At the beginning of this year, one of my Twitter pals and fellow Baylor alumni Matt encouraged me to become part of the Our Daily Bears team as a contributor and I gladly accepted! Our Daily Bears is the official SBNation blog for Baylor Athletics that’s one of, if not the most read fan sites by Baylor fans. I’ve been reading and following the blog for the past several years since I really got into sports and Twitter. I’ve always appreciated the content put out, especially during football season where I learned more about new recruits, team updates, etc. One of the best parts of contributing under Matt’s leadership is that ODB is putting out stories about (almost) all of the Baylor sports instead of just Football and Men’s Basketball like before. For Spring 2022 I wrote about Men’s and Women’s Tennis, which I’m extremely familiar with since I worked as the student contact for WT in college and my family has a close friendship with head coach Joey Scrivano. Tennis is a short but extremely busy season with matches scheduled on multiple days throughout the week. It was a bit difficult to view the matches, create box scores, review points on Baylor WT and MT twitter accounts, and follow up with recaps scheduled for posting immediately following the final sets, but I somehow made it work (even with a four hour time difference)! I’m proud of how hard I worked to write and publish tennis pieces throughout Spring 2022, so here’s a collection of all of my ODB articles so far listed by most recent posting:
- No. 3 MT Falls in NCAA Quarterfinals
- No. 3 MT Denies No. 18 Stanford, 4-3
- WT Falls in NCAA Second Round, MT Moves On
- MT, WT Advance to NCAA Second Round
- No. 4 MT Upsets No. 1 TCU for Big 12 Title
- No. 21 WT Drops 4-1 Decision to No. 27 Kansas
- No. 4 MT Sweeps Pair of Midweek Matches
- Baylor Tennis Inks Win for MT, Loss for WT
- No. 4 MT Collects 6-1 Win Over Oklahoma
- No. 21 WT Takes Down No. 25 Kansas
- No. 4 MT Succeeds 7-0 Against Oklahoma State
- No. 21 WT Defeats Kansas State, 4-1
- No. 4 MT Falters 3-4 in No. 3 TCU Rematch
- No. 4 MT Records 6-0 Sweep of No. 11 UT
- No. 22 WT Downed 5-2 at No. 11 Oklahoma State
- No. 22 WT Drops 6-1 Dual-Match at No. 3 Oklahoma
- No. 9 MT Triumphs Over No. 1 TCU, 5-2
- No. 6 MT Falls to No. 12 Michigan, 0-4
- No. 26 WT Inks 5-2 Triumph Over West Virginia
- WT Notches 4-3 Victory Over No. 20 Iowa State
- WT Bests Texas Tech, 7-0
- No. 5 MT Notches 5-2 Victory Against No. 18 Arizona
- WT Sweeps TCU in Big 12 Opener
- No. 5 MT Thwarts Arizona State, 4-3
- No. 20 WT Inks Doubleheader Victories
- No. 4 MT Topples Illinois, 4-1
- No. 20 WT Earns 4-0 Win Over Rice
- No. 4 MT Withstands No. 20 Oklahoma, 4-3
- No. 17 WT Falters Against UCF, 4-0
- No. 3 MT Falls to No. 2 Tennessee in ITA Semifinals
- No. 24 WT Downs Mississippi State, 4-3
- No. 3 MT Overcomes No. 10 Kentucky, 4-3
- No. 3 MT Advances Past No. 15 Ole Miss, 4-1
- No. 24 WT Outshines SMU, 6-1
- No. 3 MT Endures No. 7 Virginia, 4-2
- No. 25 WT Overwhelms Colorado, 5-2
- No. 3 MT Takes Down Tulsa, 4-1
- No. 25 WT Victorious Against Denver, 5-2
- No. 2 MT Dominates No. 9 Texas, 6-1
- No. 2 MT Excels in Doubleheader
- No. 25 WT Outlasts Tyler Junior College, 5-2
- No. 25 WT Defeated at No. 1 Texas, 4-2
- No. 2 MT Knocks Off Miami, 4-0
- No. 2 MT Routs William & Mary, 4-0
- No. 22 WT Falls to No. 15 USC, 3-4
- No. 22 WT Downs Kansas, 4-1
- No. 2 MT Victorious in Pair of Dual-Matches
- No. 2 MT Earns 6-1 Victory Over Nebraska
- No. 2 MT Topples Creighton, 7-0
- No. 11 WT Excels Past Illinois, 6-1
- No. 11 WT Drops 2022 Season Opener
- Baylor Tennis: A Beginner’s Guide
