Baylor Athletics Has 24 Graduating at Winter Commencement

WACO, Texas – Baylor Athletics will be properly-represented at Saturday’s wintertime commencement ceremonies at the Ferrell Center with 24 graduates from nine athletics, 16 distinctive undergrad levels and 4 master’s degrees. 

The graduation ceremonies will start out at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. and will be streamed on line at https://virtualevents.baylor.edu/situations/commencement-december2021.php.

Baylor’s Massive 12 championship soccer crew added 11 a lot more graduates to go with the software-record 28 graduates on the preseason roster, which ranked next in the nation in the FBS ranks behind only Illinois (29). In addition, All-The us basic safety Jalen Pitre and All-Big 12 linebacker Terrel Bernard acquired master’s levels in academic psychology and sport management, respectively. 

Also obtaining master’s degrees will be Huge 12 Setter of the Yr and 2019 All-American Hannah Sedwick (communicationsfrom volleyball and soccer’s Sarah Norman (taxation), a a few-time first-staff Academic All-Huge 12 variety. 

The list of Baylor Athletics’ December graduates also involves a pair of national champions in Flo Thamba (global scientific tests) from men’s basketball and Dayandrea Thompson (film and electronic media) from acrobatics & tumbling. 

Thamba will overlook the Saturday ceremony – the top rated-ranked Baylor Bears (9-) confront Oregon at 9 p.m. CT Saturday in Eugene, Ore. But, he programs to go through the spring commencement in Could “so that all of my family members customers are there, and it is really not just me walking at my own graduation and walking appropriate back again household.”

“I couldn’t be far more proud of Flo Thamba and what he is completed and how he is carried out it and how he’s represented our university,” coach Scott Drew reported. “It is seriously exciting and one thing our staff members usually cherishes.”

Senior guard Kamara McDaniel from the fifth-ranked women’s basketball workforce will also skip the ceremony, with the Bears struggling with No. 11/13 Michigan at midday CT Sunday in the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Conn. The Penn Condition transfer attained a degree in health and fitness, kinesiology and leisure reports

Below is the complete list of Baylor Athletics’ winter season graduates: 

Football: Brandon Bass, finance Terrel Bernard, sport administration (master’s) Trestan Ebner, interaction Jackson Gleeson, health, kinesiology and leisure studies Byron Hanspard, Jr., interaction Ashton Logan, overall health, kinesiology and leisure reports John Mayers, management Mark Milton, conversation Jalen Pitre, educational psychology (master’s) Issac Power, promoting Jackson Shupp, advertising and marketing Tyquan Thornton, conversation and JT Woods, sociology

Monitor & Field: Isaiah Cunningham-Howard, wellbeing, kinesiology & leisure experiments

ACROBATICS & TUMBLING: Dayandrea Thompson, film and digital media

VOLLEYBALL: Lauren Harrison, journalism Hannah Sedwick, communication (master’s) Sydney Sacra, clothing merchandising

SOFTBALL: Lou Gilbert, integrative biology

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Flo Thamba, intercontinental scientific studies

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Kamaria McDaniel, health, kinesiology and leisure studies 

SOCCER: Giuliana Cunningham, movie and electronic media Sarah Norman, taxation (master’s) 

EQUESTRIAN: Morgan White, corporate communication