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Baylor Athletics: My Baylor Story - Molly Haywood

May 19

Baylor Athletics: My Baylor Story - Aren Spencer

May 7

Baylor Softball: My Baylor Story - Amber Toven

May 7

Baylor Athletics: My Baylor Story - Silje Ohma

May 5

Baylor Athletics: My Baylor Story - Ty Johnson

Apr 21

Baylor Athletics: My Baylor Story - Jonas Appel

Apr 17

Baylor Athletics: My Baylor Story - Zsombor Velcz

Apr 1

Baylor Acrobatics & Tumbling: My Baylor Story - Payton Washington

Mar 27

Baylor Basketball (M): My Baylor Story - Caden Powell

Mar 27

Baylor Basketball (W): My Baylor Story - Bella Fontleroy

Mar 27

Baylor Equestrian: My Baylor Story - Lauren Stebbins

Mar 27

Seemingly, if there's a mountain that Molly Haywood hasn't climbed, it's just because she hasn't tried yet. From competing on American Ninja Warrior Juniors at 13 years old, to winning the Class 6A state championship in the pole vault with a meet-record mark of 14 feet, 3 inches, to capturing four-consecutive Big 12 championships, earning All-America honors and rewriting the record books at Baylor, the junior from Tomball, Texas, has done it all.

DIFFICULT TRANSITION

"I'm forever thankful for them giving me this opportunity to be here," Aren Spencer said. "You see the names like Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner, it was kind of crazy that a school like that was interested in somebody like me."

RAISED ON GOLF

From following along with her dad, Silje Ohma started swinging a club when she was 5 years old and developed into one of the best junior golfers in Norway, winning the 2020 Norwegian Junior Championship and helping Team Norway capture the 2021 European Girls Championship.

GRINDER MENTALITY

"As soon as they offered me a scholarship, I committed on the spot," Ty Johnson said. "I looked at my dad and was like, 'This is a no-brainer. Can I do this now?' That ended up being one of the best decisions of my life.

HIS FIRST LOVE

From playing golf in his backyard with plastic clubs, whiffle balls and a makeshift course with hula hoops for holes when he was 3 years old, Jonas Appel has been in love with the game as long as he can remember.

THIS IS FAMILY

Something that seemed so foreign to him when he first arrived on campus four years ago, Baylor tennis has become family to Zsombor Velcz.

SECOND CHANCE

Used predominantly as a pinch-runner in her one season at Arizona, Amber Toven is arguably the best defensive shortstop in Baylor softball program history and a career .300 hitter with 11 home runs, 25 doubles and 85 RBIs.

SHE'S UNSTOPPABLE

If Payton Washington says she's going to work in the White House one day, I wouldn't bet against it. A victim of gun violence herself three years ago, the junior top/tumbler from Baylor's top-ranked Acrobatics & Tumbling team wants to bring back the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and possibly start a non-profit organization for survivors of gun violence.

LEAVING A LEGACY

In the changing world of college football, with the transfer portal, NIL and roster limits, a rags-to-riches story like Josh Cameron's may never happen again. But what a story it's been. A zero-star recruit when he signed with Baylor out of Cedar Park High School as a preferred walk-on in 2021, Cameron developed into an All-American punt returner, one of the top receivers in the country and a legitimate prospect for next month's NFL Draft.

THE BAYLOR CONNECTION

Somewhere, stashed away in Connie Powell Nichols' treasured keepsakes, is a picture of a young Caden Powell standing next to Scott Drew at a Baylor basketball camp. It was a connection that eventually brought the 6-foot-10 Powell back to Waco for his senior year of college basketball after stops at Wyoming and Rice.