INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS AND CAMPUS RECREATION Intercollegiate Athletics UCI's Intercollegiate Athletic Program features 19 sports, with 10 men's teams, eight women's teams, and one coed sailing team. Men's sports include basketball, crew, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and water polo. UCI's men's teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and the University is a member of the 12-school Big West Conference. UCI also competes in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in men's soccer, men's volleyball, and water polo. UCI's sailing team competes in the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association (ICYRA), and crew competes in the Pacific Coast Championships. The UCI women's teams also are members of NCAA Division I and the Big West Conference, competing in basketball, crew, cross country, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. UCI has captured 21 national team championships in eight different sports since opening in 1965, with 63 individuals winning national titles and well over 400 earning All-American honors. UCI has won 40 Big West conference championships since 1977: 19 in cross country, 11 in tennis, eight in water polo, and two in track and field. Each spring, the University presents the Big West Scholar-Athlete Award to those student-athletes who maintained a 3.0 GPA over the previous three quarters. In the last 13 years, 1,151 UCI student-athletes have earned the award. | |
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