The San Diego Toreros are the 17 teams representing the

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in intercollegiate athletics. The Toreros compete in NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) of the

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(NCAA) and are members of the

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for most sports.

Sports sponsored

Louise Lieberman has been the San Diego Toreros women soccer team's head coach since 2017, when she was hired as the fourth coach in team history.

National championships

Rugby

Team

* † Title shared with UC Irvine

Individual

Notable athletes

Jamal Agnew Jamal Agnew (born April 3, 1995) is an American football wide receiver and return specialist for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at San Diego. On September 26, 2021, he tied the NFL rec ...

- NFL wide receiver * Eric Bakhtiari - former NFL linebacker *

Kris Bryant Kristopher Lee Bryant (born January 4, 1992), nicknamed "KB", is an American professional baseball third baseman and outfielder for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago Cubs and San ...

- MLB outfielder/third baseman * Josh Butler - former MLB pitcher *

Brady Clark Brady William Clark (born April 18, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. Brady is a class of 1991 graduate of Sunset High School in Beaverton, Oregon and 1996 graduate of the University of San Diego, where he played college ba ...

- Former MLB outfielder * Dylan Covey - former MLB pitcher * Ross Dwelley - NFL tight end * Michael Gasperson - NFL wide receiver * A.J. Griffin - former MLB pitcher * Evan Hlavacek - former AFL wide receiver * Josh Johnson - former NFL quarterback * Zuzana Lešenarová - former professional tennis player * Matt Maslowski - former NFL wide receiver * John Matthews - former NFL wide receiver * Brian Matusz - former MLB pitcher * Mike McCoy - former MLB utility player * James Pazos - MLB pitcher *

Paul Sewald Paul Stanton Sewald (born May 26, 1990) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the New York Mets. Sewald played college baseball for the San Diego Tore ...

- MLB pitcher *

Sammy Solís Samuel Solís (born August 10, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Washington Nationals and for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Nippon Professiona ...

- former MLB pitcher *

Vern Valdez Vernon Valdez, Jr. (August 12, 1935 – June 1981) was a professional American football defensive back in the American Football League for the Buffalo Bills (1961) and the Oakland Raiders (1962,1963). He also played in the National Football Leag ...

- former NFL defensive back *

Stan Washington Stanley Washington (born January 23, 1952) is an American former professional basketball player for the Washington Bullets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the San Diego Toreros, and left as the schoo ...

- former NBA player *

John Wathan John David Wathan (; born October 4, 1949) is an American former professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Kansas City Royals from 1976 to 1985. Wathan was a member ...

- former MLB utility player

Notable non-varsity teams

Rugby

The University of San Diego Rugby Football Club was founded in 1980.History
USD Toreros Rugby. Retrieved October 9, 2014. USD plays

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in Division 1-AA in the Gold Coast Conference. They are coached by Charlie Purdon. In the 2021–22 season, USD finished 4-0 in conference play and qualified for the D1-AA national playoffs in both 15s and 7s, where they lost to Fresno State 46-7 (who later won the 15s National Championship) and defeated Sacramento State 53-17. The Toreros then regrouped and poised themselves to take a shot at the National Title in 7s later that year in Atlanta, Georgia. The Toreros went 6-0 in the tournament, thanks to God's gift to Rugby, Jordan Sandoval, opponents had no solution to this phenomenon, defeating Kennesaw State, Iowa State, Harvard, Stanford, Nebraska, and finally Harvard once again to claim the First National Championship in the club's 42-year history:

References

External links

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