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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 – June 29, 2023</span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black">Baylor T&F’s Conacher, Day Secure CSC Academic All-America Second Team Honors</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; color:black"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black">Men’s team members earn first Academic All-American awards in 10 years</span></i></b></p>
<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">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Baylor track and field seniors Ben Conacher and Ryan Day were named to the 2022-23
Academic All-America men’s track and field/cross country second-team, as released Thursday by the College Sports Communicators.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The pair are only the third and fourth Baylor men’s track and field/cross country student-athletes that have earned a place on the CSC Academic All-America teams, and the
first since the 2013 season when Blake Niccum earned second-team honors and Taylor Jackson followed on the third team.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In total, Conacher and Day are only the 13<sup>th</sup> and 14<sup>th</sup> all-time Academic All-America team members coming from the Baylor track and field or cross country
teams.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Conacher, a native of Katy, Texas, ended his BU career in the classroom with a perfect 4.0 GPA en route to a biochemistry degree.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">On the track, Conacher ended his time in stellar fashion with a personal best to advance to the NCAA Outdoor National Championships, followed by another personal best that
landed him on the NCAA All-America podium in a tie for eighth.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Conacher is soon beginning a PhD in genetics, bioinformatics and computational biology at Virginia Tech.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Day excelled to a 3.97 undergraduate GPA in mechanical engineering and recently graduated with his master’s degree in the same subject.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A Waco native, Day was one of Baylor’s top-25 finishers at the NCAA South Central Regional in Bryan-College Station, Texas, and was joined by sophomore Drew Snyder as all-region
runners. It was the first time in over a decade that Baylor placed two competitors on the regional podium.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In the track season, Day closed out his collegiate career with all-conference honors in the indoor distance medley and outdoor 5,000 meters, where he holds the program record.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information regarding the Academic All-America program, visit
</span><a href="http://www.academicallamerica.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">www.academicallamerica.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To stay up to date throughout the year on all things Baylor track and field, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorTrack.</span></p>
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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, FB) </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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