The Atlanta Braves made Baylor junior Shea Langeliers the ninth overall pick in this week’s MLB draft — the second-highest draft pick in Baylor baseball history. Only Stan Hilton, taken fifth overall in 1983, can top Langeliers’ selection. The Bears’ catcher is the eighth first-round pick in program history, joining a list that includes such major […]
Clyde Hart, BBA ’56, was named Baylor’s head track and field coach in 1963 at age 28. This week — after 56 years and nearly 1,000 meets — he’ll coach his final meet at Baylor, having announced his coming retirement earlier this spring. (Hart served as Baylor’s head coach from 1963-2005, and has served as […]
Shortly after the 2019 season began, Baylor baseball lost ace Cody Bradford — the defending Big 12 pitcher of the year — to a season-ending injury. The Bears’ No. 2 starting pitcher, Hayden Kettler, was out for several weeks fighting shoulder soreness. Add in the fact that four of Baylor’s top six hitters — outfielder […]
All season long, winning the doubles point and protecting the home court have been formulas for success for the Baylor men’s tennis team, a combination that proved to be a winning one again in in the team’s biggest home match of the year. Buoyed by a season-high crowd of more than 1,000 Baylor fans, the […]
This week, Baylor announced that an anonymous donor has given the university $100 million — the largest current gift in Baylor’s history, and a truly transformational act of kindness that will benefit countless Baylor students, faculty and alumni. A significant portion of the gift will go toward increasing the number of endowed faculty positions by […]
For some teams, the first year under a new head coach means a rebuilding year with an eye towards eventually reaching past heights. That’s not the case for Baylor men’s tennis. In its first year under new head coach Brian Boland, the Bears have continued an era of dominance that now includes 13 regular season […]
The New York Yankees once won five straight World Series (1949-53). UCLA men’s basketball claimed seven straight NCAA titles between 1967-73, and the Boston Celtics won an incredible eight straight NBA championships from 1959-66. In similar fashion, Baylor’s acrobatics & tumbling team is putting together its own run of dominance. The Bears won their fifth […]
If you’re a Baylor graduate or student, there’s a pretty decent chance you played an intramural sport at some point during your time on campus. How do we know? Because Baylor has long boasted one of the nation’s most robust intramural programs, with participation rates that are the envy of many other universities. In any […]
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 […]
