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<h1 align="right" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ATHLETIC
COMMUNICATIONS – January 27, 2020</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A&T Tops 2020 NCATA Preseason Poll</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears are going for an unprecedented sixth-straight NCATA title in 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rachel
Caton, (254) 652-2061,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WACO, Texas</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> - The Baylor acrobatics and tumbling team, winners of five-consecutive National Collegiate
Acrobatics & Tumbling Association (NCATA) National Championships, have been voted No. 1 in the association’s preseason top 10, following a vote of the 26 head coaches around the country.<br>
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The Bears received 23 of the 26 first-place votes and topped the voting with 386 total points. Baylor, host of the 2019 NCATA National Championships, used a strong performance in the final two events to edge out Oregon in last year’s championship final.<br>
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Oregon, a 2019 national finalist and host of the 2020 NCATA National Championships, finished second in the preseason voting with 358 points and two first-place votes. Quinnipiac, who fell to the Bears in the national semifinals, came in third place with 330
points, while Azusa Pacific, another 2019 NCATA national semifinalist, came in fourth with 328 points and the remaining first-place vote. Gannon rounded out the top five with 277 points in the voting.<br>
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Hawaii Pacific (252), Fairmont State (234) and Converse (201) finished sixth through eighth in the voting after earning a trip to the NCATA National Tournament a season ago. King University finished ninth in the poll with 173 points, while Limestone rounded
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The Bears open up the 2020 campaign this Saturday, Feb. 1 at 5 p.m. CT as they travel down I-35 to visit the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.
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<b>2020 NCATA Preseason Top 10<br>
1. Baylor (23) - 386</b><br>
2. Oregon (2) - 358<br>
3. Quinnipiac - 330<br>
4. Azusa Pacific (1) - 328<br>
5. Gannon - 277<br>
6. Hawaii Pacific - 252<br>
7. Fairmont State - 234<br>
8. Converse - 201<br>
9. King - 173<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#154734">Rachel Caton</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | Associate Sports Information Director</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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