{"id":21062,"date":"2018-08-15T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=21062"},"modified":"2018-08-15T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T01:57:12","slug":"ranked-15th-nationally-baylor-soccer-ready-to-build-on-stellar-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2018\/08\/ranked-15th-nationally-baylor-soccer-ready-to-build-on-stellar-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranked 15th nationally, Baylor soccer ready to build on stellar season"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baylor<\/p>\n

Baylor soccer<\/a> turned heads across the country last fall with a stirring postseason run<\/a> that featured some of the sport\u2019s most dramatic moments of the season. In a memorable month of November, the Bears earned their first-ever Big 12 tournament championship<\/a> and reached the NCAA’s Elite Eight<\/a> for the first time in program history. As they head into the 2018 season, they do so with some newfound respect.<\/p>\n

The Bears will begin the 2018 season ranked 15th nationally<\/a> in the preseason coaches poll. It\u2019s the third time Baylor soccer has been ranked in the preseason poll (and the second-highest preseason nod in program history, behind 2013’s No. 13 ranking). League coaches picked the Bears to tie Texas for third in the Big 12<\/a> this fall, matching the program’s best-ever preseason placement.<\/p>\n

With seven of eleven starters returning, head coach Paul Jobson will have a veteran team to work with as they build on last season’s success. A pair of preseason all-Big 12 selections — senior midfielder Julie James and senior defender Sarah King — will lead the way. They’ll again face a\u00a0challenging schedule<\/a>, which begins Thursday night against Abilene Christian at Betty Lou Mays Field. In addition to a tough Big 12 slate, the Bears will play seven non-conference opponents who are either ranked or receiving votes.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Baylor soccer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baylor soccer turned heads across the country last fall with a stirring postseason run that featured some of the sport\u2019s most dramatic moments of the season. In a memorable month of November, the Bears earned their first-ever Big 12 tournament championship and reached the NCAA’s Elite Eight for the first time in program history. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}