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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">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">February
25, 2021</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Baylor Track & Field Set For Big 12 Indoor Championship</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Women’s team is ranked third among Big 12 teams, while men’s team is ranked seventh in the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">LUBBOCK, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> Returning to Texas Tech’s Sports Performance Center for the fourth time this season,
Baylor track & field will compete at the 2021 Big 12 Indoor Championship Friday and Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“We’re obviously excited to be here after all that we’ve gone through this season,” head coach Todd Harbour said. “To have an opportunity to compete for a championship is an
exciting time. We’re pretty healthy. We got most of them on the bus. Both groups are excited and ready to go. We’re hoping for the best starting on Friday.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coming into the Big 12 Championship, the Baylor women’s team is ranked No. 15 in the USTFCCCA National Track & Field Rating Index (third among Big 12 schools), while the men’s
team is rated seventh among league schools.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">KC Lightfoot, the collegiate record holder in the pole vault, Tuesdi Tidwell (pole vault) and Aaliyah Miller (800 meters, 1,000 meters) all hold No .1-ranked marks in the Big
12 this season. Baylor has 19 women’s and 11 men’s marks ranked in the Big 12 top eight, which would be scoring marks at the conference meet.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Bears have four individual women’s marks ranked in the NCAA top-16 (including the 4x400-meter relay) and two men’s marks, including the 4x4. Several others are within striking
distance to work their way into the national meet with season-best performances at the Big 12 meet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">“We’ll see if we can get a few more qualified for the NCAA meet,” Harbour said. “We want to compete as hard as we possibly can and hope that it’s good enough to put us in a good
place at the end of the meet.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Big 12 Now on ESPN+ will carry the Championship on Friday and Saturday featuring live running event finals and field event coverage on tape delay. Lincoln Rose and Johanna Gretschel
will provide the commentary. The first day can be viewed at <a href="https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/0d9d0f64-5401-4d4b-af51-31fba5dbaf32#bucketId=22508">
<span style="color:windowtext">https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/0d9d0f64-5401-4d4b-af51-31fba5dbaf32#bucketId=22508</span></a>, while day two can be found at
<a href="https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/800553e7-3692-465e-8c6d-50a2cfdb6162#bucketId=22508">
<span style="color:windowtext">https://www.espn.com/watch/player/_/id/800553e7-3692-465e-8c6d-50a2cfdb6162#bucketId=22508</span></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">Live Results from Lubbock will be provided by PrimeTime Timing at
<a href="https://live.pttiming.com/?mid=2112"><span style="color:windowtext">https://live.pttiming.com/?mid=2112</span></a>. Baylor action will begin Friday with the women’s pentathlon at 10 a.m. CT. The Bears will kick off Saturday with the women’s shot put
at 1 p.m. CT.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For continued updates on the Baylor Track & Field team, follow the team's social media accounts all season long: @BaylorTrack.<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>
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