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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 28, 2023</span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">Baylor MT Places Three Selections on All-Conference Teams</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt; color:black; background:white">Paroulek earns program’s first first-team selection in doubles and singles
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, </span><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">IRVING, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Baylor men’s tennis brought home three Big 12 postseason awards amongst two
players, the conference office announced Friday.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tadeas Paroulek joins the All-Big 12 first-team singles and pairs up with Zsombor Velcz in first-team doubles. Velcz individually found a spot on the All-Big 12 singles
second team.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Since the conference split the team honors in 2017 to first and second team, Paroulek is the first Bear to earn first-team honors in both singles and doubles.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The junior took his first postseason honor in 2022 as a member of the second-team singles.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In singles play, Paroulek tallied a 12-6 record over the spring season and went 1-0 in Big 12 play after defeating Texas Tech’s 42<sup>nd</sup>-ranked Olle Wallin.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Paroulek and Velcz land a spot on the first-team doubles list after a 20-3 season highlighted by a perfect 3-0 Big 12 record. The duo opened conference with a win over the
72<sup>nd</sup>-ranked pair of Reed Collier and Dimitrios Azoidis from Texas Tech, before rolling to wins over OU’s and OSU’s No. 1 doubles team.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Velcz lands on the All-Big 12 second team with a 15-6 dual-match record entering the postseason. The freshman took one set from No. 1-ranked Elliot Spizzirri from Texas
before the match was clinched and finished 2-1 in conference play. His lone loss was to fellow second-team member, No. 98 Alex Martinez from Oklahoma.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears await seeding for the 2023 NCAA National Team Championship. The selection show will be streamed at NCAA.org on Monday evening at 5:30 p.m. CT.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#073D1E">Colin Pirtle</span></b><span style="color:#073D1E"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">| Associate Director of Athletics Communications (T&F, XC, MTEN) </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">C: 940-564-0351</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt; color:black"></span></p>
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