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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – April 15, 2020</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BULLARD AND JONES NAMED TO THE NFF HAMPSHIRE HONOR SOCIETY
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">To be eligible for the prestigious list, student-athletes must have a cumulative GPA of 3.2 or better.
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rachel Caton, (254) 652-2061, <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-family:"Arial",sans-serif">IRVING, Texas</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> – Baylor football’s Koby Bullard and Marques Jones were named to the 2020 National Football Foundation & College Hall
of Fame (NFF) Hampshire Honor Society, it was announced today by the organization.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To be eligible for the honor, college football players from all divisions of play must have maintained a cumulative 3.2 GPA or better throughout their college career.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An impressive 1,432 players from 364 schools qualified for membership in the Society’s 14<sup>th</sup> year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marques Jones has a 3.92 GPA as an electrical & computer engineering major. A semifinalist for the 2019 William V. Campbell Award, he graduated in May of 2019 with his undergraduate degree and
currently is working on a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering while doing research for the Navy in Baylor’s Neuromorphic and Robotics Lab.
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<span style="background:white">Jones was the 2018-19 Baylor Engineering Student of the Year, an honor given to the top Baylor engineering student that year. He also earned the 2018 Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award, the Big 12's highest academic honor.
Jones is also a three-time Big 12 All-Academic first team honoree (2017, 2018, 2019).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On the field, Jones played in 36 career games, including 11 in 2019. The McKinney, Texas, native came into his own in 2018, tallying a career-high 21 receptions and two touchdowns for the Bears.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Bullard boasts a 3.52 GPA as a management major and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in information systems. He appeared in all 14 games in 2020 for the Bears as a fullback. The La Vernia,
Texas, native was named to the 2019 CoSIDA Academic All-District 7 team for the first time in his career and is a two-time Big 12 All-Academic first team selection (2018, 2019).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For his career, Bullard appeared in 28 total games for the Bears as a fullback, including every game the past two seasons.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">To be eligible for the award, student-athletes were nominated by their respective schools and must meet he following qualifications:
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Completed their final year of playing eligibility in 2019;<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Graduated players who have remaining eligibility, but will not return to college play (e.g. declared for NFL Draft or retired from football), may also be nominated.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Achieved a 3.2 cumulative GPA throughout entire course of undergraduate study<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Met all NCAA mandated progress toward degree requirements; and
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Been starters or significant contributors throughout the 2019 season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">With the addition of Bullard and Jones, the Bears have had 29 Hampshire Honor Society recipients since 2007.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor's Hampshire Honor Society Student-Athletes</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<b>2007</b><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Shawn Bell</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Daniel Sepulveda</span><br>
<b>2008</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Desmond Jenkins</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Michael Machen</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Ralph Rodriguez</span><br>
<b>2009</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Ty Findley</span><br>
<span style="background:white">John David Weed</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Ben Hixson</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Ryan Roberts</span><br>
<b>2010</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Jason Lamb</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Joe Pawelek</span><br>
<b>2011</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Derek Epperson</span><br>
<b>2012</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Terrance Ganaway</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Robert Griffin III</span><br>
<b>2013</b><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Nick Florence</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Jake Jackson</span><br>
<b>2014</b><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Stefan Huber</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Jordan Najvar</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<b>2015</b><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Troy Baker</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Collin Brence</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Clay Fuller</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Bryce Petty</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<b>2016</b><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Trevor Clemons-Valdez</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Spencer Drango</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#092017">Blake Muir</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2019 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Blake Blackmar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Patrick Lawrence
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Koby Bullard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Marques Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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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>
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