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Fresh off her third Olympic gold medal in the 2024 Paris Games, Baylor women’s basketball’s all-time great Brittney Griner will be inducted to the eight-person 2025 Texas Sports Hall of Fame Class on Feb. 15, 2025, it was announced by the Board of Trustees on Thursday.
The No. 23 Bears went down to H-town on Wednesday and brought back a 3-1 win against the Cougars, 23-25, 25-16, 25-17 and 25-23. Baylor (12-6, 4-3 Big 12) has won every matchup against Houston since 2002.
Santa Clarita, Calif. sophomore Victoria “Tori” Davis is here to show you really can do it all. Baylor volleyball middle blocker and apparel merchandising major, Davis started in a match against Cincinnati, which the Bears won 3-0, and worked as a fashion stylist in the same week.
With an off week under its belt, Baylor Equestrian looks ahead to a road matchup against Oklahoma state. The meet will take place at the Pedigo-Hull Equestrian Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma on Friday at noon.
The graduate student point guard is on pace to become one of the program’s top-10 all-time scorers.
From watching Baylor football win a Big 12 Championship on the sidelines to starting in the Bears’ highest-scoring game against a Big 12 opponent under Aranda, Lengyel’s journey has been far from easy. But with a smile on his face, he rode the lows of struggling to find a place on the team to becoming one of the most exciting offensive linemen in the Big 12.
Although the Bears (3-4, 1-3 Big 12) snapped a nine-game losing streak against Big 12 schools with their 59-35 win over Texas Tech out of the bye week, against the Cowboys (3-4, 0-4 Big 12) the green and gold will have another gnarly losing streak to snap. Since the 2021 Big 12 Championship season, Baylor has only won one game against an in-conference foe at home – a 35-23 homecoming win over Kansas on Oct. 22, 2022.
Bring back the golden helmets that light up the field. Add bear claws that were once stamped on the shoulder pads. Baylor’s uniform tradition is rich and storied, and the program would do well to dust off its old threads.
Winter Sports
Men's Basketball
While you were going back for “just one more roll,” here’s everything you may have missed from Thanksgiving break.
Competitive, humble and unselfish — these are the three words 6-foot-5-inch freshman guard Ja’Kobe Walter used to describe himself as a player. He said that self belief has helped him lock in when he’s on the court.
Jeremy Sochan was drafted to play power forward. Now, he’s throwing lobs and dropping pocket passes as the team’s lead ballhandler.
Women's Basketball
Former Baylor women’s basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, her legal team said Wednesday.
The Bears win at home against Lamar 88-50 on Monday at the Ferrell Center.
The Bears scored 52 points in the paint to dominate the Bearcats Thursday evening in the Ferrell Center.
Equestrian
Baylor acrobatics and tumbling (2-4) wrapped-up its regular season on senior night Saturday with a loss to Azusa Pacific University at the Ferrell Center.
The Baylor acrobatics and tumbling team will defend its win against Azusa Pacific University on senior night in the last home meet of the season at 6:30 p.m. in the Ferrell Center in Waco.
LaPrise Harris-Williams is in her third season as head coach of Baylor’s newest intercollegiate athletics program, acrobatics and tumbling. Prior to her arrival at Baylor, Harris-Williams spent the last 18 years in San Antonio, Texas, as a tumbling clinician and choreographer. Harris-Williams has experience coaching all aspects of gymnastics, including acrobatics and tumbling and cheer. Harris-Williams was known as co-owner of Harris Gymnastics from 1995-2008, where she helped place two athletes on the 2001 World Team for USA Gymnastics.
Tennis
Here’s all you may have missed across Baylor Athletics over winter break.
After competing separately for the majority of the semester, Baylor women’s tennis reunites to finish up its fall season at the Texas A&M Invitational this weekend.
Baylor freshman tennis player Alina Shcherbinina made it to the second round of the U.S. Open Junior Tennis Championships, featuring the top sixteen juniors in the world.
Golf
Baylor men’s golf team finished 10th at the Wyoming Desert Intercollegiate on Sunday in Palm Desert, Calif. Baylor was 1-over through two rounds but shot a final round 292 to finish the tournament with 5-over 869, and is now ranked No. 29 nationally.
Baylor men’s golf may not have had the perfect ending to its first spring tournament, but one member may have.
Following one of the most successful fall seasons in program history, the ladies began their spring season with a second-place finish over the weekend in Sorrento, Fla., at the UCF Challenge hosted by University of Central Florida.
In Case You Missed It
From Selection Sunday to the NCAA Track and Field Indoor Championship, Baylor Athletics had little time to rest. Here’s everything you may have missed over the one-week break.
While outdoor conditions fluctuate around chilly temperatures, Baylor Athletics stayed warm during winter break with a busy schedule. From bowl games to the first meet of the season, now that school is back in session, it’s time to catch up on everything you may have missed since finals.
Pro Sports
Missi was tabbed as the 22nd overall pick in ESPN’s Mock Draft on April 17, while Walter was projected in the lottery at No. 12. Fraschilla said they’re both “prototype NBA players once they physically mature in the next two, three, four [or] five years.”
In the 2023 season, Major League Baseball officials added the pitch clock to aid the speed of the game. After the season and now into 2024, I’ve seen that the pitch clock has been very useful and has accelerated the pace of the game.
Hot Seat
A recent request from the Trump Administration has put high school and youth sports in jeopardy. The administration’s 2026 fiscal budget request sent to Congress proposes eliminating funding for traumatic brain injury (TBI) research and education.
Hockey players from around the world work for years to be able to hoist a 34.5-pound trophy and hockey glory. Where rivalry, physicality and passion intersect and one of the most coveted trophies is on the line, the Stanley Cup Playoffs provide one of the most intense and exciting experiences in sports.