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.

Ever since the beginning of the Art Briles era in 2008, Baylor has been characterized by strong receiver play. David Gettis, Kendall Wright, Josh Gordon and Terrance Williams are wide receivers from Baylor who have been drafted since the Briles era began. All four Baylor products are expected to produce for NFL teams this season.

This 2013 team has much of the same talent as other teams that were under the direction of Briles, but the vast majority of this receiving corps is unknown and unproven.

If there’s one thing that junior Baylor running back Lache Seastrunk does not lack, it’s confidence.

“I’m going to win the Heisman. I’m going to win it in 2013,” he said last December.

When recently asked whether he regretted making the Heisman comments, he was clear.

“I said I would win the Heisman because that’s what I believe,” Seastrunk said. “I have conviction. Nobody is going to take that away from me, that I believe I can do it.”

Seastrunk’s journey to this point has been anything but conventional.

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.”

Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw spearheaded big growth for Baylor in the past decade.