ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

GSR & APR NUMBERS its GSR score in each of the past among the league’s top four REMAIN STRONG three years, tied Iowa State and scores. or the sixth consecutive year, Kansas for second-place among Baylor has finished either first or Baylor University ranked Big 12 institutions in 2011, and the second among all Big 12 among the Big 12 Conference trio were followed by Kansas State institutions in GSR scores five times F (78), Oklahoma State (77), Texas leaders in the National Collegiate in the last six years, and produced Athletic Association’s (NCAA) (74), Texas A&M (73), Oklahoma the league’s top mark three Graduation Success Rate (GSR) (71) and Texas Tech (70). times. measurement, as its 2011 GSR The 2011 Graduation Success Rates are In eight sports where score of 79 tied for second among the GSR was league schools behind Missouri based upon the four entering freshmen measured by the basketball (92), men’s golf (88) and recognition awards from the been recognized by the NCAA for (81), and was just under the NCAA, Baylor teams women’s golf (88). National Collegiate Athletics APR excellence. national average (80). classes in Division I from 2001-02 met or exceeded the Baylor, which has finished either Association (NCAA) Division I The Baylor softball team, which Baylor, which has improved through 2004-05, and national threshold in first or second in the Big 12 Academic Performance Program was also honored in 2011, mark the ninth year the their particular sport for Conference in overall student- for having Academic Progress Rate recorded a perfect APR score of NCAA has collected GSR all Division I institutions. athlete graduation rates eight times (APR) scores which rank among the 1000 and was the only Big 12 data. BU produced league-leading in the league’s 16-year history, tied top 10 percent within their softball program to garner national 2011 GSR scores in three sports — respective sport. It marks the In addition, Baylor tied Iowa the University of Missouri for fourth recognition. The Bears’ baseball volleyball (100), softball (100) and among league schools in the 2011 second time both programs have team registered an APR of 990 and State for first-place among league baseball (82), while women’s cross schools in 2011 female student- Federal Graduation Rates Report at was one of two Big 12 baseball country/track & field ranked third 64 percent, a 2 percent programs recognized for APR athlete GSR scores with a 94 with its score of 94. It marked the Baylor has finished either first percent mark, while its male improvement over its 2010 mark. excellence, along with the third consecutive year that the Lady or second among all Big 12 student-athlete GSR score of 64 Baylor has graduated at least 60 University of Texas. BU’s baseball Bear softball team registered the team had also been honored in tied Kansas State for fourth in the Big 12’s top GSR mark. percent of its student-athletes 12 institutions in GSR scores five times since it joined the Big 12 2007. league. Baylor, Missouri and times in the last six years, and Kansas were the only league Other Baylor programs which Conference in 1996. Baylor has now received 10 met or exceeded the 2011 national produced the league’s top schools to have both their male Baylor’s baseball and softball public APR awards in six sports — and female GSR scores rank GSR score in their particular sport men’s cross country (2006 and were women’s soccer (96), women’s programs received 2012 public mark three times.

“…these days, it's all special for Baylor.” Suzanne Halliburton, Austin American- Statesman (March 30, 2012)

2011-12 BAYLOR ATHLETICS ANNUAL REPORT 2011), baseball (2007 and 2012), APR average for their respective A school-record 630 Baylor recognition in each of the last 10 student-athletes have earned semester and 121 for the spring men’s basketball (2009), men’s golf sport—baseball, men’s basketball, student-athletes earned 2011-12 semesters. degrees since Baylor joined the Big 2012 term. Of those honorees, 116 (2010), women’s golf (2009 and men’s cross country, football, men’s Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll During the fall 2011 semester, 12 Conference in 1996. recorded a 4.00 GPA in at least one 2010) and softball (2011 and 2012) golf, men’s indoor track & field, status—326 for the 2011 fall 62.8 percent of all BU student- After recording a school-record of the two semesters. Baylor Dean’s since the program was instituted men’s outdoor track & field, semester and 304 for the 2012 athletes posted a GPA of 3.0 or 3.12 cumulative GPA for the spring List recognition is awarded to all seven years ago. The APR provides women’s cross country, women’s spring term. One-hundred-twenty- better, while 59.5 percent recorded 2011 term, Baylor student-athletes students with a 3.7 grade-point a real-time look at a team’s golf, women’s soccer, softball and eight (128) of those were named at least a 3.0 in the classroom for did not allow that mark to stand as average who are enrolled in at least academic success each semester by women’s tennis. with a perfect 4.0 grade-point the spring 2012 term. the record long, as they combined 12 hours and make no grade lower tracking the academic progress of averages for at least one of the two to record a 3.16 GPA for the fall than a C. each student-athlete on scholarship. terms. Student-athletes must Sixty-three (63) Baylor student- BIG 12 & NATIONAL athletes achieved perfect 4.0 2011 term, followed by a 3.14 mark Robert Griffin III was named The APR accounts for eligibility, achieve a minimum 3.0 semester for the 2012 spring one of two 2011-12 Big 12 retention and graduation and ACADEMIC TEAM & grade-point average to earn INDIVIDUAL HONORS semester. In each Sportspersons of the Year, joining provides a measure of each team’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll status. of the last eight Texas’ Kylie Doniak, as the league’s academic performance. Baylor student-athletes semesters, the honorees. The Sportsperson of the In the latest NCAA APR report, continued their winning ways in the cumulative GPA of Year Awards were started in 2000- Baylor had a school-record 249 based on scores from the 2007-08, classroom, too, as a school-record all Baylor teams as 01 to annually recognize student- 149 individuals were selected to 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 student-athletes named to the been above a 3.0, athletes who displayed an academic years, every Baylor 2011-12 Academic All-Big 12 with the last three extraordinary degree of sports - program registered an APR score of teams, including a record 119 first- Dean’s List during the 2011-12 terms (spring 2011, manship and/or community service team honorees. It marked the at least 956 and no teams are academic year, 128 for the fall fall 2011 and during the academic year. This subject to penalty. Baylor’s sport-by- fourth consecutive year BU spring 12) standing year’s winners were selected by a sport 2012 APR scores are: produced 100 or more overall 2011 semester and 121 for the as the three media panel and are also Academic All-Big 12 honorees. Men’s Programs: Baseball (990), spring 2012 term. highest semester nominated for the NCAA’s Sports - basketball (956), cross country (992), Sixteen BU programs produced GPAs in school manship Award. football (956), golf (988), tennis at least two 2011-12 Academic All- history for any Griffin III became not only the (968), indoor track (978) and Big 12 performers, and 15 had Baylor established school semester. face of the Bears’ football program, outdoor track (973). multiple first-team honorees, led by records for fall, spring and total Big grade-point averages during the Fifteen (15) Baylor teams posted but an ambassador of the entire women’s track & field’s 23 first-team 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll Women’s Programs: Basketball fall 2011 term, while 65 registered 3.00 grade-point averages for both university during his four years in selections. All-told, seven Baylor selections during the 2011-12 4.0 marks for the 2012 spring the fall 2011 and spring 2012 Waco. Since his 2008 arrival on (967), cross country (984), golf (993), programs—women’s track & field academic year; the seventh soccer (985), softball (1000), tennis semester. semesters. At the end of the 2012 campus, the quarterback has given (25), equestrian (18), women’s consecutive year it established spring semester, the cumulative freely of his time to the city and (987), indoor track (964), outdoor soccer (16), men’s track & field (16), overall total, fall and spring Some 107 Baylor student- track (968) and volleyball (965). athletes, including six master’s GPA for BU’s 19 teams was a 3.14. Central Texas area. He was a 2011 women’s cross country (11), football semester records. American Football Coaches Twelve of Baylor’s 17 teams that (10) and baseball (10) produced degree recipients, earned degrees Baylor had a school-record 249 Baylor has had at least 200 during fall 2011 (46) and spring student-athletes named to the Association Good Works Team the NCAA tracks for APR scored double-digit 2011-12 Academic All- student-athletes earn Big 12 member and a finalist for the 2010 above the national 2012 Division I Big 12 selections. 2012 (61) commencement Dean’s List during the 2011-12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll ceremonies. All-told, 1,259 academic year, 128 for the fall 2011 Arthur Ashe Award. award, is a sport management who each maintained a 3.2 GPA or On the men’s side a pair of student-athletes named to the major with a 3.985 GPA and was better during their careers. seniors, James Gilreath and Philip team. The criteria for selection to presented the 2012 award prior to Baylor’s men’s and women’s Raaf took home the honors. The the All-American Scholar Team are the national semifinals in Denver, cross country teams earned 2011 award marks the third consecutive some of the most stringent in all of Colo. The Elite 89 award is given to NCAA Division I USTFCCCA All- for Gilreath and first in Raaf’s college athletics. The minimum the student-athlete with the best Academic Team awards after career. cumulative GAP is 3.50 and student- cumulative GPA participating at posting school-record term GPAs in To qualify for the USTFCCCA All- athletes must have competed in at the finals site for each of the the classroom. To qualify as a Academic Track and Field Team, least 50 percent (Division I) of the NCAA’s 89 championships. As USTFCCCA All-Academic Cross the student-athlete must have college’s regularly scheduled such, it provides a unique honor competitive rounds during the year. Just the Country team, the team must have compiled a cumulative grade point that recognizes universities with had a cumulative team GPA of 3.00 average of 3.25 and have met Baylor men’s golfers Joakim fourth Baylor both high-achieving athletic student-athlete or better and have started at least either of the following athletic Mikkelsen and Lorenzo Scotto programs (that can reach the finals five runners at their respective standards: for the indoor season, a were named Division I Cleveland to earn the Big of their sport) and students who are 12 honor, NCAA regional championship. student-athlete must have finished Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars, excelling in the classroom while Baylor’s women, who combined for the regular season ranked in the as announced by the GCAA. Both following in the participating in those sports. footsteps of a fall school-record 3.51 GPA, were national top 96 in an individual Mikkelsen and Scotto were repeat Jessika Stratton, Robert Griffin III and Terrance one of 54 teams that earned at event or ranked in the national top winners after earning the honor Mamadou Diene Ganaway were named to the sixth least a 3.5. For the BU men, a fall 48 (collective listing) in a relay following the 2011 season. They and Melissa Jones, annual Hampshire Honor Society, school-record 3.43 GPA was part of event on the official NCAA POP list join Worth Williams, Chase Thomas Griffin III was also a which is selected by the National a group of 28 teams over 3.4. provided by TFRRS.org; for the and Bill Alcorn to give the Bears Special Olympics Football Foundation (NFF) & For the fifth consecutive year, outdoor season, a student-athlete five two-time All-America Scholars volunteer and served at College Hall of Fame, and the Baylor men’s tennis team was must have participated in any in program history. Nine Baylor Friends for Life, a daycare recognizes senior college football named an All-Academic Team by round of the NCAA Division I golfers have combined to earn 14 for mentally-challenged players from all divisions of play the Intercollegiate Tennis Championships (including all-time honors. individuals. He has also Association (ITA). To be eligible for preliminary rounds). To be eligible for All-America volunteered and spoke at many the ITA All-Academic Team award a A pair of Baylor men’s tennis Scholar status an individual must local schools. Other community squad must have a team grade- players received 2012 ITA Scholar- be a junior or senior academically, service projects include Santa’s point average of 3.20 (on a 4.00 Athlete honors — Lars Behlen and compete in at least three full years Workshop, Food for Families and scale). The Bears posted a 3.08 Marko Krickovic . To be eligible a at the collegiate level, participate in greeting new students for the GPA for the spring 2012 semester student-athlete must have a grade 70-percent of his team’s Baylor admissions office during the after recording a 3.39 mark for the point-average of at least 3.50 (on a competitive rounds or compete in annual on-campus celebration of fall 2011 term. 4.00 scale). the NCAA Championships, have a Dia del Oso. The Baylor men’s and women’s Not to be outdone by its male stroke-average under 76.0 in For the 18th straight year and track and field teams, along with 13 counterparts, the Baylor women’s Division I, and maintain a minimum the 26th time in the last 27 years, individuals earned all-academic tennis team also earned 2011-12 cumula tive grade-point average of Baylor produced at least one recognition by the United States ITA All-Academic Team honors. The at least 3.2. A recipient must also Capital One Academic All- Track and Field and Cross Country Lady Bears had a 3.42 mark for the be of high moral character and be American as selected by CoSIDA, Coaches Association. As a team, spring term after posting a 3.06 fall in good standing at his college or as four student-athletes earned Baylor claimed honors on both semester GPA. It marked the fifth university. 2011-12 honors — Robert Griffin sides, while 11 women and two time in the last six seasons that the Coach Greg Priest’s team also III , football, second team; Dana men were honored individually for program earned All-Academic earned All-Academic honors as a Larson , women’s soccer, second their combined work in the Team honors. squad for registering a 3.00 or team; Bethany Johnston , women’s classroom and in competitions. Three Baylor women’s tennis better mark as a unit. soccer, third team; Kolt Browder , For the women, senior’s players — Megan Horter , Diana Baylor men’s basketball junior baseball, third team. All-told, eight Diamond Richardson and Jessica Nakic and Sona Novakova forward Jacob Neubert was Baylor student-athletes received Ubanyionwu , juniors Christina received 2011-12 ITA Scholar- named to the 2011-12 National 2011-12 Capital One Academic All- Holland and Cate Westenhover , Athlete recognition for their Association of Basketball Coaches District recognition, including six sophomores Justine Charbonnet , classroom work. (NABC) Honors Court. Neubert , a first-team picks. Mariah Kelly , Tiffani McReynolds Baylor women’s golf senior two-year veteran on head coach Baylor had one student-athlete and Alyssa Nichols , and freshmen Valerie Sternebeck and freshman Scott Drew’s squad, is the first Bear receive a 2011-12 NCAA Elite 89 Erin Hegarty , Rachel Johnson and Stani Schiavone were named to the named to the NABC Honors Court Award, as Lindsay Palmer of the Raena Rhone earned the 2011-12 National Golf Coaches since Mark Shepherd in 2008. national champion Lady Bear distinction. Richardson and Association All-American Scholar Kathy Shelton , a junior softball basketball team became BU’s first Ubanyionwu were each honored for Team; marking the 12th consecutive player, and Deonka Ceasar , a two-time award winner and the the fourth straight time, while season the program had at least sophomore on the acrobatics & school’s fifth recipient overall. Holland and Reynolds earned their one such honoree, and the 10th tumbling squad, were selected as Palmer, who also received the 2010 second USTFCCCA academic time in that span it had multiple 2012 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar honor.

2011-12 BAYLOR ATHLETICS ANNUAL REPORT Award finalists. The finalists, chosen Twelve (12) Baylor student- the second-most of any FBS Leadership 360 members, from over 600 outstanding minority athletes were among a group of school, were honored. The award comprised Baylor’s fifth Leadership student-athletes nominated by 60 Big 12 Conference student- was established by the 1A Faculty Academy graduating class. The their respective institutions, must athletes who earned the second Athletics Representatives (FAR) to upperclassmen completed either compete in an intercollegiate sport, annual Dr. Gerald Lage award, the recognize student-athlete the Veteran Leaders program or maintain a cumulative grade-point Conference’s highest academic academic achievement. Alabama the Leadership 360 course, while ith all 19 of its teams Directors’ Cup for the 18th “From Nov. 1 until Jan. average of 3.2, and be active on honor. In order to be eligible for led the nation with 16 student- the underclassmen completed the reaching postseason play consecutive year, followed by 16, the Bears' football their campuses or in their the accolade, student-athletes athletes listed followed by Baylor’s Emerging Leaders program. The and men's and W for the first time in school Florida, UCLA, Ohio State, Florida women's basketball communities. must have lettered at least once in 12 and Arizona State, Ohio State Leadership Academy was formed history, the 2011-12 academic year State, Texas, Southern Cal, North teams combined to go Robert Griffin III (football) and their career while maintaining and New Mexico with 11 each. to provide Baylor student-athletes will long be remembered by Baylor Carolina, Texas A&M and Michigan 40-0… Oh, and residence at their institution for at comprehensive leadership quarterback Robert Diamond Richardson (track & field) Recipients must have graduated fans as the Year of the Bear. The to round out the top 10. Griffin III won the programming with the goal of received Baylor’s 2011-12 Big 12 least one academic year. The in the past academic year with at 2011-12 season marked the Among the Lone Star state’s nine 2011 Heisman developing them as effective and Trophy… By any Senior Awards, while Griffin III and honoree, which can only be least a 3.80 cumulative grade- seventh straight year at least 10 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) vocal leaders for today and measure, Baylor has women’s basketball standout recognized once, should have 100 point average and have partic - Baylor teams garnered postseason programs, Baylor ranked behind successful worldwide leaders for made an astonishing Brittney Griner were the school’s hours of earned credit with a ipated in at least two years of bids, and for the second straight only Texas and Texas A&M, while it climb.” tomorrow. All Leadership 2011-12 Big 12 Male and Female cumulative grade-point average of intercollegiate athletics at an FBS season every team registered a again stood fifth among all private S.L. Price, Academy members are appointed Athlete of the Year nominees for 3.80 at the time of nomination. institution in a sport sponsored by winning record. Throw in a pair of FBS institutions after Stanford, Sports Illustrated by their head coach and must the second straight year. Baylor’s 2012 Lage Award an FBS conference. national team titles and three more Southern Cal, Duke and Notre complete a year-long program in winners included Alex Colyer Big 12 crowns for good measure, Dame, however, all four of the “If you want a feel- Three Baylor student-athletes Baylor recipients included — order to earn graduate status. along with 38 All-America awards were named to the Big 12’s fifth (softball), Robert Griffin III Morgan Chambers (Women’s schools sponsor more sports than good sports story for (football), Brittany Hunemuller Baylor Athletics continued its and 135 All-Big 12 citations, and it does BU. In fact, no school with the school year…you annual Chick-fil-A Community of Golf/Health Science Studies/Pre- is easy to see why 2011-12 was would be hard-pressed (soccer), Bethany Johnston multi-year partnership with Career fewer sports than Baylor finished to find a better one Champions teams, which recognize Med); Leigh Ann Ganzar truly the Year of the Bear. community service activities, (soccer), Taylor Jackson (men’s (Women’s Track & Field/Biology); Athletes to provide national above the Bears in the final 2011- than Baylor.” academic achievement and track & field), Blake Niccum (men’s Betsy Kyle (Soccer/Health Science representation of unique Baylor’s Year of the Bear 12 Directors’ Cup standings. Mark Blaudschun, networking opportunities and The Boston Globe leadership three times annually. track & field), Lindsay Palmer Studies/Physical Therapy); culminated with a 25th-place finish Baylor has recorded eight of its career development resources for (Jan. 5, 2012) Football’s Terrance Ganaway (fall), (women’s basketball), Diamond Dominik Mueller (Men’s in the final 2011-12 Learfield Sports 10 highest finishes in the Cup’s 19- current and alumni athletes. It also women’s track and field’s Diamond Richardson (women’s track & Tennis/Finance); Taylor Ormond Directors’ Cup standings complied year history over the last eight provides Baylor student-athletes Richardson (winter) and softball’s field), Jaden Schupp (equestrian), (Women’s Tennis/English); Lindsay by the National Association of years. In addition to its 25th-place “Well, not only do the ability to connect with they belong in the Big Whitney Canion (spring) were Jessica Ubanyionwu (women’s Palmer (Women’s Collegiate Directors of Athletics showing in both 2011-12 and 2004- employers who want to hire hard 12, they’re running the honored from Baylor during the track & field), Cate Westenhover Basketball/Psychology); Lucy (NACDA). Baylor totaled 726.00 05, BU was 31st in 2009-10, 32nd Big 12. An undefeated working, competitive, and team 2011-12 academic year. (women’s track) and Kim Quintana (Soccer/Health Science points to match its highest finish in 2005-06, 33rd in 2008-09, 35th run to the National Woodsum (equestrian). oriented individuals. ever in the all-sports sweepstakes Championship for the Studies/Pre-Med/Pre-Dental); in 2010-11, 38th in 2006-07 and ladies, a Heisman A pair of Baylor student- (it also finished 25th in 2004-05) athletes, softball’s Sydney Wilson More than 400 Division I Logan Roberts (Men’s 42nd in 2007-08. Prior to the 2004- Trophy for RG3 and an Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Track/Health Science Studies/ and place fourth among Big 12 05 academic year, Baylor’s best Elite 8 run for the and baseball’s Jon Rigenberg , men’s team…the student-athletes were named as Physical Therapy); Chris Slater 2011 Big 12 All-Sports institutions. Baylor also finished Directors’ Cup finishes were 39th in earned 2011-12 Dr. Prentice Gautt fourth in the Waco Tribune-Herald’s center of the sports Postgraduate Scholarships from the inaugural recipients of the 1A (Baseball/Finance); Caitlyn Trice Graduation Success Rate (GSR) 1998-99 and 40th in 2001-02. world is Central Texas. annual Big 12 Conference all-sports Yeah I said it. And I the Big 12 Conference. Each FAR Academic Excellence Award. (Volleyball/Health Science Of Baylor’s school-record 726.00, A dozen Baylor student-athletes, Studies/Physical Therapy); Nicole standings. said it because Baylor scholarship is worth $9,000. Missouri ...... 81 2011-12 Directors’ Cup points, U is killing it.” Wesley (Softball/Neuroscience); National Division I & BU ranked fourth among Big 12 139.50 were earned in the fall, with Jim Rome Tiffany Wesley (Softball/Health FBS Average ...... 80 schools in the final 2012 Directors’ 267.75 totaled during the winter (April 4, 2012) Science Studies/Pre-Med/Pre- BAYLOR ...... 79 Cup standings behind Texas (No. and 318.75 tallied over the spring Dental). Iowa State ...... 79 6), Texas A&M (No. 9) and sports season. Oklahoma (No. 14). BU finished “Already, the Bears Athletics Chaplin Wes Yeary led Kansas ...... 79 Of the 21 schools with known or have broken the a mission trip, which included 45 ahead of Big 12 rivals Oklahoma NCAA record for Kansas State ...... 78 reported 2011 total athletic combined wins by a Baylor student-athletes and staff, State (No. 42), Iowa State (No. 46), Oklahoma State ...... 77 Missouri (No. 49), Kansas (No. 56), expenses, Baylor ($63.4m) would school's football, to Kenya in May 2012. It marked rank No. 3 in terms of least dollars men's basketball, Texas ...... 74 Kansas State (No. 62) and Texas women's basketball the fourth straight Yeary-led Kenya spent among the 2012 Directors’ mission trip. Texas A&M ...... 73 Tech (No. 71). Future Big 12 and baseball teams in members West Virginia and TCU Cup top 25 behind Arizona one academic year.” Oklahoma ...... 71 A total of 77 student-athletes, finished 45th and 52nd, ($58.5m) and California ($62.7m). Jake Trotter, ESPN (May 30, 2012) 35 identified as emerging leaders, Texas Tech ...... 70 respectfully. Stanford won the 32 veteran leaders and 10 as In the second annual league’s regular season and Baylor joined Florida and Ohio Baylor’s 2011-12 athletic success Capital One Cup tournament titles, as well as the State as the only schools nationally led to six nominees for the 2012 standings, Baylor Bears’ Baseball team, which that boasted a bowl-winning ESPYs presented by Capital One, finished 11th in the captured an outright regular season football team and an Elite Eight with Brittney Griner winning Best women’s cup race for conference title for only the third men’s basketball team; and it was Female Athlete and Best Female the second straight time in school history and first since the only school nationally with bowl- Collegiate Athlete ESPYs, and year with 60 points, the 2000. winning FB, Elite Eight MBB and Robert Griffin III receiving Best best finish by a Big 12 Over the last eight years (2003-04 Final Four WBB in 2011-12. Male Collegiate Athlete honors. The school and just two through 2011-12), Baylor has won a Baylor was a combined 40-0 in national champion Lady Bears were points behind No. 10 combined 36 Big 12 regular-season football, men’s basketball and nominated for Best Team, while Kim Maryland. Stanford won and tournament championships in women’s basketball from Nov. 1 to Mulkey was in the running for Best the women’s Capital One six different sports, which ranks third Jan. 16. Coach (any spot) and Griffin III was Cup for the second straight behind Texas and Texas A&M in that a Best Breakout Athlete finalist. year with 152.5 points, 42.5 Baylor was a perfect 19-0 in span. men’s and women’s basketball, and Baylor women’s basketball player more than second-place UCLA Brittney Griner and quarterback in the final results. Baylor’s 129 combined wins in 44-6 in the big four sports vs. in- the big four sports (FB/MBB/WBB/ state opponents (5-1 in FB; 10-0 in Robert Griffin III were tabbed as Florida also won the men’s BASE) in 2011-12 established an MBB; 9-0 in WBB; 20-5 in BASE). 2011-12 Big 12 Conference Athletes Capital One Cup for the NCAA record for a single season of the Year, becoming BU’s first-ever second straight year, while Baylor climbed from 64th place in 2010-11 to 49th in 2011-12 with 15 points. The Capital One Cup is Equestrian In addition to the nine Baylor awarded Association); teams ranked in their respective annually to Men’s Basketball sports season-ending Top 25 polls, each of the (No. 8 in four others were either ranked or nation’s top ESPN /USA Today received votes in their sports’ polls men’s and coaches/No. 9 at some point during the 2011-12 women’s Associated Press); academic year — Men’s Outdoor Division I college Baseball (No. 9 in Track & Field (six weeks in athletics programs. USA Today /ESPN USTFCCCA ranking included four Points toward the coaches and NCBWA; No. straight to open season); Women’s Capital One Cup are earned 10 in Baseball America and Outdoor Track & Field (nine and tracked throughout the Collegiate Baseball ); Football (No. straight weeks in USTFCCCA poll); (129-28, .822 winning percentage). Robert Griffin III became honorees in the league’s 16-year year based on final standings of 12 in ESPN/ USA Today Men’s Golf (climbed as high as No. Football (10), men’s basketball (30) Baylor’s first-ever Heisman Trophy history. It marked the fourth time, NCAA Division I Championships coaches/13th Associated Press); 14/16 in ranking, ended season at and women’s basketball (40) winner. and first since 2005-06, that a school and final official coaches’ polls. Women’s Tennis (No. 13 in ITA No. 33 in Golfweek ); Softball combined for 80 wins, and the swept both the male and female College Tennis Rankings); Women’s (ranked in 15 of 16 USA Brittney Griner won the 2011-12 Nine Baylor teams were ranked baseball team’s 49 victories allowed athlete of the year honors in the Golf (No. 17 in Golfweek ); Men’s Today /NFCA polls, received votes Honda Cup as the nation’s in their sports’ season-ending poll BU to break Texas’ national record same year, as Baylor joined Texas as Tennis (No. 18 in ITA College in season-ending poll). Collegiate Woman Athlete of the — Women’s Basketball (No. 1 in of 123 wins during the 2003-04 the only Big 12 schools to record a Tennis Rankings); Women’s Indoor Year and allowed BU to become first Associated Press/No. 1 ESPN/ USA Baylor’s 2011-12 Big 12 champi - academic year. Baylor’s football, sweep (UT produced both winners Track & Field (No. 23 in school to win both Heisman Trophy Today coaches); Equestrian (No. onship teams included Women’s in 1998-99, 2004-05 and 2005-06). men’s basketball and women’s and the Honda Cup in the same 6 National Collegiate USTFCCCA). Basketball , which swept the basketball teams all posted school- academic year. records for single-season wins, while the baseball team’s total was just “Baylor is never Here’s a look at the top-5 all-time win totals among the Here’s a look at the top-5 all-time win totals among the one off the standard. going to have the four sports: three spots: resources of, say, a Baylor was the only school in the Texas, but they’ve YEAR / SCHOOL FB MBB WBB BSB TOTAL done a wonderful job Baylor, 2011-12 – 80 wins (FB 10, MBB 30, WBB 40) nation whose big four sports all of getting to where 2011-12 Baylor 10 30 40 49 129 UConn, 2008-09 – 78 wins (FB 8, MBB 31, WBB 39) finished nationally ranked they are, having a 2003-04 Texas 10 25 30 58 123 Tennessee, 2007-08 – 77 wins (FB 10, MBB 31, WBB 36) (FB 13/12, MBB 9/8, WBB 1/1, Heisman Trophy 1984-85 Oklahoma 9 31 23 55 118 BASE 9/10) in 2011-12. winner, winning UConn, 2011-11 – 76 wins (FB 8, MBB 32, WBB 36) 2008-09 Oklahoma 12 30 32 43 117 national champi - Ohio State, 2006-07 – 75 wins (FB 12, MBB 35, WBB 28) Baylor was one of two schools onships, and being in 2002-03 Texas 11 26 29 50 116 nationally (Florida) to have every a position to win the Capital One Cup.” Baylor’s 80 wins in football and men’s and women’s sponsored sport advance to Rece Davis, ESPN basketball in 2011-12 were also NCAA record for a postseason (all 19 BU teams) (May 30, 2012) single season (80-11, .822 winning percentage). play in 2011-12. HERE’S A SPORT-BY-SPORT Junior quarterback Robert Senior IR Kendall Wright picked three years at Baylor after RECAP OF BAYLOR’S Griffin III became Baylor’s first-ever up four first-team All-America transferring from University of 2011-12 SEASON: Heisman Trophy winner and also honors and a like number of Houston. Among records set: claimed the Davey O’Brien Award second-team All-America single-season rushing yards (1,547), as the nation’s best signal caller en accolades while becoming Baylor’s single-season rushing TDs (21), FOOTBALL (10-3/6-3 Big 12/ route to consensus All-America first wide receiver to earn AP All- single-season points scored (132), T-3rd; Valero Alamo Bowl honors as well as national and Big America honors single-game rushing TDs (5, tied) Champions) 12 player-of-the year honors from since Gerald and longest rush (89 yards). Baylor registered just the second numerous outlets. He set or tied 54 McNeil in Ganaway , the only player in 10-win season in program history, school records in 41 career games 1983. school history with multiple 200- and first since 1980, and recorded played (40 career starts) in three- yard rushing games, all three of back-to-back winning seasons for plus seasons, and won a school- which came in 2011, was named the first time since 1994-95 en record tying 23 games Valero Alamo Bowl Offensive MVP route to posting its most wins in (J.J. Joe also won after a monster 200-yard, five-TD consecutive seasons (17) since 23 games from performance in Baylor’s victory over winning 18 games over the 1985 (9) 1990-93) under Washington. He led the Big 12 and and 1986 (9) seasons. The 2011 center as a Bear. ranked 10th nationally with 119.0

a senior in 2011 and ranked seventh Bears, who RG3 led the nation in 2011 in Wright joined RG3 to give the yards per game, while nationally and second in Big 12 with “The Baylor Bears also won a points responsibility (22.15), and Bears two AP All-Americans in the ranking third in Big 12 in have it figured out 8.3 receptions-per-game. school record ranked second nationally in passing same season for the first time since rushing TDs (21), fifth in under Ian McCaw. 1991. Have quality, loyal six Big 12 efficiency (192.31) and total offense Senior running back Terrance scoring (10.2) and fifth in all- leaders of both Conference games, (384.00), third in completion Baylor’s all-time leader in Ganaway earned All-American purpose yards-per-game coaches and student- capped their percentage (72.39), fourth in receptions, receiving yards and and All-Big 12 honors as a (123.0). athletes, who buy historic season with passing TDs (37) and sixth in senior and arguably became into the program and receiving TDs, Wright set or tied Baylor’s record-setting offense commit to the same their first bowl win passing yards (4,293). One of three one of Baylor’s most prolific 16 school records in four-year (that had five players drafted in the goals and core values, since 1992, a thrilling players in FBS history with 10,000+ running backs ever. He set and the victories will career, including career (302) and 2012 NFL Draft) ranked second 67-56 come-from- passing yards (10,366) and 2,000+ or tied 13 school records come. Bouquets to single-season (108 in 2011) nationally in 2011, averaging 587.1 the Baylor Bears, it is behind victory over rushing yards (2,254), Griffin III as senior in 2011, his receptions, career (4,004), single- yards of total offense per game. great to see a Washington at the became the most prolific passer in first and only starting program winning season (1,663) and single-game The Bears offensive system, master - Valero Alamo Bowl in Baylor history, re-wrote record season in because of sound (208) receiving yards and career minded by architects Art Briles (a principles rather than San Antonio. books with 26 single-season, 20 (30) and single-season (14) finalist for the 2011 Bear Bryant winning because you career and eight single-game have the most receiving touchdowns. The 2011 Coach of the Year Award) and marks, before electing to leave money.” Biletnikoff semifinalist ranked third offensive coordinator Philip school with his degree in hand Dr. Richard L. Sander nationally and led the Big 12 with Montgomery (named the 2011 (Jan. 6, 2012) following 2011 season for the NFL. 1,663 (127.9 ypg) receiving yards as VOLLEYBALL (18-15/5-11 five Big 12 Big 12/7th, NCAA 1st Round) games, most Baylor volleyball coach Jim since 2000, to place Barnes’ squad turned in a third and record their program-high fourth consecutive highest finish since winning the winning season (and fifth in the last 1998 league crown. six years) with an 18-15 overall Baylor’s 3-0 home field victory record and a 5-11 league mark on over Texas State in the opening the way to the school’s fourth-ever round of the 2011 NCAA NCAA Tournament bid and second Tournament was the first in the last three seasons. postseason win in school history.

Rivals.com Offensive Coordinator in Baylor’s 2012 Pro Day at the BAYLOR’S 2012 NFL DRAFTEES Senior middle blocker Briana The Bears’ 1-0 win at Texas on of the Year), was uniquely balanced Allison Indoor Facility in late March. Tolbert was named first-team All- Sept. 23 was the first victory over Robert Griffin III , QB, Washington Big 12. It marked the fourth the Longhorns since Sept. 26, — as Baylor was the only school More than 140 credentialed media Round 1 (#2) that ranked in the nation’s top 10 in and more than 60 NFL personnel consecutive year the Baylor 2005, and their first in Austin since both rushing and passing yards. BU representing 25 teams were in Kendall Wright , WR, Tennessee program produced at least one All- Oct. 10, 1997. ranked 10th nationally with 235.6 attendance. ESPN and the NFL Round 1 (#20) Big 12 performer. Over the last four seasons, yards per game and fourth in the Network covered the event live, a Barnes earned his BU-record Baylor has had 12 student-athletes nation with 351.5 passing yards. No first for the Baylor program. Philip Blake , C, Denver 130th win at Baylor on Oct. 5 in earn CoSIDA Academic All-District Round 4 (#108) other FBS school averaged 200- For the second straight year, sweep over Texas Tech. honors after having just 10 such plus yards rushing and 300-plus Baylor had two players selected in Terrance Ganaway , RB, NY Jets Baylor set an all-time home selections in the program’s previous passing. the first round of the NFL Draft – Round 6 (#202) attendance average record with 12 seasons. In 2011, Baylor had Baylor set or tied 108 offensive Alabama is the only other school 873 fans per match totaling four Academic All-District school records in 2011 (totaled 119 that can boast that. Robert T. Griffin , OL, NY Jets 11,355 fans over 13 Ferrell honorees, including two, junior Round 6 (#203) forward Dana Larson (second records including special teams The Bears have had an Center dates. marks). team) and senior midfielder impressive five NFL first-rounders Baylor was one of 92 teams Bethany Johnston (third team) Baylor had 18 players earn 2011 over the last four seasons, a figure Baylor’s success drew fans in nationally to earn 2010-11 who went on to receive Capital All-Big 12 honors, including 17 on bested only by Alabama (11) and record numbers in 2011. The 2011 AVCA All-Academic team One Academic All-America honors. the coaches All-Big 12 teams and Southern Cal (6) and equaling the Bears, who finished a perfect 7-0 at honors. 11 on The Associated Press All-Big total number of first-rounders from Floyd Casey Stadium (a school- 12 teams, and a trio of All- Baylor from 1966 to 2008. Baylor’s WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY record for home wins), broke SOCCER (15-4-3/5-3 Big 12/3rd, Americans. five total draftees in 2012 was the school records for both average (10th Big 12/6th NCAA South NCAA 2nd Round) program Heisman Trophy winner Robert highest total of any school in Texas, (41,368) and total (289,574) home Central Regional) history, en route to Griffin III , along with nine other and ranked second to Oklahoma attendance. The 2011 Baylor women’s soccer The Baylor women rebounded former Baylor players, participated amongst Big 12 schools. team finished with the program’s the program’s first NCAA from a 10th-place team finish at the most overall wins (15) since 1998, Tournament berth since 1999 and 2011 Big 12 Championship to which equaled the second-most in just the third all-time. place sixth at the NCAA South Coach Marci Jobson’s Bears, Central Regional Championship. picked to tie for seventh in the Big Freshman Rachel Johnson 12 preseason finished 19th at the poll, won NCAA South Central Regional titles in the women’s game, season, while averaging 28.2 wins per Championship to claim her first All- WINTER joining Tennessee’s Pat season. Region honor. She covered the Summitt (8), UConn’s Geno The top-seeded Lady Bears, who 6,000-meter course in 21:33.5. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Auriemma (6), Southern Cal’s spent the entire season ranked The Baylor women recorded four (40-0/18-0 Big 12/1st, Linda Sharp (2) and No. 1 in the polls for the first top-five finishes on the year, NCAA Champions) Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer time in program history, made including a season-opening Bear Coach Kim Mulkey’s Baylor Lady (2). their ninth straight (and 11th Twilight victory behind the event’s Bears swept the Big 12 regular- Since taking over a all-time) NCAA Tournament individual champion in senior Cate season and tournament titles for squad that was just 7-20 appearance under Mulkey , where Westenhover . the second consecutive season, en the season prior to her they dispatched of 16-seed UC-Santa The BU women earned route to the program’s first national arrival, Mulkey has guided Barbara (81-40), 9-seed Florida (76-57), USTFCCCA All-Academic team championship since 2005 and a the Lady Bears to 12 4-seed Georgia Tech (83-68), 2-seed honors after posting a fall school- history-making 40-0 final record. It postseason appearances, Tennessee (77-58) to reach the Final record 3.51 grade-point average in marked the first time a men’s or including 11 NCAA Four. At the Final Four in Denver, Baylor the classroom. Baylor was one of women’s basketball team finished Tournaments, three trips to beat a pair of No. 1 seeds, Stanford (59- 54 teams nationally honored that the season at 40-0, and over the the Women’s Final Four and 47) and Notre Dame (80-61), to cut posted at least a 3.5 fall 2011 last two seasons Baylor owns a 78-4 a trip to the 2003 WNIT down the nets for the second time ever. term mark. record. finals. Her teams have also Baylor’s 40 victories were a school With her second NCAA crown, registered 12 of the record, bettering last season’s 34 wins. Mulkey , the 2012 consensus program’s 18, 20-win BU became the first women’s program MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY national and Big 12 Coach of the seasons and three of its six in the NCAA era to win 40 games in a (9th Big 12/12th NCAA Year, became the fifth coach in the all-time 30-win campaigns, season, surpassing the 39 wins by South Central Regional) NCAA era to win multiple national including its only 40-win Tennessee (1998) and UConn (2002, The Baylor men’s cross 2009, 2010). No men’s team has ever country team placed ninth finished 40-0 either. at the 2011 Big 12 In just her 12th season as a head Championships and 12th coach, Mulkey attained her 300th at the NCAA South career victory with BU’s second-round Central Regional. Presason WNIT win over Chattanooga BU recorded three top and ranks No. 4 among the winningest five team finishes on the active Division I head coaches (.811) season, including a win at the and No. 5 all-time. Of the UT-Arlington Season Opener. three active coaches Sophomore Brad Miles ranked ahead of her, claimed the UT-Arlington Mulkey reached Season Opener individual title 300 wins the to help his squad to the team fastest. It took crown. Like their female counterparts, the Baylor men’s cross country team also earned USTFCCCA All- Academic team honors after posting a fall school-record 3.43 semester grade-point average. All- told, the Baylor men were one of 28 teams nationally with a fall semester mark over a 3.4. guard Kimetria Hayden was an 48 of the program’s 51 “Baylor’s athletic honorable mention All-Big 12 pick. all-time weeks ranked in programs have seen the Top 25 over that a dramatic rise lately, In 2011-12, the Lady Bears drew especially in men’s 162,697 fans for their 19 home span. and women’s games, averaging a record 8,563 Baylor was one of basketball and per game to rank sixth nationally. In only six men’s teams to football.” addition, BU surpassed the make at least two Elite Shannon Ryan, 100,000-mark in home attendance Eight appearances in the Chicago Tribune (March 24, 2012) for the seventh straight year and last three years, joining drew 10,000-plus crowds four times Butler, Florida, Kansas, on the season with the first three Kentucky and North advance home sellouts in program Carolina. Baylor is also history. the only NCAA Division I Dr Pepper produced bottles school to have both its commemorating the 2012 Baylor men’s and women’s Lady Bears’ NCAA national basketball teams win at basketball championship. This least 30 games during the marks the fourth time Dr Pepper has 2011-12 academic year. produced commemorative bottles In 2011-12, Baylor swept honoring Baylor teams, as it also the “Big 12 South” schools recognized the Bears’ 1974 and for the first time in program 1980 Southwest Conference history (10-0 vs. Texas, Texas championship football teams as well A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma as the Lady Bears’ 2005 NCAA title. and Oklahoma State); it also swept Oklahoma and Oklahoma State in the same MEN’S BASKETBALL (30-8/12-6 season for the first time ever; Big 12/3rd, NCAA Elite Eight) Texas and Texas A&M in the For the second time in three same season for the first time seasons, Baylor’s season ended since 1970-71, and Texas, Geno Auriemma (UConn) and Pat Griner has earned numerous Big America honors (second-team AP), with a trip to the Elite Eight and a Texas A&M and Texas Tech Summitt (Tennessee) each 13 12 Conference honors over her first and was named to the Final Four, loss to the eventual national in the same season for the seasons to attain the milestone and three seasons, including a pair of Des Moines Regional and Big 12 champion. Ranked every week first time in history. Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer needed Big 12 Player of the Year awards All-Tournament teams. One of during the 2011-12 season, coach 14 years to reach 300. Mulkey and three All-Big 12 honors, and eight nominees for the 2012 Baylor established Scott Drew’s Bears established currently has 338 career wins. was also named the 2011-12 Lieberman Award as the nation’s program records for total program records for overall wins home attendance Baylor’s senior class of Terran Honda Cup as the Collegiate top point guard, as well as a (30), conference wins (12) and tied (134,541) and per-game Condrey , Ashley Field and Woman Athlete of the Year across Wooden Award and Wade Trophy its mark for NCAA wins in a single average (7,914) in Lindsay Palmer finished their four- all sports. finalist, Sims was at her best postseason (three). The Bears 2011-12. It marked the year BU careers with a record of Griner , the 6-foot-8 center from against ranked finished No. 9 in the final AP Top sixth straight year 131-19 (.873) with one national title, Houston, Texas, averaged 23.2 opponents, averaging 25 and No. 8 in the final USA more than 100,000 two Final Four appearances, four points, 9.5 rebounds and a nation’s 19.6 points in 13 such TODAY /ESPN Top 25 – the highest fans came through NCAA Tournament trips and five high 5.2 blocks per game in 2011- games (vs. 14.9 ppg season-ending ranking in program the Ferrell Center Big 12 titles (two regular-season, 12. With 2,425 points and 599 on season). In history. doors (only two three tournament) to their credit. blocks to her credit, Griner is the national statistics, she Drew became the first coach in such years in first NCAA player to score more ranked No. 20 in A three-time All-American, junior program history to guide Baylor to arena’s first 18 seasons as than 2,000 points and block more steals (3.0), No. 60 post Brittney Griner was named four postseason appearances and Baylor’s homecourt), and than 500 shots and needs just 65 in assist/turnover Associated Press Player of the Year, only the second Baylor head coach Drew-coached teams own blocks to become the all-time ratio and No. 66 in earned both the Wade and assists (4.4). to make three NCAA Tournament seven of the 10 best per- “Baylor — surging Naismith Trophies, was the block shot leader. She scored a Big in popularity as a appearances, joining Bill game season averages in Wooden Award winner, received 12 single-season record 929 points Junior forward sports school with Henderson. He also moved into Ferrell Center history. the Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of as a junior, the third-highest season Destiny Williams the success of its second on Baylor’s career wins list Seniors Quincy Acy , the Year award from the USBWA, total in school history (and most in earned second- men’s and women’s with 157 victories Fred Ellis and Anthony named the WBCA’s National the NCAA era). team All-Big 12 basketball teams Since the start of 2007-08 Jones became the along with its Defensive Player of the Year and Baylor was far from a one- honors as well as season, Baylor is now 121-55 (135 winningest class in baseball team.” was the most outstanding player of woman band, though, as honorable wins in first 11 seasons of Big 12 program history, both the Final Four and the Des sophomore guard Odyssey Sims mention WBCA Olin Buchanan, era), while producing four of its amassing 100 career SI.com Moines Regional. In addition, earned first-team USBWA All- All-America (Jan. 13, 2012) recognition, while seven all-time 20-win seasons and victories in four WOMEN’S INDOOR TRACK & Championships with four student- Freshman Patrick Schoenball FIELD (T-4th Big 12/T-16th athletes earning All-America honors earned All-America honors with a NCAA Championship) — junior Erin Atkinson (8th, weight fifth-place finish in the 800 meters At the Big 12 Indoor Champi - throw), McReynolds (4th, 60 (1:49.25). onships, Baylor tied for fourth on hurdles), junior Jessica Ubanyionwu Baylor’s 4x400-meter relay of the women’s side with 76 points, (5th, triple jump) and junior Skylar junior Justin Allen , sophomore marking the program’s third- White (4th, shot put). It marked Blake Heriot , junior Drew Seale highest point total in Big 12 history. Baylor’s second straight top 20 and senior Zwede Hewitt helped It marked a three-place indoor finish and its fifth all-time. the program earn All-America improvement in the team standings Atkinson claimed the weight honors in the event for the sixth for coach Todd Harbour’s squad throw school record by nearly 10 consecutive season with time of over their 2011 indoor finish. feet with a toss of 68-4.5, while 3:07.88 to place seventh. Seven of Baylor’s 14 total White broke her own school record competitors who earned 21 total in the shot put at 56-10 and junior SPRING “This year, it seems as seasons. They also depart Baylor Jones III , Quincy Acy and Quincy 2012 All-Big 12 awards achieved Brittany OgunMokun shattered a if Baylor has taken with a program-record 35 Big 12 Mille r — were selected during the the honor in at least two events. 10-year-old record in the 800 over the Big 12 by wins and are the first seniors to 2012 NBA Draft only the second meters with a run of 2:05.30. EQUESTRIAN (10-5, 4th Big 12/ storm.” post a career winning mark in Big time that multiple Bears were taken Sophomore Tiffani McReynolds won her second consecutive Hunter Seat National Champions; Josh Friemel, 12 play (35-31). Pierre in the NBA Draft (first time 3rd overall at NCEA) DFW SportsDay Jackson and Perry Jones since 1988). conference title in the 60 hurdles MEN’S INDOOR TRACK & FIELD (May 25, 2012) with a season-best 8.15 time; then (5th Big 12/35th NCAA Baylor equestrian’s Hunter Seat III were honorable Jones III was selected mention All-Americans by came back less than 10 minutes Championship) team took home its first national No. 28 overall by later to earn All-Big 12 honors in championship with a thrilling The Associated Press, the NBA Western For the 12th time in the meet’s while Jackson , Jones III , the 60 meters with a third-place 16-year history, the Baylor men victory over Texas A&M that came Conference time of 7.42. She scored 16 of BU’s down to a 1192-1070 win on points Acy and Quincy Miller champion Oklahoma finished among the top five teams at took home All-Big 12 points on the weekend, the fourth- the Big 12 Indoor Championships, after a 4-4 tie at the National City Thunder. The highest individual point total on Collegiate Equestrian Association honors. Duncanville, Texas, native as coach Todd Harbour’s 2012 the weekend. Bears placed fifth with 53 points. Championship at Waco’s Extraco A program-record three became the fifth first-round Events Center. The victory also Baylor players — Perry NBA draft pick in program The BU women tied for Five of 11 BU competitors who 16th at the NCAA Indoor ensured a third-place finish overall, history and first since Ekpe earned 2012 All-Big 12 distinction the highest in program history, for Udoh went No. 6 overall in achieved the honor in at least two coach Ellen White’s seven-year-old 2010 to Golden State. events. program. Acy and Miller were later Junior Eric Bostick broke the Texas A&M took a brief 3-2 lead drafted with back-to-back second- school record in the heptathlon at in Fences before junior Taylor round picks; Acy went No. 37 the conference meet 5,017 points, Brown evened it up with a high overall to Toronto, while Miller becoming the only competitor score of 174. The Aggies went to Denver at No. 38 overall. in program history to score regained the lead before over 5,000 points. Samantha Schaefer took to At the 2012 NCAA her horse for the final ride. Indoor Championships, the BU men placed 35th with five points, and had five All- America performances. After TAMU had scored a zero in hunter seat team to its first ever who went on to become a three- Flat, Schaefer needed to beat a 165 National Championship in 2011-12. time singles All-American. for the tie and title, and the Zsiga received the highest freshman rode beautifully en route ACROBATICS & TUMBLING listing, checking in at No. 17 in the to a score of 173 and a BU national (NCATA National Semifinalist) season-ending rankings. The Big 12 title. Despite a coaching change just Freshman of the Year, ITA Texas Schaefer earned Most Valuable two months before the season Region Rookie of the Year and All- Rider over Fences after going 3-0 began, Baylor advanced to the Big 12 selection led the team with and averaging the highest score national semifinals for the second a 36-8 record. throughout the championship. straight year under first-year head The Bears have now had an All- For the first time, the Big 12 coach LaPrise Harris-Williams . American in 11 straight seasons selected an all-conference Baylor hosted the NCATA and a singles All-American in 11 of equestrian team, and Baylor had five National Championships in the the last 13 years. Under Knoll, the honorees—senior Lisa Goldman Ferrell Center and a overcame Bears have had 12 student-athletes (unanimous selection in equitation deficit heading into final event to earn All-American honors 25 times. over fences; equitation on the flat), upset No. 3 seed Fairmont State Junior Roberto Maytin was Brown (unanimous selection in before falling to No. 2 seed Oregon ranked in both singles and doubles equitation on the flat), freshman in the semifinals. Secerbegovic and freshman Ema after earning All-Big 12 honors in Parris Rice (horsemanship) and to earn a berth to the ITA National MEN’S TENNIS (19-12/3-2 Big Sophomore Deonka Ceasar was Burgic . They were ranked 15th in both. With his 24-16 singles mark, sophomore Olivia Rogers Intercollegiate Indoors. 12/3rd, NCAA Round of 16) one of Baylor’s two 2012 Arthur doubles after a deep run to the Maytin finished rated No. 90 and (unanimous selection in reining). Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award quarterfinals of the NCAA Doubles The third decorated senior, One of the youngest teams was ranked with two different Goldman was the Big 12’s 2012 winners. Championship, defeating the Novakova , finished the season coach Matt Knoll ever put on the partners in doubles. He and senior Equitation Over Fences Rider of the nation’s No. 1-ranked duo of ranked 50th with the team’s court came together late in the Kike Grangeiro finished the Year, while Brown shared the WOMEN’S TENNIS (25-8/7-2 Big Florida’s Allie Will and Sofie Oyen second-highest singles winning spring and became one of two season ranked No. 41 with an 8-5 Equitation On the Flat Rider of the 12/T-2nd; NCAA Round of 16) along the way, to garner All- percentage of .818 (27-6). Her 27 unseeded teams to advance to the mark and he teamed with Zsiga for Year honor with Oklahoma State’s wins were the third-most on the 2012 NCAA Championship Round an 11-5 record and a final listing of Coach Joey Scrivano’s Lady America honors. Jordan White. team, and she claimed nine wins of 16. The Bears, making their 15th No. 73. Grangeiro also earned All- Bears finished the season ranked Secerbegovic , who earned her over ranked opponents. straight NCAA Tournament Big 12 honors in doubles. Goldman and Brown earned 13th nationally by the ITA with a 25- third straight All-America award as appearance, finished 19-12 overall first-team All-America honors in flat 8 record, which marked the an individual, ended the 2012 Baylor assistant coach Alison and 3-2 in the Big 12 Conference, and fences, respectively, while program’s fifth straight season with season with a 28-6 record, which Ojeda was named the ITA Texas good for third place. Goldman (fences), Rice at least 25 wins and the eighth ranked her first on the squad in Region Assistant Coach of the Year, (horsemanship) and Rogers (reining) straight of at least 20 victories. winning percentage (.824) and while Nakic was the region’s Senior The Bears’ No. 18 final 2012 ITA were honorable mention All- Fourteen of BU’s wins were over second in victories. Her .863 career of the Year recipient and team ranking keeps BU as one of Americans. ranked opponents, including seven winning percentage (126-20) ranks Novakova was the region’s Arthur the top two collegiate men’s tennis Assistant Hunter Seat coach over top 25 teams. No. 1 all-time at Baylor. Ashe Courage and Leadership programs over the last 10 years recipient. with an average ranking during that Stacy Lane-Sanderson became the The Lady Bears have now Nakic , meanwhile, earned her time of 6.1. first recipient of the National reached at least the NCAA finals site first-career All-America honor and Collegiate Equestrian Association (Round of 16) in eight straight led the 2012 squad with a total of Freshman Mate Zsiga earned Coach of the Year award. Lane- seasons. 33 wins and just 13 losses. Her 2012 Intercollegiate Tennis Sanderson helped lead the Baylor Association (ITA) Division I Men’s Baylor had three seniors finish breakout year included a team-best Tennis All-American honors by among the top 50 in the 2012 ITA 14 wins over ranked opponents finishing in the Top 20 of the final singles rankings: No. 19 Nina and a berth as a 9-16 seed in the Campbell/ITA Rankings. He is just Secerbegovic , No. 20 Diana Nakic NCAA Singles Championship. the second Baylor freshman to earn and No. 50 Sona Novakova , as Earlier in the year, Nakic claimed singles All-American honors, well as the doubles team of the ITA Texas Regional singles title joining former Bear standout Benjamin Becker, a 2002 recipient SOFTBALL (34-22, 10-14 Big Baylor’s pitching staff overcame best NCAA finish in NCAA Outdoor Championships 12/6th, NCAA Tournament) Canion’s injury to finish 19th school history for the with one All-America performance. Despite losing junior All-America nationally in team ERA at 1.80. program, as Baylor was Eight of BU’s 13 total pitcher Whitney Canion to a Getterman Stadium established 19th in its only other team competitors to earn All-Big 12 season-ending knee injury before new records for total home appearance in 2004. distinction achieved the honor in at Big 12 play began, the 2012 Baylor attendance (31,434) and for the After missing NCAA least two events, led by three all- softball team registered its 10th 30- first time in the stadium’s 14-year Regional play in 2011, conference honors from freshman win season under coach Glenn history Baylor averaged more than Baylor made its 11th such Alyssa Nichols (400m; 4x100m Moore and finished with a 34-22 1,000 fans per home game (1,014). appearance in the last 13 Relay; 4x400m Relay). record. years in 2012. Junior Erin Atkinson broke her The Baylor softball team began Baylor won three 2011-12 second school record of the season the season ranked seventh and tournaments — Price’s “Give ‘Em in the hammer throw, shattering spent 14 weeks ranked among the Five” Intercollegiate, Dick McGuire the previous mark by over 40 feet nation’s top 25. The Lady Bears Invitational and BancorpSouth with a toss of 204-1. advanced to the NCAA Regional MEN’S GOLF (5th Big Rebel Intercollegiate, en route to a Junior Skylar White claimed her for the third time in the last four 12/11th NCAA Ann Arbor third-place finish at the Big 12 third school record, breaking the seasons and the seventh time Regional) Championships, matching its discus mark with a throw of 189-2. overall. The Baylor men’s golf team highest finish ever at the event. She claimed All-America honors in Sophomore first baseman Holly made its 15th consecutive NCAA Baylor freshman Hayley Davis the discus with a seventh-place Holl earned first-team All-Big 12 postseason appearance, earning a became the program’s first All- finish at the national meet. honors, while junior second bid to the 2012 NCAA Ann Arbor American by receiving second-team Junior Christina Holland baseman Kathy Shelton and Regional, where it finished 11th. WOMEN’S All-America recognition by the became the third Lady Bear to senior center fielder Kayce Walker Coach Greg Priest’s team GOLF (3rd/ National Golf Coaches Association break a record outdoors with a run were second-team honorees. registered a fifth-place finish at the Big 12; T-16th (NGCA) and honorable mention of 56.87 seconds in the 400 Walker was named All-Big 12 for Big 12 Championship, its third fifth- NCAA Champi - status from Golfweek . One of hurdles. the fourth time in her career, place finish in the last five years onships) Baylor’s two 2012 All-Big 12 becoming just the which matches the program’s Under the performers, Davis posted a single- second player in highest Big 12 finish since 2002 direction of first- season program record with a 73.08 MEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & school history (Brette (fourth). year head coach scoring average in 37 rounds. She FIELD (6th Big 12/T-49th NCAA America third team, and was an Reagan, 2006-09) Senior Joakim Mikkelsen Jay Goble , Baylor finished 11th or better in 11 of Championships) honorable mention Golfweek All- to have achieved enjoyed one of the best individual advanced to the Baylor’s 12 tournaments in 2011-12, Baylor finished sixth at the Big America selection. He is the 13th that feat. seasons in program history. He won 2012 NCAA including nine top-10 finishes, and 12 Men’s Track & Field Champi - All-American in program history In 11 of the 2012 Big 12 Championship Championship for nearly 92 percent of her 37 rounds onships with 65 points, marking the and first PING All-American in six Moore’s 12 individual title, the first Baylor just the second time counted toward the team score (34 program’s highest score since 2008. years. seasons as Baylor’s golfer to do so since Worth in program history, of 37 rounds). The BU men finished tied for 49th head coach, at least Williams in 2001, then went on to As a senior, Mikkelsen became where it finished Davis also earned Big 12 All- at NCAA Outdoor Championships three players have register the second-lowest single- Baylor’s first All-Big 12 golfer since tied for 16th in Tournament and All-Big 12 honors with its 4x100m relay team earning earned All-Big 12 season stroke average in school 2008 and was one of five finalists the 24-team (joining BU senior Chelsey All-America honors. for the 2012 Byron Nelson Award. honors. history (71.38). field. It Cothran ) while also receiving Six of Baylor’s 11 total He won the 2012 Big 12 Champi - Holl also earned The first golfer in program marked the NGCA All-West Region distinction competitors to earn All-Big 12 onship individual title, shooting 3- second-team All- history to earn three GCAA PING (with senior Jaclyn Jansen ). It distinction achieved the honor under and erasing a seven-stroke Region honors. All-Central Region selections, marked the second time in school in at least two events with deficit in the final round. He leaves Mikkelsen was one of history BU placed two student- junior Blake Heriot (200m; Baylor with 12 career top-five and 10 golfers named to athletes on the Big 12 All- 400m; 4x100m Relay) and 19 career top-10 finishes, ranking the 2012 Division I Tournament team and the first time junior Everett Walker (100m; third in program history in both PING All- since 2007 it had multiple all- 200m; 4x100m Relay) earning categories. conference honorees. three honors each. Baylor posted one 2011-12 Walker also broke the school tournament victory, winning the WOMEN’S OUTDOOR TRACK & record in the 100 meters with a Turning Stone Tiger Intercol - FIELD (4th Big 12/T-60th NCAA season-best of 10.12 seconds. legiate, and posted five top-3 Championships) and 9 top-5 finishes on Baylor’s 4x100-meter relay of the season. At the 2012 Big 12 Outdoor Heriot , senior Whitney Prevost , Championships, Baylor finished senior Woodrow Randall and fourth on the women’s side, Walker placed fifth at the national marking the program’s third top- meet to earn All-America honors in five finish in the past four seasons. the event for the third time in five The women tied for 60th at the seasons. Series, dropping a 1-0 Academic All-Big 12 selections, six 2012 Major League Baseball First- decision to Arkansas in the Major League Baseball draft picks, Year Player Draft. Muncy was Administrative Super Regional title game one CoSIDA Academic All- selected in the fifth round by the at Baylor Ballpark. The American and the Big 12 Player, Oakland Athletics, Ludy was picked Accomplishments Bears played in their 13th Newcomer and Coach of the Year. in the eighth round by the NCAA Tournament since Senior cather Josh Ludy and Philadelphia Phillies, and Vick went 2011-12 1998, making them one of junior pitcher Josh Turley were in the 11th round to the Cleveland 14 programs nationally with named 2012 All-Americans by Indians. hile Baylor Athletics enjoyed unprece - at least 13 appearances in Baseball America . Ludy became Turley was selected in the 16th dented 2011-12 academic and athletic the last 15 seasons. the eighth player in program history round by the Detroit Tigers, Tyler W success, it also saw the following Baylor finished the named a first-team All-American, Bremer went in the 27th round to administrative achievements during the year: season ranked No. 9 or No. while Turley was named to the the Chicago Cubs, and Blank was Following the Baylor 10 in all four major national publication’s third team. chosen by the Colorado Rockies in Board of Regents fall polls. BU finished ninth in Ludy also joined Jason Jennings, the 30th round. With six 2012 2011 meeting, Baylor BASEBALL (49-17/20-4 in Big the NCBWA and USA draftees, 123 Bears have been 12/1st; NCAA Super Regional) Chad Hawkins and Kelly Shoppach Athletics released TODAY /ESPN Coaches Polls, and as the only players in program drafted all-time. architectural renderings Picked to finish fourth in the Big the Bears were 10th in the Baseball history named All-Americans by all Baylor Ballpark saw a school of an on-campus, 12 preseason poll, Baylor started America and Collegiate Baseball four major publications: the ABCA, record total 126,947 fans pass riverfront football conference play 18-0 and clinched to No. 2 despite not playing any Newspaper polls. It marked the the NCBWA, Collegiate Baseball through its gates in 2012, and the stadium, as an outgrowth the league title before suffering its games the week of May 6. third time in the Smith era the Bears Newspaper and Baseball America . season average of 3,255 was also a of the University’s on- first conference loss on May 12. BU finished ranked in the top 10 With a 15-2 win over Texas A&M- He was selected as the first-team’s facility record. BU drew a school- going strategic planning finished Big 12 play with a 20-4 nationally (No. 8/9 in 1999 and No. Corpus Christi on April 17, head designated hitter after hitting .362 record 5,911 fans for its 1-0 win process. Since the release of the renderings, the record, which was the second-best 4 in 2005). coach Steve Smith broke Baylor’s with 16 home runs and 71 RBI to over Texas A&M, April 21, as six of department has completed a fan study and winning percentage by any team in In the midst of its Big 12- and all-time wins record for any sport lead a Baylor offense that led the top 10 crowds in program history feasibility study for the stadium, and the league history, and went on to finish school-record 24-game overall win with his 650th career victory. Smith Big 12 in nine categories. Ludy’s 71 were recorded in 2012. University has received several generous with a 49-17 record and a Waco streak and 18-game conference is 668-432-1 in 18 seasons leading RBI were the fourth-most in a single financial gifts toward the stadium. Regional championship under the the Bears. He passed his string, Baylor reached No. 1 in the season in program history, and his Big 12 In Final 2011-12 direction of 2012 CollegeBase - predecessor, the late Mickey In March 2012, the University announced that polls for the first time in program 16 home runs were the most ever Directors’ Cup Standings it received a leadership gift — the largest ballInsider.com National Coach of history. Baylor’s No. 1 ranking in the Sullivan (649-428-4), for the Baylor by a Baylor catcher. He also 6. Texas capital gift in university history — from the Year finalist and American April 23 and April 30 Collegiate coaching wins record. Sullivan became the sixth Big 12 Player of 9. Texas A&M Elizabeth and Drayton McLane Jr. for Baylor’s Baseball Coaches Association Baseball Newspaper polls marked recorded his 649 wins in 1,081 the Year in program history. 14. Oklahoma new on-campus football stadium alongside the Midwest Region Coach of the Year the first times Baylor had ever been games, while Smith recorded 657 Steve Smith . wins through the same number of Turley posted a 9-1 record with a 25. Baylor Brazos River. With this naming rights gift, the ranked as the nation’s top team. 1.96 ERA in 110.0 innings over 17 McLane family asked that the new football Baylor also won its first regional games. 42. Oklahoma State The Bears shared the top spot with starts for the season. His 1.96 ERA facility be named Baylor Stadium. 46. Iowa State since 2005 and came up one win Kentucky in the April 23 CBN poll, The Bears had four All-Americans was the fifth-lowest by a Baylor 49. Missouri Continuing the strong forward momentum shy of the school record and its took over sole possession of the and 11 All-Big 12 honorees, both of pitcher during the aluminum-bat 56. Kansas for the stadium project, on May 9, a gift from fourth trip to the College World top spot on April 30, and dropped which were school records, 10 era, and his 9-1 record gave him the 62. Kansas State alumnus John Eddie Williams to name the field best winning percentage by a junior 71. Texas Tech at Baylor Stadium, John Eddie Williams Field, in program history. Turley also went was announced. Eight days later, a gift from led the Big 12 with a 1.92 ERA in Big 12 Championships Won Sheila and Walter Umphrey for Baylor Stadium league play, and his 6-0 record in 2003-04 through 2011-12 was released that will support construction of Big 12 play trailed only Jason Texas, 63 (5) the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Bridge at Baylor Jennings’ 9-0 conference season in Stadium that will be built over the Brazos River, 1999. Texas A&M, 45 (6) Baylor, 36 (3) connecting the new stadium with Baylor Law In addition to Ludy and Turley , School and the Baylor campus. Oklahoma, 33 (5) senior pitcher Trent Blank and The new on-campus Baylor Stadium is junior outfielder Logan Vick also Nebraska, 29 Oklahoma State, 31 (5) expected to be built on a 93-acre site on picked up 2012 All-America honors, Interstate 35, one of the nation’s busiest giving the Bears 22 all-time All- Kansas, 17 (1) Colorado, 14 highways, traversed by more than 42 million Americans. Blank and Vick were drivers annually. The stadium will hold 40,000- both named to the third team by Missouri, 11 (3) Iowa State, 6 (1) 45,000 spectators, with the flexibility to Collegiate Baseball , while Blank expand to 55,000 in the future. It also will added third-team honors from the Texas Tech, 6 (1) Kansas State, 5 (0) feature a bridge crossing the Brazos River and NCBWA. connecting the stadium to the campus, canopy Note: Colorado and Nebraska left Baylor junior first baseman Max Big 12 at end of 2010-11 academic shading for half of all seats throughout the day, Muncy , Ludy and Vick were year; number in ( ) indicates Big 12 open concourses with views directly into the selected on the second day of the titles won in 2011-12. stadium, suites, loge boxes, indoor and located on La Salle Avenue across room, coaches offices and from the Ferrell Center, will be meeting space at the Willis Family completed by December 2012. In Equestrian Center. addition to unique features Currently, the Willis Family tailored specifically for Baylor Equestrian Center, named for the tennis, the facility also reserved family of fellow Baylor Regent space to store recreational Richard Willis, is one of the nation’s equipment for the adjacent finest collegiate equestrian intramural fields. facilities. Through the addition of With an eye toward bringing the Carlile Equestrian Building, the future NCAA Men's and Women's team will benefit from a place of Tennis Championship finals to preparation and bonding, and Central Texas while also coaches will have the advantage of maintaining Baylor's tennis space to plan and strategize. Fully programs among the nation's equipped with versatile meeting elite, Mark and Paula Hurd made spaces, a training and treatment another generous financial gift that room, a locker room for student- will be used to further enhance the athletes and administrative offices Baylor Tennis Center. The for coaches, the Carlile Equestrian proposed renovations were Building will meet current needs of approved by the Baylor Board of the team and further enable the

Regents during their July 2011 program to train exceptional of scholarships for Baylor’s student- meeting in Waco. In addition, student-athletes. athletes has more than doubled, Baylor's governing body also For the eighth consecutive year, from $3.312 million in 2004-05 to approved renaming the Baylor the Baylor Bear Foundation 2011-12’s record-breaking total. Tennis Center as the Hurd Tennis provided a record-breaking gift to The Bear Foundation topped the “…right now, miracu - outdoor club seating, designated Center in honor of the Hurd's Baylor Athletics, as the generosity $4 million mark for the first time in lously, the Bears are seating for Baylor students and the continued support of the tennis of nearly 3,000 members allowed it 2006-07, reached $5 million the on top of the college Baylor band. With a successful programs. The enhancements to raise more than $8.2 million in following year (2007-08), topped sports world.” spring fundraising campaign, the include a new scoreboard that will scholarship support for the school’s $6 million for the first time in 2008- Zach Miller, stadium project could be allow fans to follow the matches 19-sport intercollegiate athletics 09 and cleared the $7 million Columbia Missourian completed in time for the first on all 12 Hurd Tennis Center program during the 2011-12 fiscal threshold in 2009-10 before (Jan. 18, 2012) game in fall 2014. courts, shaded spectator seating year. The Bear Foundation’s record surpassing the $8 million mark this over the Hulse Grandstand which Waco residents Jim and Nell total came through annual giving past year. Annual giving has grown overlooks the championship courts Hawkins provided a significant ($6.0 million), endowment interest from $2.565 million in 2004-05 to and the purchase of a video naming gift for the Jim and Nell ($1.3 million) and sky box revenues more than $6.06 million during the streaming system to air Baylor Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center, ($832,195). The BBF’s 2011-12 recently completed academic year. matches via the school's official which was approved by the Baylor contribution is an increase of more athletics web site, baylorbears.com . For the ninth consecutive year, University Board of Regents during than $600,000 over its 2010-11 the Philip M. Dorr Alumni & Friends their July 2011 meeting in Waco. Baylor Regent Dr. Kenneth Q. then-record gift of $7.6 million, and Endowed Investment Fund The center will feature six parallel Carlile and his wife, Celia , of its annual giving total was also a provided a generous financial indoor tennis courts and spectator Marshall, Texas, have generously Foundation record. The Bear contribution to Baylor University’s seating for each court. It is a provided the naming gift for the Foundation’s year-end totals do not Athletic Department. An $80,000 product of Baylor Athletics’ recent Carlile Equestrian Building. The reflect any capital gifts received gift from the Fund was presented Victory with Integrity campaign. new facility will strengthen Baylor’s during the year. to the Athletic Department at nationally recognized Equestrian Construction on the Jim and Over the last eight years, the halftime of the Baylor-Oklahoma program by providing a locker Nell Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center, Bear Foundation’s annual support men’s basketball game, Feb. 24, “…one of the 2012. The Fund, which continues to licensed products in 2011-12. It (269,349). It marked the ninth consecutive year sales topped for fans to view the video of select Giannini (Southern “…everything seems greatest combined rank as one of the nation’s largest marked the fifth straight year the straight year more than 1.1 million $200,000 and the third time overall. home Baylor athletic events. Mississippi/Southeast) and Jim to be falling for the athletic seasons in managed by students, has school’s net royalties increased. unique visitors visited the site, and Over the stores first five years, it Phillips (Northwestern/Central). Bears’ sports teams NCAA history.” A school-record 90 Baylor this year.” provided more than $1.3 million in In addition, Baylor’s licensing the third straight year it topped the registered on-line sales totaling athletic contests in eight sports McCaw completed his fourth Jake Trotter, support of scholarships for Baylor’s program produced three of the top 2 million mark in that category. The more than $422,000, however, in were televised in 2011-12. Baylor year on the NCAA Recruiting Blair Kerkhoff, ESPN (May 30, 2012) 19-sport intercollegiate athletics four quarters ever in 2011-12, official athletic site of Baylor the last six years sales have totaled Kansas City Star football had a school-record-tying Cabinet and first as its chairman. (March 10, 2012) program since its first gift to the including the top two quarters Athletics has averaged more than more than $1.1 million with 11 broadcasts, while the Bears’ He also ended his first year as a department in 2004. ($157,916.13 and $128,624.17). 100,000 unique visitors in each of $646,358 in sales the last two years. men’s basketball team had a member of the 1A Athletic In the first seven years of the The last eight quarters, all since the the last five years for the first time Baylorbears.com had a record program-record tying 34 telecasts Directors Association Executive Baylor-IMG partnership, the LRG partnership began, rank as the in the site’s history, and those 17,473 subscribers to its on-line and the Lady Bear basketball team Committee. top eight licensing revenue visitors viewed more than 19.5 department’s corporate audio and video All-Access product had a program-best 25 broadcasts. Deputy Athletics Director Todd sponsorship revenues have producers in school history. million pages in 2011-12 — an in 2011-12, an increase of more average of more than 1.629 million BaylorVision produced 151 live Patulski completed his fourth year increased by more than $1.2 Electronic Arts, Inc., selected than 7,700 subscribers from the page views per month, and the events in 2011-12. of service to the NCAA Men’s and million, and exceed their revenue Baylor’s Heisman Trophy-winning 2010-11 academic year. Baylor’s second-highest total in the site’s Baylor Director of Athletics Ian Women’s Track & Field Committee, goals four times in the last five quarterback Robert Griffin III as All-Access subscription numbers history behind the 20.611 million McCaw was selected as the 2011- and his second as chairman. years. one of two featured individuals on have grown in six of the last seven TM viewed in 2003-04. 12 Under Armour Athletic Director Executive Associate Athletics the cover of EA SPORTS NCAA ® years, starting with 2,484 Baylor’s partnership with the of the Year for the Football Bowl Director/External Affairs Nick Joos Football 13. In addition to RG3, More than $420,000 in officially subscribers in 2005-06, topping the Licensing Resource Group Subdivision’s West Region. McCaw , completed his ninth year on the fellow Heisman Trophy winner Barry licensed Baylor apparel and 4,000 mark for the first time in continues to be a success in who was also one of five finalists for College Sports Information Directors Sanders of Oklahoma State will merchandise was sold through 2007-08 and reaching the 11,000 growing the Baylor brand and the 2011-12 Street & Smith’s of America Board of Directors and appear on the cover of NCAA baylorbears.com in 2011-12, a site mark in 2009-10 before falling to generating royalties for the SportsBusiness Journal/Daily served as the organization’s third institution. For the third Football 13 based on a fan vote. record-high and the fifth straight the 9,000 threshold in 2010-11 and year sales topped $100,000. The climbing to a record 17,000-plus in Athletic Director of the Year award, Past President in 2011-12. consecutive year, Baylor Baylorbears.com established 2011-12 sales total of $420,551.80 2011-12. Audio and video features was honored along with fellow Baylor Associate Athletics established a royalty record, as it records for total number of unique was nearly double the 2010-11 continue to be offered free of Football Bowl Subdivision athletic Director /Student-Athlete Services topped $480,000 in royalties visitors (3,232,184) and average mark and marked the second charge, while there is a nominal fee directors Mike O’Brien Bart Byrd was the 2011-12 received off the sale of officially unique visitors per month (Toledo/Northeast), Richard President-Elect of the National 65,256 was on hand to see BU’s and per-game average (7,914) in Association of Academic Advisors come-from-behind victory over 2011-12. for Athletics, and will serve as its Washington at the Alamo Dome. It Baylor Ballpark saw a school President in 2012-13. marked the fifth-largest crowed in record total 126,947 fans pass Baylor Director of Student- Valero Alamo Bowl history, and the through its gates in 2012 for Baylor Athlete Development Tierra largest since 2007. The crowd was baseball games, and the Bears’ Barber was named to Career also the fourth-largest to attend a season average of 3,255 was also a Athletes’ First National Collegiate Baylor bowl game behind only the facility record. BU drew a school- Advisory Board. The nine-member 1980 Cotton (74,281), 1975 Cotton record 5,911 fans for its 1-0 win board is comprised of individuals (68,500) and 2010 Texas (68,211) over Texas A&M, April 21, as six of with experience in the area of bow games. top 10 crowds in program history student-athlete development, life For the seventh straight season, were recorded in 2012. It marked For the eighth skills and academic services. the Baylor Lady Bears surpassed the just the third time in Baylor consecutive year, the More than 1,000 Waco-area 100,000 fan mark in home Ballpark’s 14-year history, and first Baylor Bear attendance and in the process their since 2007, that more than 100,000 Foundation provided businesses participated in the average of 8,563 was a school fans passed through the turnstiles. a record-breaking gift Baylor Spirit Program during the to Baylor Athletics, as 2011-12 academic year, the third record and ranked sixth nationally. It The Lady Bear softball team the generosity of consecutive year the program has marked the second straight season drew a school-record 31,434 fans nearly 3,000 grown its participation numbers. Baylor finished sixth nationally in for 24 Getterman Stadium dates in members allowed it The program is designed to ask home attendance. Baylor’s total 2012, and for the first time ever to raise more than local businesses to support Waco’s home attendance mark of 162,697 averaged more than 1,000 fans per $8.2 million in hometown team, the Baylor Bears, ranked second to the 166,593 fans home game (1,014). scholarship support that attended its 21 home games by displaying promotional items Some 11,355 fans attended for the school’s 19- that display Baylor spirit. Items are in 2010-11. sport intercollegiate Baylor home volleyball matches provided free of charge to local The 2011-12 Lady Bears drew athletics program during the 2011 season, as BU during the 2011-12 business, and include compli- 10,000-plus crowds four times on averaged a school-record 873 fans fiscal year. mentary tickets to select home the season, a school-record 10,627 per match while registering the games. vs. both Connecticut and Texas second-highest total home Baylor’s football success drew A&M, 10,381 vs. Texas Tech and attendance mark in program history. fans in record numbers to Floyd 10,006 vs. Kansas with advance It marked the third straight season Casey Stadium in 2011. The 2011 sellouts for the Connecticut, Texas more than 11,000 fans attended Bears, who finished a perfect 7-0 on A&M and Texas Tech games. Baylor home volleyball matches. their home turf (a school-record for For a program-record sixth home wins), broke school records straight season, more for both average (41,368) and total than 100,000 fans (289,574) home attendance. It came through the marked the sixth straight year more Ferrell Center doors to than 200,000 fans passed through watch the Baylor men’s the stadium gates to support the basketball team play, Bears. as the Bears For the second straight year, established arena Baylor fans traveled well to the records for total home Bears’ bowl game, as a crowd of attendance (134,541)