{"id":1110,"date":"2009-03-20T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toto-2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/20\/teammates-form-support-system-for-lady-bear-amidst-family-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:03:12","slug":"teammates-form-support-system-for-lady-bear-amidst-family-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/03\/teammates-form-support-system-for-lady-bear-amidst-family-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Teammates form support system for Lady Bear amidst family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/medlock-march09.jpg\" alt=\"Morghan Medlock and Jessica Morrow\" align=\"right\" \/>In December, reporters covering the Baylor women&#8217;s basketball team had the sad duty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/communities\/breakingnews\/entries\/2008\/12\/20\/lady_bears_mother_killed_in_ap.html\" target=\"_blank\">reporting<\/a> that junior <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/mtt\/medlock_morghan00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Morghan Medlock<\/a>&#8216;s mother, Shannan Barron, had been shot and killed by Barron&#8217;s boyfriend; Medlock&#8217;s 12-year-old brother found the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>As Medlock grieved, her teammates grieved with her. Head coach Kim Mulkey spoke at Barron&#8217;s memorial service. Baylor set up <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/122308aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">an NCAA-approved fund to assist Medlock<\/a> and her family. And through it all, Medlock (pictured here with Jessica Morrow) found solace in basketball and in her teammates.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-ranked Lady Bears <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/031909aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">begin NCAA Tournament play Sunday<\/a> at 8:30 p.m. against UTSA on ESPN2, and <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/ncw\/ncaatourney09\/columns\/story?columnist=voepel_mechelle%26id=3995078\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN.com has a very moving story<\/a> about what Medlock and the team have gone through this season. The entire story is worth reading (though you might want to have some Kleenex handy), but in particular, I wanted to share these quotes from Medlock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The support system I have at Baylor has helped me grow, and it&#8217;s let me know that there are people who are going to take care of you on the days you can&#8217;t take care of yourself&#8230; I just thank God for this university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Morghan and Baylor women&#8217;s basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December, reporters covering the Baylor women&#8217;s basketball team had the sad duty of reporting that junior Morghan Medlock&#8216;s mother, Shannan Barron, had been shot and killed by Barron&#8217;s boyfriend; Medlock&#8217;s 12-year-old brother found the bodies. As Medlock grieved, her teammates grieved with her. Head coach Kim Mulkey spoke at Barron&#8217;s memorial service. Baylor set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}