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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 24, 2024<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:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor WGOLF Selected as No. 7 Seed in Las Vegas Regional
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">The team will make its seventh-straight NCAA regional appearance<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, </span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WACO, Texas – </span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor women's golf earned the No. 7 seed at the NCAA Las Vegas Regional, announced
during the 2024 NCAA Women's Golf Selection Show on Golf Channel Wednesday afternoon. The three-day tournament will be played May 6-8 at Spanish Trail Country Club.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">“We are pumped to head to Vegas next week for regionals," head coach Jay Goble said. "This team has had a lot of ups and downs this year, but with those experiences, we've grown, and I think this
is a great group. We dug ourselves out of a hole this year and have been rewarded with our seventh-straight post-season bid. We are trending in the right direction, and this team really wants to go to Carlsbad next month for the national championship.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">The Bears will be appearing in an NCAA Tournament for the eleventh time in the last 12 possible seasons during
<dfn><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Goble’s</span></dfn><i> </i>tenure. BU was a No. 2 seed in the Pullman regional in 2023, finishing fourth to clinch its fifth NCAA Championship appearance in the last six seasons, one of just eight programs
to accomplish that feat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">UNLV will host the 54-hole tournament on a par-72, 7,434-yard course at Spanish Trail Country Club. The host site for the Big West Championship two weeks ago, the course is a 27-hole layout. Teams
will play the Canyons and Lakes courses. The top five teams at each of the six regional sites will advance to the 2024 NCAA Championship at The Omnia La Costa Golf Course outside of San Diego.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor has advanced through Regionals to the NCAA Championship in six of the last eight tournaments, earning Championship berths in 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 and 2023, recording top-10 national
finishes in ’15, ’17 and ’18. Baylor advanced to match play and finished as national runner-up in 2015 at The Concession; the Bears again advanced to match play and finished tied for fifth place in 2017 at Rich Harvest Farms; and BU fell in a playoff for the
final match play berth on its way to a tie for eighth place in the 2018 NCAA Championship at Karsten Creek.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">The Las Vegas Regional features a 12-team field – No. 1 seed UCLA, No. 2 Arkansas, No. 3 Arizona, No. 4 Florida State, No. 5 California, No. 6 Purdue, No. 7 Baylor, No. 8 Oklahoma, No. 9 Colorado
State, No. 10 Kent State, No. 11 Xavier and No. 12 Dartmouth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor has faced six of the 11 teams in the regional during the 2023-24 season, going a combined 2-8-0 against those opponents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor is coming off a fourth-place finish at the Big 12 Championship, where junior Sera Hasegawa finished tied for eighth and garnered all-tournament team honors. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Live scoring will be available for each round in the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Tournament at
<a href="http://www.Golfstat.com">www.Golfstat.com</a>. Follow @BaylorWGolf on X, Instagram and Facebook for updates throughout the season.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">—BaylorBears.com—</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",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</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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