Sports
The WCC sponsors intercollegiate competition in 13 sports, though not every school participates in every sport. The conference will add softball as its 14th sport in the 2014 season (2013–14 school year).
- men’s baseball (all schools, see also WCC baseball champions)
- men’s basketball (all schools, see also WCC Men's Basketball Tournament)
- women’s basketball (all schools, see also WCC Women's Basketball Tournament)
- men’s cross country (all schools)
- women’s cross country (all schools)
- men’s golf (all schools, except Portland)
- women’s golf (BYU, Gonzaga, Pepperdine, USF and Santa Clara)
- men’s soccer (all schools except BYU and Pepperdine; BYU fields a semi-pro team in the USL Premier Development League)
- women’s soccer (all schools)
- women's softball (to be added in 2013–14—BYU, LMU, Pacific, Saint Mary's, San Diego, and Santa Clara)
- men’s tennis (all schools)
- women’s tennis (all schools)
- women’s rowing (Gonzaga, LMU, Portland, Saint Mary's, San Diego, and Santa Clara)
- women’s volleyball (all schools)
Pacific will sponsor baseball, men's and women's basketball, women's cross country, men's golf, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis and women's volleyball upon joining the WCC in 2013. By 2015, a men's soccer team will be sponsored, plus another core women's sport. With Pacific's arrival, the WCC will have the six softball schools that it needs to receive an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament, which led the conference to announce it was adding that sport in 2013–14.
WCC schools also sponsor varsity sports not sponsored by the WCC. These schools participate in other conferences or as independents for these sports.
- mixed competitive cheerleading (non-NCAA: LMU)
- men’s football (San Diego in the Pioneer Football League and BYU as an FBS Independent)
- women's lacrosse (Saint Mary's in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation)
- men’s rowing (non-NCAA: Gonzaga, San Diego and Santa Clara in the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association)
- women’s softball (BYU, LMU, Saint Mary's, San Diego and Santa Clara in the Pacific Coast Softball Conference)
- These schools will join Pacific to form the new WCC softball conference in 2013–14.
- women’s spirit team (non-NCAA: San Diego)
- men's swimming and diving (BYU in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation)
- women’s swimming and diving (BYU, LMU, Pepperdine and San Diego in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation)
- men’s indoor track and field (BYU in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, and Gonzaga, Portland and USF as independents)
- women's indoor track and field (BYU in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, and Gonzaga, Portland and USF as independents)
- men’s outdoor track and field (all except Saint Mary's and San Diego)
- women’s outdoor track and field (all except Saint Mary's)
- men’s water polo (LMU, Pepperdine and Santa Clara in the Western Water Polo Association)
- women’s water polo (LMU and Santa Clara in the Western Water Polo Association)
- men’s volleyball (BYU and Pepperdine in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation)
Pacific sponsors these sports that are not sponsored by the WCC: softball, field hockey, men's and women's swimming, men's volleyball, men's and women's water polo. As noted above, Pacific's softball team will start competing in the WCC upon rejoining the conference.
Read more about this topic: West Coast Conference
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“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)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)