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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Baylor Equestrian’s Dominika Silvestri Picks Up Big 12 Rider of the Month Honor<br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Jumping Seat senior collects fifth monthly award of the year; Bears set program record with 12<sup>th</sup> honor<br>
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt"> Baylor equestrian Jumping Seat senior Dominika Silvestri has been named the Big 12 Fences Co-Rider
of the Month, as announced by the conference office Wednesday afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Silvestri went 3-1 in Fences in March, improving her overall record in the event to 8-5-1. With a pair of wins at the Big 12 Championship, she was named the tournament’s Most
Outstanding Performer in the event after averaging a 226.5 three-judge score across her two rides. In the Bears’ regular-season finale at No. 3 TCU, Silvestri earned her third Fences MOP of the season with an 84-77 victory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">The Andover, Mass., product scored an 84.67 on average between her four Fences rides on the month, including BU’s two highest Fences scores of the year, an 87 and 86.67. Silvestri
helped the Bears to back-to-back event wins at the Big 12 Championship, something the Fences squad had done just twice before this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">This is Silvestri’s fifth monthly award of the year at either the national or conference level. After already proving her prowess in Flat as the Big 12 Flat Rider of the Year
and an NCEA Flat All-America selection, Silvestri adds to her trophy case with her second Fences monthly recognition of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Baylor has now received 12 monthly awards on the 2022-23 campaign, its most in program history beating out 2020-21 and 2015-16’s marks of 11.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">BU finished the 2022-23 season at 6-9 overall with a third-place finish in the Big 12 Championship. The Bears earned the No. 8 seed for the NCEA National Championship and will
face No. 1 SMU when nationals begin on Thursday, April 13, at the World Equestrian Center in Ocala, Fla.<br>
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To stay up to date throughout the season on all things Baylor equestrian, follow the team on its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorEQ.<br>
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<b><u>2022-23 BAYLOR EQUESTRIAN MONTHLY AWARDS</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">NCEA Rider of the Month<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jan. – Dominika Silvestri (Flat)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">March – Maddie Vorhies (Flat)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Big 12 Rider of the Month<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Sept. – Madaline Callaway (Reining)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Sept. – Annie Vorhies (Fences)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Oct. – Annie Vorhies (Flat)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Nov. – Lauren Reid (Co-Fences)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Nov. – Dominika Silvestri (Co-Flat)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jan. – Dominika Silvestri (Fences)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jan. – Dominika Silvestri (Flat)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jan. – Alexis Rutledge (Horsemanship)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jan. – Jenna Meimerstorf (Reining)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">March – Dominika Silvestri (Co-Fences)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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