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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Jan. 16, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor T&F Travels West to Corky Classic<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Bears make sixth consecutive trip to Lubbock for 2025 Corky Classic<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<a href="https://texastech.com/documents/2025/1/14/FINAL_Corky_Classic_Meet_Schedule_Jan_17-18_2025.pdf">
Meet Schedule</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
</span><a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">LUBBOCK, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Making its sixth-straight appearance in Texas Tech’s Corky Classic, the Baylor
track & field team is ready to hit the road for the second meet of the 2025 indoor season.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Corky Classic is set to begin on Friday at 3 p.m. and last through Saturday afternoon at the Sports Performance Center.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Bears head to Lubbock following a solid start to the season at last week’s McFerrin-12 Degree Invitational at Texas A&M, where they secured five event wins and debuted
19 freshmen in their first collegiate meet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Demar Francis put the conference on watch as he earned Big 12 Athlete of the Week honors for his impressive 200m time of 20.93 he put up at College Station. His mark led him
to win the 200m event and currently ranks first in the Big 12, second in the NCAA and fourth in the World in 2025. Francis also won Baylor's Performer of the Week reward for his impressive run.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Alexis Brown soared to new heights in her season-opening debut in the long jump, where she defeated her competition with an impressive mark of 21-10.25. The jump by Brown broke
the indoor long jump Baylor program, meet and facility record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Bears continued to have success in the field events as pole vaulter Molly Haywood tied her indoor personal best mark at 14-5.25 while also breaking the meet record by 3.5 feet
and freshman Iyanna Webb, making her collegiate debut, earned her first gold medal in the triple jump with a 42-2 mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BU had seven entries into the Top-12 Marks of Indoor 2025 Bests, provided by USTFCCA. Francis 200m run comes in at No. 2 of men’s 200m, while the men’s 4x400 relay squad of
Aren Spencer, Ricquan Graham, Austen Diggs and Tyler Honeyman sits at No. 11 with a time of 3:11.44. Tiriah Kelley’s first place finish in the women’s 200m at 23.20 lands at No. 3, while Haywood’s pole vault performance is at No. 4. In the women’s long jump,
Brown’s record-breaking mark is at No. 3 while freshman Janae De Gannes mark of 20-9.75 is at No. 9.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">With all results considered from the beginning of the indoor qualification period on December 1, those seven Bears also fall within the top-16 marks in NCAA DI competition,
a threshold needed to make it to Virginia Beach’s NCAA Indoor National Championship meet in March.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Baylor looks to repeat from last year’s performance at the 2024 Corky Classic as Nathaniel Ezekiel posted the best 600-yard time on a banked track in NCAA history with a clocked
time of 1:07.44. The Bears ended the meet with nine competitors landing in medal position.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Fans can follow live results at the event through <a href="https://live.pttiming.com/?mid=7601">Pttiming</a>, or watch along on <a href="https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/7d83a4d8-575b-4c08-89b6-ac8da2d76a63#bucketId=1">Friday</a> and <a href="https://www.espn.com/espnplus/player/_/id/a9801802-c560-4b70-a7a3-cc999da82be5#bucketId=1">Saturday</a> on
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">EVENT ROSTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Friday’s Events:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Pole Vault:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Parker Brannon, Dexter Brice, Alencia Lentz, Lillianna Ifft, Katelyn Andrews, Molly Haywood, Tenly Kuhn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Long Jump:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Pablo Negre Smedema, Janae De Gannes, Logan Todorovich
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">60mH:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dexter Brice, Pablo Negre Smedema, Shaye Feely, Logan Todorovich, Kaylah Braxton, Kiara Wesseh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">60m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Laurenz Colbert, Austen Diggs, De’montray Callis, Ricquan Graham, Hannah Lowe, Royaltee Brown, Michaela Francois, Alexis Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">800m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Nathaniel Ezekiel, Nick Hruskoci, Jack Sterrett, Ella Perry, Jackie Addy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">400m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Aren Spencer, Dillon Bedell, Jack Jackson, Abbas Ali, Demar Francis, Tyler Honeyman, Aaryona Kinchen, Calisha Taylor, Jasmine Gryne, Sima Lucero<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Shot Put:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">JL Van Rensburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Triple Jump:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Aren Spencer, William Sistruck, Iyanna Webb, Bella Copeland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">200m (B Section):
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Austen Diggs, Jack Jackson, Tyler Honeyman, Summer Sergeant, Sameena Mathew, Kaylah Braxton, Hannah Lowe, Aaryona Kinchen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">1000m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Caden Biltz, Ethan Wrase, Nick Hruskoci, Jack Sterrett, Ella Perry, Jackie Addy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">600y:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Calisha Taylor, Jasmine Gryne, Sima Lucero, Lucy Benton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">200m (A Section):
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Laurenz Colbert, De’montray Callis, Ricquan Graham, Royaltee Brown, Michaela Francois, Tiriah Kelley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">High Jump:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sydney Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">(A) Dillon Bedell, Demar Francis, Nathaniel Ezekiel, Laurenz Colbert / (B) Jack Jackson, Tyler Honeyman, Austen Diggs, Ricquan Graham / (A) Aaryona Kinchen, Tiriah Kelley, Calisha Taylor,
Sameena Mathew / (B) Sima Lucero, Jasmine Gryne, Summer Sergeant, Royaltee Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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