Athletics
The University of Toledo's athletic teams play as the Rockets, and uniforms sport the colors midnight blue and gold. The University's sports teams play in the Mid-American Conference. The Rockets football team holds nine Mid-American Conference Championships, in 1969, 1970, 1971, 1981, 1984, 1990 (co-champs with Western Michigan), 1995, 2001, and 2004.
Toledo Rockets football played in the 2010 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl on December, 26, 2010 against Florida International. Toledo lost the game 34-32. Most recently Toledo Rockets football played in the 2011 Military Bowl against Air Force Academy on Dec 28, 2011. The Rockets won 42-41. The UT rockets have the second longest winning streak in division 1-A football history (1969–1971) 35-0.
The men's tennis team has shown a big improvement in last few years under the supervision of Head Coach Al Wermer. In the season of 2009, the team finished 2nd in regular season with an 17-10 record, and reached the finals of the MAC tournament for the first time in 35 years.
The Toledo Rockets men's basketball team was the 2006-07 Mid-American Conference champion under Head Coach Stan Joplin, a former star player for the Rockets during the late 1970s, and was an assistant coach from 1984-90. He was fired after slumping to a 11-19 record in 2007-08. The team teceived an NCAA Award For High Academic Performance Toledo tied for third-best APR mark in nation and MAC for second straight year. The University of Toledo men's basketball program ranks at the top of the Mid-American Conference for a second straight year in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Academic Performance Rating (APR). Toledo's 994 rating was tied for third place among all NCAA Division I men's basketball programs and trails only Columbia and Davidson.
In the Spring of 2011, the University of Toledo women's basketball team won the WNIT, becoming the first MAC team in any sport to win a National Championship in modern times.
Among other sports, Toledo consistently fields strong women's cross country and distance running teams; Briana Shook '04, who was also an assistant track coach at the school, held the American record for the steeplechase. The women's cross country has won four MAC Championships (2001, 2002, 2010, 2011) and three MAC Runner-up finishes (2003, 2005, 2009). The women's cross country team finished 21st at the NCAA Championships in 2011 and 28th at the NCAA Championships in 2010. The women's track team also finished as the 2012 MAC Indoor and Outdoor Runner-up. The program is coached by long-time head coach, Kevin Hadsell, who is in his 15th year.
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