Intercollegiate sports teams of University of California, Santa Cruz
Athletic teams representing University of California, Santa Cruz
UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
University
University of California, Santa Cruz
Conference
Coast to Coast Athletic Conference/ American Southwest Conference (women's golf only)
NCAA
Division III
Athletic director
Courtnie Prather (Interim)
Location
Santa Cruz, California
Varsity teams
15
Basketball arena
Kaiser Permanente Arena
Mascot
Sammy the Slug
Fight song
Banana Slugs Racing Down the Field
Colors
Navy blue and gold[1]
Website
www.goslugs.com
The UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Santa Cruz. The Banana Slugs compete in Division III of the NCAA, mostly in the Coast to Coast Athletic Conference (C2C). There are fifteen varsity sports – men's and women's basketball, tennis, soccer, volleyball, swimming and diving, cross country, track & field, and women's golf. UCSC teams have been Division III nationally ranked in tennis, soccer, men's volleyball, and swimming. UCSC maintains a number of successful club sides.
UC Santa Cruz joined the NCAA in September 1980 after years of playing in unofficial club competition. In 2016, due to mounting debt in the funding of the athletic program, the university polled its students on whether or not they would approve an increase in student fees which would be necessary to maintain the athletic program. There was a significant doubt that the students would approve this increase. Contrary to predictions, a majority of the students approved a significant addition to their annual fees to maintain the existence of the athletic program.[2][3]
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