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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 – May 16, 2024</span></b><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Baylor T&F’s Alexis Brown Named Big 12 Women’s Performer of the Year</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Brown tabs program’s second outdoor women’s conference honor</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, </span><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">IRVING, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Baylor senior Alexis Brown was named the Big 12 Women’s Performer of the Year for
the 2024 collegiate outdoor track and field season, announced by the conference on Thursday afternoon.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brown ended the 2024 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship, the first of the senior’s career, with two titles in the long jump and the 4x100-meter relay.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Kennedale, Texas, native is the first Bear to cross the 22-foot mark in the women’s long jump in program history, landing a conference championship-winning 22-5 leap at
the Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium. Brown set three program records in the event throughout the outdoor season (21-11, 21-11 ½ and 22-5) all at her home track in Waco.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brown also wrote history as the first outdoor women’s long jump conference champion in program history in both Big 12 and Southwest Conference eras. Again on Thursday, Brown
adds to the history books as just the second Bear tabbed the Big 12 Outdoor Women’s Performer of the Year, joining Kiana Horton in 2018.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Also a member of the women’s 4x100-meter relay squad, Brown pocketed her second gold medal with the third-fastest 4x1 mark in program history, leading the rest of the field
by just under three-tenths of a second. Joining Tiriah Kelley, Kayla Hunt and Michaela Francois, Brown ran the third leg in a title-clinching 43.16-second race.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brown also had an outstanding year in the 100 meters, running a PB of 11.29 seconds at the Desert Heat Classic in Arizona on April 27, the 36<sup>th</sup>-best mark in DI competition
this season. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Baylor track and field team continues its season at the 2024 NCAA West Preliminary Rounds on May 22-25 in Fayetteville, Ark. In entries that were just made official, Brown
boasts qualifying marks in all three events at No. 3 in the long jump, No. 4 in the 4x100-meter relay and No. 17 in the 100 meters in the west region.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For the latest news on the Baylor track and field team all year long, follow its official Facebook, X and Instagram accounts: @BaylorTrack.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2024 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Yearly Award Winners</span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Men’s Performer of the Year: Shaun Maswanganyi, Houston</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Women’s Performer of the Year: Alexis Brown, Baylor</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Men’s Outstanding Freshman: Brian Musau, Oklahoma State</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Women’s Outstanding Freshman: Akala Garrett, Texas</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Men’s and Women’s Coach of the Year: Edrick Floréal, Texas</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">- BaylorBears<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">.com</span></span><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">_________________________________________</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E">Colin Pirtle</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">| Associate
Director of Athletics Communications (WBB, T&F/XC, MTEN) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">C: 940-564-0351</span></p>
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