1967 WILLIAM "BILL" LAKIE UC Davis Basketball Contract OHIO STATE LARKIN SCARCE

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Seller: memorabilia111 ✉️ (808) 100%, Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 176299960629 1967 WILLIAM "BILL" LAKIE UC Davis Basketball Contract OHIO STATE LARKIN SCARCE. 1967 Signed contract for a basketball game between the UC Davis and Ohio State and signed by the Athletic Directors from each school including Bill Lakie of UC Davis. This is a unique piece of history in great shape.  Measures about 8.5x11.5 Bill Lakie William L. Lakie Biographical Information Bill Lakie was 42-80 as head coach of UC Davis from 1961-1965; he also served as the school's athletic director. Also signed by   Richard C. Larkins (April 19, 1909 – April 7, 1977) who was the athletic director at the Ohio State University from 1947 to 1970. Larkins also played tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in the late 1920s/early 1930s and served on the Ohio State faculty as a professor of physical education.
The UC Davis Aggies (also referred to as the Ags or Aggies) are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Davis. Seventeen of the school's 25 intercollegiate sports - baseball, men's basketball, men's cross country, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis, men's track & field, softball, women's basketball, women's beach volleyball, women's cross country, women's golf, women's soccer, women's tennis, women's track & field, women's volleyball and women's water polo - compete in the Big West Conference. The Aggies' football team compete in Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) (formerly known as Division I-AA), and are members of the Big Sky Conference, granting UC Davis the distinction of being one of only three UC campuses to field a football team (Cal and UCLA being the other two). The Aggies are also members of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in women's indoor track and field, women's gymnastics, women's lacrosse, and women's swimming and diving, the America East Conference in field hockey,[3] the Eastern College Athletic Conference for equestrian and the Western Water Polo Association for men's water polo. Contents 1 Nickname 2 History 2.1 Division II (1990–2003) 2.2 Division I (2004–present) 3 Sports sponsored 3.1 Baseball 3.2 Basketball 3.2.1 Men's basketball 3.2.2 Women's basketball 3.3 Football 3.4 Men's soccer 3.5 Men's water polo 4 Championships 4.1 Team championships 4.1.1 NCAA Division II National Championships 4.1.2 Non-NCAA National Championships 4.2 Team tournament appearances 4.2.1 NCAA 4.3 Individual championships 5 Athletic facilities 6 Traditions 6.1 Colors, mascot, and spirit 7 Rivalries 8 Former varsity sports 9 Non-varsity sports 9.1 Rugby 10 References 11 External links Nickname The "Aggies."[4] is UC Davis' official team nickname. History Division II (1990–2003) The Aggies finished first in NCAA Division II six times in 2003 and won the NACDA Director's Cup four years in a row from 1999 to 2003. In 1998, the UC Davis men's basketball team won the NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Championship, despite being one of the few non-scholarship institutions in Division II at that time. UC Davis also won NCAA Division II championships in softball (2003), men's tennis (1992), and women's tennis (1990, 1993). Division I (2004–present) The Aggies' achievements in Division II motivated a decision (following a year of heavy discussion by campus administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and the local community) in 2003 for the athletics program to reclassify to Division I.[5][6] The department became a full-fledged D-I program on July 1, 2007. Sports sponsored Men's sports Women's sports Baseball Basketball Basketball Beach Volleyball Cross Country Cross Country Football Equestrian Golf Field Hockey Soccer Golf Tennis Gymnastics Outdoor Track & Field Lacrosse Water Polo Soccer Softball Swimming & Diving Tennis Track & Field†: Outdoor / Indoor Volleyball Water Polo † – Women's programs includes both indoor and outdoor Baseball Main article: UC Davis Aggies baseball The UC Davis Aggies baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic baseball team of the University of California, Davis.[7] The team is a member of the Big West Conference, which is part of the NCAA Division I. The team plays its home games at Phil Swimley Field at the 3,500-seat Dobbins Stadium. Basketball Men's basketball Main article: UC Davis Aggies men's basketball The UC Davis Aggies men's basketball team represents University of California, Davis. The school's team currently competes in the Big West Conference, which is part of the NCAA Division I.[8] UC Davis' first men's basketball team was fielded during the 1910–11 season. UC Davis won an NCAA Division II national championship in 1998 and had 12 postseason appearances. The team plays its home games at a 7,600-seat arena called The Pavilion at ARC. The 2020–21 season is head coach Jim Les tenth with the program. During his tenure with the Aggies, the men's basketball team earned its inaugural Big West championship and first NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament appearance in 2017. Women's basketball Main article: UC Davis Aggies women's basketball Following a successful stint as an NCAA Division II program, the UC Davis women's basketball team began its transition to the NCAA Division I level in 2003–04, officially competing as a member of the Big West Conference in 2007–08.The team plays its home games at a 7,600-seat arena called The Pavilion at ARC. Prior to the 2020–21 season, the Aggies have won five Big West Conference regular season titles (2009–10, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20) and two Big West Tournament titles (2011, 2019) in their combined 13 Division I seasons. UC Davis is one of three schools in league history to win at least four consecutive Big West regular season titles, joining UC Santa Barbara (1996–2005) and Long Beach State (1985–1989). The Aggies have advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice in 2011 and 2019 as the automatic qualifier from the Big West Conference and has earned five berths to the WNIT, including an "Elite Eight" appearance in 2018 and a "Sweet 16" appearance in 2017. Football See also: UC Davis Aggies football The UC Davis Aggies football team represents the University of California, Davis, in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). The football program's first season took place in 1915 and has fielded a team each year since with the exception of 1918 during World War I and from 1943 to 1945 during World War II, when the campus, then known as the University Farm, was shut down. The team plays its home games at the 10,473-seat UC Davis Health Stadium. UC Davis competed as a member of the NCAA College Division through 1972; from 1973 to 2003, the Aggies competed as an NCAA Division II program. In 2004, UC Davis promoted its football program to the Division I FCS (then I-AA) level and joined the Great West Conference (then known as the Great West Football Conference) after one season as an independent team with exploratory status. After their provisional seasons and the construction of a new stadium, UC Davis became a full member of Division I in 2007 and eligible for the postseason. Throughout its history, the football program won 31 conference championships. Between 1929 and 1992, the Aggies captured 27 outright or shared Northern California Athletic Conference championships, including 20 in a row from 1971 to 1990, an American West Conference title in 1993 (co-champion), and GWFC/GWC championships in 2005 (co-champ) and 2009. The Aggies won their first football title as a Division I program in 2018 as one of the Big Sky Conference's three regular season champions. Year Round Opponent Result Men's soccer The UC Davis Aggies men's soccer team have an NCAA Division I Tournament record of 1–3 through three appearances.[9] Year Round Opponent Result Men's water polo The UC Davis Aggies men's water polo team have an NCAA Division I Tournament record of 0–6 through six appearances.[10] Year Round Opponent Result Championships Team championships UC Davis has not won a national championship at the NCAA Division I level, but previously won eight national championships at the NCAA Division II level.[11] NCAA Division II National Championships Men's basketball: 1998 Men's golf: 1979 Women's rowing: 2002, 2003 Softball: 2003 Men's tennis: 1992 Women's tennis: 1990, 1993 Non-NCAA National Championships Women's gymnastics – Division III: 1981 (AIAW) Women's tennis – Division III: 1980, 1981 (AIAW) Team tournament appearances NCAA Baseball (1): 2008 Men's basketball (1): 2017 Women's basketball (2): 2011, 2019 Football (1): 2018 Women's golf (4): 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015 Women's gymnastics (2): 1998, 2014 Men's soccer (3): 2007, 2008, 2019 Softball (1): 2010 Men's outdoor track and field (2): 1941, 1974 Women's indoor track and field (1): 2019 Women's outdoor track and field (6): 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 Men's water polo (7): 1974, 1975, 1996, 1997, 2016, 2017, 2019 Women's water polo (3): 2006, 2008, 2015 Individual championships At the NCAA Division II level, UC Davis garnered 72 individual championships.[11] NCAA individual championships Athletic facilities Aggie Field Hockey Facility – field hockey[14] Aggie Soccer Field – men's and women's soccer Edwards Family Athletics Center Hickey Gymnasium – administrative offices and basketball, gymnastics, volleyball practice centers La Rue Field – softball Marya Welch Tennis Center – men's and women's tennis The Pavilion at ARC – men's and women's basketball, women's gymnastics, women's volleyball Phil Swimley Field at Dobbins Stadium – baseball Schaal Aquatics Center – women's swimming and diving, men's and women's water polo Toomey Weight Room UC Davis Health Stadium – football and lacrosse UC Davis Beach Volleyball Courts – women's beach volleyball Woody Wilson Track at Toomey Field – men's and women's outdoor track and field Traditions Colors, mascot, and spirit The official school colors are blue and gold. The blue is due to the UC's early connection to Yale[15] and as a result is often referred to as "Yale Blue",[16] and[17] although UC Davis' official blue, usually called "Aggie Blue", Pantone 295[18] differs from Yale Blue (approximately Pantone 289[19]). The official school mascot is a mustang named Gunrock. The name dates to 1921 when the US Army brought a horse named Gun Rock to UC Davis to supply high-quality stock for cavalry horses; the mustang mascot was selected to honor that cavalry horse. Students at UC Davis are referred to as Aggies in honor of the school's agricultural heritage. Unlike most colleges, there is a distinction between the name for students and the mascot. There was a movement to change the school's mascot from the mustang to the cow, but despite student support this was turned down after opposition from alumni. UC Davis students gather at sporting events to rally as the Aggie Pack, the largest student-run school spirit organization in the United States, which supports its intercollegiate athletics teams to the music of the UC Davis Marching Band. Rivalries The highlight of the four-year transition to Division I occurred on September 17, 2005, when the Aggies football team defeated the heavily favored Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium by a score of 20–17 on a touchdown pass with eight seconds left in the game.[20] The Aggies also pulled off an upset against Stanford in basketball just months later, beating the Cardinal 64–58 with a late rally at home on December 4, 2005. Wins in these two major sports, with the addition of victories against the Cardinal in soccer, wrestling and two wins in baseball pulled the Aggies' men's sports' win-loss record against Stanford to 5–1 for the 2005–06 season. Aggie football plays Sacramento State in the annual Causeway Classic for a trophy made from Yolo Causeway cement (formerly the Causeway Carriage). The Causeway Classic is part of a larger competition, the Causeway Cup, that tracks head-to-head meetings between the schools' common intercollegiate athletics programs.[21] The football team also faces Cal Poly in the annual Battle for the Golden Horseshoe. Former varsity sports On April 20, 2010, the school announced that four sports, women's rowing, men's swimming and diving, men's indoor track and field, and wrestling, would be eliminated due to a financial crisis and cuts in state funding.[22][2][23] Prior to 2010, the last time UC Davis had discontinued a sport was men's gymnastics in 1987.[24] Non-varsity sports Rugby Colby "Babe" Slater, won gold medals with the U.S. rugby national team at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics, and was captain of the 1924 team. The UC Davis Aggies won the men's 2015 DI-AA college rugby championship by defeating Central Florida in the final 18–15 at Kennesaw State University's Fifth Third Bank Stadium.[25] The men repeated as the 2016 D1-AA as national champions by defeating the Notre Dame College of South Euclid, Ohio, in the final by a score of 17–13. The UC Davis Aggies won the women's 2016 D1 college rugby national championship by defeating the University of Virginia, 30–25, at Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. Club national team championships Co-ed archery (1): 2015 (USA Archery) Men's archery (1): 2016 (USA Archery) Women's archery (1): 2016 (USA Archery) Men's boxing (1): 2013 (USIBA) Co-ed cycling (4): 1994, 2001, 2006, 2009 (USA Cycling) Men's polo (2): 1975, 1979 (USPA) Men's rugby (2) – Division I-AA: 2015, 2016 (USA Rugby) Women's rugby (2): 2016, 2017 (USA Rugby) Women's ultimate (2): 1989, 2004 (USA Ultimate) Co-ed water skiing – Division II (1): 2013 (NCWSA) Note: For sports with no division noted, the title was earned at the top-most level. The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California.[10] Named a Public Ivy,[11] it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905 and became the seventh campus of the University of California in 1959. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[12] The UC Davis faculty includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 30 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 members of the American Law Institute, 14 members of the Institute of Medicine, and 14 members of the National Academy of Engineering.[13] Among other honors that university faculty, alumni, and researchers have won are two Nobel Prizes, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Pulitzer Prizes, three MacArthur Fellowships, and a National Medal of Science.[13][14][15][16] Founded as a primarily agricultural campus, the university has expanded over the past century to include graduate and professional programs in medicine (which includes the UC Davis Medical Center), law, veterinary medicine, education, nursing, and business management, in addition to 90 research programs offered by UC Davis Graduate Studies. The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is the largest veterinary school in the United States and has been ranked first in the world for five consecutive years (2015–19).[17] UC Davis also offers certificates and courses, including online classes, for adults and non-traditional learners through its Division of Continuing and Professional Education.[18] The UC Davis Aggies athletic teams compete in NCAA Division I, primarily as members of the Big West Conference with additional sports in the Big Sky Conference (football only) and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation. Contents 1 Founding 1.1 Agriculture and the land-grant university 1.2 Founding of the University Farm 1.3 Seventh UC campus 2 Notable events 2.1 2011 pepper spray incident and aftermath 3 Campus 3.1 Size and location 3.2 Campus Core/Quad 3.3 South Main Campus and South Campus 3.4 West Campus 3.5 Arboretum 3.6 Artwork 3.7 Student housing 4 Organization and administration 5 Student demographics 6 Academics 6.1 Rankings 6.2 Admissions 6.3 Library 6.4 Army R.O.T.C. 7 Graduate Studies 7.1 History 7.2 Academics 7.3 Medical school admissions 8 Faculty and research 8.1 Research expenditures 8.2 Faculty honors 8.3 Research centers and laboratories 9 Student life 9.1 Transportation 9.2 The California Aggie 9.3 Greek life 10 Athletics 11 Sustainability 12 Alumni 13 See also 14 References 15 External links Founding Agriculture and the land-grant university Early creamery and horticulture buildings, University Farm The Silo Union, one of the original buildings In 1868, the University of California was established as a land-grant university, and immediately founded a College of Agriculture as its first college as required by the Morrill Land-Grant Acts and the university's own Organic Act.[19][20] UC operated a small farm at the Berkeley campus for several years after Ezra S. Carr became professor of agriculture, but he managed to alienate both the university faculty and the state's farmers with his attempt to directly integrate practical training in farming with courses on the larger historical, social, and political dimensions of farming and got himself fired in 1874.[21] The faculty could not understand why students should earn credit towards degrees for hoeing or plowing, and the farmers could not understand how learning the social history of farming could make their children into better farmers.[21] Eugene W. Hilgard, Carr's successor, recognized that Berkeley's soil and climate were terrible for farming (the campus directly faces the notoriously foggy Golden Gate) and switched from "practical" to what he called "rational" instruction in scientific principles of agriculture at Berkeley.[22] He concentrated on things like soil science and fermentation that could be researched and taught in a university laboratory, supplemented by limited data gathering and experiments (but not hands-on teaching) at agricultural experimental stations in the field.[23] Hilgard was disdainful of the idea of a university farm.[24] He felt that for such a farm to teach effectively, it would necessarily have to be a model farm with examples of the best of everything, without any reference to local profitability, climate, or circumstances, and such a thing was clearly infeasible.[24] Founding of the University Farm Around the turn of the 20th century, Peter J. Shields, secretary of the California Agricultural Society, became aware that colleges of agriculture elsewhere had university farms which performed experiments and provided hands-on education in useful agricultural subjects, and that young people were leaving the state to study at such farms.[25] Shields began to champion the cause of a university farm. He was later honored as the "founder" of UC Davis in 1962, when the Shields Oak Grove on campus was named after him, and again posthumously in 1972 when the campus library was named after him.[26] However, local farmer and politician George Washington Pierce Jr. also fought hard in the California State Assembly for the creation of a university farm, and influenced the drafting of the site criteria in the University Farm Bill to ensure that Yolo County would become the selected site—but unlike Shields, did not live long enough to see the promotion of Davis to a general campus and is now largely forgotten.[26] On March 18, 1905, the University Farm Bill was enacted, which called for the establishment of a farm for the University of California.[27] A committee appointed by the Board of Regents took a year to select a site for the University Farm, a 779-acre farm near a tiny Yolo County town then known as Davisville.[28][27] The Regents officially took control of the property in September 1906 and constructed four buildings in 1907. Short courses were first offered in October and November 1908, and then the University Farm officially opened in 1909 as the University Farm School, offering a three-year non-degree vocational program.[28] The vocational program was shortened from three to two years in 1923.[29] Initially, no degrees were awarded at Davis.[30] Students in the College of Agriculture at Berkeley often enrolled at Davis for a single semester to obtain practical training on an actual farm alongside the vocational students, but had to return to Berkeley to earn their degrees.[30] Because the non-degree vocational program at Davis was so disconnected from the traditional degree programs on the main Berkeley campus, agricultural interests began to agitate to separate Davis and the entire College of Agriculture from the University of California.[30] This forced the Board of Regents in 1922 to silence such proposals by authorizing a four-year undergraduate degree program at Davis.[30] The first class graduated from Davis in 1926.[29] Renamed in 1922 as the Northern Branch of the College of Agriculture, and, in 1938, as the College of Agriculture at Davis, the institution continued growing at a breakneck pace: in 1916 the Farm's 314 students occupied the original 778 acres (315 ha) campus. By 1951 it had expanded to a size of 3,000 acres (1,200 ha).[31] In 1958, the vocational program was discontinued. Seventh UC campus In 1959, the campus was designated by the Regents of the University of California as the seventh general campus in the University of California system. Davis's Graduate Division was established in 1961, followed by the creation of the College of Engineering in 1962. The law school opened for classes in fall 1966, and the School of Medicine began instruction in fall 1968. In a period of increasing activism, a Native American studies program was started in 1969, one of the first at a major university; it was later developed into a full department within the university. Notable events 2011 pepper spray incident and aftermath Main article: UC Davis pepper-spray incident During a protest against tuition hikes on November 18, 2011, a campus police officer, Lieutenant John Pike, used pepper spray on a group of seated demonstrators when they refused to disperse, and another officer also pepper sprayed demonstrators at Pike's direction. The incident drew international attention and led to further demonstrations, a formal investigation, and Pike's departure in July 2012.[32][33][34] Documents released in 2016 through a public records request showed that the university had spent at least $175,000 to attempt to "scrub the Internet of negative postings" about the incident, in efforts that started in 2013.[35] California newspaper The Sacramento Bee obtained a document outlining the public relations strategy, which stated: "Nevins and Associates is prepared to create and execute an online branding campaign designed to clean up the negative attention the University of California, Davis, and Chancellor Katehi have received related to the events that transpired in November 2011". The strategy included an "aggressive and comprehensive online campaign to eliminate the negative search results" intended to achieve the "eradication of references to the pepper spray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor".[36] The university's strategic communications office, which has worked on the management of the reputation of the university and its chancellor, has had its budget substantially increased since the current chancellor took office – rising from $2.93 million in 2009 to $5.47 million in 2015. In August 2016 Katehi resigned as chancellor, and under the terms of her contract, will continue to be a full-time faculty member at UCD.[37] Campus A view of Mrak Hall from the arboretum Mondavi Center Size and location Although named after the City of Davis, the campus is technically located adjacent to the City of Davis in an unincorporated part of Yolo and Solano counties. The main campus is located 15 miles (24.1 km) west of Sacramento in the Sacramento Valley, part of California's Central Valley, and is adjacent to Interstate 80. The city of Davis is a college town, with the ratio of students to long-term residents estimated at 1:4. Also contributing to the college-town environment is the close proximity of downtown Davis to the campus' main quad—a matter of a few blocks, and 5- to 10-minute walk or bike ride. Davis' 15-minute distance from Sacramento provides it with both the isolation critical to fostering a college-town environment while also providing a lively and large metropolitan area nearby. Although the campus itself is vast, the entire community of Davis is relatively small and is easily traversable on bike utilizing Davis' extensive bicycle trails.[citation needed] Campus Core/Quad Towards the northeast end of campus is the Quad, a large rectangular field, which was the historic geographic center of campus. Earlier in the campus' history, the few campus buildings surrounded the four sides of the Quad. Today, though the campus has grown significantly and the geographic center of campus has shifted, the Quad remains the center of campus life, anchored to the north by the Memorial Union (student union), to the south by Shields Library and to the west and southeast by Wellman and Olson halls respectively. The Memorial Union Complex houses Freeborn Hall and the Memorial Union, which houses various establishments such as the UC Davis Bookstore. The northeast side of campus holds more of the core buildings that were built earlier in UC Davis's history, such as Wellman Hall, Shields Library, Mrak Hall, and Hutchison Hall. Also notable in this northeastern corner is the labyrinthine Social Sciences and Humanities building designed by Antoine Predock, known to students as the "Death Star" for its angular, metallic design.[38] South Main Campus and South Campus The majority of Equestrian Center, and Animal Sciences buildings are located near the Arboretum Waterway, away from the core campus; the West Entry Parking Complex, the Silo Union, and the newly constructed Science Lecture Hall and the Science Laboratory Building are located nearer to the Tercero residence halls and the core of campus. The Mondavi Center, home of the University Symphony Orchestra and other cultural events, is also located near the Tercero complex.[39][40] West Campus For most of UC Davis' history, West Campus has served primarily as agricultural research land. Recently, portions were developed through a $300 million public-private partnership to form the largest zero net energy community in the United States, known as UC Davis West Village.[41] West Village will provide housing for 3,000 students, faculty and staff and will help the university recruit and retain top faculty. The project will include 662 apartments, 343 single-family homes, 42,500 square feet of commercial space, a recreation center and study facilities. West Village will also host the first community college on a UC campus. The classes held in this area mainly involve plant sciences, but also include entomology courses as well. Students in the plant sciences maintain gardens as part of the PLS 5 lab while Entomology 156L and 158 students embark on field trips to sample fish for parasites at Putah Creek and conduct projects in forensic entomology at the UC Davis ecosystem, respectively. West Campus is also home to the University Airport, Foundation Plant Services, the California National Primate Research Center, and the Contained Research Facility, a bio-safety level 3 facility.[citation needed] Arboretum To the south side of the campus core is the 100-acre UC Davis Arboretum, which includes 3.5 miles of paved paths, 4,000 tree specimens, Putah Creek and Lake Spafford.[42] On March 10, 2017, a multi-year waterway enhancement project began.[43] Artwork Two "Egghead" statues on the south lawn of Mrak Hall There are seven public art statues found around campus, collectively called The Egghead Series, sculpted by the late Robert Arneson, who also taught at Davis from 1962 to 1991.[44] Bookhead is located at the Shields Library plaza, Yin & Yang is located at the Fine Arts Complex, See No Evil/Hear No Evil is at the east lawn of King Hall (the main building for UC Davis' School of Law), Eye on Mrak (FatalLaff) is outside Mrak Hall (housing the registrar office and other administrative offices), and Stargazer is located between North Hall and Young Hall. The Yin & Yang egg heads have been recast and duplicated for installation near the Port of San Francisco Ferry Building in San Francisco.[45] Museums on campus include the C.N. Gorman Museum, specializing in indigenous and Native American art;[46] and the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, with a focus on local artists from the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Pop art and Funk art movements. Student housing The Segundo dorms located north of the campus UC Davis Student Housing operates 23 residence halls totaling 29 buildings which are organized into three areas: Segundo, Tercero, and Cuarto.[47] UC Davis Student Housing is large enough to accommodate over 11,000 Students. Typically, campus operated housing is reserved exclusively for first-year students, whereby other students are required to seek housing off-campus at apartments or rented homes. The northwest end of campus holds the majority of the Segundo undergraduate housing complex, and various alternative housing sites, such as Orchard Park, Russell Park, The Colleges at LaRue Apartments, and Primero Grove. The Activities and Recreation Center, or the ARC, is also located near the Segundo complex. Adjacent to the northwest corner of campus is the Cuarto undergraduate housing complex, which has one dining commons. The Tercero undergraduate housing complex is located near the geographic center of the UC Davis campus, to the north of the Arboretum Waterway. This extends longitudinally through almost the entirety of the south end of campus. Solano Park, UC Davis' family housing complex, is located adjacent to the Arboretum Waterway, at the Eastern end of campus. The Davis Arboretum is a public botanic garden with over 4,000 kinds of trees and plants, including many California native plants, which has been developed over 100 acres (40 ha) along The Waterway. The Cuarto undergraduate (freshmen and transfer students) housing complex is located one block off-campus, across Russell Boulevard. Unlike the other undergraduate housing complexes, Cuarto is located within city limits; its residents may vote in city elections.[citation needed] Organization and administration Ethnic enrollment, Fall 2018[48] Under- graduates African American 4% Native American 1% Asian American and Pacific Islander 32% Hispanic and Latino American 22% White 23% International 17% Other 2% The entire University of California system is governed by the regents, a 26-member board, as established under Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution.[49] The board appoints the university's principal officers including the system-wide president and UC Davis Chancellor. The UC Davis Chancellor has overall responsibility for the leadership, management, and administration of the campus and reports to the President of the University of California system, a position currently held by former Secretary of Homeland Security and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano. The Offices of the Chancellor and Provost is headed by the executive vice-chancellor and provost (EVCP). In their capacity as executive vice-chancellor, the EVCP shares with the chancellor in the overall leadership and management of campus administration and operations, whereas as provost, the EVCP is UC Davis' chief academic officer. The senior staff provides executive support to the Offices of the Chancellor and Provost. The Council of Deans and Vice-Chancellor consists of the heads of the university's major academic and administrative units.[50] Students are most likely to interact with or be directly affected by the Office of Student Affairs, which is run by the vice chancellor of student affairs, currently Fred Wood, and by a variety of associate and assistant vice-chancellors. This office oversees many campus units including: Admissions, Athletics, Campus Recreation, Campus Unions, Counseling and Psychological Services, Financial Aid, Student Housing and others.[51] Student demographics Ethnic Enrollment, Fall [52] Ethnicity 2020 Undergraduate 2016 Undergraduate 2020 Graduate 2016 Graduate Black 3.7% 3.4% 4.3% 3.0% Asian 32.5% 34% 18.2% 16.5% White 21.6% 26.2% 37.1% 42.8% Hispanic and Latino 23.1% 19.8% 11.8% 9.3% Native American 0.4% 0.7% 1.0% 1.1% Unreported/unknown 2.2% 2.5% 5.6% 5.2% International 16.4% 13.3% 21.9% 22.1% Women comprised 60.4% of undergraduates in Fall 2018.[48] In 2010, the United States Census Bureau made UC Davis its own separate census-designated place for statistical purposes.[53] The campus location is out of the bounds of the Davis city limit. In 2014, Chancellor Katehi stated that UC Davis aims to become a Hispanic-Serving Institution by the 2018–2019 school year, with at least 25% of the undergraduate student body consisting of Latinos.[54] Academics The university has 102 undergraduate majors and 101 graduate programs.[55] It has a Department of Viticulture and Enology (concerning the scientific study of grape-growing and winemaking) that has been and continues to be responsible for significant advancements in winemaking utilized by many Californian wineries. The campus claims to be noted for its top-rated Agricultural and Resource Economics programs[56] and the large Department of Animal Science through which students can study at the university's own on-campus dairy, meat-processing plant, equestrian facility, and experimental farm. Students of Environmental Horticulture and other botanical sciences have many acres of campus farmland and the University of California, Davis, Arboretum at their disposal. The Department of Applied Science was founded and formerly chaired by physicist Edward Teller. The arts are also studied extensively on campus with subjects such as studio art, design, music, theater and dance. The Design Department at UC Davis is the only comprehensive academic design unit of the University of California system.[57] There is also the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts which features artists from all over the globe. UC Davis undergraduate majors are divided into four colleges: UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences UC Davis College of Biological Sciences UC Davis College of Engineering UC Davis College of Letters and Science Rankings Academic rankings National Forbes[58] 20 U.S. News & World Report[59] 39 Washington Monthly[60] 13 Global ARWU[61] 91 THE[62] 64 U.S. News & World Report[63] 66 Graduate Program Rankings[64] Global Subject Rankings[65] UC Davis is considered to be a "Public Ivy."[11] In its 2021 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked UC Davis tied for the 11th-best public university in the United States, tied for 39th nationally and tied for 66th globally.[66] Washington Monthly ranked UC Davis 13th in its 2020 National University ranking, based on its contribution to the public good as measured by social mobility, research, and promoting public service.[67] Money magazine ranked UC Davis 10th in the country out of 739 schools evaluated for its 2020 "Best Colleges for Your Money" edition[68] and 4th in its list of the 50 best public schools in the U.S.[69] Forbes in 2019 ranked UC Davis 88th overall out of 650 colleges and universities in the U.S., 49th among research universities, 22nd among public university, and 11th for "Best Value".[70] For 2018 Kiplinger ranked Davis 47th out of the top 100 best-value public colleges and universities in the U.S.[71] The university has several distinguished graduate programs ranked in the top 10 in their fields by the United States National Research Council; most notable are its programs in agricultural economics, entomology, evolutionary biology, plant biology, and ecology. Additionally, the NRC placed more than a third of UC Davis graduate programs in the top 25% of their respective fields.[72] In 2016, U.S. News & World Report rated UC Davis 2nd globally in Agricultural Sciences, 1st in Plant and Animal Science, 4th in Environment/Ecology, and 1st nationally in Veterinary Medicine, 3rd in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 7th (tie) in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, 9th in U.S. Colonial History, 15th in Comparative Politics, 19th in Biological Sciences, 20th in Earth Sciences and 21st in Psychology.[66] The Economics department of UC Davis was also ranked 6th among public universities and 20th nationally according to the RePec (Research Papers in Economics) Rankings in 2011.[73] In 2013, The Economist placed UC Davis Graduate School of Management in the top 8% accredited MBA programs in the United States (ranked 37th nationally and 65th globally).[74] The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed UC Davis 40th nationally and 90th globally for 2019.[75] In its 2019 rankings, Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked it tied for 59th in the world.[76] The QS World University Rankings ranked it tied for 104th globally for its 2020 ratings, with Veterinary Science ranked 2nd in the world.[77] In 2016, Sierra Magazine ranked UC Davis 8th in its "Coolest Schools" in America list for campus sustainability and climate change efforts.[78] Admissions Fall Freshman Statistics[79][80][81][82][83][84][85] 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 Applicants 76,647 70,214 67,472 64,510 60,506 Admits 31,564 30,573 28,617 24,614 24,541 % Admitted 41.2 43.5 42.4 38.2 40.6 Enrolled 6,389 5,820 5,760 5,369 5,377 Average GPA 4.03 3.99 3.99 4.00 4.00 SAT Range 1150-1410* 1120-1360* 1570–1980 1600–2000 1620–2010 ACT Range 25-31 25-31 24–30 24–30 22–28 *out of 1600 Admission to UC Davis is rated as "more selective" by U.S. News & World Report.[86] For Fall 2019, UC Davis received 78,093 freshmen applications; 30,358 were admitted (39.1%) and 5,957 enrolled.[85] The average high school grade point average (GPA) of the enrolled freshmen was 4.13; the average SAT scores were between 610 and 710 for reading and 630-790 for math, and 28-34 for the ACT Composite score.[85] Library Inside of the Peter J. Shields Library UC Davis' libraries include the Peter J. Shields Library, the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, the Carlson Health Sciences Library, and the Medical Center Library in Sacramento, contain more than 3.5 million volumes and offers a number of special collections and services. The Peter J. Shields Library has three different architectural styles due to various construction and extensions being added; it is the main library where students study on-campus, with a 24-hour reading room, open computer labs, and unique furniture. Army R.O.T.C. The university is host to an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program, the Forged Gold Battalion, with more than 50 cadets. With more than 60 years in existence, it currently commissions roughly 10 graduating seniors as second lieutenants every year.[87] Graduate Studies The University of California Davis Graduate Programs of Study consist of over 90 post-graduate programs, offering masters and doctoral degrees and post-doctoral courses.[88] The programs educate over 4,000 students[89] from around the world. UC Davis has the following graduate and professional schools, the most in the entire UC system: UC Davis Graduate Studies Graduate School of Management School of Education School of Law School of Medicine School of Veterinary Medicine Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing History The University of California, Davis graduate division[90] has a long history. Graduate education has been a major feature of the academic focus for over 80 years. This academic tradition began in the fall of 1925, when 12 students received graduate degrees from the College of Agriculture through a partnership with the graduate division of the University California at Berkeley.[91][92] Over the years, the programs continued to grow, interact and collaborate. The first graduate degrees were awarded from the UC Davis campus in the fall of 1949.[93] In 1961, autonomous Graduate Divisions and Graduate Councils were established on all University of California campuses to provide focused oversight of their graduate programs.[92] Academics A key feature of graduate education at UC Davis is the graduate group. The core elements of a graduate group include an emphasis on "shared research interests among faculty and students; flexibility to grow and quickly change to reflect emerging areas of interdisciplinary knowledge and technology; and an acceptance that many research questions transcend traditional academic departmental boundaries."[94] UC Davis offers more graduate groups than any other campus in the UC system.[95] Medical school admissions In 2016, U.S. News & World Report named UC Davis School of Medicine as the 6th most competitive medical school in the United States with an acceptance rate of 2.8%.[96] Faculty and research Main article: List of University of California, Davis faculty UC Davis is one of 62 members in the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It consists of sixty universities in the United States (both public and private) and two universities in Canada. Research expenditures UC Davis spent $788.8 million on research and development in fiscal year 2018, ranking it 30th in the nation.[97] Faculty honors Its faculty includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 14 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 30 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 members of the American Law Institute, 5 members of the Royal Society, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 1 Guggenheim Fellow, and 3 MacArthur Fellows.[13] Research centers and laboratories Bodega Marine Lab from the south, looking across Horseshoe Cove The campus supports a number of research centers and laboratories including: Advanced Highway Maintenance Construction Technology Research Laboratory BGI at UC Davis Joint Genome Center (in planning process)[98] Bodega Marine Reserve C-STEM Center CalEPR Center California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System California International Law Center California National Primate Research Center California Raptor Center Center for Health and the Environment Center for Mind and Brain Center for Poverty Research Center for Regional Change Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas Center for Visual Sciences Contained Research Facility Crocker Nuclear Laboratory Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center (A joint effort of Agilent Technologies Inc. and UC Davis) (in planning process) Information Center for the Environment John Muir Institute of the Environment (the largest research unit at UC Davis, spanning all Colleges and Professional Schools) McLaughlin Natural Reserve MIND Institute Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center Quail Ridge Reserve Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) (a collaborative effort with Sierra Nevada University) UC Center Sacramento UC Davis Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility University of California Pavement Research Center University of California Solar Energy Center (UC Solar) Energy Efficiency Center (the very first university run energy efficiency center in the Nation). Western Institute for Food Safety and Security The Crocker Nuclear Laboratory on campus has had a nuclear accelerator since 1966.[99][100] The laboratory is used by scientists and engineers from private industry, universities and government to research topics including nuclear physics, applied solid state physics, radiation effects, air quality, planetary geology and cosmogenics.[101] UC Davis is the only UC campus, besides Berkeley, that has a nuclear laboratory. Agilent Technologies will also work with the university in establishing a Davis Millimeter Wave Research Center to conduct research into millimeter wave and THz systems.[102] Student life The undergraduate student government of UC Davis is the Associated Students of UC Davis (ASUCD), and has an annual operating budget of $11.1 million, making it one of the largest-funded student governments in the United States.[103] ASUCD includes an Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branch. Other than representing the student body on campus, the task of ASUCD is to lobby student interests to local and state government. Also under the purview of ASUCD are the student-run Coffee House, an ASUCD unit, and Unitrans, the Davis public bus system. ASUCD employs thousands of students[104] annually across its many units. UC Davis California Aggie Marching Band-uh![105] Picnic Day, UC Davis's annual Open House, is the largest student-run event in the United States. It attracts thousands of visitors each year with its many attractions. These include a parade, a magic show performed by the chemistry department, the Doxie Derby (dachshund races), film screenings, and a Battle of the Bands between the UC Davis California Marching Band and other college bands including the Cal Band, the Stanford Band, and the Humboldt State University Marching Lumberjacks. Another highlight of UC Davis is its student-run freeform radio station, KDVS. The station began operations on February 1, 1964, from the laundry room of the all-male dormitory Beckett Hall. The station soon gained a reputation by airing interviews with Angela Davis and a live call-in show with then California Governor Ronald Reagan in 1969. The station can now be heard on 90.3 FM and online at its website.[106] UC Davis has over 500 registered student organizations, ranging from political clubs to professional societies to language clubs. The academic Graduate Students and management students are represented by the Graduate Student Association (GSA). The Law Students are represented by Law Students Association. Students are also encouraged to wear Aggie Blue on game days to show their Aggie Pride. If spotted wearing Aggie Blue by the Aggie Pack, students may have UC Davis paraphernalia thrown at them as a reward. Students also participate in intramural sports such as basketball, ultimate frisbee, soccer and many more. The ARC contains a basketball gym, work out room, ping pong tables, squash courts, rock climbing wall, and other studio rooms for group exercise. The UC Davis Tae Kwon Do club Other student activities and campus jobs: Unitrans, the student run (and driven) bus system. The Coffee House, also known as the CoHo, is a student run restaurant serving 7000 customers daily. The Bike Barn, a bicycle shop that sells and rents bicycles and cycling equipment, also a full-service repair shop. KDVS, student radio.[107] The Entertainment Council,[108] responsible for bringing famous musicians to campus and organizing student events.[109] Transportation Many students use bicycles to get around the 7000-acre campus. One of the double deckers in the city's student-run (and student-driven) bus system Bicyclists are ubiquitous on campus and in the city. Both the university and municipality encourages this with bicycle-only infrastructure such as bike circles, large bike lanes, and traffic signals specifically for bikes. UC Davis has a road and mountain bike team which has won several national championship titles.[110] The campus police department also has some of its officers patrol on bicycles and take bicycling under the influence ("BUI") and bicycling without a headlight at night very seriously. All bikes on the UC Davis campus must be registered with a California Bicycle license or they risk being sold at the on campus bike auction. Students usually have their bicycles serviced on-campus at the ASUCD Bike Barn or at other bike shops around town. UC Davis is also well known for its bus service, Unitrans, and its trademark London double decker buses. It has been in operation since 1968 and is believed to be the only general purpose (non-sightseeing) transit system in the U.S. to operate vintage double deck buses in daily service. The system is operated and managed entirely by students and offers fixed-route transportation throughout the city. There is also an inter-campus bus service[111] that ferries back and forth between UC Davis and UC Berkeley twice daily, from Monday to Friday. Davis is also one of the busiest stations of the Capitol Corridor intercity railroad service operated by Amtrak between the Bay Area and Sacramento. The central campus is bounded by freeways on two sides (Highway 113 and Interstate 80). All other UC campuses are either somewhat distant from the closest freeway or are directly adjacent to only one freeway. Two freeway exits are entirely within UCD's boundaries. One, off Highway 113, is signed "UC Davis / Hutchison Drive" and the other, off Interstate 80, is signed exclusively as "UC Davis." Despite the university's extensive bicycle infrastructure and public transportation service, easy freeway access coupled with increasing housing costs in the city of Davis has led to increased numbers of students commuting via automobile. Some students choose to live in the neighboring communities of Sacramento, Dixon or Woodland, and use their own cars or the county-wide Yolobus to get to UC Davis. In addition, a private charter bus that connected the Davis and Sacramento campuses was replaced in 2020 by the Causeway Connection bus service, in partnership with Yolobus and Sacramento Regional Transit.[112] Other students also commute by motorcycle, but are also subject to similar parking rates as their four-wheeled counterparts. The California Aggie UC Davis publishes a weekly student newspaper, The California Aggie. The Aggie was first published in 1915 as the Weekly Agricola after its approval by the Associated Student Executive Committee. At this point, UC Davis was considered the University Farm, an extension of UC Berkeley.[113] Initially, the Weekly Agricola was focused on both student news and farming-related topics. Novelist Jack London was one of the first readers of the Weekly Agricola. In 1922, it was renamed to match the school's athletic name.[113] Between March 2014 and October 2016, the Aggie not in print but was still accessible online. The Aggie is in print and available on campus again as of October 2016.[114] Greek life UC Davis' iconic water tower Social fraternities and sororities have been a part of the University of California at Davis since 1913. Approximately 8% of the university's undergraduate students are involved in the school's fraternities and sororities. One sorority, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi, was featured during the first season of the MTV reality show Sorority Life. There are currently 21 social fraternities that are a part of the Interfraternity Council (IFC) in Davis. The IFC representatives attend weekly meetings to guarantee that all UC Davis rules and regulations are followed. The meetings are also used to inform the fraternities about all upcoming activities throughout the week. The 21 fraternities are: Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Gamma Omega, Alpha Gamma Rho, Alpha Sigma Phi, Chi Phi, Delta Chi, Delta Lambda Phi, Delta Sigma Phi, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Theta Chi, Theta Xi, and Zeta Psi.[115] The Davis Collegiate Panhellenic Council (DCPA) is similar to the Interfraternity Council, but is the governing council for several sororities at UC Davis. They are responsible for organizing recruitment, and overseeing that all regulations are upheld. There are currently 11 sororities that are a part of the Panhellenic Council. The 11 sororities are: alpha Kappa Delta Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon Pi.[116] The Phi chapter of Alpha Gamma Rho was locally established May 1, 1923, at UC Davis, making it the first continuously running national fraternity on campus. They started as the Kappa Tau fraternity, which was the first Agricultural craternity on campus. Many campus buildings are named after alumni of Alpha Gamma Rho such as Emil Mrak (Mrak Hall, Registrar's office), Orville Thompson (Thompson Hall, Segundo student housing), and Dean De Carli (the De Carli room, 2nd floor MU), Mel Olson Scoreboard (Aggie Stadium), and many more. The AGR Hall is an event space located inside the Buehler Alumni / Visitor's Center and is commonly rented out as a conference room or banquet hall. There are both national and local fraternities and sororities at UCD with diverse backgrounds and histories.[117] Athletics UC Davis Health Stadium Main article: UC Davis Aggies The UC Davis Aggies (also referred to as Cal Aggies or Ags) compete in NCAA Division I sports league in the Big West Conference. For football, the Aggies compete in Division I FCS (formerly known as Division I-AA), and are members of the Big Sky Conference, granting UC Davis the distinction of being one of only three UC campuses to field a football team (Cal and UCLA being the other two). The Aggies are also members of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in gymnastics and lacrosse, the America East Conference in field hockey, the Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association and Davis Men's Crew Club for rowing. The UC Davis Men's Crew Club is one of the successful clubs both on campus and in the West. In 2008 the JV boat won first in nationals at the ACRA Championships in Tennessee and in 2009 the Varsity boat got second place in nationals at the ACRA Championships. They consistently compete against teams such as Stanford, the University of Washington and UC Berkeley. The Aggies finished first in NCAA Division II six times in 2003 and won the NACDA Directors' Cup 4 years in a row from 1999 to 2003. In 1998, the UC Davis men's basketball team won the NCAA Division II national championship despite being one of the few non-scholarship institutions in Division II at that time. They have also won NCAA Division II championships in Softball (2003), Men's Tennis (1992), and Women's Tennis (1990, 1993). These and other achievements motivated a decision (following a year of heavy discussion by campus administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and the local community) in 2003 for the athletics program to re-classify to Division I.[118][119] Aggies at Stanford (half-time show), September 17, 2005 The highlight of UC Davis's 4-year transition to Division I occurred on September 17, 2005, when the Aggies defeated the heavily favored Stanford Cardinal at Stanford Stadium by a score of 20–17 on a touchdown pass with 8 seconds left in the game. The Aggies also pulled off an upset against Stanford in basketball just months later, beating the Cardinal 64–58 with a late rally at home on December 4, 2005. The win in these two major sports and the addition of the Aggies beating the Cardinal in soccer earlier in 2005 as well as a win in wrestling and two wins in baseball pulled the Aggies' win loss record with Stanford to 5–1 for men's sports the 05-06 year. The Aggie football team plays Sacramento State in the annual Causeway Classic for the Causeway Carriage. The team also plays Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the annual Battle for the Golden Horseshoe. UC Davis students gather at sporting events to rally as the Aggie Pack, the largest student-run school spirit organization in the United States. The Aggie Pack cheers on the sports team along with the Spirit Squad to the music of the Cal Aggie Marching Band-uh! and its alumni band. Aggie Stadium is the home of the UC Davis football and lacrosse teams. UC Davis had a wrestling program, which competed in the Pac-10 at the Division I level. In 2007, UC Davis wrestler Derek Moore gained All-American status, as well as winning the NCAA Division I Championships for his weight class. Moore also received the "Most Outstanding Wrestler" award of the NCAA tournament. In doing so, Derek Moore became the first UC Davis student-athlete to become an NCAA champion at the Division I level. That same year, UC Davis finished within the top 25 for Division I collegiate wrestling programs in the country. Because of budget pressure, wrestling was cut from the athletic department in April 2010. Other cuts included men's swimming, men's indoor track, and women's rowing. The athletics department had to cut $1.79 million out of the budget. 14 women's teams and 9 men's teams were funded for the 2010–2011 school year.[120] The official school colors are blue and gold. The blue is due to the UC's early connection to Yale[121] and as a result is often referred to as "Yale Blue" (e.g., see).[122] and[123] UCD's official blue, usually called "Aggie Blue", is Pantone 295,[124] which is distinct from Yale Blue (approximately Pantone 289).[125] The Pavilion at the ARC Center The official school mascot is the mustang. Students at UC Davis are referred to as Aggies in honor of the school's origins in agricultural studies. Unlike most colleges, there is a distinction between the name for students and the mascot. Some students supported changing the school mascot from the mustang to a cow, but alumni opposed this action. Many people call the mustang mascot of UC Davis an Aggie, but it is named Gunrock. The name dates to 1921 when the US Army brought a thoroughbred horse named Gunrock to UC Davis to supply high-quality breeding stock for the U.S. Cavalry remount program. The mustang mascot was selected to honor that cavalry horse. Sustainability UC Davis has implemented many environmentally sustainable features on campus. In the Fall of 2010, UCD opened a renovated Dining Commons in the Cuarto living area. The dining hall uses local produce and promotes sustainability. The university operates twenty LEED-certified buildings across three of the five overarching LEED categories.[126] Examples include the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the first brewery, winery or food-processing facility in the world to achieve Platinum-level certification and the Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) at Lake Tahoe, one of only five laboratories in the world to achieve Platinum-level certification.[127] It developed UC Davis West Village as a "zero net energy" community.[128] The university received two Best Practice Awards at the 2009 annual Sustainability Conference, held by the University of California, California State University and the California Community Colleges, for the campus's lighting retrofit project and sustainable design in new construction.[129] Gallagher Hall, one of the many LEED-certified buildings on campus UC Davis harvests olives from the old trees on campus to produce olive oil[130] and table olives for use in campus dining rooms.[131] It has designed landscaping with drought-tolerant trees and other plants.[132] The campus operates its own landfill, where it converts landfill (methane) gas to energy.[133] For its efforts in campus sustainability, UC Davis earned an A- on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card, one of 27 universities to achieve this, the highest grade awarded.[134] In February 2014, UC Davis and Diamond Developers formed a joint venture to create a sustainable city in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[135] The draft design for the sustainable city in Dubai called for an “eco-village” on 120 acres with enough housing for 1,200 people. The plan called for K-12 education, apartments, single family homes, and retail shops.[136] In May 2015, UC Davis and Diamond expanded the joint venture to include sustainability professional training program.[135] UC Davis became the first university to implement requiring payment of a fee for all single-use bags distributed on campus; it is working to become the first university campus to ban plastic bags entirely.[137] UC Davis is also home to the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI),[138] which is part of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES). ASI provides leadership for research, teaching, outreach, and extension efforts in agricultural and food systems sustainability at the Davis campus and throughout the UC system. UC Davis hosted the Governors' Global Climate Summit 3 (GGCS3),[139] an international climate forum for the top leaders of local, regional, national and international entities, as well as those from academia, business and nonprofits. The summit worked to broaden national partnerships in continuing to grow a clean, green economy. The summit included more than 1,500 attendees from more than 80 countries. Alumni For a more comprehensive list, see List of University of California, Davis alumni. UC Davis currently has over 260,000 living alumni.[140] Notable alumni of UC Davis include two astronauts; scientist Charles Moen Rice, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and Katherine Jungjohann; US Treasurer Anna Escobedo Cabral; Chevron CEO John S. Watson; entrepreneur Jason Lucash; and actor Matthew Moy. Notable faculty include two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor and painter Wayne Thiebaud. Notable UC Davis alumni include: Charles M. Rice, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate   Anna Escobedo Cabral, US Treasurer   Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice of California   Ann Veneman, former United States Secretary of Agriculture   DeAnne Julius, American-British economist   Sir Chow Chung-kong, chairman of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing   John S. Watson, CEO of Chevron   Darrell Steinberg, mayor of Sacramento   London Breed, Mayor of San Francisco   Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress   Hasan Minhaj, actor and comedian   DJ Shadow, music producer and DJ   James F. Brooks, historian and professor   Doug Girod, chancellor of the University of Kansas   Tracy Caldwell Dyson, chemist and NASA astronaut   Stephen Robinson, NASA astronaut   Daniel Descalso, infielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks   Colton Schmidt, American football punter   Urijah Faber, mixed martial artist   Martin Yan, cooking show host and food writer   Ed Darack, Author and photographer   Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, screenwriters for various Marvel Studios films including Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame Richard C. Larkins (April 19, 1909 – April 7, 1977) was the athletic director at the Ohio State University from 1947 to 1970. Larkins also played tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team in the late 1920s/early 1930s and served on the Ohio State faculty as a professor of physical education. In one of his first acts as Ohio State athletic director, Larkins hired his old teammate, Wes Fesler, to take over as Ohio State's football coach.[1] Larkins also became involved in a public feud with legendary coach Paul Brown in 1948. A story in the Minneapolis Times quoted Larkins as saying: "Brown has started a terrific drive in Columbus and all around Ohio to return as football coach at Ohio State. Brown is not happy in the pro atmosphere. He has a good bank account and wants to coach college kids again."[2] Larkins was also quoted as saying that Brown has been "stealing football players off our campus by the dozen" and that Brown had "done everything in his power to hurt Ohio State."[2] Brown accused Larkins of conducting a smear campaign, and Larkins claimed he had been mis-quoted.[2] He is also remembered as the Ohio State athletic director who made the decision to proceed with the historic Snow Bowl game against Michigan in 1950. Despite extraordinarily inclement weather, Larkins decided to play the game "due to the number of people who attended, and the mess it would have created to refund the tickets."[3] Ohio State lost the game 9-3. Larkins drew national media attention for his comments in 1951 criticizing big-time college football as a Frankenstein monster. In the remarks, Larkins said: "Football is being ruined. It's getting completely out of hand. It's a Frankenstein, a monster. Football is killing itself. ... College football is too big for its breeches. ... These 80,000-90,000 Roman holidays are not good for college athletics. They're killing it. You'll never know the pressures on us in this coaching situation. The outside pressures, the outside interference! It's just terrific. I don't know how much longer educators can put up with this stuff. We're educational institutions, we're not the New York Yankees or Chicago Bears."[4] However, Larkins is best remembered as the driving force behind the 1951 hiring of Woody Hayes as Ohio State's football coach. Ironically, Larkins' decision to hire the little-known Hayes, over former Buckeyes' coach Paul Brown, led to petitions being circulated on campus calling for Larkins' removal; the petition claimed that Larkins "has lost confidence of the Ohio State student body" over his opposition to Brown's return as football coach.[5] Larkins became Hayes' strongest supporter at the university and protected Hayes after numerous clashes and against efforts by university administrators to fire him.[6] Larkins and Hayes became close friends; in 1979, Hayes recalled: "My greatest friends are always people that I fight with. Bo [Schembechler] was one of those. .... That was true with Dick Larkins (former athletic director at Ohio State). We were always arguing but agreed on everything."[7] In 1970, Larkins became the fourth recipient of the James J. Corbett Memorial Award, presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics "to the collegiate administrator who through the years has most typified Corbett's devotion to intercollegiate athletics and worked unceasingly for its betterment." Larkins Hall on the Ohio State Campus was named for Dick Larkins. The building served as the recreation and physical activity center for a number of years. It was torn down in the early-2000s to build the new Recreation and Physical Activity Center (RPAC). The Richard C. Larkins Plaza was named after the completion of the RPAC. The Plaza is located at the conjunction of the four physical education buildings on campus. Head coaching record Year Team Overall Conference Standing Bowl/playoffs Rochester Yellowjackets (Independent) (1935–1936) 1935 Rochester 1–6 1936 Rochester 2–5 Rochester: 3–11 Total: 3–11 References Before the imposing RPAC was the place to work out, there was Larkins Hall. It was much smaller, and by the time it was torn down in 2005, a lot worse for wear. But it had long served the OSU community, much as its namesake, Richard C. Larkins, did, as athletics director for nearly a quarter-century. Larkins was associated with the University since he came to OSU as a student in the late 1920s. As a student, Dick Larkins played both on the varsity football team and the varsity basketball team, lettering in football from 1928-1930 and in basketball from 1929-1931. He displayed both leadership and smarts from the beginning: He was captain of the basketball team and class president, and he won the Western Conference Medal for scholastic achievement his senior year. Larkins was also a member of the junior honorary, Bucket & Dipper, and the senior honorary, Sphinx. After earning a bachelor of science degree in Business Administration in 1931, Larkins coached the freshman football team while he worked on his MBA, which he received in 1935. Later that year he left OSU to serve as head coach for the University of Rochester football team. Larkins, 1966 Larkins, 1966 In 1937 Dick Larkins returned to his alma mater to teach physical education. When the position of Director of Athletics became vacant in 1947, Larkins never actually applied for the job. However, when members of the Athletic Board sat down to discuss possible candidates, Larkins was the only one who had the support of the coaching staff, the physical education department, and retiring Athletic Director Lynn St. John, according to an Alumni Monthly profile. Larkins’ term as Director of Athletics included the hiring of three head football coaches – the last was Woody Hayes. But his influence on OSU athletics was much broader: Under his leadership, the program expanded to 18 sports, and he oversaw the construction of St. John Arena, French Field House and the adjacent ice rink, as well as an extensive renovation of Ohio Stadium. In 1976, the Board of Trustees named the recreational facility after Larkins, who had retired in 1970 after 24 years as athletics director. Larkins died April 5, 1977, at the age of 67. The Ohio State Buckeyes are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio. The athletic programs are named after the colloquial term for people from the state of Ohio and after the state tree, the Ohio Buckeye.[2][3] The Buckeyes participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I in all sports and the Big Ten Conference in most sports. The Ohio State women's ice hockey team competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). The school colors are scarlet and gray.[4] The university's mascot is Brutus Buckeye.[5] Ohio State is one of only seven universities to have won an NCAA national championship in baseball and men's basketball, and be recognized as a national champion in football. Ohio State has also won national championships in men's swimming & diving, men's outdoor track & field, men's volleyball, men's golf, men's gymnastics, men's fencing, women's rowing, co-ed fencing, co-ed and women's pistol, synchronized swimming, and wrestling.[6][7] Since the inception of the Athletic Director's Cup, Ohio State has finished in the top 25 each year, including top 6 finishes in three of the last five years.[8] During the 2005–06 school year Ohio State became the first Big Ten team to win conference championships in football, men's basketball and women's basketball in the same season. This feat repeated in the 2006–07 season, which also included a February 25, 2007 men's basketball game which saw the Buckeyes defeat the Wisconsin Badgers in the Big Ten's first basketball game between the number one and number two ranked squads in the nation. A few of the many outstanding sports figures who were student athletes at Ohio State include Jesse Owens, "The Buckeye Bullet," (track and field), John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas, and Katie Smith (basketball), Frank Howard (baseball), Jack Nicklaus (golf), Archie Griffin (football running back, the only two-time Heisman Trophy winner), and Chic Harley (three-time All-American football running back). Hall of Fame coaches at Ohio State have included Paul Brown and Woody Hayes (football), Fred Taylor (men's basketball). Notable sports figures in Ohio State history may be inducted into the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame. Contents 1 Sports sponsored 1.1 Baseball 1.2 Men's basketball 1.3 Women's basketball 1.4 Fencing 1.5 Football 1.6 Golf 1.7 Men's gymnastics 1.8 Ice hockey 1.9 Lacrosse 1.10 Volleyball 1.11 Rifle 1.12 Softball 1.13 Synchronized swimming 1.14 Tennis 1.15 Wrestling 2 Olympians and track 3 Club sports 3.1 Rugby 3.2 Water Polo 3.3 Basketball 3.4 Tennis 4 Championships 4.1 NCAA team championships 4.2 Other national team championships 5 Big Ten Regular Season Championships 5.1 Men's 5.2 Women's 6 Media 7 The Ohio State University Marching Band 8 School colors 9 Pageantry 10 References 11 External links Sports sponsored Men's sports Women's sports Baseball Basketball Basketball Cross country Cross country Fencing Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Golf Gymnastics Gymnastics Ice hockey Ice hockey Lacrosse Lacrosse Rowing Soccer Soccer Swimming & diving Softball Tennis Swimming & diving Track and field† Synchronized swimming Volleyball Tennis Wrestling Track and field† Volleyball Co-ed sports Pistol — Rifle † – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor Baseball Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes baseball Ohio State has played baseball since 1881,[9] winning a national championship in 1966 along with 16 Big Ten regular-season titles and eight Big Ten tournament titles. The Buckeyes baseball team was the first Ohio State sports team. The team is currently coached by Greg Beals and play their home games at Bill Davis Stadium, which opened in 1997. Going into the 2008 season the Buckeyes all-time record is 2228-1427-38. Notable alumni include Frank Howard, Nick Swisher and two time All-American Steve Arlin. Men's basketball Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball The Ohio State men's basketball team has played in 10 NCAA Final Fours, winning the championship in 1960, when they were led by Basketball Hall of Famers Jerry Lucas, John Havlicek, and Bob Knight off the bench. A Buckeye has been named first team All-American 23 times, including five two-time All-Americans and one three-time All-American. Between 1960 and 1964, Ohio State won five consecutive Big Ten championships, an achievement that has yet to be matched. In 2004, Ohio State fired men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien for recruiting violations and self-imposed a one-year penalty, including a ban on post-season play and reduction of scholarships. In light of these University self-imposed penalties, the NCAA Division I Committee on infractions merely placed Ohio State on three years probation for the violations, and gave heavier penalties to Coach O'Brien and a former assistant coach.[10] The lightness of this judgment was seen as encouragement for schools to be proactive in responding to violations. Nevertheless, O'Brien successfully sued Ohio State for improper termination. Thad Matta took over O'Brien's spot in 2004. Ohio State recruited such talents as Greg Oden, and Mike Conley, Jr. to start the 2006-2007 year. The Buckeyes finished the season with a 27–3 record; won the Big Ten tournament, and earned a number 1 seed for the NCAA tournament. After a very close game with state rival Xavier, and a thrilling 20 point come from behind victory against the Tennessee Volunteers, the Buckeyes managed to hold off Georgetown Hoyas 67–60 to reach the Championship Game for the first time since 1962, which they lost to defending NCAA champions Florida Gators, 84–75. Following years saw continued success for the Buckeyes. They won the Big Ten Championship in both the 2009-2010 and 2010–2011 season, and reached the Final Four in 2011-2012 before losing to Kansas. The Buckeyes reached the Elite Eight in 2012–2013, losing to Wichita State. 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 both saw early exits from the NCAA Tournament. Women's basketball Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball Currently coached by Kevin McGuff, the Ohio State women's basketball team plays its home games in the Jerome Schottenstein Center, which they moved into in 1998. Prior to 1998, they played at St. John Arena. They have won 10 Big Ten titles, which is the most in the conference[11] and have 14 appearances in the NCAA Tournament, the most recent being in 2016. In 1993 they lost to the Texas Tech Lady Raiders 84-82 for the National Title, while they captured the NIT title in 2001, beating the New Mexico Lobos 62–61.[12] Notable alumni include former All-Americans Katie Smith and Jessica Davenport. Fencing Ohio State won its first title in 1942, when the NCAA had only men's fencing.[13] Ohio State won the NCAA championships in fencing in both men's and women's fencing, combined, in 2004, 2008 and 2012.[14] Israeli Boaz Ellis won the NCAA title in men's foil in 2004, 2005 and 2006 for Ohio State, the first NCAA foil fencer to win three individual NCAA titles since 1963.[15] Football Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes football 8× National Champions: 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002, 2014 39× Big Ten Champions: 1916, 1917, 1920, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1968–1970, 1972–1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005–2009, 2010 (vacated), 2014, 2017–2020 2× Leaders Division Champions: 2012, 2013 6× East Division Champions: 2014–2019 2× OAC Champions: 1906, 1912 Golf Ohio State's two golf courses, the Scarlet and the Gray, were completed in 1938. The Scarlet was designed by architect Alister MacKenzie, who designed the Masters course at Augusta National. However, his original design was not implemented fully, and the greens were the only part of the course that truly resembled his designs. Golf magazines annually rate the Scarlet Course as one of the top collegiate courses in the nation. The Scarlet recently underwent a $4.2 million renovation under the supervision of Jack Nicklaus. Ohio State has won the NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships in 1945 and 1979. Five times, Buckeye men have won the NCAA golf individual championship: John Lorms in 1945, Tom Nieporte in 1951, Robert Jones in 1956, Jack Nicklaus in 1961 and Clark Burroughs in 1985. They have won 23 Big Ten Conference championships. In 1952, Mary Ann Villega won the women's individual intercollegiate golf championship on her home course (an event conducted by the Division of Girls' and Women's Sports (DGWS) — which later evolved into the current NCAA women's golf championship). Ohio State was host to the first eight women's individual national title tournaments. Men's gymnastics The Ohio State gymnastics team has won three national titles and fifteen Big Ten titles, and has produced 4 Nissen Award winners (The Heisman Trophy of Men's Gymnastics). The team is currently coached by Rustam Sharipov. The Buckeyes have all their competitions at St. John Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Some of the more notable Buckeye alumni include Don Perry, the first OSU All-American in the sport (Trampoline - 1954 - 4th place), brothers Seth and Noah Riskin - Co-national Champions (Parallel Bars - 1985 - 1st place), and Mike Racanelli - Ohio State's first Nissen winner in 1990. Racanelli also went on to win Gymnastic's first Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year Award that same year, given out annually to the athlete who displays the best performance in his sport (regardless of grade). Following later in Racanelli's footsteps were other Nissen winners Kip Simons (1994), Blaine Wilson (1997) and Jamie Natalie (2001). Blaine Wilson (1995, 1996, 1997) and Jamie Natalie (2000, 2001) also went on to win Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year. Raj Bhavsar was the only other Men's Gymnast to win Ohio State Athlete of the Year which he accomplished in 2002. On the Olympic and World Championship stage, OSU Men's Gymnastics is well represented, by gymnasts and coaches. The Olympian list includes: Miles Avery (asst coach 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008), Peter Kormann (Athlete in 1976, Head Coach 1996, 2000), Raj Bhavsar (2004, 2008), Jamie Natalie (2000), Gil Pinto (1988), Kip Simons (1994) and Blaine Wilson (1996, 2000, 2004). Two gymnasts who trained at the Ohio State facilities under coach Miles Avery, but were not NCAA Athletes due to eligibility rules, were Paul and Morgan Hamm - twin brothers from Wisconsin. Paul later went on to win the first ever Olympic gold medal in the Men's Gymnastics All-Around competition for the United States. In 2011, Senior co-captain, Brandon Wynn, won his second national championship on rings. Brandon Wynn, Ty Echard, Kris Done and Jeff Treleaven earned All-America honors. In all, the seven All-America honors tie the second-best single-season performance in program history and are the most laurels since the 2005 campaign. Ice hockey Main articles: Ohio State Buckeyes men's ice hockey and Ohio State Buckeyes women's ice hockey The Ohio State men's ice hockey team was established in 1961 and played at the OSU Ice Rink until 1999, when they moved into Value City Arena. The Buckeyes competed in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) through the 2012–2013 season. After Penn State added men's ice hockey as a Division I sport in 2012, the Big Ten had enough teams to sponsor its own hockey conference and began play in the 2013-2014 season. The Buckeyes won one conference championship in 1972, the first year of the CCHA, and won the conference tournament in 1974 and 2004. The Buckeyes have made it to the NCAA tournament in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2009, and went to the semi-finals in 1998. In 2006, they retired Paul Pooley's #22, the only number to be retired by the hockey program to date.[16] The Ohio State women's ice hockey team was started in 1999 and competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). The Buckeyes have two NCAA postseason appearances, 2018 and 2020. In their first, the Buckeyes made it to the Frozen Four before being beaten by the Clarkson Golden Knights. They received an autobid to the tournament in 2020 after winning the conference tournament for the first time before 19 cancelled the NCAA tournament. .[17] Notable Buckeye alumni include Olympians Emma Laaksonen, Tessa Bonhomme, and Lisa Chesson. Lacrosse Further information: Ohio State Buckeyes men's lacrosse Volleyball Main articles: Ohio State Buckeyes men's volleyball and Ohio State Buckeyes women's volleyball Rifle In June, 2013, Ohio State became a charter member of the Patriot Rifle Conference. It was also announced that the Buckeyes will host the inaugural PRC championship meet on February 8 & 9, 2014. The rifle team has made four team and multiple individual appearances at the NCAA Rifle Championship, with their highest finish being third place in 1991.[18] Softball Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes softball The Buckeye softball team has appeared in one Women's College World Series in 1982.[19] They shared the 1990 Big Ten regular season title and won the 2007 season title outright along with the 2007 Big Ten Conference Softball Tournament.[20] Synchronized swimming This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (May 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In the team event, Ohio State has won 32 collegiate championships between 1977, the first year of the collegiate national championships, and 2004. Head coach Mary Jo Ruggieri led the team to 17 wins between 1977 and 1995, and Linda Lichter-Witter added seven more since 1996. Ohio State also has taken 61 individual honors in that span, including 11 by Karen and Sarah Josephson. Head Coach Holly Vargo-Brown led the team to their 32nd total championship in 2019, the most of any Ohio State varsity sport.[21] Tennis The Men's and Women's Varsity Tennis teams have showed success both individually and as a team. Both the men's and women's teams share the outdoor tennis facility, the Stickney Tennis Center, dedicated in 1993. When the weather takes them indoors, both teams play at the Varsity Tennis Center, which was recently completed in November 2007. The outdoor facility has 12 courts and the indoor has six courts and are both located in Columbus, Ohio. Men's Tennis - Big Ten Championships - 1915 (co-champions), 1943, 1991, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 NCAA Men's Tennis Tournament Team Appearances (since 1977) - 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 The Men's tennis team has 23 NCAA Singles Appearances, 11 NCAA Doubles Appearances and eight All-Americans.[22] Women's Tennis - Big Ten Championships - 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 - Note: The Big Ten officially began sponsoring championships for women with the 1981–82 season. Since then, Ohio State has yet to win a Big Ten Championship. Ohio State recently won their first Big Ten Championship in school history in 2016, after defeating Michigan in the finals. NCAA Women's Tennis Tournament Team Appearances - 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009. The Women have five NCAA Singles Appearances, four NCAA Doubles Appearances and two All-Americans.[22] Wrestling Main article: Ohio State Buckeyes wrestling Ohio State wrestling was established at the University in 1921. Formerly the coach of Hofstra University for 11 years, the current Head Coach of the team is Tom Ryan. He has been coaching Ohio State since the 2006-2007 wrestling season. His coaching ability led the Buckeye Wrestling team to 3 Big Ten titles, an NCAA title in 2015 and 5 NCAA runners-up finishes.[23] The team has a practice facility named The Jennings Center and competes on campus in Covelli Arena. Two-time NCAA wrestling champion Jeffrey Jaggers, or commonly referred to as J Jaggers, made a seamless transition from student-athlete to coach in 2009-10 as the volunteer assistant coach. Mark Coleman was a former Buckeye wrestler and a 1988 Big Ten Conference Champion & NCAA Champion Wrestler (190 lbs). Coleman a silver medalist in the 1991 FILA Wrestling World Championships, went on to become the first ever UFC Heavyweight Champion, and is a distinguished UFC Hall of Fame member.[24] In 2015, Ohio State won its first national championship, after coming close in 2008 and 2009. It broke Penn State's streak of four consecutive team titles, but extended the Big Ten's national championship run to nine with the help of 4-time NCAA champion Logan Stieber. 2015 Ohio State wrestler Kyle Snyder becomes youngest World Champion in United States Wrestling History. On Friday September 11 Kyle won five matches including a dramatic ending in the gold medal round at 97 kg/213 lbs. Trailing 4–3 with less than a minute remaining, Snyder got a takedown against returning World champion Abdusalam Gadisov of Russia and ultimately prevailed by criteria with the score tied at 5-5. "It is amazing hearing the USA chants, especially on a day like today – September 11," said Snyder. "It's important to come out here and represent your country to the best of your ability." Ohio State University Buckeye Wrestling Team Accomplishments include: Most Wins - 20 (1990, 1992, and 2002) 1st-place finishes in the Big Ten Conference 1923, 1951, 2015 (shared with Iowa), 2017, 2018 NCAA Championships: 2015 Consecutive Wins - 15 (2001 and 2002) Most Big Ten Wins - 7 (7–1 in 2009–10 and 2008–09); (7–0 in 1991–92) and (7–2 in 1980–81) Most All-Americans in a Season - 8 (2018) Nathan Tomasello, Luke Pletcher, Joey Mckenna, Micah Jordan, Bo Jordan, Myles Martin, Kollin Moore, Kyle Snyder Most Freshman All-Americans in a Season - 3 (2012) Hunter Stieber, Logan Stieber and Cam Tessari Olympians and track Ohio State has produced over two hundred Olympic athletes, most notably Jesse Owens who won four Olympic gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and is one of the greatest Olympians in history. In all, 48 Ohio State athletes have combined for a total of 77 Olympic medals which includes 33 gold, 28 silver and 16 bronze medals. Ohio State's track team is coached by Karen Dennis, and hosts home meets at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Buckeyes' track team is also famous for being the first Buckeye team in any sport to win a national title. Mal Whitfield was the 1948 and 1952 Olympic Gold Medalist in the 800 Meters. Club sports College club sports in the United States are any sports offered at a university or college in the United States that compete competitively with other universities, or colleges, but are not regulated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and do not have varsity status. In some cases, club sports have junior varsity status. Oftentimes, students who play club sports later move on to play the same sport at the varsity level, or vice versa. Collegiate club sports can exist at schools that do have teams that are part of the NCAA or NAIA. Many times, club sports are student-run and receive little financial aid from the school. An estimated 2 million student-athletes compete in club sports. Typically, most sports offered at universities and offered in youth leagues are also available as a collegiate club team. However, the variety of sports offered is also often related to the size of the school. Collegiate club sports offer college athletes the ability to play at a competitive level, but without the time commitment generally required for a sport governed by the NCAA. The tryout procedure for club sports varies from school to school and from sport to sport. Rugby Founded in 1966, Ohio State's Rugby Football Club plays college rugby in Division 1-A in the Big Ten Universities conference against traditional Big 10 rivals such as Michigan. The Buckeyes are led by head coach Ron Bowers, who played rugby as a Buckeye, earning All-American honors in 1991.[25] The Buckeyes best performances were in the 1990 and 1991 seasons, when they finished third in the nation in both seasons. More recently, Ohio State has appeared in the Collegiate Rugby Championship, a tournament broadcast live on NBC, finishing 7th in 2010 and 14th in 2011. The Buckeyes were led in those two tournaments by Nate Ebner, who was named to the competition's All Tournament Team in 2010 and 2011,[26][27] before entering the 2012 NFL draft and signing with the New England Patriots. The Buckeyes finished the 2010–11 season ranked 23rd in the country.[28] Ohio State finished third at the 2012 Big Ten 7s, missing out on qualification to the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships. Water Polo Collegiate club water polo operates under the Collegiate Water Polo Association, with the United States split into 18 divisions based partly on geography and partly on conventional conferences across other collegiate sports. The Ohio State's Men's Water Polo club competes in the Big Ten division with other Big Ten teams such as Michigan St and Michigan. The Buckeyes competed in the CWPA National Collegiate Club Championship in 2013 (6th), 2014(5th), 2017(6th) and 2018(7th).The head coach of the men's team is Ben McClurg (2019-Current). Basketball Collegiate Club Basketball is associated with the National Intramural and Recreational Sports Association, with regional qualifying and a national tournament every year. The head coach of the Ohio State Men's Club Basketball team is Eddie Days, who played for Ohio State Buckeyes men's basketball from 2009 to 2011. Ohio State Men's Club Basketball has won three National Championships (2016, 2018, 2019). In 2018, Ohio State defeated Harvard University in the National Championship. The Most Valuable Player of the 2018 Tournament was Ohio State's Nick Moschetti, who played Division 1 basketball at Purdue University Fort Wayne before transferring to Ohio State. Ohio State's most recent Club Basketball National Championship took place in April 2019 in Wichita, Kansas where Ohio State defeated The University of Houston in the National Championship to take home the trophy. The Most Valuable Player of the 2019 Tournament was Ohio State's Evan Grootenhuis. Tennis The Ohio State club tennis team competes in the national USTA Tennis on Campus league and won the National Championship in 2018, defeating the University of North Carolina.[29] Championships NCAA team championships Ohio State has won 30 NCAA team titles.[30] Men's (24) Baseball (1): 1966 Basketball (1): 1960 Fencing (1): 1942 Golf (2): 1945, 1979 Gymnastics (3): 1985, 1996, 2001 Outdoor Track & Field (1): 1929 Swimming (11): 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1962 Volleyball (3): 2011, 2016, 2017 Wrestling (1): 2015 Women's (3) Rowing (3): 2013, 2014, 2015 Co-ed (3) Fencing (3): 2004, 2008, 2012 See also: List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships Big Ten Conference NCAA national team championships Other national team championships Below are 49 national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA (including sports it has never sponsored):[31] Men's: Football (8): 1942, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1970, 2002, 2014 Women's: Synchronized swimming (32): 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 Pistol (6): 2000, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2021 Co-ed: Pistol (6): 2000, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 See also: List of Big Ten Conference National Championships List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships Big Ten Regular Season Championships Men's Football: 1916, 1917, 1920, 1935, 1939, 1942, 1944, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1961, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1986,1993, 1996, 1998,2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 (vacated), 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Basketball: 1925, 1933, 1939, 1944, 1946, 1950, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1971, 1991, 1992, 2000 (vacated), 2002 (vacated), 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 Baseball: 1917, 1924, 1943, 1951, 1955, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2009, 2016 Golf: 1928, 1945, 1951, 1954, 1961, 1966, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004 Hockey: 1972 (CCHA), 2004 (CCHA), 2019 (Big Ten) Gymnastics: 1983, 1985, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017 Indoor Track: 1942, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1993, 2018 Outdoor Track: 1942, 1948, 1992, 1993, 2018 Soccer: 2000, 2007, 2009, 2015 Swimming: 1938, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 2010 Tennis: 1915, 1943, 1991, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Volleyball (MIVA): 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018 Fencing: 1926, 1927, 1949, 1969, 1970, 1977, (MFC): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, (CCFC): 2021 Wrestling: 1923, 1951, 2015, 2017, 2018 Cross Country: 1923 Lacrosse: (GWLL) 1986, 1988, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2008 (ECAC) 2014 Rifle: (WIRC) 1948, 1950, 1952, 1958, 1960, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 Women's Basketball: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2017, 2018 Field Hockey: 2001, 2006, 2010 Golf: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 Gymnastics: 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987 Rowing: 2002, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Soccer: 2010, 2017 Softball: 1990, 2007 Tennis: 2016, 2017, 2021 Indoor Track: 2011, 2015, 2019, 2020 Outdoor Track: 2011, 2012, 2019, 2021 Swimming: 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2020, 2021 Volleyball: 1989, 1991, 1994 Media Further information: Ohio State Sports Network On April 2, 2009, Ohio State signed a 10-year media-rights agreement with IMG College (now a part of Learfield IMG College) and RadiOhio (former owner of the school's radio network flagship WBNS/WBNS-FM in Columbus, and now a part of Tegna Inc.), worth nearly $128 million, the largest such agreement in college sports.[32] The Ohio State University Marching Band Main article: The Ohio State University Marching Band The Ohio State University Marching Band (nicknamed "The Best Damn Band In The Land"[33]) is currently under direction of Dr. Christopher Hoch. This all brass band has 225 members, and was first formed in 1878. The band has traditions including a field march that forms a "Script Ohio", during which, a senior sousaphone player gets to "dot the i" in the word Ohio. School colors Brutus Buckeye The Ohio State school colors of scarlet and gray were chosen by a committee of three students (Curtis C. Howard, Harwood R. Pool, and Alice Townshend) prior to the school's first graduation ceremony in 1878. The committee's original recommendation was to be orange and black. The committee soon discovered that Princeton already used the colors, however, and changed their recommendation.[34] For this reason some references claim that Ohio State's original school colors were orange and black. This claim is not quite accurate, in that the committee never filed the original report with that recommendation. Pageantry Team colors: Scarlet and Gray Outfitter: Nike J. America Fight songs: Across the Field, Buckeye Battle Cry Often played songs: Hang on Sloopy, Le Regiment Alma mater: Carmen Ohio Nicknames: Buckeyes (officially adopted in 1950[35]), The Bucks, The Silver Bullets Mascot: Brutus Buckeye Rivalries: Michigan Wolverines, Illinois Fighting Illini, Penn State Nittany Lions, Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops (former) Marching band: The Ohio State University Marching Band, known as TBDBITL, or The Best Damn Band In The Land. Famous for "Script Ohio" and the "Ramp Entrance". The dotting of the "i" in "Script Ohio" by a sousaphone (tuba) player who high-kicks out and does a giant bow to the crowd was voted the #1 greatest sports tradition ever, in Athlon Sports, ESPN, and Sports Illustrated. Radio network: Ohio State Sports Network - Flagships WBNS AM 1460 (ESPN Columbus) and WBNS FM (97.1 The Fan) Announcers: Paul Keels (Play By Play); Jim Lachey (Color (football)), Ron Stokes (Color (basketball))
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