The Cal Poly Mustangs are the

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teams representing

California Polytechnic State University California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (California Polytechnic State University, Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt in Arcata, California or California State Polytechnic Univ ...

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. The university fields twenty-one teams and compete in

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; they are primarily members of the

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, but the football team plays in the

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, the wrestling team is an associate member of the

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, and the swimming and diving program competes as an affiliate member in the

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Nickname

The Cal Poly official team nickname is the "Mustangs." The nickname was chosen in a 1925 vote by the students. The two finalists were "Mustangs" and "Mules" and the students chose "Mustangs."

History

Cal Poly athletic history

Early athletic program history

The Cal Poly Mustangs athletic department's first sports team was fielded in 1907 as the men's basketball team played their first game. The university was not yet a four-year institution, but the school sponsored sports.

Student referendum and move to NCAA Division I

Cal Poly put a referendum vote to its student body on Nov. 20–21, 1991. The referendum passed, with students voting to elevate all 16 NCAA sports teams at the time (since increased to 21 intercollegiate teams in the years to follow) from Division II of the NCAA to Division I by the 1994-95 school year, passed by 267 votes in the largest voter turnout in school history, featuring 10,369 total votes cast, with 5,318 (or 51.2 percent) passing the measure. This move would be accommodated by the student body individually paying a total of $35 more per quarter by 1994 (steadily going in increments from the incumbent $8 Athletics fee at the time to $43 per quarter by 1994). Afterward, the

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officially certified Cal Poly as a Division I-AA football school on August 9, 1993. Its first year of playing at the Division I level in all sports (volleyball and wrestling were already Division I, being the two exceptions) was 1994-95.

Conference alignment

Announced October 14, 1994, Cal Poly joined the

for a majority of its sports programs, from the American West Conference. The 1996-97 school year then marked Cal Poly's first season competing in the Big West. Cal Poly was accepted into the

as an affiliate member for football on September 7, 2010. The Mustangs' first-ever Big Sky game was played on September 22, 2012, a 28-20 home win over UC Davis.

Adidas partnership

On May 25, 2017, Cal Poly announced an exclusive partnership with

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. The partnership beginning in June 2017 would provide official footwear, apparel and various equipment items.

Academic progress rate public recognition awards

In May 2019, Cal Poly received a department-record seven Public Recognition Awards from the NCAA for

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performance for the 2017-18 academic year. The seven awards included six from Big West Conference teams in the department, the most throughout the Big West (edging UC Davis by one award). The Mustangs collected four NCAA APR awards for the 2018-19 year, again leading the BWC.

Philanthropic endeavors

From 2007 through 2019, the Cal Poly softball program raised over $21,900 for the Hearst Cancer Resource Center with its annual StrikeOut Cancer Challenge event. From 2012 to 2019, Cal Poly student-athletes raised $11,179 through the

's annual February Coin Drive, with previous causes also including the Jessie Rees Foundation and

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. In 2019, Cal Poly student-athletes raised more than $3,300 for Hearst Cancer Resource Center at nearby French Hospital as part of the 12th annual February Coin Drive. The total was the most Cal Poly has raised in a single year and ranked second among the conference's nine universities for 2019. Starting in December 2015, Cal Poly student-athletes have been actively involved with the Salvation Army's Adopt-an-Angel program, purchasing toys, clothing and gift cards while collecting donations to benefit local families in the

San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (; Spanish for " St. Louis the Bishop", ; Chumash: ''tiłhini'') is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the U.S. state of California. Located on the Central Coast of California, San Luis Obispo is roughly hal ...

area. In 2017, Mustang student-athletes adopted 50 children from 24 families, an increase of three sponsored children from the 2016 season. The December 2018 drive saw Cal Poly student-athletes adopt 32 children for the program.

Controversies

NCAA infractions

In 1987 while competing as an

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school, the

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found the athletic department guilty of infractions relating to the men's basketball program. During the course of the investigation, then head coach Ernie Wheeler resigned from his position and was later publicly reprimanded. As the department was transitioning from Division I to

in 1994, the department self-reported violations related to the

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program. Cal Poly identified head coach Steve McFarland as having given improper financial aid to both players and members of his coaching staff. In 1995, the NCAA accepted Cal Poly's self-imposed penalties which included forfeiture of their NCAA Division II baseball championship and other top finishes and a postseason ban. In April 2019, the athletic department was placed on probation for multiple years and was forced to vacate regular season championships and conference tournament records by the NCAA. The NCAA reported years worth of infractions involving 265 athletes across 18 sports. Additionally, the school must now inform all recruits about the department's infractions prior to official visits. In deciding on the severity of punishment, the NCAA noted Cal Poly's two earlier infractions from 1987 and 1995. The athletic department appealed, but the decision was upheld in February 2020.

Other athletic department controversies

In November 2013, a student assistant coach who previously played for the

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team was shot in a drug deal. The following year in August 2014, further problems beset the football team when 5 current Cal Poly student-athletes were arrested and charged with a total of 23 felonies which made national headlines. The players were subsequently suspended indefinitely from the team.

president, Jeffrey Armstrong, stated that the August 2014 event "bears striking commonalities" with the November 2013 event, which was also noted by San Luis Obispo Police Department Chief Steve Gesell as having "disturbing" similarities. Armstrong, with athletic director, Don Oberhelman, launched an investigation into the football team's potential further involvement with illegal drugs and criminal activity and rolled out a new drug policy for the athletics department. It was reported by ''

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'' that cost was a factor cited by Cal Poly when testing just 41 of its 540 student-athletes for banned substances within the last year. Oberhelman later stated that some of the players involved "... should not have been at Cal Poly." He also stated that he had heard of illegal drug usage among members of the football team. According to current and former players who spoke with ''The Tribune'' confidentially, the consensus was that illegal drug usage at the football program was widespread, with estimates ranging between 40% to 60% of the student-athletes. Athletic director Oberhelman kept faith in head coach Tim Walsh and his coaching staff despite

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, a former coach brought on by Walsh, had multiple felony charges brought upon him just a few years earlier. One of the student-athletes' lawyers in the August 2014 event later accused head coach Tim Walsh in court of coercion to talk to the police without a lawyer present. In 2014, Cal Poly went to court to cover up or remove mentions of Moriarty Enterprises from the scoreboard at Alex G. Spanos Stadium. Al Moriarty, a former Cal Poly football player who was inducted to the Cal Poly Hall of Fame in 2002, purchased naming rights to the scoreboard in 2009 for a total of $625,000. He was convicted of running a

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and Cal Poly argued that they were "...suffering harm by having the name 'Moriarty Enterprises' remain on the scoreboard." When bankruptcy trustees asked Cal Poly for the money to be returned to benefit Moriarty's creditors, Cal Poly declined. After nearly a year in court, an agreement was reached wherein Cal Poly repaid $480,000 of the original donation to remove mentions of Moriarty, leaving the school with a $145,000 profit from the original sponsorship. In April 2015, a football student-athlete was arrested for driving under the influence, a felony, after crashing his car. A number of the passengers in the car were also football student-athletes. Previously in March 2011, a different Cal Poly football player was arrested for a DUI and ultimately chose to transfer out of the program.

Sports sponsored

Baseball

The Cal Poly Mustangs baseball program first fielded a team in 1948.

Men's basketball

The Cal Poly Mustangs men's basketball team's first season was 1907 and its first season as a four-year institution was in 1941-42. The team had its most successful year in 2014, when the team won the Big West tournament, clinching its first NCAA basketball tournament bid in school history at the Division I level.

Women's basketball

The Cal Poly Mustangs women's basketball team's first season was the 1974–75 season.

Women's beach volleyball

Cal Poly beach volleyball was founded in July 2013. It became the university's 21st NCAA sport. In February 2016, Cal Poly hired

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, a 2008 Olympic gold medalist in the sport, as its new head coach. The Mustangs had arguably their most successful season in the spring of 2019, winning the

Championship over

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, 3-2 in

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. Following the title, Cal Poly advanced to the eight-team

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, losing to

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in the opening match before dropping a rematch against Hawai'i on

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. Cal Poly also qualified for the NCAA tournament in 2021 and 2022.

Men's and women's cross country

In 2019, coach

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and his men's squad collected their fourth straight

title and the men's team's 17th crown in a 22-year span. Their last national placing as a team was in 2011, when they finished 28th at the National Cross Country Championships. In 2018, the women's program, coached by Priscilla Bayley, captured its third Big West Conference crown in a four-year stretch. The men's cross country team has appeared in the NCAA Division I Championships as a full squad seven times, with their highest finish being 10th place in the 2004–05 school year. The Cal Poly women's cross country team hasn't made the NCAA Division I Championships as a full team, but in 2018 advanced both Miranda Daschian and Katie Izzo as individuals to the NCAA National Cross Country Championships in

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. Peyton Bilo was the program's most recent All-American, taking 23rd place at the 2016 national championships as a sophomore. Conover, the 1988 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials champion, passed in April 2022 following a battle with cancer. On June 20, 2022, Ryan Vanhoy, previously coaching at Ole Miss, was appointed to lead Cal Poly's program as track and field and cross country director.

Team USA members

* Cal Poly alumnus Phillip Reid represented Team USA at the Great Edinburgh International Run in Scotland in 2012-13 and at the North America/Central America/Caribbean Championships in Jamaica in 2013.

Football

Mustang Football plays in the

, competing in the

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. Prior to joining the Big Sky Conference in 2012, the team competed in the Great West Conference and was the first Great West Football Conference participant in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs. Each year Cal Poly plays rival

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in the annual

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. The Cal Poly Mustangs have an NCAA Division I FCS Tournament record of 1-4 through four appearances:

1960 Cal Poly football team airline crash

Men's golf

Pro alumni

* Former Mustang

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has earned more than 25 career pro wins at various tournaments. * Cal Poly's Travis Bertoni, who won three consecutive

Golfer of the Year awards from 2004-06, played at the U.S. Open in 2008. * Former Mustang Justin De Los Santos played at the

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in 2022.

Women's golf

Cal Poly won the 2017

championship at Oak Quarry Golf Club in Riverside, California, besting the field with a combined total of 887 strokes. After winning the title, the Mustangs advanced to their first Division I NCAA Regional tournament, finishing 16th in Albuquerque, New Mexico at UNM South Championship Golf Course. Cal Poly also won back-to-back BWC team championships in 2021 and 2022.

Men's soccer

The Cal Poly Mustangs men's soccer team has had success in recent years. In 2008, coach

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led his team to the

Division I tournament; they went on to beat

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and ended up losing to

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in the second round. Coach Steve Sampson led the team back to the NCAA tournament in 2015, and three Cal Poly players were selected in the

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, tied for the seventh-most nationally. Cal Poly soccer has a strong fan base, averaging 2,017 fans per match in 2019, ranking No. 5 across the country. In 2011, CollegeSoccerNews.com chose Cal Poly vs.

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as the No. 1 rivalry in college soccer. Since 2007, the rivalry matches have regularly drawn upwards of 8,000 fans. The men's soccer team have an NCAA Division I Tournament record of 1–3 through three appearances and have never advanced past the second round:

Women's soccer

Cal Poly's women's soccer program is coached by Alex Crozier, formerly an assistant coach at Santa Clara under Jerry Smith. Entering the 2022 season, Crozier held a won-loss-draw career record of 296-208-56 in 30 previous seasons (including the canceled year of 2020), ranking No. 30 in NCAA history for career head coaching wins among active coaches. The Mustangs have an NCAA Division I Tournament record of 1-5 through five appearances, with the win coming over Fresno State in the first round in 1999, 2-1 in Fresno. Cal Poly fell 3-1 at Stanford in the second round.

Pro alumni

* Gina Oceguera became the first Cal Poly women's soccer alumna to play professionally in 2000-02, in the WUSA, after being drafted by the San Diego Spirit with the 35th overall selection of the 2000 draft. Oceguera played the 2001 season for the Bay Area CyberRays, helping to lead the club to the championship. * From 2016 to 2017, former Cal Poly goalkeeper Alyssa Giannetti played for Arna-Bjornar in the Toppserien in Bergen, Norway. She signed with the club in February 2016. Giannetti was named the league's Goalkeeper of the Year following her rookie season. * Elise Krieghoff, a teammate of Giannetti with the Mustangs from 2012 to 2015, signed a contract with the

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of the NWSL in April 2016.

Softball

Pro draft choices

* Sierra Hyland, P: 2017 NPF 4th overall (

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)/2020 Olympian

Men's and women's swimming and diving

International record-holders

* Jimmy Deiparine went on to set the Filipino national record in the 100-meter breaststroke: 1:02.08 in 2016. In 2017, Deiparine won the silver medal for the 100m breast at the

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in Kuala Lumpur. Also in 2017, Deiparine swam at the

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in Budapest, breaking his own 50m breast Philippine national record, taking 36th place out of 81 swimmers, via 28.13 seconds.

Olympians

* Cal Poly's Gene Lenz competed in the

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, earning seventh place in the 400m freestyle final in

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, with a time of 4:26.8.

Men's and women's track and field

All-Americans

Combined, all-time in its history, including individual national champions, Cal Poly has produced 522 total All-Americans specific to track & field. 72 of these All-America honors have been awarded in Division I (with 27 to men and 45 to women, including

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certificates as well as indoor-season accolades), and 450 All-America honors were earned in Division II (248 to men and 202 to women).

Olympians

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(U.S.) * Mathyas Michael,

(Ethiopia) * Mohinder Gill,

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

(India) *

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1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 ...

(U.S.) * Karin Smith,

/ 1980/

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(U.S.) * Bart Williams, 1980 (U.S.) * Carmelo Rios,

(Puerto Rico) * Sue McNeal-Rembao, 1992 (U.S.) * Sharon Hanson-Lowery, 1996 (U.S.) *

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, 2004/

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(U.S.) * Sharon Day-Monroe,

(U.S.)

Women's indoor volleyball

The women's indoor volleyball team has been one of the school's best sports programs in recent years and in the 1980s when the team reached No. 1 in the nation in 1985 in the AVCA Coaches Poll. On October 12, 1985, Cal Poly, coached by Mike Wilton, won the NIVT banner at UCLA before a crowd of about 2,500 fans, 3-1. Soon after, in the October 22 Top 25 Poll, the Mustangs were voted as the No. 1 team in the country. Stanford took back over the top spot in the week after. In 2007, the team captured its second straight Big West title by posting a 15-1 conference record and a 23-8 record overall, and made it to the third round of the playoffs before losing to Stanford in the Sweet 16. The team also went 23-6 in 2006. Cal Poly returned to the AVCA national rankings and NCAA tournament in both 2017 & 2018 upon winning back-to-back

championships, and then advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2019. The team has an NCAA Division I Tournament record of 15-17 through seventeen total appearances.

Wrestling

The wrestling program at Cal Poly competes as a member of the

, which is traditionally one of the strongest conferences in

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. Cal Poly has had two wrestlers (Tom Kline & Mark DiGirolamo) win the Division I NCAA Wrestling Championship and 50 wrestlers earn All-American honors at the Division I level. In addition to the program's success at the

Championships, the program has crowned one champion at the

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. On January 30, 2014, Cal Poly hosted

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in a very rare outdoor wrestling match. The match took place in Cal Poly's University Union Plaza following the weekly UU hour. The only other known outdoor matches have been hosted by

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, including one during the 2012-13 season.

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also wrestled Arizona outdoors in the 1970s. The team competes in Mott Athletics Center on campus, opened back in 1960, seating over 3,000 people for home dual meets and tournaments. Three former Mustang wrestlers after graduation went on to compete in

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, more specifically the

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s. The first is

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who was a national runner-up at 141 lbs. in 2008, competing for the UFC since 2011 (challenging for a UFC featherweight title in 2012). The most famous wrestling alum is Chuck Liddell, who graduated in 1995 and is now a retired

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inductee being a former UFC Light heavyweight champion. More recently, 2020 NWCA All-American 197-pounder Tom Lane made his pro fighting debut in the middleweight classification, opening with a win in October 2021. Prior to joining the Division I ranks via the Pac-12 (then the Pac-10) in 1987, Cal Poly was dominant in the College Division/Division II, winning the 1966 national championship and seven consecutive NCAA titles from 1968 to 1974. The men's wrestling team has appeared in the NCAA Division I tournament 48 times, with their highest finish being fifth place in the 1968-69 school year.

Non-Varsity

Rugby

The Mustangs play

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in the California conference of Division 1-A. The Mustangs are often ranked in the Top 25 nationwide, and their rugby sevens team has been ranked as high as 7th. The Mustangs finished 8th in the nation at the 2011

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, and 12th at the 2012 competition.

NCAA championships and tournaments

Division I appearances in team bracket/meet

The Cal Poly Mustangs have competed in the NCAA tournament or in NCAA Division I Finals Meets on a team-scored basis across 19 active sports (10 men's and 9 women's). * Baseball (3): 2009, 2013, 2014 * Beach volleyball (3): 2019, 2021, 2022 * Men's basketball (1): 2014 * Women's basketball (1): 2013 * Men's cross country (7): 1999, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 * Football (4): 2005, 2008, 2012, 2016 * Men's soccer (3): 1995, 2008, 2015 * Women's soccer (5): 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 * Softball (2): 2007, 2009 * Men's swimming and diving (3): 1958, 1959, 2014 * Women's golf (3): 2017, 2021, 2022 * Men's tennis (3): 2011, 2012, 2014 * Women's tennis (2): 2003, 2011 * Men's indoor track and field (2): 1971, 1973 * Women's indoor track and field (7): 1983, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 * Men's outdoor track and field (11): 1960, 1961, 1964, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 * Women's outdoor track and field (13): 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011 * Women's volleyball (17): 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2017, 2018, 2019 * Wrestling (48): 1958, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022

NCAA titles won

Cal Poly has never won a team national championship at the NCAA Division I level. Cal Poly previously won 35 national championships at the NCAA Division II level. * Men's cross country (2): 1978, 1979 * Women's cross country (10): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991 * Football (1): 1980 * Men's outdoor track and field (6): 1968, 1969, 1970, 1979, 1980, 1981 * Women's outdoor track and field (6): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1991 * Men's tennis (2): 1986, 1990 * Wrestling (8): 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 Below is one national championship that was not bestowed by the NCAA: * Women's outdoor track and field – Division II (1): 1981 (

) Below are six national club team championships: * Co-ed cycling (1): 1992 (

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) * Men's rodeo (3): 1970, 1971, 1973 ( NIRA) * Women's rodeo (1): 1989 (NIRA) * Co-ed Triathlon (1): 1995 (

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)

Individual NCAA Division I titles

Cal Poly had 12 Mustangs win NCAA individual championships at the Division I level. At the NCAA Division II level, Cal Poly garnered 120 individual championships.

Athletic facilities

* Anderson Aquatic Center :The Anderson Aquatic Center is a

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and

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venue in San Luis Obispo, California. It is home to the Cal Poly Mustangs men's and women's swimming and diving team of the NCAA Division I in the

. A new $100,000 scoreboard was added in October 2014, with dual-ability to function as an HD video device. * Baggett Stadium :Robin Baggett Stadium is a

venue in San Luis Obispo, California. It is home to the

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team of the NCAA Division I in the

. The stadium has a capacity of 1,734. *Doerr Family Field :Doerr Family Field is the practice facility for football and soccer. Officially dedicated on February 2, 2018, the $4.8 million facility included a 140-yard synthetic-turf practice field allowing room for football sled work, along with goalposts, lights, a flagpole, a scoreboard and a pair of filming towers. The Cal Poly Corporation, Cal Poly Housing and Associated Students, Inc., collaborated on the project. * Janssen Field : Bob Janssen Field is the home field for the Cal Poly Mustangs

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team. The venue has a capacity of 800. The softball program debuted a new hitting facility, breaking ground in November 2017, measuring 98 feet by 42 feet (20 feet high), with a dedication taking place May 5, 2018. The $400,000 project yielded two hitting bays on synthetic turf, with retractable netting systems allowing coaches and players to reconfigure to specific needs, a bullpen with three individual pitching rubbers, and a storage shed. In February 2019, a new

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videoboard (25 feet wide by 14.5 feet tall) was added to the field. * Miller and Capriotti Athletics Complex :The Miller and Capriotti Athletics Complex is the home

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venue for the men's and women's Cal Poly Mustangs track and field teams. Inaugurated on March 24, 2018, the $1.6 million project in association with Cal Poly Corporation, Associated Students, Inc. and Cal Poly Housing was part of the reshaping of the southeast corner of campus from Longview Lane to Grand Avenue adjacent to a new 435,000-square-foot student housing site. Beynon Sports installed a new track surface and a newly renovated field was put into place inside the re-balanced infield oval, with drought-tolerant Bandera Bermuda grass. * Mott Athletics Center :The Robert A. Mott Athletics Center is a 3,032-seat multi-purpose

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. It is home to the Cal Poly Mustangs men's and women's

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teams, women's

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team and men's

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team. * Mustang Beach Volleyball Complex :The Mustang Beach Volleyball Complex is the home venue for the Cal Poly women's beach volleyball team. In 2019, Cal Poly — which had hosted its home contests on nearby Pismo State Beach — proposed plans to construct five new on-campus beach volleyball courts, implementing an

-regulation facility aspired to be one of the most elaborate in the country, including a videoboard. The project successfully broke ground in July 2019, with completion in November 2019. * Mustang Tennis Complex :The Mustang Tennis Complex is the home

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venue for the men's and women's Cal Poly Mustangs tennis teams. A new scoreboard was added to the seven-court complex in October 2013, part of a $250,000 project also including resurfacing of the courts along with the implementation of windscreens surrounding the facility. The site was dedicated in association with Tennis Connect SLO on October 5, 2013. * Mustang Memorial Field Presented by Dignity Health French Hospital Medical Center :Mustang Memorial Field Presented by Dignity Health French Hospital Medical Center is an 11,075-seat

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. It is home to the

team of the

in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and the

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and women's soccer teams. The stadium, originally opened in 1935, received a massive renovation in November 2006.

Rivalries

The Battle for the Golden Horseshoe

Cal Poly's football rivalry with UC Davis, a fellow member of the Big Sky Conference, is played for the

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The Blue-Green Rivalry

The main rival of the Cal Poly Mustangs are the

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who compete together in the Blue–Green Rivalry. The Blue-Green Rivalry, which started in November 1921 with a football game, was formalized in 2009. This new format calculates earned points between Cal Poly and UCSB to determine a winner based on their teams' competitive results against each other. Additionally, collegesoccernews.com ranked UC Santa Barbara vs. Cal Poly as the Greatest Rivalry in College Soccer.

Renowned Cal Poly Mustangs alumni

* Ramses Barden, New York Giants wide receiver *

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, NFL GM/Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee *

, Olympic Track and Field high jumper *

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gold medalist discus thrower *

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sprinter (100-meter dash/200m dash) *

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, MLB pitcher and 2011 All-Star * Gary Davis, NFL running back * Sharon Day-Monroe, Two-time U.S. Olympic track & field

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* Jimmy Deiparine,

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record-setting swimmer * Nick Dzubnar,

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* Mohinder Gill, NCAA triple jump champion and Olympic triple jumper (India) * Victor J. Glover,

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astronaut * Chris Gocong, Philadelphia Eagles/Cleveland Browns linebacker * Mitch Haniger,

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All-Star * Sharon Hanson, Olympic track and field heptathlete * Sierra Hyland, Olympic softball pitcher * Asa Jackson, San Francisco 49ers cornerback * Damone Johnson, Los Angeles Rams tight end * Mel Kaufman, NFL linebacker/

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Super Bowl champion *

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, MLB pitcher/1986 All-Star/

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broadcaster * Brooks Lee, 2022 Minnesota Twins 8th overall (first round) draft choice * Gene Lenz, Olympic swimmer * Chuck Liddell, former

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champion/MMA Hall of Famer *

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, Oakland Raiders Super Bowl-winning coach/ NFL commentator/

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r *

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from the ...

, 2008 NCAA second-place wrestler/

member * Steve Miller,

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director of global sports marketing * Dana Nafziger, Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker *

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pitcher *

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, Olympic wrestler * David Nwaba, NBA guard * Gina Oceguera, Mexico World Cup soccer player/ WUSA pro * John Orton, California Angels first-round draft pick *

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, NBA coach * Carmelo Rios, Olympic track and field athlete (Puerto Rico) *

, pro golfer * Karin Smith, Olympic javelin thrower *

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shortstop/MLB Hall of Famer * Alex G. Spanos, San Diego Chargers owner * Chris Thomas,

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wide receiver *

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, College football coach * Cecil Turner, Chicago Bears Pro Bowl kick returner * Drake U'u,

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assistant GM

Broadcast information

Cal Poly's ESPN Radio affiliate is ESPN 1280 AM The Ticket ( KXTK). The station has added 101.7 FM carrying Mustangs broadcasts, with greater reach throughout

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. In addition, Chris Sylvester hosts the Mustang Insider podcast with

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. As of 2021, Big West-telecast events involving Cal Poly switched to ESPN+, while Big Sky-streamed football games featuring the Mustangs also swung to the network approximate to the same time.

References

External links

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