Lady Bears Basketball Welcomes New Radio Team as Rick May and Lori Fogleman Retire

The two — who broadcasted for 22 and 20 years, respectively — created a sense of community and support for the women’s basketball team and the larger Baylor Family. Their 20-year partnership transformed May’s and Fogleman’s lives – and the Lady Bears’ legacy.

Similar to Forrest Gump and his childhood sweetheart, Jenny, May said he and Fogelman go together "like peas and carrots."

"There's just a comfort level when she's sitting there beside me," May said. "And it's a big hole when she's not there . . . I've worked with Jim Haller and Phyllis Gamble, and I love working with both of them, but it's not like working with Lori. It's just not Lori."

After announcing that the 2017-18 season would be their last, May and Fogleman were honored Feb. 17 before the Lady Bears beat Kansas 87-51.

"Kim (Mulkey) and her staff treat us like one of their own," Fogleman said. "They have taken Rick and me and our families, and really the entire Baylor Family, on an incredible ride over the past 18 seasons. And we've been alongside to watch her and her staff and her players develop Baylor into one of the premier programs in women's basketball."

Other than a handful of games between them, May and Fogleman have been there every step of the way on a journey that has included the 2005 and 2012 national championships, the 2010 Final Four and a four-year run of Elite Eight berths (2014-17).

May, who had worked in radio and done high school football play-by-play for many years, took over the Lady Bear job in 1996.

"I wasn't going to wait for them to ask me, I asked for it," he said. "And I was just absolutely thrilled to get to do it. It's been a real highlight of my life."

Fogleman, who had worked for KWTX radio and television for the previous decade, joined May on the broadcast after she came to Baylor in May 1998 in the university marketing and communications division. She now serves as Assistant Vice President for Media Communications.

"Thank goodness I went to work alongside Rick May because Rick is such a seasoned play-by-play announcer that he allowed me to find my way," Fogleman said. "It took a while. It's not as easy as it looks, and sometimes I still trip all over myself.”

Even though she knew this day would come, Mulkey said, "We're going to miss them."

The team welcomes new broadcasters Bruce Gietzen and Maggie Davis-Stinnett this season. According to coach Mulkey, the two have big shoes to fill.

"We're all going to retire at some time," Mulkey said. "I just wish they could have hung on until I retired. They're all I've ever known in radio . . . The team and the school are going to miss them on a professional level, but I'm going to miss them on a personal level. We have had some wonderful, wonderful memories."

Bruce Gietzen, director of Baylor Student Media, is the new play-by-play voice of the Lady Bears. Gietzen has extensive experience in broadcast and print journalism, including three seasons as a radio color analyst for the Houston Astros. He also hosted and produced pregame, halftime and postgame shows for the Houston Rockets for seven years.

Maggie Davis-Stinnett, a Baylor Athletics Hall of Fame (2001) and Southwest Conference (SWC) Hall of Fame (2017) inductee, is the new color analyst. Davis-Stinnett is one of the most decorated players in Lady Bear history, scoring 2,027 points and 1,011 rebounds from 1986-91.