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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Feb. 4, 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor Football Announces Staff Additions and Promotions<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Ronnie Wheat and Dallas Baker join BU as assistant coaches<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">David Kaye, 254-709-5147,
</span><a href="mailto:David_Kaye@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">David_Kaye@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WACO, Texas – </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Baylor football head coach </span><a href="https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=583"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Dave
Aranda</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> has announced numerous additions and promotions to his coaching and support staff on the heels of the most successful season in program history. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ronnie Wheat joins the Bears as an assistant coach working with safeties and special teams following two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Nevada. Wheat served as
the linebackers coach this past season after working as the safeties coach in 2020. Prior to his time with the Wolfpack, Wheat spent seven seasons as the lead defensive analyst at LSU, including four seasons working with Aranda, culminating in the 2019 National
Championship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dallas Baker has been added as an assistant coach working with wide receivers. He comes to Waco after spending a season in the same position as the University of Buffalo. Prior to
that, he spent four seasons as the wide receivers coach at Marshall University. Baker also spent time as the wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator at Warner University after a career in pro football. He spent three seasons in the NFL with the Pittsburgh
Steelers, helping them to a Super Bowl title following the 2008 season. Baker was drafted out of the University of Florida after playing with the Gators from 2003-06, helping them win the 2007 BCS National Championship.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Keava Soil-Cormier has joined the football support staff as associate AD for player personnel. She spent the past seven seasons at LSU, most recently serving as LSU’s
assistant director of recruiting operations, where she was responsible for organizing and overseeing all special events associated with football recruiting. Soil-Cormier originally joined the LSU Staff in 2014 as a recruiting analyst.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Jeff Grigus has joined the Bears as director of football operations, following four seasons as LSU’s assistant director of football operations. The 2010 LSU graduate also spent
eight seasons as an equipment manager at his alma mater.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Monique Felix has moved into the role of associate director of football operations after serving as a character formation coordinator for the past eight months. Felix
originally joined Baylor in July of 2020 as an operations assistant in the Student-Athlete Center for Excellence (SACE).</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tyler Foster has been named associate director of player personnel, following one season as an offensive analyst at Kansas State. Foster previously served as a recruiting analyst
at Oklahoma State and was the run game coordinator and running backs coach at Kimball High School in Dallas.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Aaron Hunt has been elevated to assistant AD for scouting after serving as a recruiting and personnel assistant this past season. Prior to joining the staff in January of 2021, he
served as the director of 306 Elite Performance and Development in Denison, Texas, a non-profit organization he founded to operate camps, leagues and after-school programs for youths seventh grade and below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Connor Morgan has been named coordinator for player personnel. He joined the Baylor staff in March as a personnel assistant after working as a recruiting specialist for the University
of Alabama from 2017-21, where he was part of two National Championships.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">2022 season tickets are now available through the Baylor Bear Foundation. For questions about season tickets, please contact
</span><a href="https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=559"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Matthew Douglas</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, Director of Ticket Sales and Annual Giving, at 254-710-6443 or by
e-mail at </span><a href="mailto:Matthew_B_Douglas@baylor.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Matthew_B_Douglas@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.<br>
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Baylor Bear Foundation members who would like to increase their giving level or join the premium seating waitlist can contact
</span><a href="https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=553"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Hancock</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, Associate Director of Resource Development, at 254-710-3652 or by e-mail
at </span><a href="mailto:Sam_Hancock@baylor.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam_Hancock@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For year-round updates on the Baylor Football team, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BUFootball.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#385623">David Kaye</span></b><span style="color:#385623"> </span><span style="color:black">| Assistant AD for Communications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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