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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#242424">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Feb. 7, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#242424">No. 1 Baylor A&T Starts Season in Belton against No. 5 UMHB<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Bears kick off 2025 campaign against Crusaders</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#242424">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#242424">Madelon Allen; 254-252-7168,
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:blue"><a href="mailto:madelon_allen@baylor.edu">madelon_allen@baylor.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#242424">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:#242424">WACO, Texas –
</span></b><span style="color:#242424">The No. 1-ranked Baylor acrobatics & tumbling team is ready to start the 2025 season, beginning with a meet against No. 5 Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton on Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Mayborn Campus Center.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#242424">The Bears, who earned the top spot in the NCATA preseason poll for the 10<sup>th</sup>-straight season, head to UMHB to get the 2025 campaign going.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#242424">Coming into the season opener, the Bears are 5-0 against UMHB and are 104-23 all-time as a program.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#242424">The Crusaders are led by two former Bears in Raffaela Scotto (’22) and Riley Chimwala (’24). BU’s assistant coach, Courtney Oates, was the inaugural head coach of UMHB in 2019, metaphorically
passing the baton to Scotto after the 2022 season. It is Chimwala’s first season on staff with Scotto, who competed together at BU for two seasons.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#242424">Baylor, the nine-time defending NCATA national champion, returns 28 letterwinners from the previous squad and has 15 newcomers on the 2025 roster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#242424">To keep up with the meet, follow the A&T account on X for updates. The Cru will livestream from their
<a href="https://www.cruathletics.com/watch">website</a>. A final scoresheet and recap will be posted on BaylorBears.com after the conclusion of the meet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:#242424">To stay up to date all year long on all things Baylor acrobatics & tumbling, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and Instagram: @BaylorAcroTumb.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="color:#242424">- BaylorBears.com -<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">__________________________________</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#385623">Madelon Allen</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#385623"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">| </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Associate
Director of Athletics Communications <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">A&T, EQ, VB, BaylorBears.com</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">C: 254-252-7168<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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