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 California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH, CSU Dominguez Hills, or Cal State Dominguez Hills) is a public university in Carson, California. It was founded in 1960 and is part of the California State University (CSU) system. In 2020, ...

, located in

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, in

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intercollegiate sports. The Toros compete as members of the

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for all 9 varsity sports. The men's

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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 Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

and

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; Toro Field (capacity 300) for

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

; and Toro Diamond (capacity 300) for

softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

. Select home games are nationally televised live via Internet TV. Even though

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, home of the

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and the temporary home of the

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, is located on the campus of CSUDH, the Toros do not play there.

Individual teams

Baseball

Kevin Pillar played

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for the Toros baseball team, for which he was an

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n. In 2010, as a junior he set an

record at the school, with a 54-game

hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit. According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is not necessarily ended when a player has at least 1 pla ...

. In August 2013, he became a major leaguer, for the

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Bubby Rossman Charles Irvin "Bubby" Rossman (born June 29, 1992) is an American-Israeli professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He played college baseball for Cerritos College and California State University, Dominguez Hills. He was selected in the ...

('14) played for the team, and became a major league baseball pitcher for the

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in 2022.

Soccer

The men's soccer won its second national NCAA Division II championship in a match against

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on December 7, 2008 at the

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’s

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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

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(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) **

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(2):

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2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

* Women's (1) **

(1): 1991 Results Below are two national club team championships: * Men's badminton (2): 1975, 1979 ( ABA)

Individual

CSU Dominguez Hills had 1 Toro win an NCAA individual championship at the Division II level.

References

External links

* {{California Collegiate Athletic Association navbox