Sometimes it seems colleges forget that student-athletes are just that — students first, then athletes. But not at Baylor! For the sixth time in the Big 12 Conference’s 12-year history, the Bears lead the league in football graduation rate. The latest Graduation Success Rate (GSR) numbers from the NCAA show that 84% of Baylor football […]
Baylor’s improved running game got most of the attention Saturday after the Bears’ 34-21 win at Buffalo, but in my book, the player of the game had to be sophomore safety Jordan Lake. Lake pulled down two interceptions and forced two fumbles Saturday, setting up the Bears’ first 10 points plus a third-quarter field goal. […]
As a kid dreaming of being a famous athlete someday, I wondered what it would be like to have my picture in Sports Illustrated. Baylor sophomore Nichole Jones is learning what that’s like after being included in SI‘s “Faces in the Crowd” this week, a top honor for amateur athletes across the country. The Sept. […]
With almost a month of classes gone by already, Baylor released some official numbers Tuesday that look outstanding. As you may have heard, interest in Baylor is on the rise. For the fifth straight year, high school student applications set a new Baylor record; 26,514 students applied to start school this fall, blowing away the […]
Two Baylor grads’ take on a Western remake netted them the No. 1 film in the country this week. 3:10 to Yuma, a remake of the 1957 film by the same name, was written by former Baylor students Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (both class of ’91) and stars Russell Crowe and Christian Bale. In […]
Football has garnered the most attention as Baylor prepares for its 2007 home opener Saturday vs. Rice, but it was Bears in three other sports who received honors worth noting this week. Sophomore Anna Breyfogle was named the Big 12 Volleyball Defensive Player of the Week on Tuesday after helping lead the Bears to a […]
Whether you’re one of the top quarterbacks or one of the top basketweavers, being in the top 50 in the U.S. in anything is a pretty impressive achievement. But to be named one of the top 50 undergrads in the nation? THAT’S something to write home about. Junior Shane Slowey, a University Scholar from Bryan, […]
The honors just keep rolling in this week! Fortune Small Business magazine named Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business one of the 25 best schools in the nation for entrepreneurship in its upcoming issue. The magazine also named Baylor one of the top six schools for “family business.” (Pictured at right: Hankamer students worked on an […]
Members of Baylor’s Class of 2011 began their college careers today. The class brings in a school-record average SAT score (1218), and 40% of the freshmen graduated in their high school’s top 10%. Those sorts of accolades helped Baylor rise six spots in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings to 75th, its highest […]
Looking back, it seems like every history professor I ever had was ancient. When my junior high history teacher was talking about the signing of the Magna Carta, I figured he had been there that day. There are young historians out there, though — and Baylor has one of the best. Earlier this month, The […]
