The Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (also CSU Dominguez Hills Toros, CSUDH Toros, and California State-Dominguez Hills Toros) are the athletic teams that represent
California State University, Dominguez Hills, located in
Carson, California
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, in
NCAA Division II
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intercollegiate sports. The Toros compete as members of the
California Collegiate Athletic Association for all 9 varsity sports.
The men's
soccer
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team plays at Toro Stadium (capacity 3,000). Other sports venues for the university are the Torodome (capacity 3,602) for
basketball and
volleyball; Toro Field (capacity 300) for
baseball; and Toro Diamond (capacity 300) for
softball. Select home games are nationally televised live via Internet TV. Even though
Dignity Health Sports Park, home of the
Los Angeles Galaxy and the temporary home of the
Los Angeles Chargers, is located on the campus of CSUDH, the Toros do not play there.
Individual teams
Baseball
Kevin Pillar
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played
center field
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for the Toros baseball team, for which he was an
All-American. In 2010, as a junior he set an
NCAA Division II
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record at the school, with a 54-game
hitting streak.
In August 2013, he became a major leaguer, for the
Toronto Blue Jays.
Bubby Rossman ('14) played for the team, and became a major league baseball pitcher for the
Philadelphia Phillies
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in 2022.
Soccer
The men's soccer won its second national NCAA Division II championship in a match against
Dowling College on December 7, 2008 at the
University of Tampa’s
Pepin Stadium
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. The women's soccer team won an NCAA Division II title in 1991. It is the alma mater of Sierra Leone Player Kei Kamara.
Track & Field
The university's most notable athlete alumna is the fastest woman in the world, sprinter
Carmelita Jeter (Class of ’06, B.A., kinesiology), who is a 2012 Olympic bronze, silver and gold medalist.
Golf
The university's men's golf team has won the 2015, 2016, 2018, & 2019 PGA Works Collegiate Golf Championships, a National Championship open to Historically Minority Colleges.
Championships
Appearances
The CSU Dominguez Hills Toros competed in the NCAA Tournament across 9 active sports (4 men's and 5 women's) 72 times at the Division II level.
* Baseball (5): 1986, 1987, 1994, 2009, 2010
* Men's basketball (5): 1981, 1987, 1989, 2009, 2011
* Women's basketball (7): 1995, 1996, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015
* Men's golf (2): 1985, 1989
* Men's soccer (14): 1982, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017
* Women's soccer (12): 1989, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009
* Softball (9): 1982, 1989, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013
* Women's indoor track and field (5): 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012
* Women's outdoor track and field (13): 1985, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
Team
The Toros of CSU Dominguez Hills earned 3 NCAA team championships at the Division II level.
* Men's (2)
**
Soccer
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(2):
2000
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,
2008
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* Women's (1)
**
Soccer
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(1): 1991
Results
Below are two national club team championships:
* Men's badminton (2): 1975, 1979 (
ABA
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Broadcasting
* Alabama Broadcasters Association, United States
* Asahi Broadcasting Aomori, Japanese television station
* Australian Broadcasting Authority
Education
* Académie des Beaux- ...
)
Individual
CSU Dominguez Hills had 1 Toro win an NCAA individual championship at the Division II level.
References
External links
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