Sic ’Em Podcast

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John Morris and Brooke Bednarz. talk with former Baylor Acrobatics and Tumbling Member and Current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Fighter Hailey Cowan. https://allhailhaileycowan.com/ @allhailmma https://www.facebook.com/allhailhaileycowan/ @Hailey_Bre Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sic'em sits down with Baylor University Head Football Coach Dave Aranda for a special summer episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts John Morris and Brooke Bednarz sit down with Baylor alum Jeremy Fudge to discuss his donation to Baylor Athletics and the exciting new Fudge Football Operations Center plus much more in this edition of the Sic ’Em Podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Morris and Brooke Bednarz host a Special Edition of the Sic ’Em Podcast as they go "Inside the Bubble" with head coach Scott Drew following Baylor's National Championship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sic'em podcast crew talk to ESPN Announcer, and Former BU Men's Basketball Standout King McClure about how he got to Baylor, and his life as an ESPN announcer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts John Morris and Brooke Bednarz sit down with Tommy Bowman who was the first black basketball recruit at Baylor as part of Black History Month. Tommy discusses his journey to Baylor plus much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mack B. Rhoades, IV, who has provided outstanding leadership and vision for three NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision athletic programs, was named Baylor University’s Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics on July 13, 2016. Rhoades has organized a team of dynamic administrators and restructured the athletics department to maximize efficiencies across teams. His concept of Preparing Champions for Life has provided the ongoing vision for Baylor Athletics, which aims to bolster the student-athlete experience by focusing on the areas of academic achievement, athletic success, character formation and spiritual growth. Over his five years in Waco, Baylor has won 21 Big 12 titles and six national championships. For the second-consecutive full term (not including the COVID-shortened 2019-20 campaign), the Bears brought home multiple national championships. After acrobatics & tumbling won its fifth-straight title and women’s basketball clinched their third national championship in 2019, A&T extended to six straight in 2020-21 and men’s basketball claimed its first in program history. In June 2021, Rhoades was selected as Sports Business Journal’s 2021 Athletics Director of the Year, marking the second Athletics Director of the Year honor earned by Rhoades in as many years. He was chosen as 2019-20 NACDA Under Armour Athletics Director of the Year in March 2020. The 2020-21 academic year, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, brought success for Baylor Athletics as the department combined to bring 20 trophies home to Waco. Men’s basketball won its first Big 12 regular-season title and clinched its first conference title since 1950 en route to winning every NCAA tournament game by an average of 15.3 points to claim its first-ever national championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Baylor volleyball's Lauren Briseño, Allie Sczech and associate head coach Joshua Walker earned gold with USA Volleyball's U21 Team in the 2023 NORCECA Pan American Cup, taking the title match against Mexico. The gold medal match went USA's way with a 3-0 sweep (25-13, 25-16, 25-21). The U.S. Women swept their way through the tournament going 5-0 and not dropping a single set to an opponent. Briseño was named Best Receiver of the Tournament at the end of play, five other U.S. women earning accolades as well. In the gold medal match, Briseño was credited with 10 digs and nine excellent receptions. For the entirety of the Cup, Briseño was credited with 57 digs and 34 excellent receptions. Sczech recorded eight kills and three blocks for the USA. U.S. Women's U21 Schedule – 2023 NORCECA Pan American Cup May 24 USA def. Guatemala, 3-0 (25-8, 25-13, 25-14) May 25 USA def. Dominican Republic, 3-0 (25-16, 25-20, 25-14) May 26 USA def. Costa Rica, 3-0 (25-11, 25-8, 25-9) May 27 Semifinal USA def. Cuba, 3-0 (25-15, 25-13, 25-20) May 28 Gold Medal Match USA def. Mexico, 3-0 (25-13, 25-16, 25-21) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sic'Em talks with Jerry Hill, who is the Director of Sports Journalism at Baylor University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lily Williams: No. 10 All-Time Collegiate Indoor 600m 2023 Indoor Big 12 Champion (4x400m relay) 2023 Indoor All-Big 12 (600y) 2022 All-Big 12 Academic First Team 2021 All-American Indoor (4x400m relay) 2021 Indoor Big 12 Champion (4x400m relay) 2021 Indoor All-Big 12 (600y) Maddie Vorhies: 2022 NCEA All-Academic First Team 2022 Academic All-Big 12 First Team Three-time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll - Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2019 2021 American Wood Fibers NCEA All-Academic First Team 2020-21 Academic All-Big 12 First Team 2020 NCEA All-American (fences, honorable mention) Ryan Day: 2022 USTFCCCA XC All-Region 2022 All-Big 12 Indoors (DMR) 2021 All-Big 12 Indoors (DMR) 2021 Academic All-Big 12 First Team (cross country) 2020 All-Big 12 Indoors (DMR) 2020 Academic All-Big 12 First Team (track) 2019 Academic All-Big 12 First Team (cross country) 2018 Academic All-Big 12 First Team (cross country) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode features Kelsey Rowell and Courtney Oates who are both Assistant Coaches, Baylor Acrobatics and Tumbling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mikkel Bjerch-Andresen is entering his third season with the Bears. After being hired as an assistant coach on May 14, 2020, he was promoted to associate head coach August 1, 2022. Bjerch-Andresen replaced Ryan Blagg, who took over as the head coach at Louisville after eight years as Baylor’s assistant, following the 2019-2020 season. Bjerch-Andresen joined the Bears after spending three seasons as an assistant coach for Texas Tech men’s golf, including his last two years as associate head coach. In total, he has helped coach six All-Americans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Krista Smith joined Baylor Athletics in July of 2022 as the Director for Character Formation with the Student-Athlete Center for Excellence. Smith previously worked as the Student-Athlete Development Coordinator and Academic Counselor from April 2021 to July 2022 at the University of Arkansas. Prior to that role, she served the Razorbacks as the Student-Athlete Development Assistant from February 2019 to April 2021. The San Antonio, Texas, native attended Arkansas, earning her bachelor's in recreation and sport management in 2018. She earned her master's in sports administration from St. Thomas University in 2019. The former Krista Kolbinskie is married to Dionte Smith. The couple has a daughter, Layla Faye, and a Maltipoo pup, Kobe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brent Ingram is in his first year in 2022-23 as the assistant athletics director of communication at Baylor. Ingram joined the Baylor staff in Aug. of 2022 after spending four years at UTSA as the associate director of communications. He is tasked with the overall leadership of the communications office and as the primary contact for Baylor football. He joined the UTSA staff after spending two years at UT Arlington and the previous 12 years working at the University of Kentucky. He has worked with a diverse group of sports during his career, including baseball, men’s basketball, football, men’s and women’s tennis, track & field and cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, rifle and volleyball. He was the president of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association in 2022 and serves on the CoSIDA Stabley Writing Contest and Publications Contest committees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristen Hankins is in her fifth year as the Director of Spirit & Traditions at Baylor University, she is the head coach for the Songleaders dance team, and Bruiser & Marigold mascot teams. In the Songleaders inaugural competition season 2018 Division 1A runner-up in Jazz at the ADTS College Championship and 2018 Academic Champions for highest team grade point average. Under Kristen’s direction, the dance & mascot teams have won a combined 3 collegiate national championships at Dance Team Union’s College Classic. 2019 division 1A Pom, 2021 Division 1A Jazz, 2021 Division 1A Mascot. 2021 Division 1A Spirit Showdown for the joint routine between the dance & mascot teams. 2021 Division 1A Battle Champions for their jazz routine. As well, as 2019 Division 1A Jazz third place, and 2021 Division 1A Jazz 2nd place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly McKenzie joined Baylor Athletics in July of 2022 as the Senior Coordinator for Sports Ministry. In her role, McKenzie assists and provides leadership to ministry occurring on the women's student-athletes, coaches and athletic staff by providing pastoral care, evangelism, discipleship, and other spiritually formative programming to student-athletes, coaches, and staff. Previously, McKenzie served as an Athletes in Action Local Team Leader/Campus Director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Whitewater from 2015-2022. She led Bible studies, provided evangelism and discipleship to female student-athletes at UW, as well as led and trained a team of staff who served in various sports ministry roles at UW and other campuses. The Harrisburg, Penn., native earned her bachelor's in Community Nutrition from Rutgers University in 2014. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Glenn Moore is in his 23rd season as head coach at Baylor and his 26th full season as a collegiate softball head coach. Moore, who was selected to guide the Bears’ program in June 2000, begins the 2023 season with a career record of 977-467, including an 838-425 record at Baylor. His teams have had a winning record in all but one season of his Division I coaching career and he is Baylor Athletics’ active all-time wins leader across all sports. He has progressed up the active NCAA coaching ranks, now ranking No. 24 in total victories among active Division I head coaches. During Moore’s tenure, the Bears have received 18 CoSIDA Academic All-America honors, 16 National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-America Honors and 70 NFCA All-Region honors. In addition, Baylor players have earned 93 all-conference selections during his tenure, while numerous Bears have earned academic all-conference honors. In 2022, Moore led the Bears to 32-win season and a postseason National Invitational Softball Championship. With the young squad, Baylor handed then No. 14 Texas their worst loss in program history, defeating the Longhorns 17-3 in Austin. In 2021, Moore reached 800 wins at Baylor as he led the Bears back to the postseason at the Gainesville Regional. In a shortened 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Moore reached the 900-win milestone when the Bears topped Grand Canyon, 10-2 (5), in Waco. Baylor finished that season with a 19-5 record, surpassing its win total from the year prior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

• Two NCAA Final Fours (2008, 2011) • Six NCAA Elite Eights (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015) • 11-Time Regular Season Big 12 Champion (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015) • Eight-Time Big 12 Tournament Champion (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015) • Six-Time Big 12 Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015) • Three-Time ITA Texas Region Coach of the Year (2006, 2008, 2010) • TTCA Coach of the Year (2005) • Sun Belt Coach of the Year (2001, 2002) Baylor Director of Women's Tennis Joey Scrivano is in his 21st season with Baylor in 2022-23. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices