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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – August 16, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor Soccer Prepares for Season Opener<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Bears to face Oregon, Nebraska on the road<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Katy Gilmore; 254-252-2182,
</span><a href="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">katy_gilmore@baylor.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0563C1"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Media link for 2023 Baylor soccer season: </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow"><a href="https://baylor.box.com/s/ywfgr2gsxh8uzfn90ufbe2qjfs18yerl">https://baylor.box.com/s/ywfgr2gsxh8uzfn90ufbe2qjfs18yerl</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph" style="line-height:normal"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">BAYLOR VS OREGON</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Thursday, Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. CT</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Papé Field<br>
Video: Pac-12 Network<b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">BAYLOR VS NEBRASKA</span></strong><b><br>
</b>Sunday, Aug. 20 at 1 p.m. CT<br>
Hibner Soccer Stadium<br>
Video: Big-10+<b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">BAYLOR BEARS</span></strong><b><br>
</b>Head Coach:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></span><dfn><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-style:normal">Michelle
Lenard</span></dfn><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> (North Texas, 2003)<br>
Career Record: 205-88-27 (16th season)<br>
BU Record: 4-11-2 (2nd season)<b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">OREGON DUCKS</span></strong><b><br>
</b>2023 Record: 0-0<br>
Head Coach: Graeme Abel (Brescia, 2001)<br>
Career Record: 19-17-18 (4<sup>th</sup> season)<br>
Oregon Record: 19-17-18 (4<sup>th</sup> season)<b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">NEBRASKA HUSKERS</span></strong><b><br>
</b>2023 Record: 0-0<br>
Head Coach: John Walker (Queens University, 1987)<br>
Career Record: 348-189-58 (29<sup>th</sup> season)<br>
Nebraska Record: 348-189-58 (29<sup>th</sup> season)<b><span style="text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;background:white">Story lines</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">Baylor opens its 2023 season on the road with a match against Oregon
on Thursday, before traveling to Nebraska to wrap things up on Sunday. The Bears are starting their season on the road for only the ninth time in program history and are 3-4-1 in those contests.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">The 2023 season marks the 27th season of the Baylor Soccer program. During that time, BU has
won four Big 12 titles, advanced to two Elite Eights and had four All-Americans to go with countless All-Big 12 and Academic All-Big 12 honorees.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">This season also marks the second year of the Michelle Lenard coaching era, as she was selected
as the Bears sixth head coach in program history in December of 2021.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">With the NCAA now allowing a third paid assistant for coaching staffs, volunteer assistant
and goalkeepers coach, Cameron Carter, was promoted to assistant coach in July of 2023.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">With the new Big 12 teams joining the conference this season, the Bears will only play 10
of the 13 other opponents this season. The Bears will face all four of the new schools, Cincinnati, UCF, Houston and BYU. BU will not face Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or West Virginia in regular season play.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">Coming off a 2022 campaign that featured a 4-11-2 record, BU finished ninth in the conference.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">Baylor has a 31 person roster this season and features 16 returners and 15 newcomers.
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">BU has nine starters returning, Madison Martin, Jenna Patterson, Reneta Vargas, Blythe Obar,
Ashley Merrill, Ava Colberg, Morgan Greensage, Hallie Augustyn and Hannah Augustyn.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">Baylor lost four starters from the 2022 squad.
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">Joining the 2022 squad are four transfers, Makinzie Short (Oklahoma), Natalie Vatter (Ole
Miss), Hannah Boughton (Missouri) and Tyler Isgrig (TCU). <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">The 11 incoming freshmen are, Salma Simonin, Adriana Merriam, Callie Conrad, Brianna Chesley,
Theresa McCullough, Georgia Mulholland, Skylar Zinnecker, Claire Kniss, Kaitlin Swann, Caroline Staubach and Riley Franklin.<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;background:white">The NCAA has done away with overtime during the regular season, meaning that every game will
end at the end of the 90-minute regulation time. <span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">
<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">This season the Bears roster features an international student-athlete
for the first time since the 2017 season when the Bears had two. Salma Simonin comes to Baylor from Manchester, United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">BU faced two opponents during preseason play, defeating Oklahoma, 3-2,
and Tarleton 4-0. The Bears matchup against OU was likely the last time these two teams will face each other as conference opponents, although it was a preseason match.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">Ashley Merrill picked up where she left off last season, scoring three
of the Bears goals in the preseason contests. Also finding the back of the net against Oklahoma and Tarleton were transfer Tyler Isgrig, Jenna Patterson and Micah Beasley.
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">Merrill and Reneta Vargas were the team’s leading point scorers last
season with 10 and are both back this season. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">The Bears are 1-0-1 all-time against Oregon, with the last meeting on
Sept. 12, 2021, when BU and the Ducks tied 2-2 in double overtime.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt;background:white">BU’s old Big 12 Conference foe, Nebraska holds the all-time record over
Baylor (13-8-3), with the last meeting on August 26, 2021, when the Huskers won, 2-1.</span><span style="color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#154734;mso-ligatures:none">Katy Gilmore</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> | Associate Director of Athletic Communications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">O: 254-710-2743 | C: 254-252-2182</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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