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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 – April 24, 2025<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 T&F Travels to Orlando for Knights Invite<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Bears to compete in second-to-last regular season meet<o:p></o:p></span></i></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">ORLANDO, Fla. –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Baylor track & field will travel to Orlando for the Knights Invite, hosted by UCF,
from April 25-26 at the UCF Soccer and Track Complex. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">This will be the second-to-last regular season meet for the Bears as they begin preparing final marks for the postseason.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">SUCCESS AT THE MJ<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">In its final home meet of the 2025 season, Baylor had success at the Michael Johnson Invitational as the Bears took six titles while also delivering a multitude of season and
career best marks. Additionally, the Bears had several marks that rewrote the program records for BU.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Demario Prince put up the No. 2 all-time mark in the 110mH in his collegiate outdoor debut at 13.44. Following up, the women's 4x100 relay squad of Tiriah Kelley, Hannah Lowe,
Alexis Brown and Michaela Francois showed out with a 42.89 mark, holding a stadium record, the No. 2 all-time Baylor mark and the No. 3 mark in the NCAA this season, jumping to 22-8.50 (2.4 m/s) and marking a meet and facility record.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">On Friday, Brown capitalized on her final home meet of her collegiate career, jumping to first place at 22-8.50 (2.4 m/s) and marking a meet and facility record. In the women’s
400mH, Calisha Taylor (56.44) and Jasmine Gryne (57.24) both ran for PRs and the No. 2 and No. 5 marks in program history.<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">LADIES LEAD AMONG THE NCAA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The women’s track & field squad held as the No. 6 team for the second week in a row based on USTFCCCA ranking. With the Bears top-10 ranking, four event groups were ranked
inside the top-five of No. 1 long jump, No. 3 pole vault, No. 4 100-meter and No. 5 400-meter hurdles. Baylor is one of four schools in the nation to have four or more event groups in the top-five.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BIT BY BIT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Nathaniel Ezekiel made his 2025 outdoor debut at the Michael Johnson Invite, where he posted the No. 3 time in the NCAA in the 400mH at 48.99. The mark is just 0.99 seconds
shy from his program-leading career-best. Ezekiel also ran in the 4x400 relay where he delivered an impressive 44.791 final leg to carry the relay team to first place.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Ezekiel had a successful indoor season where he won the Big 12 Championship titles in the 400m and the 4x400 and finished as the NCAA runner-up in the 400m.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BEARS AT TEXAS INVITATIONAL<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">A group of field athletes and distance runners will represent the Bears at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin from Thursday, April 24 to Friday, April 25 in the Texas Invitational.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">BU will compete in the men’s and women’s pole vault, men’s hammer throw and men’s and women’s 1500m events.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WHAT’S NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">After this weekend, Baylor will compete in its final meet of the season in College Station at the Alumni Muster from May 2-3 and then begin preparing for the postseason with
the Big 12 Outdoor Championship taking place in Lawrence, Kansas from May 15-17.<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">UCF INVITE EVENT ROSTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">100m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">De’montray Callis, Ricquan Graham / Kaylah Braxton, Alexis Brown, Michaela Francois, Hannah Lowe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">200m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Abbas Ali, Laurenz Colbert, Aren Spencer / Mariah Ayers, Michaela Francois, Hannah Lowe, Sameena Mathew, Summer Sergeant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">400m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Abbas Ali, Nathaniel Ezekiel, Tyler Honeyman, Jack Jackson / Mariah Ayers, Tiriah Kelley, Aaryona Kinchen, Sameena Mathew, Summer Sergeant, Calisha Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">100mH:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Kaylah Braxton, Logan Todorovich, Kiara Wesseh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">110mH:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Mason Dossett, Demario Prince<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">400mH:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Nathaniel Ezekiel / Jasmine Gryne, Sima Lucero, Calisha Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">High Jump:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Sydney Smith, Logan Todorovich, Kiara Wesseh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Long Jump:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Bella Copeland, Iyanna Webb, Kiara Wesseh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Triple Jump:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Will Sistruck<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">TEXAS INVITATIONAL EVENT ROSTER<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">1500m:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Amon Malakwen, Ruth Kimeli, Rickeisha Simms<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Pole Vault:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Parker Brannon, Dexter Brice, Nate Butler / Kierstyn Ballard, Molly Haywood, Lillianna Ifft, Tenly Kuhn, Alencia Lentz<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Hammer:
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Igor Olaru<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">JL Van Rensburg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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