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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 4, 2024</span></u></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor Soccer Readies For a Pair of Road Contests
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Bears to face SMU, Iowa
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Katy
Gilmore; 254-252-2182, </span><a href="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu" title="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7;mso-ligatures:none">katy_gilmore@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.2pt">Sept. 5, 2024 • 7 p.m. CT • Watch: ACCNX • Dallas, Texas • Washburne Soccer and Track Stadium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">BAYLOR</span></b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif"> (4-1) at No. 22
<b>IOWA </b>(3-0-1)<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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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Baylor is readying for a pair of road contests where they will face SMU Thursday, Sept. 5, before continuing to Iowa City to face the Hawkeyes on Sunday, Sept. 8.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">The 2024 season marks the 28th 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.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">This season also marks the third year of the Michelle Lenard coaching era, as she was selected as the Bears sixth head coach in program history in December of 2021.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">With the new Big 12 teams joining the conference this season, the Bears will only play 11 of the 15 other opponents this season. The Bears will face all four of the
new schools, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. BU will not face Cincinnati, UCF, Kansas or Kansas State in regular season play.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">The Bears are 4-1 to open the season, falling to No. 18 Mississippi State in the season opener, 1-0, before turning around and defeating four-straight opponents.
BU’s four-match win streak is the longest since the 2018 season when the Bears were Big 12 Champions and made it to the NCAA Quarterfinals.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Baylor has a 33 person roster this season and features 25 returners and eight newcomers.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Returning to the squad for the first time since the 2022 season in fifth-year Marissa Gray. After working for the past year and applying to PT school, Gray re-joined
the Bears to use her fifth year of eligibility. She hasn’t seen playing time since the 2019 season due to injury but returns to the pitch as a veteran on the backline.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">This season the Bears roster features two international student-athletes for the first time since the 2017 season. Salma Simonin returns to Baylor from Manchester,
United Kingdom and Hilary Washington joins the Bears from Wellesley, Ontario, Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Baylor took down Texas A&M in its lone match last week, 1-0. Tyler Isgrig found the back of the net for the first time this season off of an assist from Hannah Boughton,
her second assist of the season. The win marked the Bears’ first win over the Aggies since 2000, almost 24 years ago.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Callie Conrad was responsible for both of Baylor’s during the trip to Hawaii, as the Bears went 2-0. The two goals were her first two goals of the season, and she
has already tied her goal total for all of last season. The sophomore is now tied for the most points and goals so far this season. It only took her three shots to net two goals last week.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Azul Alvarez has helped Baylor to three-straight shutout victories over the last two weeks. Her three individual shutouts through the first five games are the first
by a single Baylor goalkeeper since Jennifer Wandt had four through five games to start the shortened 2020 season.
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Alvarez and Conrad were named Big 12 Goalkeeper and Offensive Player of the Week, respectively on Aug. 28. This marks the Bears’ first time with two selections to
win a Big 12 weekly award since Sarah Norman (defensive) and Jennifer Wandt (goalkeeper) during the 2021 season. It is also the first time to have a Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week since Jackie Crowther in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Merrill was the team’s leading point scorer last season with 25 points from 12 goals and one assist. With her 12 goals, Merrill scored the most goals from an individual
player in a single season since Dana Larsen in 2012. <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">SMU holds the 9-5 all-time record over the Bears, defeating BU last season in Dallas, 2-1.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Baylor and Iowa are tied 1-1-1 all-time with the last match resulting in a 0-0 draw on Sept. 4, 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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