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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – July 9, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor TF’s Brown Named First-Team CSC Academic All-American<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
</span><a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</span></a><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:blue"><o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">AUSTIN, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Baylor track and field’s Alexis Brown capped off a successful academic and athletic
season, earning College Sports Communicators (CSC) First Team Academic All-America accolades, the organization announced Tuesday.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brown becomes the first track and field athlete, man or woman, to receive first-team honors in program history. She is also the 11<sup>th</sup> overall track and field athlete
and sixth woman in program history to obtain CSC Academic All-America honors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Kennedale, Texas, native holds a 3.66 cumulative GPA while obtaining her degree in Health, Kinesiology & Leisure Studies.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">In action, Brown has had a standout senior season. For the indoor season, Brown earned 2024 All-Big 12 Indoor titles in the 60 meters and long jump events, 2024 Big 12 Indoor
Silver Medalist in long jump and was named 2024 NCAA Indoor & Outdoor All-American in long jump.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brown didn’t stop there as she went on in the outdoor season to PR in all her events and break multiple Baylor records. Brown was named the Big 12 Women’s Performer of the
Year after she ended the 2024 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championship with two tiles in the long jump and the 4x100 meter relay. She became the first Bear to cross the 22-foot mark in the women's long jump in program history, landing a conference championship-winning
22-5 leap at the Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">At the NCAA Outdoor Championship meet, Brown recorded a fifth-place finish to claim her All-America honors and returned to the historic Hayward Field at the U.S. Olympic Trials
weeks later to finish in fifth in the long jump event. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For the latest news on the Baylor track and field team all year long, follow its official Facebook, X and Instagram accounts: @BaylorTrack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">2023-24 CSC ACADEMICAL ALL-AMERICA WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD DIVISION I FIRST TEAM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Amber Anning University of Arkansas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sivan Auerbach Oklahoma State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Eleanor Baran University of Colorado<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Alexis Brown Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Nastassja Campbell University of Washington<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Lamara Distin Texas A&M University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Zofia Dudek Stanford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Riley Felts Charlotte<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Dana Feyen Iowa State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Veronica Fraley Vanderbilt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Bailey Hertenstein University of Colorado<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Axelina Johansson University of Nebraska<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Maia Ramsden Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Taylor Roe Oklahoma State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Jaida Ross University of Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sarah "Annie" Taylor U.S. Naval Academy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Juliette Whittaker Stanford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Roisin Willis Stanford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">FORMER CSC WOMEN TRACK AND FIELD ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICAN BEARS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Erin Bedell (2010) Third Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Brittany Brockman (2006) Third Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Megan McCoin (2004) Third Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Aaliyah Miller (2021) Second Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Jessica Ubanyionwu (2011) Second Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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