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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: black;"><b>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 21, 2025</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"><b>Baylor Track Hosting Three Home Meets in Busy 2026 Schedule</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b><i>Bears’ combined indoor and outdoor slates include 17 meets across seven states</i></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>For more information contact:
</b>Jerry Hill; 254-709-4994, </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: blue;"><u><a href="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" title="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" data-outlook-id="1666e639-2604-4648-bece-04e5a850d0dc" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">jerry_hill@baylor.edu</a></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);"><b>WACO, Texas –</b> In a busy schedule that includes a few new destinations mixed in with
some older and more traditional stops, Baylor Track & Field will compete in 17 meets across seven states in a 2026 indoor and outdoor season highlighted by three home events.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Announcing the combined schedules on Friday, Baylor head coach Mike Ford said he is “looking
forward to our ’26 season.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Staying in-state for the first two weeks of the indoor season, the Bears will go to the Corky
Classic on Jan. 16-17 in Lubbock, followed by the Ted Nelson Invitational on Jan. 23-24 in College Station. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Closing out the month of January, Baylor will go to Kansas State’s DeLoss Dodds Invitational
in Manhattan. And then, the following weekend (Feb. 6-7), the Bears will trek to Columbia, S.C., “to support Coach (Tim) Hall and the Gamecocks” at the Gamecocks Challenge. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">“They came to the Michael Johnson meet (at Baylor) last year, so we’re just returning the
favor to support his meet,” Ford said. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">In back-to-back trips to the Sports Peformance Center in Lubbock, Baylor will compete in the
Jarvis Scott Open on Feb. 13-14 and the Big 12 Indoor Championships on Feb. 27-28. The NCAA Indoor Championships will be March 13-14 at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">The Bears will open the outdoor season with the TCU Alumni Invitational on March 20-21 in
Fort Worth before hosting the first of three home meets at the Clyde Hart Track & Field Stadium with the Clyde Hart Classic on March 27-28. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">A four-meet April schedule begins with a return to the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on April
1-4 at the Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">“We haven’t been to Texas Relays in four years, so we’ll be going back to a place where a
lot of our kids ran high school state meets and the Texas Relays,” Ford said, “so looking forward to going back to Austin.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Sandwiched between the Baylor Invitational (April 10) and the Michael Johnson Invitational
(April 24-25) in Waco, the Bears will travel to Gainesville, Fla., for the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational on April 17-18 at James G. Pressly Stadium. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Baylor closes the regular season with the Alumni Muster on May 1-2 in College Station, the
site of last year’s NCAA West Prelims. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Visiting one of the newest members to the conference, the Bears begin postseason competition
on May 14-16 at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships at Roy P. Drachman Stadium in Tucson, Ariz. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Going back to Fayetteville for the second time, Baylor will compete in the NCAA West Preliminaries
on May 27-30 at John McDonnell Field. Qualifiers will then make their way to the NCAA Outdoor Championships on June 10-13 at historic Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">“I think we have a quality schedule, great competition, great weather, fast tracks,” said
Ford, now in his fifth year as the head of the program. “So, hopefully, we’ll have a lot going to indoor nationals and outdoor nationals.”</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Last year, Baylor boasted a pair of individual national champions in Alexis Brown in the indoor
long jump and Nathaniel Ezekiel in the outdoor 400-meter hurdles. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Golos Text", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">Tickets and scheduling for all home meets will be updated as available on the Home Meet Information
page.<br>
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For the latest news on the Baylor track and field team all year long, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorTrack.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(21, 71, 52);"><b>Jerry Hill</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> | Director of Sports Journalism (T&F/XC)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span></p>
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