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With Baylor students settling in during the first week of class, some might be wondering what to get involved in. Intramural sports present a ripe opportunity for anyone who feels like there isn’t much going on.

After one of the best season-long showings in Baylor men’s golf history, Keefer was named the Big 12 Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row, becoming the first men’s golfer in Big 12 history to win the award in back-to-back seasons. But he’s not done collecting the accolades just yet.

College football’s obsession with the almighty dollar is severing the best part of the sport.

Baylor women’s golf head coach Jay Goble only has two seniors on his roster this season, but they’re no strangers to one another.

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Here is a brief rundown on everything you may have missed while Baylor Athletics has quietly been on the road.

Read from the Lariat Sports Desk, as it ranks the top three on-campus fall sports.

The Baylor women’s basketball team will welcome four transfers and one freshman for the 2023-24 season.

The Bears enter the 2023 season with less experience than previous years, but a plethora of returning talent looks to offset the challenge.

It’s hard to find a word that perfectly epitomizes what the last 17 months have been like for Brittney Griner, but “hectic” might be a good place to start.

With a full season under her belt and a pair of exhibition wins to start the 2023 campaign, Baylor soccer head coach Michelle Lenard is ready to continue her efforts to build a strong culture.

Daily Northwestern student journalists followed hazing allegations and uncovered claims against Northwestern head football coach all summer long. It’s been a hectic but impressive run for these part-student, part-workers, and it serves as a reminder to take all student reporters seriously.

Head coach Dave Aranda expressed his enthusiasm for the way his team competed over the summer, sharing the athletes’ excitement in early fall.

From familiar foes to new faces, the 2023-24 Big 12 season will be filled with first times and last times, meaning the Baylor Bears are in for potentially one of the most hyped seasons of all time.

From upsets over top-ranked teams to protecting home turf against conference foes, Baylor athletics has had another strong year. Even though both golf teams, softball, baseball and track and field are still competing as part of the 2022-2023 season, here’s a compilation of the best sports moments of the past year.

Baylor has a long way to go coming off a disappointing 6-7 season that followed a program-best 12-2 season in 2021. Here are five things Baylor needs in order to have a bounce-back campaign.

Less than two weeks removed from losing a conference series to the Cyclones, Baylor came up short once again. The fourth-seeded Bears fell by a score of 8-1 to Iowa State in the first round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship.

The Bears won’t get Waco weather in Pullman, Wash., when they take part in the NCAA Pullman Regional from Monday to Wednesday.

Entering the 2023 Baylor baseball season, a storyline to spot was the development of the Caley twins, and seeing the unspoken bond between the two. Now nearing the end of the season, each has been able to spend an ample amount of time together in one of the only direct tandem roles in baseball.

Despite being regarded as a legend, I would say Tim Duncan’s become underrated because very few people talk about how he stacks up with the all-time greats in every category.

The green and gold will head into finals week on a strong note. Baylor baseball broke a five-game losing streak after hitting three home runs to take down Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, 12-6, on Wednesday at Baylor Ballpark.

Baylor acrobatics and tumbling senior top and tumbler Kamryn Kitchens will graduate as an undefeated four-time national champion.

The Baylor bats showed up to play, but the baseball team came up empty in the end, 9-8, against Abilene Christian University on Tuesday at Crutcher Scott Field in Abilene.

Baylor men’s tennis is going dancing for the 25th-consecutive season. The Bears will match up with Florida State University in the first round of the 2023 NCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championships on either Friday or Saturday in the Columbia region.

The Bears will have to defeat the Mustangs for the second time in less than a month when the two squads face off at 10 a.m. on Friday at the Mitchell Tennis Center in Bryan-College Station.

Seven former Bears earned free agent contracts or minicamp invites while defensive lineman Siaki “Apu” Ika was drafted by the Cleveland Browns.

No. 17 West Virginia University took a trip down to Waco, and a behind high-powered offense and lights-out pitching, the Mountaineers swept Baylor baseball after taking the finale, 18-4, on Sunday at Baylor Ballpark.

The Bears captured their eighth-consecutive national title after besting No. 2 University of Oregon for the third time this season.

The Bears earned a bid to nationals in their just their second full season.

No. 1 seed Baylor acrobatics and tumbling moved on to the NCATA semifinals for the eighth-straight year.