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 […]
You probably know Baylor student-athletes are currently the reigning national champions in both women’s basketball and acrobatics & tumbling. You might know that Baylor also has the nation’s top collegiate orchestra, and that Baylor students are among the top collegiate trumpeters in the nation. But did you know that Baylor is also home to one […]
It’s always impressive when any one Baylor student or professor wins a statewide, national or even international award — but yet again, Bears have been winning so many awards that we can’t write about them fast enough! Take a moment to check out these six amazing Bears and the work they’re doing in their respective […]
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 […]
After a rigorous review process, Baylor’s Mayborn Museum Complex has achieved a significant milestone: accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM) — the highest national recognition an American museum can achieve, and an honor only 3% of museums nationwide have earned. The accreditation means that the Mayborn meets national standards and best practices for […]
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 week, Baylor announced the finalists for the university’s 2020 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. (If you’re unfamiliar with the Cherry Award, it’s a unique honor — not only honoring professors for great teaching, but investing in their work with a gift of $250,000. It’s the largest monetary gift for teaching presented by a college […]
When Baylor was chartered in 1845, it was one of the first coeducational colleges or universities west of the Mississippi River — about 10 years before any public institution of higher learning would introduce mixed-gender learning, and a full 75 years before American women were guaranteed the right to vote. Since that groundbreaking beginning, countless […]
