University of San Diego - Athletics

Athletics

USD athletes compete in the West Coast Conference at the Division I level of the NCAA. The football program does not offer scholarships, and competes in Division I-AA (Football Championship Subdivision) in the Pioneer Football League. The women's softball program competes in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference, and in 2004–05 the women's swimming and diving teams began to compete in the Western Athletic Conference but as of 2010–11 compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. USD athletes and teams are known as the Toreros, which is Spanish for "Bullfighters". Team uniforms and jerseys are in university's colors: navy blue, columbia blue, and white. Facilities include the Jenny Craig Pavilion, McNamara Fitness Room, Varsity Weight Room, Erg Rowing Room, Golf Team Room Sports Center Gym and Pool, East and West Tennis Courts, Torero Stadium, John Cunningham Stadium, Torero Softball Complex, USD Mission Bay Boathouse, and two intramural fields. The student spirit club, is called The Frontline.

The USD sports program has won the West Coast Conference's annual Commissioner's Cup the last four years (2007–08 through 2010–11), becoming the first WCC school to win the award four consecutive years and the first WCC member to win it four times. The Commissioner's Cup is given to the WCC institution with the best overall performances by all of its programs that compete in a WCC sport during the year, based on a points system.

In 1992, the Toreros ran off a series of men's college soccer upsets, playing all the way to the finals of the College Cup. There they finally lost 2-0 to a heavily favored University of Virginia team in the midst of their four consecutive NCAA titles.

The Toreros' lone national champion is Zuzana Lesenarova, who won the women's tennis singles championship in 2000 by defeating Stanford's Marissa Irvin 4-6, 6-3, 7-6.

In 2007, Toreros' quarterback Josh Johnson threw for 43 touchdown passes and just 1 interception, a school record. Johnson was taken in the fifth round of the NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Johnson, who was recruited to USD by former head coach Jim Harbaugh (USD football coach 2004–06), is the first USD football player to be drafted by an NFL team. In 2012, Johnson signed a free-agent contract with the San Francisco 49ers, the team currently led by Harbaugh, the 49ers' head coach.

The 13th-seeded Toreros upset the University of Connecticut in the first round of the 2008 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament on March 21, 2008. This marked the first time USD had advanced in the tournament, as well as the first time UConn was eliminated in the first round while coached by Jim Calhoun. It was the first NCAA Basketball Tournament win for any San Diego-area university.

• Men's programs: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Rowing, Soccer and Tennis.
• Women's programs: Basketball, Cross Country, Rowing, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field and Volleyball.
• USD's cheerleading squad and dance team are open to men and women.
• Club Sports: Baseball, Cycling, Equestrian, Judo, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Rugby, Soccer, Surfing, Ultimate, Men's and Women's Volleyball, Waterskiing, and Water Polo.
• Intramurals: Basketball, Flag football, Softball, Speed Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball, Innertube Water Polo, and Ultimate.

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