! 0️⃣! 0️⃣! That’s right folks, it’s here!!

TONIGHT starts the 2023-2024 Baylor athletic calendar.

The Baylor soccer squad kicks things off (literally) traveling to Eugene, Oregon to take on the Ducks at 7 pm CST.

Two weeks from now, the soccer, volleyball, cross country and football teams are ALL in action. 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

In Good Company. This week, Johnny Keefer was named the Big 12 Conference’s Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second consecutive year.

It’s the first time a Baylor athlete had ever won back-to-back Scholar-Athlete of the Year awards and the first time any men’s golfer in Big 12 history had won back-to-back accolades.

However, he is the second Bear to win the award in consecutive season.

Can you name the only other BU student-athlete to win the honor back-to-back years?

Think you got it?

Scroll on 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 @ 6:00pm CT

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: Laura Lonardi.

Lonardi is one of the finest, well-rounded student-athletes in Baylor history, winning the Big 12 women’s golf scholar athlete of the year in both 2015 and 2016.

In 2016, she also became the sixth Baylor student-athlete to win the NCAA’s Elite 90 Award.

During her time in Waco, she earned a 3.96 cumulative grade point average while majoring in mathematics and statistics. On the course, she earned two straight trips to the NCAA Championships (2015 and 2016).

In 2015, she helped the Bears to a Big 12 Conference championship in 2015 and a national runner-up showing.

🐻 Let’s have a great Thursday!