Month: April 2011

No. 7 Women’s Tennis chases its sixth consecutive Big 12 Tournament crown this weekend after capturing its seventh consecutive conference regular season title. They carry a 12-game win streak into the tourney that they have won as the No. 1 seed each of the last five years.

No. 7 men’s Tennis starts competition in the Big 12 Tournament today after receiving a bye in the first round yesterday. The Bears claimed their ninth regular season Big 12 Title in ten years a week ago when they downed No. 6 Texas A&M at the Baylor Tennis Center.

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A team of Baylor graduate students won a national case study competition centered on athletics last week. The competition was part of the Scholarly Conference on College Sport, which took place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

As a record crowd of 1,484, showed up to green out Getterman Stadium, the No. 3 Texas Longhorns shut out the Lady Bears’ softball team, 3-0.

Wichita Falls senior Colton Canava will present a solo art exhibition of his mixed media paintings from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Harrington House.

Applications for the A.A. & Marjorie Hyden Scholarship, a scholarship for junior and senior student leaders, are due Friday. Eight $500 scholarships will be awarded for next fall. Applications are online at www.baylor.edu/sg/index.php?id=46051 or at the Student Government office in the Bill Daniel Student Center.

Beta Beta Beta will host a native Texas plant sale from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Baylor Sciences Building Patio Area to raise money for student scholarships. The sale includes perennials, shrubs, grasses and ornamental trees. Only cash or checks will be accepted. Prices range from $1.99 to $24.99.

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Yogurt fanatics will have even more choices in the near future. The wife and daughter of Baylor’s head football coach, Art Briles, will open a frozen yogurt shop called Oso’s— that’s Spanish for “bear”— in less than two weeks, Staley Lebby, Briles’ daughter, said.

Lightning lengthened and then cut short No. 14 Baylor softball’s home matchup against Texas State Tuesday, but not before the Bears took a 4-1, five-inning win into the locker room.

Thanks to the Baylor graduating class of 1945, history professor Jeffrey Hamilton will travel to England sometime after the fall semester in 2011 to research the life of Henry de Lacy, the counselor to both Edward I and II who played an important political role in medieval England.

Desert sand, urban gray and foliage green were much more familiar colors than green and gold for those who served in the U.S. Army before transitioning to life on a college campus.