Build-A-(Baylor)Bear now available!
…in a Baylor t-shirt! (To find the location nearest you — or other stores in your area that carry Baylor gear — visit www.baylor.edu/licensing/retailers.) Sic ’em, (Build-a-)Bears!…
…in a Baylor t-shirt! (To find the location nearest you — or other stores in your area that carry Baylor gear — visit www.baylor.edu/licensing/retailers.) Sic ’em, (Build-a-)Bears!…
…p.m. and Sunday at 5 p.m. The parade will also be streamed live online at www.baylor.edu/homecoming. (If you can’t wait, you can always go back and watch the 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 parades online right now, or view this slideshow from last year’s Homecoming events.) The Baylor University Homecoming Parade is one of the oldest and largest in the nation. Olympic gold medalist and former Baylor track standout Reggie Witherspoon will serve a…
…and reassured me she would keep a look-out for him and encourage him to study and get enough sleep; Charlotte Moody in financial services who patiently and cheerfully answered all our questions — two or three times; smiling faces in the Memorial and Penland dining services, and everyone else in yellow orientation polos! We know all of you have you own lives and personal concerns. We are praying for you that as you so unselfishly serve and love us…
…ch to Waco, and the rest, as they say, is history. After stepping down as coach, Hogg moved over to Baylor’s development office where she works as a fundraiser for Baylor. Hogg joins five six other Baylor-related coaches who are in their sports’ halls of fame. Grant Teaff and Morley Jennings were each inducted for their work at Baylor, while Hayden Fry and Jody Conradt each played at Baylor but coached elsewhere. Mulkey was honored as a player jus…
…. The Stephenville Empire-Tribune profiled Ratliff here. * In a few years, you may be hearing the work of Deer Park (Texas) High School co-valedictorian Derek Schnitzer in movies and on TV. Another National Merit Scholar, Schnitzer plans to study music composition with the goal of writing TV and film scores after graduation. The Deer Park Progress ran this Q&A with Schnitzer. * Kansas City, Mo., student Patricia Salgado says she and her twin siste…
…The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that he does plan to stick around for his senior year, though, after which he hopes to get a shot at the NBA. Mamadou is the second Baylor student-athlete to win the award since it was started in 2000-01; women’s basketball favorite Jessika Stratton was so honored in 2004. [June 6 update: Along these same lines, Mamadou was also one of five to receive the 2008 Wilma Rudolph Student-Athlete Achievement Award from the…
…ter 20 seasons leading the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters, was announced recently as the Lady Bears’ newest assistant coach. Barmore took his team to the NCAAs in every one of his 20 years at Louisiana Tech, a stretch that included nine Final Four appearances and the 1988 national championship. He was the fastest coach ever to reach 500 wins, and his .869 winning percentage is still the best in the sport’s history. His entire career — as a player,…
…oved a nice training ground for his later life. After spending the last dozen years as president of Publix, Florida’s No. 1 grocery store chain and a market leader in the southeast, Crenshaw was promoted to CEO of the company last month. Crenshaw started at Publix shortly after leaving Baylor and worked his way up to company president by 1996. In coordination with his promotion, the Lakeland Ledger recently ran a nice feature on Crenshaw and his s…
…est values” when it comes to private schools, according to a report recently released by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. The publication ranked Baylor 38th out of the 1,000-plus universities considered for the survey. When it comes to “total costs” — tuition, fees, room/board, and estimated expenses for books — Baylor was the second-most affordable school among the survey’s top 50. After need-based aid is factored in, Baylor ranks 13th. (Fo…
…w should be national coach of the year (in the last minute of this clip). My personal favorite story is from the Los Angeles Times; other articles about Baylor’s successful season have recently appeared in CBS Sportsline; Fox Sports; The Sporting News; Sports Illustrated; New York Post, Daily News and Newsday; New Jersey Star-Ledger; Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Arizona Daily Star; Chicago Sun-Times and Post-Tribune; Kansas City Star; Dallas Mornin…