Global InformationSouth Florida Bulls information
| South Florida Bulls | |
|---|---|
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| University | University of South Florida |
| Conference | The American (primary) SAISA (sailing) |
| NCAA | Division I (FBS) |
| Athletic director | Michael Kelly |
| Location | Tampa, Florida St. Petersburg, Florida (sailing team) |
| First season | 1965 |
| Varsity teams | 19 (8 men's, 11 women's) |
| Football stadium | Raymond James Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Yuengling Center |
| Ice hockey arena | AdventHealth Center Ice (club team) |
| Baseball stadium | USF Baseball Stadium |
| Softball stadium | USF Softball Stadium |
| Soccer stadium | Corbett Stadium |
| Lacrosse stadium | Corbett Stadium |
| Golf course | The Claw |
| Sailing venue | Haney Landing Sailing Center |
| Tennis venue | USF Varsity Tennis Courts |
| Outdoor track and field venue | USF Track and Field Stadium |
| Volleyball arena | The Corral |
| Mascot | Rocky the Bull |
| Nickname | Bulls |
| Marching band | Herd of Thunder |
| Fight song | Golden Brahman March |
| Colors | Green and gold[1] |
| Website | gousfbulls |
| Team NCAA championships | |
| 1 | |
| Individual and relay NCAA champions | |
| 23 | |
The South Florida Bulls (also known as the USF Bulls) are the athletic teams that represent the University of South Florida. USF competes in NCAA Division I and is a member of the American Athletic Conference for all sports besides sailing, a non-NCAA sanctioned varsity sport which competes in the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association within the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association. The current athletic director is Michael Kelly, who has held the job since 2018. The school colors are green and gold and the mascot is Rocky D. Bull.
The university currently sponsors 19 varsity sports teams, nine for men and ten for women. The sports sponsored are baseball, men's basketball, women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, football, men's and women's golf, women's sailing, men's soccer, women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field (outdoor and indoor for both), and women's volleyball.[2] In addition, USF will add a women's lacrosse team and a women's beach volleyball team in the 2024–25 and 2025–26 school years, respectively.[3][4] USF used to sponsor teams in co-ed rifle and men's and women's swimming and diving.
Across all sports, the Bulls have won one team NCAA national championship (women's swimming in 1985). Outside of the additional seven individual and three relay national championships in women's swimming, USF athletes have won seven individual and relay NCAA national championships in men's swimming, two individual NCAA national championships in rifle, three individual NCAA national championships in men's outdoor track and field, and one individual NCAA national championship in men's indoor track and field.[5][6][7][8] Additionally, the university has won five national championships in varsity sports outside of NCAA competition. The softball team won the 1983 and 1984 national championships in the American Softball Association, which was the highest level of college softball at the time.[9] Sailing, which is not an NCAA-sanctioned sport but is still a varsity team sponsored by the USF Athletic Department, has won three national championships in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association: Sloop in 2009 and Offshore Large Boats in 2016 and 2017.[10][11][12] USF's teams have also won 163 conference championships, and athletes have won 223 individual and relay conference championships.
As of the 2020 Summer Olympics, 15 Bulls have competed as athletes in the Olympic Games, winning one gold medal.
- ^ USF Athletics Brand Guide (PDF). August 18, 2022. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
- ^ "USF Athletics - Official Athletics Website". USF Athletics. Retrieved May 2, 2021.
- ^ "USF to Add Women's Lacrosse in 2023-24". USF Athletics. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
- ^ "USF to Add Women's Beach Volleyball in 2024-25". USF Athletics. Retrieved February 2, 2022.
- ^ "NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving record book" (PDF). NCAA.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on September 20, 2020.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "NCAA Champions Summary 2020" (PDF).
- ^ "University of South Florida yearbook. (1983)". Archived from the original on November 17, 2020.
- ^ "ICSA Cornelius Shields Trophy". collegesailing.org. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
- ^ "USF Bulls win Kennedy Cup ICSA Big Boat National Championship >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. November 7, 2016. Archived from the original on November 17, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
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