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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">August 8, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Baylor Athletics Announces Successful Fundraising Year<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Athletic annual giving exceeds annual goals with $19 million given in 2017-18.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> Baylor’s Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mack B. Rhoades, IV announced today a successful fundraising year for the department as they report $19.1 million in total
annual giving at the close of the 2017-18 fiscal year. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Baylor Bear Foundation again exceeded budgeted goals, reporting $12 million in cash giving from more
<span style="color:black">than 7,500 members</span>. This figure marks the foundation’s third-highest annual giving total in its 70-year history.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">“We are deeply grateful to the thousands of Baylor Athletics donors and Bear Foundation members who have given thoughtfully and generously to help us achieve this milestone
year,” Rhoades said. “Baylor alumni and friends are remarkable in terms of their support, loyalty and belief in Baylor University and our athletics program. Their giving is essential to our ability to compete at an elite level among the top programs in the
country, and it has a tremendous impact as we invest in more than 530 student-athletes each year,
<i>Preparing Champions for Life</i>.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Baylor Athletics’ fiscal year runs from June 1 through May 31. The year-end total reflects giving
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">across the department, including Baylor Bear Foundation contributions ($12 million), credits ($2.2 million) and gift-in-kind totals ($506k), along with gifts to athletic excellence funds ($1.2 million) and athletic endowment
interest distributions ($3.2 million). It excludes capital gifts and ticket revenue received during the year. An expanded reporting model was recently adopted to offer more reporting transparency to donors and to align more closely with fundraising totals
reported by peer institution athletic programs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The successful fundraising year is attributed to improved year-over-year annual giving from Bear Foundation donors, along with a significant boost from endowment interest as a result
of a strengthening economy. Through the Bear Foundation, excellence funds and other means of giving, generous donors to Baylor provide essential funds that help to offset the significant cost of athletic scholarships and other expenses associated with operating
a Division 1 FBS NCAA athletics department. The cost of a full athletic scholarship is approximately
<span style="color:black">$60,700 </span>per Baylor student-athlete per year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">“Fundraising totals from last year reflect the confidence the Baylor community has in the strong tradition of Baylor Athletics and our bright future,” said Mitch Mann,
Associate Athletic Director for Resource Development. “Their belief and consistency fuels the work we do every day.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">To learn more about the how annual support helps Baylor Athletics
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Prepare Champions for Life<i>, visit <b>
BaylorBearFoundation.com.</b> <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">David Kaye</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">| Assistant AD for Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">C: 254-709-5147<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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