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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">June
3, 2019</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor Track & Field Set For NCAA Outdoor Championships</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Fourteen student-athletes will be competing for the Bears in Austin.</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Kellen Coleman, 254-749-6507, </span><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#954F72"><a href="mailto:Kellen_Coleman@baylor.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">Kellen_Coleman@baylor.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Baylor track & field is set to close the 2019 campaign as the Bears travel south on
Interstate 35 to compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships June 5-8 at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“Being just 90 miles down the road in Austin - at a place that a lot of our athletes have called home, have run state championships - they’ve got a lot of great memories
there,” head coach Todd Harbour said. “So, it’s a nice tradeoff. There’s no crowd in the world like Eugene. It’s unbelievable. Those people up there appreciate great performance - it’s like a European crowd. But Austin is home, and we’re real excited.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Senior Wil London, sophomores Howard Fields III, Jalen Seals, and Aaliyah Miller, as well as freshman KC Lightfoot will be competing for national championships along with both
the men’s and women’s 4x400-meter relay teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">This will be London’s fourth consecutive trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, where he earned All-America honors in 2017 and 2018 with eighth-place finishes both years. The
Waco, Texas, native was a double All-American in 2018 as the Bears’ 4x400-meter relay team placed seventh. London will be competing in both the 400 meters and 4x400-meter relay this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fields returns to the outdoor championships for the second straight season as he was a member of the Bears’ All-America 4x400-meter relay team as a freshman. This will be his
first time to compete in the 400 meters at Nationals, and he will be on the 4x400-meter relay team again this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Miller competed in both the 800 meters and 4x400-meter relay as a freshman at the 2018 outdoor championships, where she was an All-American on the Bears’ 4x400 squad. She will
once again be competing in the 800 and 4x4 this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seals and Lightfoot will be making their first appearances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lightfoot is in the midst of a banner freshman season, where he was an All-American and Big 12 Champion in the indoor pole vault and a Big 12 Champion outdoors in the pole vault,
as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Seals has earned seven All-Big 12 honors between indoor and outdoor during his first two years at Baylor.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The men’s 4x400-meter relay will travel London and Fields along with Chris Platt, Matthew Moorer, Caleb Dickson, and Antwuan Musgrove to Austin. On the women’s side, Miller as
well as Kiana Horton, Victoria Powell, Sydney Washington, Leticia De Souza, and Morgan Stewart will be making the trip as members of the 4x4 squad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">“We’ve pointed to it all year that we want to finish strong,” Harbour said. “We didn’t have our best meet last year at the end of the year at Eugene. So, we really
want to have a great ending to this season. And I think both groups are set up.”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be televised on the ESPN family of networks, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and ESPN3. A complete list of streams can be
found at </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1/broadcast-info">https://www.ncaa.com/championships/trackfield-outdoor/d1/broadcast-info</a>. Live results can be
viewed at <a href="https://dt8v5llb2dwhs.cloudfront.net/NCAA/index.htm">https://dt8v5llb2dwhs.cloudfront.net/NCAA/index.htm</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">For continued updates on the Baylor Track & Field team, follow the team's social media accounts all season long: @BaylorTrack.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2019 DI OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MIKE A. MYERS STADIUM | AUSTIN, TX | JUNE 5 - 8</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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<b><u>WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 (Men)</u></b><br>
6:30 p.m.: Pole Vault Final (KC Lightfoot)<br>
8:00 p.m.: Long Jump Final (Jalen Seals)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">8:00 p.m.: 400 Meters Semifinal (Wil London, Trey Fields)<br>
9:48 p.m.: 4x400 Meter Relay Semifinal (TBD)<br>
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<b><u>THURSDAY, JUNE 6 (Women)</u></b><br>
8:44 p.m.: 800 Meters Semifinal (Aaliyah Miller)<br>
10:18 p.m.: 4x400 Meter Relay Semifinal (TBD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u>FRIDAY, JUNE 7 (Men)</u></b><br>
8:32 p.m.: 400 Meters Final (TBD)<br>
9:51 p.m.: 4x400 Meter Relay Final (TBD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u>SATURDAY, JUNE 8 (Women)</u></b><br>
6:44 p.m.: 800 Meters Final (TBD)<br>
7:51 p.m.: 4x400 Meter Relay Final (TBD)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*All times listed are in Central Time<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">__________________________________</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#154734">Kellen Coleman</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#18481F"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">|
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Associate Director of Communications</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">O: 254-710-4049 | C: 254-749-6507</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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