UC Davis Aggies
University	University of California, Davis
Conference	Big West (primary) Big Sky (football) America East (field hockey) ECAC (equestrian) Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (women's gymnastics, women's indoor track & field, women's swimming & diving) Pac-12(women's lacrosse)
NCAA	Division I (FCS)
Athletic director	Rocko DeLuca
Location	Davis, California
First year	1915
Varsity teams	25[1][2]
Football stadium	UC Davis Health Stadium
Basketball arena	University Credit Union Center
Outdoor track and field venue	Toomey Field
Mascot	Gunrock the Mustang
Nickname	Aggies
Fight song	Aggie Fight, Sons of California, Big C (fight song)
Colors	Yale blue and gold[3]
Website	www.ucdavisaggies.com

The UC Davis Aggies (also referred to as the Ags, Cal Aggies, or Aggies) are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Davis.

Eighteen 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, men's water polo, 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, and women's swimming and diving, the America East Conference in field hockey,^[4] the Eastern College Athletic Conference for equestrian, and the Pac-12 Conference for women's lacrosse. Following the 2024 collapse of the Pac-12, UC Davis will become a charter member of the new women's lacrosse league of the Big 12 Conference.^[5]

Nickname

The "Aggies"^[6] is UC Davis' official team nickname. The university was previously called the College of Agriculture at Davis because it was part of UC Berkley until it was separated in 1959 by the UC Regents.^[7] The nickname Aggies is in honor of the agricultural origins of the university.

History

Origins (1915–1959)

Davis began its athletics program with football in 1915 as part of the University of California team.

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)

In November 2002, UC Davis students voted to elevate the athletics program to Division I, passing by 8 percent, with 4,638 voters approving a $183 annual fee increase earmarked for sports funding through 2008, defeating 3,929 voters against.^[8] However, the vote was merely advisory.

Following a year of heavy discussion by campus administrators, faculty, staff, students, alumni and the local community, taking a cue from the advisory vote, UCD chancellor Larry Vanderhoef officially announced the university's move to Division I on March 11, 2003.^[9]

The department then became a fully fledged D-I program on July 1, 2007.^[10][11]

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
Track and field	Lacrosse
Water polo	Soccer
	Softball
	Swimming and diving
	Tennis
	Track and field†
	Volleyball
	Water polo
† – Women's programs includes both indoor and outdoor

Baseball

The UC Davis Aggies baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic baseball team of the University of California, Davis.^[12] 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.

Former Stanford and Texas assistant coach Tommy Nicholson was hired as the 11th head coach in program history on December 11, 2021.

Basketball

Men's basketball

The school's team currently competes in the Big West Conference, which is part of the NCAA Division I.^[13] 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 University Credit Union Center.

The 2022-23 season is head coach Jim Les 12th 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. Les, along with associate head coach Kevin Nosek and assistant coaches Jonathan Metzger-Jones and Kyle Vogt entered their seventh season together in 2022-23.

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 University Credit Union Center.

The Aggies have won six Big West Conference regular season titles (2009–10, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020-21) and three Big West Tournament titles (2011, 2019, 2021) in their combined 15 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 three times in 2011, 2019 and 2021 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

The UC Davis Aggies football team represents UC 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
2018	Second Round Quarterfinals	Northern Iowa Eastern Washington	W 23–16 L 29–34

Men's soccer

Became Big West Conference Tournament Champions in 2019 and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the third time (2007, 2008, 2019) in program history. The UC Davis Aggies men's soccer team have an NCAA Division I Tournament record of 1–3 through three appearances.^[14]

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
2007	First Round	California	L 1–2
2008	First Round Second Round	Denver Michigan	W 4–0 L 1–2
2019	Second Round	Louisville	L 0-1

Men's water polo

The UC Davis Aggies men's water polo team has won seven WWPA title, including back-to-back championships in 2021 and 2022. The Aggies have appeared in the NCAA Division I Tournament nine times in the program's history.^[15]

Year	Round	Opponent	Result
1974	First Round	CSU Fullerton	L 4–7
1975	First Round	UC Irvine	L 4–19
1996	Semifinals	UCLA	L 6–18
1997	Semifinals	Pepperdine	L 8–13
2016	Quarterfinals	Harvard	L 15–16
2017	Quarterfinals	Pacific	L 12–13

Men's Tennis

2015, 2023 Big West Tri-Champions. In 2015, the Aggies earned a program-best 17 wins at the Division I level. In 2016, Alec Adamson became the first UC Davis men's tennis player to be named the Big West Player of the Year and was the first Aggie at the Division I level to earn a berth into the NCAA Singles Tournament, finishing the year ranked No. 108 in the nation according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s final poll.

Men's Track and Field

Ngoni Makusha, a 2008 Olympian, two-time track athlete of the year and former Drake assistant track and field coach, is UC Davis' men's and women's track & field head coach.

UC Davis sprinter Matthew Okonkwo captured a share of the Big West Conference Male Track Athlete of the Year in 2022. Okonkwo captured Big West individual titles in each of the 200- and 400-meter dashes at the championship meet, while helping both relay squads to top-three finishes. He had the league's fastest 400 time of the year, breaking Brian Thomas' school record with a time of 46.36 seconds at the CSUN Red & Black Invite on April 2. Okonkwo's winning 21.23 clocking in the 200 at conference currently ranks second in the Big West and fourth in school history.

School Records

Men's Golf

UC Davis men's golf has tallied 41 team wins and 53 individual victories dating back to 1993.

School Records

Men's Cross Country

UC Davis captured its first Big West Championship in 2010 when individual conference champion Jonathan Peterson led the Aggies to their historic victory.

Records

Beach Volleyball

UC Davis added beach volleyball ahead of the 2019 season, joining Equestrian as the department's newest sports. The Aggies opened their historic first season with a 2-0 record and enjoyed success in their most recent campaign, posting their best start to a season (9-0) in program history.

Field Hockey

UC Davis added field hockey ahead of the 2009 season, competing in the NorPac conference. The Aggies joined the American East in 2015 and remain in the conference heading into 2023. UC Davis has not posted a winning season since the program's inception, but finished just one game below .500 (8-9) in 2019.

Women's Track and Field

In less than half a decade, UC Davis women’s track & field boasted three finalists – including two winners – for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award, which honors excellence and leadership in athletics, academics and in the community. Founded in 1991, the award stands as one of the highest honors that national governing body bestows upon an individual. Since then, UC Davis is the only Division II institution to have won the award and is one of just two schools to have three winners (Aggie lacrosse player Kelly Albin captured the honor in 2004). Hundreds of student-athletes are nominated annually, from which one winner is chosen for each state plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. From those 52 state-level honorees, the NCAA selects 10 finalists. The winner is then chosen at an annual televised banquet. Remarkably, the Aggies’ All-American 4x400 relay team at the 1999 NCAA Outdoor Championships featured three finalists: 2001 finalist Kameelah Elarms was the leadoff runner, 2002 winner Tanisha Silas ran the third leg and 1999 winner Jamila Demby served as the anchor.

Records

Equestrian

UC Davis added Equestrian ahead of the 2019 season and the program instantly enjoyed success, earning their first ECAC Championship in 2023.

Women's Golf

UC Davis women's golf is led by the three-time Big West Golfer of the Year and former LPGA Tour professional Demi Runas. Runas was the first Aggie to earn her LPGA Tour card. The Aggies have posted 23 team wins as well as 22 individual victories since the program started in 2005, also making four NCAA Tournament appearances (2008, 2011, 2013, 2015) over that time.

Gymnastics

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