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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 7, 2023<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:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor WGOLF’s Belsham Named Big 12 Golfer of the Month for February<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Junior is BU’s second golfer of the month this season<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280,
</span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WACO, Texas – </span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor junior Rosie Belsham has been named the Big 12 Women's Golfer of the Month
for February, announced Tuesday by the conference office.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Belsham is the 13<sup>th</sup>-different BU player to win Big 12 Golfer of the Month and the second this season after Sera Hasegawa took home the honor in October. Tuesday's selection marks BU's
first golfer of the month in the spring semester since Lauren Taylor in April 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The Whitley Bay, England, native played the best golf of her career in February, notching her career-first win and a pair of top-5 finishes. She opened the month at the Collegiate Invitational in Guadalajara, out-dueling
the sixth-ranked player in the country, Georgia's Jenny Bae, for a one-shot victory. Belsham shot a final-round 66 on the strength of eight birdies on a day where the stroke average was 74.97, helping the Bears to a 10-shot victory, Baylor's first of the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">At the T. Hession Regional Challenge, Belsham played well against another strong field, finishing tied for fifth, thanks to a second-straight final round in the 60s. Belsham's final-round 67 included six birdies
to help the Bears tie for third, while she finished 25-3-5 against other ranked golfers.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Belsham closed the month with a tie for third against one of the deepest fields of the season at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate. She opened with a bogey-free 69 at Long Cove Club, one of just three bogey-free
rounds out of the 270 played that week in Hilton Head. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">She wrapped the month finishing behind just four ranked golfers and recorded three-straight top-5 finishes for the first time in her career. Belsham is the first BU golfer with a stretch like that since Gurleen
Kaur did the same last fall en route to Big 12 Golfer of the Month accolades in October of 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Belsham and the Bears will return to action on March 24, at the PING/ASU Invitational in Phoenix, Ariz.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information on Baylor Women’s Golf, follow @BaylorWGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">BAYLOR'S ALL-TIME BIG 12 WOMEN'S GOLFERS OF THE MONTH</span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Melanie Hagewood, March 2003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Josefin Svenningsson, October 2003<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Sian Reddick, November 2005<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Allison Martin, March 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Hannah Burke, March 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Hayley Davis, September 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Jaclyn Jansen, October 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Lauren Taylor, November 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Lauren Taylor, April 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Amy Lee, October 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Gurleen Kaur, September 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Elodie Chapelet, October 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><dfn><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-style:normal">Gurleen Kaur</span></dfn><i><span style="color:black;background:white">,
</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white">October 2021<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Sera Hasegawa, October 2022<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Rosie Belsham, February 2023</span></b><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">—BaylorBears—</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF/) <br>
Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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