{"id":21979,"date":"2019-08-21T14:58:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T19:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=21979"},"modified":"2019-08-28T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T18:01:00","slug":"baylor-soccer-opens-2019-in-the-top-25-for-second-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2019\/08\/baylor-soccer-opens-2019-in-the-top-25-for-second-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor soccer opens 2019 in the top 25 for second straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baylor<\/p>\n

Baylor soccer<\/a> will open the 2019 season Sunday against Northwestern State with new uniforms<\/a>, but with an increasingly familiar place in the top 25 nationally.<\/p>\n

For the second straight season — a program first — the Bears are ranked in the preseason coaches poll<\/a>, coming in at No. 14 nationally. Baylor is also picked to finish second in the Big 12 Conference preseason poll<\/a>, behind only West Virginia.<\/p>\n

Why are expectations so high? Under Jobson’s leadership, Baylor has established itself as not only a Big 12 powerhouse, but a national force as well. Each of the last two seasons have elevated the bar for the program — a Big 12 tournament title and Elite Eight run in 2017<\/a>, followed by a Big 12 regular season title, school-record 20 victories and Elite Eight finish in 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite losing seven seniors from last year\u2019s squad, coaches nationwide clearly believe Baylor can continue to build on that success. Sophomore defender Kayley Ables was named to the preseason All-Big 12 team<\/a>, and on offense, the team returns senior Camryn Wendlandt, who tied for the team lead in goals scored.<\/p>\n

Baylor welcomes Northwestern State to Betty Lou Mays Soccer Field to open the season Sunday afternoon at 4 p.m., kicking off a schedule<\/a> that features seven matches against teams that made the NCAA tournament last season. The Bears’ slate includes a nationally televised home match against No. 5-ranked USC before opening Big 12 play at Kansas State on Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

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

Baylor soccer will open the 2019 season Sunday against Northwestern State with new uniforms, but with an increasingly familiar place in the top 25 nationally. For the second straight season — a program first — the Bears are ranked in the preseason coaches poll, coming in at No. 14 nationally. Baylor is also picked to […]<\/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-21979","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\/21979","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=21979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}