Last fall, Baylor announced the launch of “Give Light” — a $1.1 billion fundraising campaign to support the university’s academic strategic plan, Illuminate. Among the campaign’s priority capital projects is the construction of a football operations center that would both serve as a new home for Baylor football and free up additional space to support […]
More than 120 years ago, Baylor students were inspired by a field of dandelions to make green and gold the school colors. More than 100 years ago, the bear was voted in as Baylor’s mascot (outpacing the ferret, bookworm and buffalo). Nearly 100 years ago, the first versions of what would today be considered the […]
If you’re a Baylor fan and you’re reading this in your home or office, there’s a decent chance you can look around and spot something with a Baylor Bear on it. From pictures to pennants and shirts to stickers, Baylor family members love displaying their school pride with a Baylor Bear logo on almost anything. […]
Time to celebrate, y’all: The Baylor Lady Bears are 2019 NCAA women’s basketball national champions! After building a big lead early, the Lady Bears overcame injury to perhaps the team’s most irreplaceable player to pull out an 82-81 win over Notre Dame. Call it the game of a million storylines: Senior Kalani Brown, after seeing her […]
Not everyone can make it to campus to learn more about a program of interest, or find time to visit with President Livingstone about Baylor’s exciting future ambitions. But… through the “Baylor Connections” radio program and podcast, the Baylor Family can regularly hear directly from Dr. Livingstone and dozens of other Baylor leaders and professors about what’s happening […]
Baylor’s acrobatics & tumbling team won’t have to go far to defend their national title this spring. The four-time defending NCATA champions will have the opportunity to defend their title right here in Waco later this month, as they host the 2019 NCATA National Championship at the Ferrell Center. Led by their fifth-year head coach Felecia […]
For the fourth time in program history, Baylor women’s basketball is headed to the Final Four! WBCA National Coach of the Year Kim Mulkey’s Lady Bears cruised past South Carolina on Saturday, 93-68, and Iowa on Monday night, 85-53, to roll into the Final Four. With all eyes (and defenses) focused on senior all-American Kalani […]
Last year, Baylor introduced a new event called “Green and Gold Weekend” — essentially, a spring Homecoming, centered around Baylor football’s spring game but also including other events for students, alumni and their families all across campus. In less than a month — April 12-14, 2019 — Green and Gold Weekend returns, full of sporting events, […]
For the 11th straight season (and the 14th time in 16 years), the Baylor Lady Bears are headed to the Sweet 16! Seniors Kalani Brown and Chloe Jackson won their final two games in the Ferrell Center, as head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad advanced (again) by defeating Abilene Christian, 95-38, and Cal, 102-63, on Saturday […]
It’s been 150 years since the Cincinnati Red Stockings became America’s first professional baseball team, setting the stage for this year’s sesquicentennial Major League Baseball season, which opens this week. It didn’t take long for Baylor to make its mark on the game. In 1902, Baylor fielded a baseball team, its second varsity sport, and […]
