Other Sports
As of 2011 BYU has about 550 athletes on 21 teams including football and men's basketball.
BYU has Men and Women's Swimming and Diving Teams which have produced 26 Olympians and 31 All-Americans. In the 2009-10 NCAA NCAA final ranking: Women (1) Men (3).
The BYU softball team moved to the Pacific Coast Softball Conference after the 2012 season. It had returned to the Western Athletic Conference as part of the school's 2011 conference change, but played only one season in the WAC.
BYU Golf won the 1981 NCAA Championship.
BYU has both a men's and women's tennis team.
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