With three national championships and a decade-plus worth of Big 12 titles on her resume, Baylor women’s basketball head coach Kim Mulkey’s accomplishments have long been legendary. Now, she’s earned the game’s highest honor — enshrinement in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Earlier this year, Mulkey became the fastest coach in college basketball history […]
The Baylor Family could, pretty easily, remember 2019-20 as the year the NCAA tournament didn’t happen — the year we were ready to cheer on Lauren Cox and Freddie Gillespie in deep postseason runs, only to find out the season was over just as they were about to reach for the pinnacle. Or… We can […]
Ten. Straight. Titles. Yes, Baylor women’s basketball has won the Big 12 regular season championship for the 10th straight year, running away with the 2019-20 Big 12 title with three games yet to go in the regular season. Head coach Kim Mulkey’s squad clinched a share of the title with a victory at West Virginia, and […]
When the Baylor men’s basketball team defeated Oklahoma last week, the win was the Bears’ 23rd in a row — the longest winning streak in Big 12 men’s basketball history. From Nov. 15 until Feb. 22 — more than three months — head coach Scott Drew’s squad met its objective of winning the game in […]
Baylor graduates make an impact in virtually any field you can think of; this year’s Baylor Alumni Award winners are no different, with recipients leading the charge in finance, athletics, non-profit leadership and civic leadership. Congratulations to this year’s honorees: Alumna of the Year: Kellie Fischer, BBA ’95, chief financial officer of Major League Baseball’s […]
As Baylor ups its research efforts and works toward R1/Tier 1 research status, one area the university has chosen to focus on is data sciences — ways we can recognize and properly use the massive amounts of data being collected today to address key societal challenges. Baylor professor (and alumna) Amanda Hering, BS ’99, shines as […]
Every two years, Baylor’s Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching brings one of the nation’s best professors not already here at Baylor to Waco for a semester, allowing BU students to benefit from his or her excellence in the classroom. First awarded in 1991, the award remains our country’s largest national award presented by […]
“Baylor is ranked No. 1 in the nation!” These days, it’s hard to know which Baylor team a person is talking about: Men’s basketball, which is now ranked No. 1 in both the AP Top 25 and the USA Today Coaches Poll? Women’s basketball, which holds the No. 1 spot in the USA Today Coaches […]
The Baylor men’s and women’s tennis teams opened the 2020 season on a winning note over the weekend, setting an early stage for success for two programs perennially among the Big 12’s and nation’s best. Men’s tennis begins the year ranked 5th nationally following a successful 2019 season that saw the Bears earn a Big […]
If you have dreams of starting or running your own business someday, Baylor’s entrepreneurship program might be just the place for you. For the 11th straight year, Baylor’s undergraduate entrepreneurship program is a consensus top-1o national pick in the field. It’s ranked No. 5 in the country by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship magazine, and […]
