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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 – October 4, 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 Readies for Iowa State, UCF<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 Iowa State at home, UCF in Orlando<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><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:yellow">Media link for 2023 Baylor soccer season: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://baylor.box.com/s/ywfgr2gsxh8uzfn90ufbe2qjfs18yerl" title="https://baylor.box.com/s/ywfgr2gsxh8uzfn90ufbe2qjfs18yerl"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#0078D7;background:yellow">https://baylor.box.com/s/ywfgr2gsxh8uzfn90ufbe2qjfs18yerl</span></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR vs. IOWA STATE</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Thursday, Oct. 5 at 7 p.m. CT</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.2pt">Betty Lou Mays Field</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">Video: Big 12 Now ESPN+</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;letter-spacing:-.2pt"><o:p></o:p></span></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">BAYLOR at UCF</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">Sunday, Oct. 8 at 12 p.m. CT</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">UCF Soccer and Track Complex</span><br>
<span style="background:white">Video: Big 12 Now ESPN+<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">BAYLOR (6-5-2)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Coach: Michelle Lenard (North Texas, 2003)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt">Career Record: 211-93-29 (16th season)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt">BU Record:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt">10-16-4 (2nd season)</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">IOWa STATE (4-8-1)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Coach: Matt Fannon (Davis & Elkins, 2009)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt">Career Record: 96-79-27 (11th season)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt">ISU Record:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt">15-35-10 (4th season)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">UCF (8-3-0)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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Coach: Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak (UNC, 2005)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt">Career Record: 169-101-44 (17th season)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.25pt">UCF Record:
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.35pt">116-51-25 (11th season)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Story lines</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Baylor soccer continues Big 12 play this week, as they host Iowa State on Thursday, Oct.
5, before heading to Orlando, Fla. to face UCF on Sunday, Oct. 8. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Thursday’s home match will help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and will feature a post
game celebration for senior Madison Martin. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">The Bears are 6-5-2 on the season so far, coming off of a road trip to Kansas, where the Bears posted back-to-back
shutouts in conference 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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Through the first seven games of the season, the Bears have compiled seven shutout wins and have scored 20
goals. BU’s seven shutouts are the most in a season since 2021 when the Bears finished with eight.
<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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Ten different players have scored this season as Baylor has used a balanced offensive attack and a stifling
defensive effort to total 20 goals and seven shutouts.<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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Four newcomers have scored goals so far this season: Callie Conrad, Skylar Zinnecker, Theresa McCullough and
Natalie Vatter. <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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Thirteen different Bears have recorded a point this season, with both
<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt">Tyler Isgrig and Ashley Merrill with 14 points on the season. Merrill has seven goals and Isgrig has four goals and six assists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Goalkeepers Makinzie Short and Ashlee Zirkel have split time in goal this season.<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:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Five Bears have recorded their first-career goals so far this season. The most recent
coming from Theresa McCullough when she netted her first career goal against Kansas State.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Against Kansas State, the youngsters of the BU women’s soccer squad came up clutch with
two sophomores and two freshmen connecting on goals to help the Bears win. Less than seven minutes into the game, Hannah Boughton fed Hannah Augustyn for her first goal of the season and just before halftime the freshmen duo of Callie Conrad and Theresa McCullough
connected to give BU the 2-0 lead that the Bears would hold on for their sixth shutout of the season.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">BU’s seven goals against ACU this season was the first seven-goal game since Sept. 18,
2016, when the Bears beat Jackson State at home, 7-0.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Also, in the win over ACU, Ashley Merrill recorded the first hat trick for the Bears,
since Taylor Moon did so on March 27, 2021, vs Louisiana. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Merrill now ties Baylor records with three second-half goals and six second-half points.
Her three goals in under four minutes is the fastest hat trick in Baylor soccer history. She also has now scored in five matches so far this season.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">When Iowa State comes to town, it will be the 31st meeting between the two programs, the
second-most head-to-head matchups in BU history (next to Texas). In those previous 30 meetings, the Bears hold a 20-8-2 head-to-head mark, including winning six of the past seven meetings dating back to 2017. The 20 head-to-head wins is the most over any opponent
in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BasicParagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">The Bears and UCF Knights will be facing off for the first time in program history on
Sunday. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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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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