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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#242424">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Mar. 1, 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 Trounces No. 7 Azusa Pacific<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Bears win by over 34 points</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 finished with a dominating performance over No. 7 Azusa Pacific on Saturday night in the Ferrell Center, 276.630 to 243.865.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">The Bears (4-0) defeated the Cougars (1-1) by 34.765 points for the Go Gold meet. Before the meet began, BU had a 16.78-point leg up in start value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">To start off the meet in Compulsory, BU and APU executed the necessary skills, each heat with a start value of 10. In the Acro heat, Baylor scored a 9.35 and Azusa
Pacific followed with a 7.95. The Bears took the Pyramid heat, 9.85 to 9.35 before winning the Toss heat, 9.90 to 9.25. In the Tumbling heat, BU scored an 8.30, the Cougars scoring 7.65. Through one event, the score was 37.40 to APU’s 34.20, the Bears up by
3.2 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">To start the optional portion of the meet in Acro, Baylor followed a 7.95 performance from APU with its first perfect 10 of the season. With Emily Bott and Jordan Gruendler
as the tops and Leavy McDonald as the base, BU competed a high press and high handstand to straddle to earn the score. In the synchronized 6 Element heat, the Cougars scored a 6.90 before Baylor, with four different pairs of tops and bases, scored 9.40. In
the third heat, once Azusa Pacific competed a 9.3 score, Gruendler and McDonald scored a 9.85 after debuting a new skill to the NCATA, the stacked-hands handstand popping to regular handstand before sliding to splits and rotating to straddle while Gruendler
is in the reverse planche or “flag”. For the Acro event, BU scored 29.25 to APU’s 24.15, now totaling 66.65 to 58.35 through two events and Baylor leading by 8.3 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">In the Pyramid event, APU started it off with a 9.10 score in the Inversion heat, which the Bears followed up with a 9.95 score with Gruendler atop McDonald and competing
the handstand to one-handed handstand. Topping the Synchronized heat after the Cougars’ 9.10 were Payton Washington and Bott, based by McDonald and Meredith Wells, respectively, which scored a 9.85. In the Open heat, APU scored a 9.30 while Gruendler topped
McDonald and competed the reverse planche to one-handed reverse planche, scoring a 9.85. For the Pyramid event, Baylor scored a 29.65 while the Cougars scored 27.50.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">At the half, BU was up 96.30 to 85.85, leading by 10.45 points. All heats up to this point had a start value of 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">To kick off the second half with the Toss event, it was Washington topping the 450 Salto heat, finishing with a score of 9.65/9.90 after Azusa Pacific scored a 7.55/9.30.
In the Synchronized heat, the Cougars earned a 7.65/9.40, and for the Bears, Washington and Gabby Kaminski earned a 9.35/9.90. In the final heat, the Open heat, APU scored a 9.35/9.40 before Baylor followed with a 9.30/10 from Kaminski. At the end of the Toss
event, Baylor totaled 28.30 while Azusa Pacific had a 24.55. Through four events, BU had a score of 124.600 while APU had a 110.400, the Bears up by 14.2 points.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">In the Tumbling event, APU’s duo scored a 8.75/9.55 while Aliyah Thomas and Gigi Rendino competed for a score of 8.9/10. In the Trio, the Cougars put a score of 7.4/8
on the mat, followed by BU’s 8.75/9.75 from Bott, Gianna Cameron and Dailyn Hopkins. In the Quad pass were Washington, Aliyah Kaloostian, Sarah Kerr and Kaminski, scoring a 9.05/10 for their pass, after APU put out a 8.15/8.75 score. For the Aerial pass it
was Kerr, who scored a 9.6/10 after the Cougars earned a 9.3/9.55 score. Competing in the 6 Element heat was Bott, earning a 9.85/10 after Azusa Pacific’s 9.15/9.55. Washington earned a 9.95 for the Open heat, with the Cougars’ 9.225/9.25. Combined, Baylor
had a score of 56.10 to finish the Tumbling event while APU had a score of 51.975. After five events, BU led 180.700 to 162.375, up by 18.325 points headed into the last event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">In Team event, APU scored a 79.49/99.20 and Baylor followed with a 95.93/109.18.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background:white"><span style="color:#242424">The meet finalized, BU came out on top with a 276.630 score against Azusa Pacific’s 241.865; the Bears winning by 34.765 points and only losing in one heat.<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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Madelon Allen</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">| </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none">A&T, EQ, VB, BaylorBears.com</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">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;mso-ligatures:none">C: 254-252-7168<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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