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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
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">NINE BEARS EARN PRESTIGIOUS DR. LAGE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD</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 honor is the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor.</span></i></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Irving, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Nine Bears from six different sports have been awarded the 2020 Dr. Gerald Lage
Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12 Conference’s highest academic honor, the league announced recently.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Overall, eighty-nine student-athletes were awarded the 2020 Dr. Lage Academic Award and the Bears’ nine honorees were the fourth-most in the conference after having a league-best 18 honorees
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The award is in its 10th year and has recognized a total of 780 conference student-athletes. Over the last three years, the Bears have had 33 honorees.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In order to be eligible for the accolade, student-athletes must have lettered at least once in their career while maintaining residence at their institution for at least one academic
year. The honoree, which can only be recognized once, should have 100 hours of earned credit with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.80 at the time of the nomination.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The award is in memory of Dr. Lage, who served as the Oklahoma State faculty athletics representative with the NCAA and the Big Eight/Big 12 Conference from 1983 until his death in 2007.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor 2020 Dr. Lage Academic Award Honorees</span></u></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="a1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Alexsis Amrhein Sr. A&T Environmental Studies</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Knockout 31 Junior Middlewt";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="a1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sarah Antrich Jr. Track & Field Biology</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Knockout 31 Junior Middlewt";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="a1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Haley Everroad Sr. Track & Field Biology</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Knockout 31 Junior Middlewt";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="a1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Ally Henderson Jr. Soccer Marketing/Management</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Knockout 31 Junior Middlewt";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="a1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Sidney Holman Jr. Softball Elementary Education</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Knockout 31 Junior Middlewt";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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