Baylor volleyball begins their 2013 campaign on the road with a three game swing in Colorado, with games against Northern Colorado, Cal Poly and the season opener against Colorado State in Fort Collins on Friday.
Baylor is coming off a season where they finished with 20 wins, but just missed out on the NCAA Tournament. The Bears played their Green/Gold scrimmage on Tuesday night in front of a crowd of 732 at the Ferrell Center.
A youth movement has given No. 7 Baylor soccer new life as the team begins the journey for a back-to-back Big 12 Championship Title.
Coming off the best season in program history, Baylor lost three key goal scorers in Dana Larsen, Lisa Sliwinski and Hanna Gilmore. The trio combined for 28 of the 58 goals scored. Despite losing that kind of productivity, Baylor’s freshmen class is making a big impression.
Baylor volleyball gave the hundreds of fans in attendance an early preview of their 2013 team with the annual Green/Gold scrimmage Tuesday night at the Ferrell Center.
Baylor Green dominated, winning the match 3-0. They won the first set 25-14, second set 25-22 and third set 26-24. Sophomore outside hitter Thea-Munch Soegaard led the match with 16 kills on a match high .419 hitting percentage.
It’s the circle of life for the No. 7 Baylor Bears as they quickly answered any concern about the offense with consecutive 5-0 wins against UTSA and Northwestern State. Despite losing the top three goal scorers from the previous year, the underclassmen came up big scoring six of 10 goals.
Baylor volleyball returns to Waco this Tuesday when the Bears play their annual Green / Gold scrimmage. The event will allow fans to get an early look at the 2013 team.
The Bears scrimmage is free to the public and all students are encouraged to attend. Pizza will be provided after the game and fans will have the opportunity to meet the players after the game to receive autographed posters.
Despite finishing with 20 wins for the sixth time in program history, Baylor women’s volleyball fell just short of the NCAA tournament last season.
“Last year was a real bummer,” senior libero Kayci Evans said. “We didn’t finish how we wanted to.”
Sophomore outside hitter Thea Munch-Soegaard started last season as a fresman and ranked fourth on the team with 293 digs and fifth on the team with 184 kills. Munch-Soegaard has high expectations for the upcoming season.
Senior outside hitter Zoe Adom was named to the Preseason All-Big 12 Team in early August.
Adom has been named team captain for two straight seasons and was a 2012 First-Team All-Big 12 selection.
“It’s an honor to be put up there with all the other girls in the Big 12,” Adom said. “I just love being a leader, a role model for my teammates.”
Adom was MVP of her Trinity High School team and named 5-5A First Team All District, but was not considered a highly touted prospect.
After redshirting the 2009 season, Adom increased her starts every season.
After capping off a successful season with a Big 12 Championship Title and being named to the Big 12 All-Newcomer team, sophomore forward Bri Campos has added another achievement to her resume because she made the cut for Mexico’s U-20 National Team.
“The Baylor soccer family is very proud of Bri and the work she continues to put forth through the summer to remain in camp with Mexico’s U-20 National Team,” said Baylor co-head coach Paul Jobson. “We are excited to follow her progress and know that it will only prepare her for what’s ahead this fall in Waco.”
Baylor soccer enjoyed its best season in program history last year that ended with a trip to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.
Despite a heartbreaking loss to eventual national champion North Carolina, Baylor is looking to build upon last year’s success.
According to Top Drawer Soccer rankings, Baylor is ranked No. 10. In the Big 12 preseason poll the Bears are No. 3 for the second straight year. Co-head coach Marci Jobson isn’t letting the extra attention or the lack of respect distract her team.
The message of committee scoring was heard loud and clear by No. 10 Baylor on its way to a 5-0 win over Northwestern State on Sunday. Baylor was aggressive outshooting Northwestern State 34 to five.
The underclassmen are productive once again as freshman midfielder Ashley York set up sophomore forward Bri Campos for her second goal of the season with a cross from the left side of the box.
No. 10 Baylor didn’t miss a beat despite losing some of its best goal scorers from the previous year. Five different players scored on 19 shots as Baylor routed UTSA 5-0 on Friday.
“I think last year we had a lot of really good single goal scorers,” senior forward Vic Hoffman said. “The whole team contributed as a whole, it’s not just one player that’s doing all the work. It’s all of us: forward, midfield and defense to get it in and whoever steps up in that moment, in that game is going to get the goal.”
After a weekend of competitive and mentally taxing tryouts in Portland, Ore., senior soccer player Carlie Davis was relieved to finally be landing in Dallas on the way back to her home at Baylor University.
As the plane taxied, Davis noticed a missed call from an unknown number on her phone and held the phone to her ear as the voicemail played.
The Baylor women’s soccer team saw its best season last fall with an overall record of 19-1-5 and made the program’s first-ever appearance in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen game against the University of North Carolina.
Soccer can be relentless sometimes. A team can outplay its opponent all game, but one goal can change things dramatically. Such is the way it went for the No. 11 Baylor women’s soccer team against the No.13 University of North Carolina on Nov. 18 in the Sweet Sixteen.
The Baylor volleyball team’s season is officially over after a regular season in which the Bears earned 20 wins and just 12 losses.
This season is just the sixth time in program history that the Bears reached the 20-win mark.
It is the second time that the team has won at least 20 matches under head coach Jim Barnes.
The No. 11 Baylor soccer team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen with a 2-1 overtime victory over the No. 14 Georgetown Hoyas. Senior forward Dana Larsen notched the overtime golden goal to give Baylor the win. The Bears will now take on the winner of North Carolina and Illinois at 1 p.m. Sunday. If the No. 2 seed North Carolina was to win, then the Tar Heels would have home field advantage against Baylor.
After defeating Arizona State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the No. 3 seed Baylor women’s soccer team will take on the Georgetown Hoyas at 3 p.m. today at Fetzer Field at the University of North Carolina, the host school for the region.
Baylor is currently ranked No. 11 in the country, just three spots ahead of the 14th-ranked Hoyas. Georgetown earned a spot in this game by defeating Virginia Tech 3-2 in overtime.
When TCU and Baylor last squared off in volleyball, it took a grueling five sets to narrowly decide a Baylor victory. This time in Fort Worth for the rematch between the two schools, Baylor decisively took care of business to earn a 3-0 sweep (25-21, 25-20, 25-21). The win gave the Bears back-to-back road sweeps after they defeated West Virginia in straight sets last Saturday.
Last year, the Baylor women’s soccer team ended its season in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at the hands of North Carolina 5-0. This year, the 11th ranked Bears have advanced to the second round after beating Arizona State 3-1 on Friday.
After a long regular season and a win in the Big 12 Tournament, the No. 11 Baylor women’s soccer team has advanced to the NCAA tournament.
The Bears are a No. 3 seed in the big dance and will travel to Arizona State to take on the Sun Devils today at 8 p.m.
The Baylor volleyball team fell to the Oklahoma Sooners 3-1 (21-25, 25-23, 23-25, 23-25) Wednesday night. Baylor had four players with double-digit kills in redshirt junior outside hitter Zoe Adom, freshman outside hitter Thea Munch-Soegaard, sophomore middle hitter Adri Nora and senior right side hitter Alyssa Dibbern.
As of today, it has been 72 days since the No. 14 Baylor women’s soccer team has lost a game. The most recent victory was the 4-1 win over the TCU Horned Frogs in which they clenched the Big 12 Championship.
Baylor volleyball defeated No. 20 Kansas 3-1 (25-10, 27-25, 24-26, 25-23) on Saturday. The Bears started the match with immense intensity and jumped out to a 4-0 lead. Baylor never looked back and won the first set 25-10.
Baylor won its first Big 12 Conference Soccer Championship in a 4-1 victory over TCU on Sunday.
The second-seeded Bears (17-1-4) have earned the Big 12’s automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament.
The No. 14 Baylor women’s soccer team advanced to the second round of the Big 12 tournament with a 3-0 win over the Oklahoma State Cowgirls Wednesday night. The Bears will next take on Texas Tech on Saturday in San Antonio. All four Texas teams, Baylor, Texas Tech, Texas and TCU, advanced to the second round.
The Baylor volleyball team is 16-9 with a 3-7 Big 12 Conference record. With six conference games remaining, the Bears are looking to play their best volleyball down the stretch in the second half of the season. Every game is crucial at this juncture in the season. With the first half of Big 12 play behind them, the Bears believe they are poised to make a positive run.
“I feel like since the first half is over, we’ve hopefully learned all of our lessons from the first half,” senior right side hitter Alyssa Dibbern said. “We can use those lessons to show teams that we are a second-half team and they didn’t know what they were getting into the first time they played us.”
The Big 12 tournament has not treated the Baylor women’s soccer team well in the recent past. Last year, the team lost to a Missouri team in penalty kicks that it had beaten 3-0 earlier in the season. But this is a new year, and the No. 14 Bears will look to reach further and win the Big 12 tournament in San Antonio.
The No. 15 Baylor women’s soccer team won their final regular season game over TCU by a score of 2-0. The team finished their season 14-1-4 overall and 5-0-3 in conference play.
With just one regular season game remaining, the No. 15 Baylor women’s soccer team is ready for a postseason run.
The team will likely be seated No. 2 in the Big 12 tournament, but standing in its way is the TCU Horned Frogs.
The Horned Frogs are 6-8-3 on the year and just 1-4-2 in conference play, but a lot is riding on this game.
The No. 8 Texas Longhorns outlasted the Baylor Bears in Austin 3-1 (25-18, 20-25, 25-9, 25-22). For the first time since 2006, the Baylor volleyball team won a set in Austin against the Texas Longhorns Tuesday evening.
After playing close in a competitive first set loss, the Bears found their stride against Texas and played a brilliant second set to top Texas 25-20.
