Sports
As of the current 2012–13 academic year, the conference sponsors championships in the following sports: baseball (m), basketball (m,w), cross-country (m,w), equestrian (w), football (m), golf (m,w), gymnastics (w), rowing (w), soccer (w), softball (w), swimming and diving (m,w), tennis (m,w), track and field (m,w), volleyball (w), wrestling (m). The most recently added sports were equestrian and rowing, previously unofficial sports, which debuted as fully sponsored sports with official championships in 2011–12.
Among the sponsored sports, all ten universities participate in 12 sports, while the following sports do not have full participation:
- 9 schools participate in volleyball (Oklahoma State does not)
- 9 schools participate in women's soccer (Kansas State does not)
- 9 schools participate in baseball (Iowa State does not)
- 7 schools participate in softball (Kansas State, TCU and West Virginia do not)
- 6 schools participate in men's tennis (Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech, TCU)
- 5 schools participate in women's swimming and diving (Kansas, Iowa State, TCU, Texas, West Virginia)
- 5 schools participate in rowing (Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Texas, West Virginia)
- 4 schools participate in wrestling (Iowa State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, West Virginia)
- 4 schools participate in equestrian (Baylor, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, TCU)
- 3 schools participate in gymnastics (Iowa State, Oklahoma, West Virginia)
- 3 schools participate in men's swimming and diving (Texas, TCU, West Virginia)
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)