Bravo, Baylor Line!
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Photo Galleries, Student life, Athletics
Preliminary numbers suggest that this fall’s freshman class is the second largest in Baylor history, but the Class of 2012 has really outdone itself in getting ready for football. Over 2,100 freshmen have picked up their jerseys and joined the Baylor Line, making this year’s Line the biggest in history!
And they didn’t just get the jerseys; they showed up in extraordinary force last week for the Bears’ season opener. (Check out this photo gallery of the Line and a few other spirited fans.) That’s a nice start, freshmen; now let’s keep it going as the Bears host Northwestern State on Saturday night!
Sic ’em, Baylor Line!
Chuck Norris urges Bears to victory — over everything
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Just for Fun, AthleticsIt’s Gameday! Baylor football kicks off the 2008 season tonight at 7 p.m. CT against 23rd-ranked Wake Forest. Join us at Floyd Casey Stadium, tune in to Fox Sports Net’s national broadcast, or follow the progress on BaylorBears.com’s GameTracker live stats and new Live In-Game Blog.
One more video to get your Baylor spirit revved up; join the unstoppable Chuck Norris as he cheers on Baylor. Do you want to be on the side opposing Chuck Norris? I didn’t think so.
Sic ’em, Bears!
Football begins Briles era Thursday
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Athletics
The Art Briles era of Baylor football begins Thursday, as the Bears host 23rd-ranked Wake Forest at 7 p.m. CT. (Get your tickets now!) The game will be nationally televised on Fox Sports Net, so if you can’t make it out for the game, tune in!
Thursday is also College Colors Day Kickoff, and the Athletics Department has asked Baylor fans to wear their green and gold on Thursday to celebrate the Bears’ new season. (If you’re in need of new gear, order yours online now, and with overnight shipping, you might be able to get it in time!)
All together now — B-A-Y,-L-O-R, Baylor Bears Fight!
Sic ’em, Baylor football!
Bears leave Beijing with three more Olympic medals
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Alumni, Athletics, Honors
With the 2008 Summer Olympics wrapped up in Beijing, Baylor Bears are coming home with gold for the fourth straight Olympics.
Jeremy Wariner won silver in the 400 meters, then ran the anchor leg in the 4×400-meter relay as the U.S. claimed gold yet again in that event. (Click on any of these links for results, photos and video highlights.) Reggie Witherspoon also earned a gold for the relay, as he ran the third leg in prelims. Darold Williamson served as a relay alternate this year after winning a gold in 2004, but did not compete in Beijing.
Wariner now has three career gold medals, one shy of Baylor and Olympic legend Michael Johnson’s four golds. (Johnson originally earned five golds, though he recently returned a relay gold after the other three members of his team admitted to using performance enhancing drugs.)
Baylor track coach Clyde Hart also saw another prodigy come home with a pair of medals. Hart trains former Texas Longhorn Sanya Richards in Waco; Richards won bronze in the 400 meters and a gold in the 4×400-meter relay.
Sic ’em, Baylor Olympians!
Meet the Bears, greet the Bears
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Photo Galleries, Just for Fun, Athletics
Baylor football held its annual “Meet the Bears” gathering Saturday and drew an estimated 1,200 fans for the event and the 90-minute scrimmage earlier that morning.
Fans in attendance mingled with Baylor players and head coach Art Briles, who signed autographs and posed for pictures. We’ve got our own photos to share, thanks to Baylor Photography; click here for our photo gallery from the day. If that’s not enough, check out more photos on BaylorBears.com and WacoTrib.com.
Nine days ’til kickoff! Get your tickets now!
Sic ’em, Baylor football!
Baylor - Bears - Fight!
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Just for Fun, Athletics10 days til football kicks off! Are you ready? Get pumped up with this video of a packed Floyd Casey Stadium crowd singing, cheering and chanting after a touchdown.
Sic ’em, Bears!
New soccer coach brings U.S. National Team experience to Baylor
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Athletics
New head football coach Art Briles has received plenty of publicity since coming to Baylor, and rightfully so, given his successful career to date. But he’s not the only new head coach at Baylor this fall.
Marci Jobson took over the reins of the Baylor women’s soccer team in December after three years as head coach at Northern Illinois, where she led the Huskies to a pair of Mid-American Conference Tournament appearances and improved the program’s win total each year.
Most notably, she split the past three years between her duties at NIU and playing for the U.S. National Team. One of the first 18 players named to the 2007 U.S. World Cup team, Jobson was the oldest player ever (by four years!) to make her first Women’s World Cup roster, and she retired following the 2007 event, just missing out on this summer’s Olympics.
Jobson’s National Team experience was the pinnacle of a long playing career. A three-time all-conference honoree at Wisconsin and SMU, Jobson played professionally for a total of nine years in the United States and overseas.
The Baylor women kick off the 2008 season with an exhibition match against SMU Saturday night in Waco, then hit the road for the season opener at UTEP on August 22.
Sic ’em, Coach Jobson and Baylor soccer!
‘World’s most dominant sprinter’ a Baylor Bear
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Alumni, Athletics
As the 2008 Summer Olympics open tonight in Beijing, Jeremy Wariner is one of four former Baylor track stars gunning for the gold. Darold Williamson and Reggie Witherspoon will join Wariner in competing for the U.S., while Bayano Kamani competes for Panama.
But it’s Wariner who is earning the most press. He will again compete in the 400 meters and the 4×400-meter relay after winning gold medals in both events at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Track stars don’t get quite the notoriety of some other sports’ athletes, but do tend to get incredible coverage every four years when the Olympics roll around, starting with practically round-the-clock coverage on the NBC family of stations.
In Wariner’s case, not only was he named the No. 8 athlete in the world earlier this year in a Wall Street Journal study, but he’s also the subject of a well-written feature in the current issue of ESPN The Magazine. Adidas created this three-minute commercial featuring Wariner (with a 30-second variation ready for airing as well) and even worked with Wariner to design his own shoe, the Lone Star, that complements his unique style of running.
We’ll keep you posted as Wariner, Williamson (4×400 relay), Witherspoon (4×400 relay) and Kamani (400m hurdles) take on the world’s best this month in Beijing.
Sic ’em, Baylor Olympians!
Baylor pitcher anchors USA National Team pitching staff in perfect summer
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Athletics, Honors
Junior Kendal Volz carried on a proud Baylor tradition, representing the United States in style as a member of this summer’s USA Baseball National Team that won two championships and finished the summer a perfect 24-0.
A starting pitcher for Baylor, Volz served as Team USA’s closer, racking up eight saves in eight opportunities and finishing with a perfect 0.00 ERA in 14 innings pitched. Besides the U.S., the top competitors in international baseball are Japan and Cuba; Volz closed out wins over each of those teams twice, including a pair of tournament championship games. The Cuba team even ran out its Olympic team roster against the U.S., and Volz held them to just one hit in 2.1 innings, striking out three. Even amidst all that, Volz still found time to keep a blog on BaylorBears.com and do an Internet chat with Baseball America.
Volz is the latest in a line of Bears to have played on the U.S. National Team, dating back 20 years to Pat Combs in the 1988 Olympics. More recently, Baylor legends such as Jason Jennings, Zane Carlson, and coach Steve Smith to have represented Baylor on the world baseball scene. The Bears have even gotten into the action behind the scenes, with Baylor athletic media relations staffer Larry Little serving a second tour of duty as the National Team’s press officer this summer.
Volz’s National Team teammates won’t be representing the U.S. at this summer’s Olympics; USA Baseball has elected to instead send a squad of primarily minor leaguers to Beijing, as they have for the past several Olympics. But I think the record compiled by this team of collegiate players speaks for itself as to their abilities.
Sic ’em, Kendal and USA Baseball!
Men’s basketball to play on ESPN 7 times this winter
Posted by The Baylor Proud Team in : Athletics
While living in Pennsylvania a couple of years ago, my wife and I rearranged our schedules any time we found out that a Baylor game would be televised there. We didn’t care what sport it was — football, basketball, baseball, softball, we watched them all.
Fans who can’t make it to the Ferrell Center this winter will have plenty of opportunities to catch the Baylor men’s basketball team on television. Thanks in large part to last year’s NCAA Tournament appearance, head coach Scott Drew’s team is already slated for seven nationally televised games on ESPN’s family of networks, including two “Big Monday” games. The Bears’ last “Big Monday” appearance came back in 2001, when the team upset No. 6 Kansas in the Ferrell Center. In all, 15 of the men’s 16 conference games have already been picked up for regional or national television. (The non-conference schedule has not yet been released.)
Sic ’em, Baylor men’s basketball!
