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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – July 21, 2022</span><o:p></o:p></h1>
<h2><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Baylor MGOLF’s Keefer Named Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of The Year</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
<h2><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Junior is BU’s third Big 12 men’s golf honoree in the last six years</span><o:p></o:p></h2>
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<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">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, <a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MGOLF Media Materials: <a href="https://baylor.box.com/s/pskzymwifvi64xa3nhwb4j90fk8qibik">https://baylor.box.com/s/pskzymwifvi64xa3nhwb4j90fk8qibik</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WACO, Texas – </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Baylor
men’s golfer Johnny Keefer has been selected as the Big 12 Conference Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the year, as announced Thursday by the conference office.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Keefer is the third BU men’s golfer to win the award and the third in the last
six years, joining Matthew Perrine (2017) and Colin Kober (2019). Keefer is joined by women's golf's Gurleen Kaur as a spring scholar-athlete of the year, giving the Bears 28, which is second-most in Big 12 history. Additionally, men's golf's three scholar-athletes
are the second-most among Baylor Athletics programs, trailing only women's golf and baseball, which each have four. Keefer joins Perrine as one of two players in program history to be named Scholar Athlete of the Year and All-Big 12 in the same season.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The accounting major from San Antonio boasts a 3.76 GPA and is coming off his
best season on the course as a Bear. He earned Third Team All-America Honors from Golfweek and the GCAA. He also became BU’s first representative on the All-Big 12 team since Garrett May in 2018, and made the Academic All-Big 12 First Team.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keefer played out of the No. 1 spot for every tournament, with a stroke average of 71.34 across 29 stroke-play rounds. Keefer's single-season average led the team and ranked seventh-best in program history. He
also led the team in top-5s (2), top-10s (5), top-25s (9) and rounds at par or better (18) while accounting for 33% of the team's par-or-better rounds.
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Additionally, he led the team in par-3 scoring (3.05), par-4 scoring (4.09), and par-5 scoring (4.63). He became the first BU player to compete in an NCAA postseason event as an individual since 2009, tying for
11<sup>th</sup> at the Norman Regional at Jimmie Austin Golf Club. In the process, Keefer became the fifth player to shoot two sub-70 rounds in the same NCAA postseason.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The All-American tied a school record with a final-round 63 at the Cabo Collegiate en route to his best finish of the season (T3). Keefer finished the season ranked 13<sup>th</sup> in Golfstat, 23<sup>rd</sup>
in Golfweek and 78<sup>th</sup> in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and earned a spot on the United States Palmer Cup Team, the fourth Palmer Cup participant in program history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keefer has played 70 rounds across 24 stroke-play tournaments in his career, ranking second in career stroke average (71.74), .21 strokes behind Jimmy Walker's program record. He is one of 15 players in program
history to have nine or more top-10s and boasts an 11-4-2 career record in match play.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Keefer will attempt to qualify for the U.S. Amateur on July 27, before competing in the prestigious Western Amateur Aug. 2-6, as part
of the Elite Amateur Golf Series.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">For more information on Baylor Men’s Golf, follow @BaylorMGolf on Twitter, Instagram
and Facebook.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">BAYLOR'S BIG 12 SCHOLAR-ATHLETES OF THE YEAR</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Baseball – Doug Ashby (2014), Logan Brown (2015), Richard Cunningham (2017), Kyle Hill (2019)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Equestrian – Rachel Van Allen (2018), Rachael Davis (2020)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Football –
</span><a href="https://baylorbears.com/staff.aspx?staff=26"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Nick Florence</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> (2012)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Men's Basketball – Freddie Gillespie (2020), Jared Butler (2021)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Men's Golf – Matthew Perrine (2017), Colin Kober (2019),
<b>Johnny Keefer (2022)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Men's Tennis – Patrick Pradella (2014), Jimmy Bendeck (2019)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Men's XC – Blake Niccum (2012), Jonathan Tijerina (2014)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Soccer – Dana Larsen (2012), Precious Akanyirige (2017)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Softball – Kathy Shelton (2013), Heather Stearns (2015)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Volleyball – Shelly (Fanning) Stafford (2018 & 2019)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Women's Golf – Laura Lonardi (2015 & 2016), </span><a href="https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10292"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">Elodie
Chapelet</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> (2021),
<b>Gurleen Kaur (2022)</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Women's Tennis – Blair Shankle (2017)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Women's XC – Lindsey Bradley (2017)</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666;background:white"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">BIG 12 SCHOLAR-ATHLETES OF THE YEAR BY SCHOOL</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Iowa State-35</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Baylor-28</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Kansas State-24</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">West Virginia-23</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Oklahoma State-21</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Kansas-18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Oklahoma-17</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">TCU-16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Texas-14</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Texas Tech-11</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Denver-3</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">North Dakota State-1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Northern Colorado-1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">South Dakota State-1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Tennessee-1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Alabama- 1<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"> </span></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">2021-22 Season Honors</span></u></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Trey Bosco</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Luke Dossey</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Brandon Hoff</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Tyler Isenhart</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b>Johnny Keefer</b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText">Academic All-Big 12 (First Team)</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText">GCAA/PING All-American (Third Team)</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText">Golfweek All-American (Third Team)</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText">All-Big 12 Team</p>
<p class="MsoBodyText">Men's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year </p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b>Mark Reppe</b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText">CoSIDA Academic All-District (District 8)</p>
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