Academic Excellence • UConn student-athletes perform at a high level in the fields and arenas of athletic play and in the classroom. • Over 50 percent of student-athletes earned a 3.0 or better grade point average in 2012-13 and xx had a 4.0 grade point average either the fall 2012 and/or spring 2013 semesters. • Five Husky teams had a perfect score in the latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) report: field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, softball and women’s tennis. • The Husky men’s basketball team posted an NCAA Academic Performance Rate (APR) score of 978 while winning a national championship in 2010-11 and now have an outstanding two-year average of 963. • Twenty of UConn’s 24 teams had a four-year APR score of 970 or better in the latest APR report while three had perfect multi-year scores and nine had perfect single-year scores. • The UConn women’s basketball team had a multi-year score of 984 during a time period in which the Huskies won two national championships and played in the Final Four all four seasons. • The football team had an APR multi-year score of 958 for the football team during a time period in which UConn played in bowl games in three seasons. The football team’s score is 11 points higher than the average score for all public institutions. • The field hockey team had a nearperfect multi-year score of 996 in a period when the Huskies went to the NCAA tournament all four years and the national semifinal in 2011. • In 2011, the baseball team had a single-year score of 1000 in a season when UConn advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals.
President Susan Herbst Dear Friends, The University of Connecticut and its Division of Athletics are living in an exciting era. Husky teams bring great pride to our state and our university; they are a rallying point for everyone associated with UConn including our students, our alumni around the world, our faculty, staff and of course the thousands of fans that make up Husky Nation. UConn student-athletes perform at the highest level both academically and athletically and we as an institution are committed to ensuring that they continue to succeed in both. Elsewhere at the university, construction is underway for our highly exciting research and innovation effort called Bioscience Connecticut; UConn and the world-renowned Jackson Labs are part of a major new research partnership; and plans are quickly moving forward for a Technology Park on our Storrs campus. UConn is also in the midst of an ambitious, multi-year hiring initiative to dramatically expand our faculty across numerous academic disciplines. This four-year investment in 500 tenure-track faculty positions will build on the institution’s existing strengths and grow new expertise in strategic areas by hiring talented scholars in key fields. It will significantly boost the university’s research productivity, provide outstanding teaching and service to UConn students and continue the transformation that has led the university to stand among the nation’s leading public research institutions. Finally, Governor Dannell Malloy and the Connecticut General Assembly recently passed Next Generation Connecticut. This $1.5 billion state investment will greatly expand educational opportunities, research, and innovation in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines at UConn over the next decade. The cornerstone of this unprecedented state investment is a major increase in the university’s enrollment, the expansion of our faculty – above and beyond UConn’s current faculty hiring initiative – and new and updated facilities to accommodate enhanced STEM research and teaching, as well as our growing population. With Next Generation Connecticut, targeted strategic investments in facilities, faculty, and students will further establish UConn as a vital STEM institution, fueling new technologies, highly skilled graduates, new companies, patents, licenses, and high-wage STEM jobs. Finally, the demand to attend UConn is astounding: in 2013, UConn received more than 30,000 applications for our freshman class. To put that in perspective, in 2001, the university received less than half that. Now more than ever, UConn is able to offer a very high-quality education for a very competitive value, which is incredibly important to students and families. Our faculty, our students, our facilities and our academic and athletic successes have combined to make UConn an outstanding university – and with great pride and determination, we continue on to an even brighter future. Sincerely,
Susan Herbst President University of Connecticut
Director of Athletics
Warde Manuel Dear Friends, The University of Connecticut was founded in 1881 and the beginnings of our intercollegiate athletics programs soon followed. Excellence has always been part of the Husky tradition and many great coaches, student-athletes and staff have worked to establish a strong foundation and our rich legacy. Today, our Division of Athletics is a broad-based program with 24 sports, over 700 studentathletes and approximately 200 full-time employees. The athletic department does not receive any tax dollars to support athletics, which comes as a surprise to many people. We are responsible for generating revenues to support a current budget of $65 million with $12 million of that being returned to the University in the form of scholarships for our student-athletes. The Husky faithful should be proud of the continued success of our student-athletes in the classroom and on the fields of play. Our University continues to grow in stature and prestige into one of the country’s top public research universities through the UCONN 2000, 21st Century UConn and Next Generation Initiatives. That development will continue through the next 10 years with an incredible expansion of our UConn campuses, UConn Health Center and the new Tech Park in Storrs. The Division of Athletics mirrors the aspirations of the entire UConn community. We have a great championship past, we are champions today, and are committed to being champions in the future. Beginning on the next page and throughout this publication, you will see the rich championship history of the UConn Huskies. We are proud of the national and conference championships we have won and the All-American student-athletes we have produced. Fans around the world will continue to watch UConn -- our brand remains one of the strongest in the country. When televisions are turned on to Husky games, they need to see three things: student-athletes and coaches performing and winning at the highest level, state-of-the art and modern facilities, and great fans filling our venues of play with enthusiasm and passion from the beginning of the contest until the last whistle blows. I promise you that we are working every day to ensure that those who support UConn witness greatness in these areas. We are “UCONN” because of a lot of hard work from those in the past and men and women in the present who continue to make us successful at the conference and national level. However, we could not have achieved any of that without the support of our alumni, fans and donors. We need your continued enthusiasm and support that Husky fans have been famous for over the decades. We need you to be even more passionate than ever before. We need you to believe in our ability to be great, show up, stand up and be counted among the die-hard Husky fans. We begin a new era in 2013-14 with the American Athletic Conference that consists of prestigious national universities that have all enjoyed athletic success. We will develop new rivalries and traditions with these schools and the competition will be exciting and highly competitive in every sport. I strongly believe in UConn Athletics and its future. I believe that we will continue to win conference championships and enjoy championship success in NCAA competition. I have confidence in our student-athletes, coaches and staff in the Division of Athletics. Most of all, I am confident that our great Husky fans will continue to support us and rally for us more than ever before. GO HUSKIES!!!!
Warde Manuel Director of Athletics
University of Connecticut
Division of Athletics • UConn’s annual budget ranks among the Top 50 in the nation at $65 million in 2013-14. • UConn supports 24 varsity programs (11 men, 13 women) with over 700 student-athletes. • Huskies have won 15 NCAA National Championships in four different sports (8 women’s basketball, 3 men’s basketball, 2 men’s soccer and 2 field hockey). • Nearly one million fans attend UConn events annually. Ticketed sports are football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, men’s soccer, women’s soccer and men’s ice hockey. • UConn’s loyal donors annually contribute to Husky successes. Since the formation of the UConn Athletic Development Fund in 1978, more than $180 million has been donated to support the academic and athletic achievements of UConn student-athletes. This includes more than $100 million in the past ten years. • In 2012-13, UConn finished tenth in the Capital One Cup standings for women’s sports – the highest among any Big East team and ahead of such schools as Duke, Tennessee, Maryland and Minnesota. • In 2011, UConn became the ONLY school to have football compete in a BCS Bowl game (Fiesta Bowl), and men’s and women’s basketball compete in their sport’s Final Four in the same year (men’s basketball went on to win the National Championship). • In the last 19 years, UConn men’s and women’s basketball programs have combined to win 11 NCAA National Championships…double the rate of any other NCAA Division I institution during that time. • UConn is the only institution in NCAA Division I to win the men’s and women’s basketball national championships in the same season (2004). • UConn is the only institution in college basketball to have both its men’s basketball head coach (Jim Calhoun) and its women’s basketball head coach (Geno Auriemma) enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame while still active coaches. • Based on the NCAA revenue distribution plan for NCAA Tournament success, UConn’s men’s basketball two “Final Four” appearances in 2009 and ’11 generated approximately $15 million. • UConn football, which joined the Big East Conference in 2004, won two Big East titles in its time as a league member. • UConn football has earned five bowl bids in its 10 years of competition as a BCS level member institution. • UConn has made a major institutional commitment in men’s ice hockey joining the top-ranked Hockey East in 2014. • A total of 22 former UConn football players were in NFL training camps for the 2013 season. • There were 13 former UConn men’s basketball players on NBA rosters in 2012-13 -- among the top five highest schools in the country. UConn has produced a total of 18 NBA First Round Draft picks. • Eight UConn women’s basketball players have earned Olympic Gold medals while 13 have been WNBA First Round Draft picks.
Distinctions • U.S. News & World Report ranks UConn among the top 20 public universities in the nation. • UConn’s School of Business is ranked among the Top 25 public undergraduate business programs in the U.S. according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. • UConn’s Neag School of Education graduate program is ranked No. 32 nationally among public universities and first in the Northeast according to U.S. News & World Report. In addition, the Neag School’s special education program and elementary teacher education and secondary teacher education programs are ranked among the top 20. • The University has been selected as a member of Universitas 21, a preeminent international network of leading research-intensive universities in 17 countries. • The Neag School of Education’s doctoral program in kinesiology ranks No. 1 in the nation according to the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. • The Sierra Club, an international environmental advocacy organization, ranks UConn No. 1 in the “Top 10 Coolest Schools” in the country, based on environmental initiatives.
Academic Breadth • Gov. Dannel P. Malloy recently signed into law Next Generation Connecticut, a multifaceted $1.5 billion plan to enhance the state’s economic future through strategic investment in science, technology, engineering, and math. • UConn is hiring 500 tenure-track faculty over four years with emphasis on environmental stability, digital media, science and engineering, language and culture, revolutions in education, health and health policy and theater innovation.
University of Connecticut • UConn is ranked 40th in awarded doctoral degrees (higher than 26 of 61 American Association of Universities member institutions). • Ranked 49th in the nation in doctoral student enrollment (higher than 23 of 61 AAU member institutions). • Ranked 77th in the nation in research expenditures (higher than 10 AAU member institutions). • UConn has 14 schools and colleges. • The University grants 17 graduate degrees in 75 fields of study, including professional programs in business, dental, law, medicine, pharmacy, and social work. • Applications continue to rise with over 30,000 applicants competing for 3,755 spots at the Storrs campus and 1,250 available seats at regional campuses. • For the tenth consecutive year, more than half of the applicants in 2012 were out-of-state students, comprising 25% of the incoming class.
Impressive Faculty • UConn’s faculty members are world-renowned. Many are recognized as leaders in education, research, and scholarship. • UConn faculty research in regenerative biology produced America’s first cloned calf using nonreproductive cells, creating an international scientific and media sensation. • UConn faculty provided pivotal leadership for the historic UConn-African National Congress Partnership. • Faculty initiative created an unprecedented opportunity for UConn students to study at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. • UConn’s Neag School of Education is home to the renowned National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, the Accelerated Schools Project, and is one of 11 schools nationwide selected for the Carnegie Corporation’s prestigious Teachers for a New Era initiative. • UConn faculty collaborating across campuses, including at the Health Center, are conducting breakthrough research in medicine, genetics, nanotechnology, and fuel cell technology. • Faculty members are dedicated to their roles as teachers, student advisors, and mentors. UConn’s undergraduate summer research program offers students the opportunity to participate in original research or receive a grant to work under the direction of renowned professors.
Living the UConn Experience • More than 30,000 students are enrolled, among the various campuses statewide and represent nearly every state in the nation and 98 countries. • Average SAT scores for incoming freshmen at Storrs are up over 100 points since 1996 and now average 1233 (critical reading and math only). • The 438 students UConn welcomed into its Honors Program in 2012 had an average SAT score of more than 1400. • Minority students make up 26% of the 2012 incoming undergraduate class. • Since 1995, 1,703 valedictorians and salutatorians have enrolled at all campuses. In fall 2013, 45 percent of freshmen entering the Storrs campus were ranked in the top 10 percent of their high school class and 82 percent were ranked in the top 25 percent of their class. • 93% of freshmen, including students of color, return for their sophomore year.
Getting Involved • UConn offers more than 600 student clubs and organizations. • In 2012, students chose from more than 300 Study Abroad programs in 65 countries. • Cooperative education programs and internships integrate classroom learning and work experience in business, industry, and public service.
Attractions • In 2012, more than 49,000 prospective students and their families embarked on tours of the UConn campus from the Lodewick Visitors Center, the gateway to the unique facilities that define the University’s 4,000-acre main campus. • Visitors may enjoy lodging, dining, and relaxing in the Nathan Hale Inn, our on-campus hotel and conference facility. • With more than 3 million volumes, the Homer Babbidge Library is the intellectual hub of the Storrs campus. In fact, the Association of Research Libraries ranks UConn’s library system 20th among public research libraries in the United States. • UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts showcases the region’s most noteworthy dramatic events. It stages professional touring attractions that range from Broadway musicals to intimate cabarets. • The collections of the William Benton Museum of Art include more than 5,500 pieces; the museum features a gallery exclusively dedicated to presenting human rights-oriented visual arts, as well as an outdoor meditation sculpture garden. • Housed in UConn’s Museum of Natural History, the Connecticut Archaeology Center explores the natural and cultural history of southern New England. • The J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum features photos, videos, plaques, banners, uniforms, NCAA National Championship trophies and the football team’s bowl trophies.
Amazing Facilities Since 1995, the State of Connecticut has invested nearly $5.5 billion in the University’s infrastructure. UCONN 2000, 21st Century UConn and now Next Generation Connecticut have been the most ambitious publically financed building programs in the country totally nearly $4 billion. The state has also spent $8 billion in Bioscience Connecticut at the UConn Health Center and $2 million in the development of a Tech Park at Storrs main campus.
The landmark UConn 2000, 21st Century UConn and Next Generation Connecticut programs have and will create more than 12 million square feet of new and renovated space for research, teaching, living and learning. The completed projects include: • An award-winning building for the Department of Chemistry. According to the International Architecture Yearbook, the Chemistry building is one of the best-designed buildings in the world. • New buildings for the Schools of Business and Pharmacy. • The modern Biology/Physics Building. • New building for Information Technologies Engineering. • A new Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory. • Additions to the William Benton Museum of Art. • Renovations to numerous facilities, including the Homer Babbidge Library, the historic Wilbur Cross building, the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, and the Philip E. Austin Building, the home of UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. • Construction that includes the latest innovations in student residential communities. • Oak Hall and Laurel Hall are dynamic new buildings dedicated solely to state-of-the art classrooms, both notable for their environmental conscious, sustainable energy feature. Laurel Hall is the University’s first Green LEED Certification building. • Widmer Wing, a new 15,800-square foot addition to the main building of UConn’s School of Nursing. • Additions and renovations to the Weston A. Bousfield Psychology Building. • In addition to the improvements to the Storrs campus, the Avery Point campus houses a sophisticated marine facility; the campuses at Stamford, Waterbury, Hartford, and Torrington have been revitalized, as well as the UConn School of Law. • A new technology park with the initial building scheduled to be completed in 2015-16. The first facility will consist of a 125,000 square foot Innovation Partnership Building, allowing industry scientists and business entrepreneurs to work side-by-side using world-class equipment and shared laboratories.
The State of
Connecticut • With a population of 3.5 Million, the State of Connecticut is the largest populated state without an institution that is a current member of the five conferences that comprise the new BCS in 2014 (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and Pac-12). • A total of 120,621 UConn alumni currently reside in the State of Connecticut, and more than 32,000 additional alumni reside in the neighboring northeast region states of Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey. • Overall, more than 75% of UConn alumni reside in the northeast corridor of the United States. • This Northeast corridor comprises a total of more than 58 million residents. • Connecticut is one of the original colonies and has a history of being revolutionary – politically, socially, culturally, and economically. • The state boasts many firsts, among them: Igor Sikorsky invented the helicopter, the first nuclear submarine was launched, and the first President to ride in an automobile did so in Hartford in 1902.
Connecticut’s average household income is $83,000, which is 20% above the national average. Connecticut ranks #1 among all states in per capita income. Connecticut ranks #2 among all states in finance and insurance jobs. Connecticut ranks #3 among all states in both advanced degree and in the low poverty rate. Connecticut ranks #4 among all states in healthy residents, total state productivity, and energy efficiency. Connecticut ranks among the top 10 states in number of scientists and engineers, worldwide productivity, venture capital deals, education and health service jobs, patents, low crime rates, technology and science capacity and exports. Connecticut continues to lead the way in the areas of stem-cell research and energy alternatives.
Connecticut Loves Its Sports Residents of Connecticut go wild over Husky sports‌ but there are also several other big time sports attractions in the state. The Travelers Championship in Cromwell is a regular stop on the PGA Tour and part of its FedEx Cup series. The New Haven Open at Yale is a prominent part of the U.S. Open Tennis Series while Lime Rock Park in Lakeville has been in existence since 1957 and hosts events each summer as part of the American LeMans Series and the Rolex Sports Car Series. The Connecticut Sun of the WNBA and several minor league baseball and hockey teams are also part of the state’s sports scene.
Hartford: UConn’s Capital City • The UConn School of Business has classroom facilities in downtown Hartford and soon the UConn Greater Hartford Campus will move directly downtown. • “The Insurance Capital Of The World” – home of Aetna, Cigna, ING, The Phoenix Companies, Travelers, United Health Group and The Hartford Financial Services Group. • Home of the multi-billion dollar conglomerate United Technologies Corporation and its subsidiaries Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, UTC Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, UTC Power, Otis and UTC Climate Controls and Security. • A population base of 23 million people within a 100-mile radius and 100 million within an eight-hour drive. • Hartford has the nation’s highest percentage of individuals over the age of 25 who have a college bachelor’s degree or higher. • Cultural attractions include: The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, the oldest public art museum in the United States, and The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts. The Connecticut Convention Center opened in 2005 and is the largest convention center between New York and Boston.
Storrs Center:
A New Downtown
• There are approximately 22,000 UConn graduates who live in New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area. • The New York Chapter of the UConn Alumni Association is the group’s fastest growing chapter. • In 2010-11, UConn men’s basketball was the most viewed Big East Conference team in New York City. A combined 1.35 million households watched UConn basketball games in the New York DMA that were televised on ESPN or ESPN2. That number doubled the amount of households watching Syracuse games on ESPN or ESPN2 and was five times more than the amount of households that watched Rutgers on ESPN or ESPN2. The top two-rated Syracuse men’s basketball games in the New York DMA in 2010-11 were in fact games against UConn.
• UConn’s five games in the 2011 BIG EAST tournament were watched by a combined 590,000 combined households in the New York DMA, while 385,000 watched Syracuse games – a number which was inflated with one game against hometown St. John’s.
“A lot of people don’t understand what makes New York tick. The two schools with the biggest impact in the New York market have been Syracuse and Connecticut.
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Former BIG EAST Commissioner Mike Tranghese, New York Times, March 11, 2013
• The world-famous Metropolitan Opera in New York City has an exclusive educational partnership with UConn, providing internships and other benefits for Fine Arts students.
UConn and New York City The UConn Football Footprint In New York City • The UConn football team will play Army on November 8, 2014 in New York City’s Yankee Stadium. • In three of the past four seasons that both schools went to a bowl game, UConn’s national television rating of its bowl game has been higher than the Rutgers bowl game – including doubling the mark in 2007 and 2011. • In a recent New York Times on-line story, UConn was ranked ahead of Syracuse among the most popular college football teams in the New York DMA and UConn was the only BIG EAST school listed among the top five most popular college football teams in both the New York and Boston DMAs.
SNY (SportsNet New York) Recognizes The Popularity Of The UConn Brand • UConn is the only university in the country whose football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball television programs have syndicated TV packages with the same regional sports network - SportsNet New York, which is also the TV of the New York Mets. A total of 38 UConn games during the 2012-13 academic year were shown by SNY, whose distribution is 14 million television households. SNY’s fourstate regional footprint, which includes New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, is comprised of nine million TV households. Its national distribution through satellite service is five million TV homes. • SNY, with its headquarters located in midtown Manhattan, dedicates more than 650 hours of coverage annually to UConn Athletics, including live games, re-airs, previews/reviews, coaches’ shows, specials and features.
Our Campus is Connecticut In addition to the main campus in Storrs, the University of Connecticut has a number of other campuses and schools around the state, which truly makes each region of the state part of the UConn campus. The UConn Health Center and John Dempsey Hospital are located in Farmington, just west of Hartford. Today, Bioscience Connecticut, an $864 million initiative, is transforming the campus of the UConn Health Center. Bioscience Connecticut is a forwardthinking plan to create thousands of construction and related jobs in the short-term and generate long-term, sustainable economic growth based on bioscience research, innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization. It is a multifaceted plan that also includes initiatives to improve access to healthcare services in the region and beyond. Renovations have begun in the original research tower and work is underway to build the new outpatient care center and the new hospital tower. In addition, groundbreaking ceremonies were held in January 2013 for the new $1.1 billion Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, the first return on the state’s Bioscience Connecticut investment, which will be housed on the UConn Health Center campus. The Jackson initiative is a collaboration between the globally prominent Jackson Laboratory, UConn, the Health Center and leading academic and healthcare institutions in the region. The UConn School of Law is one of the leading public law schools in the country. Its campus, listed on the National Register of Historic Sites, is among the most beautiful of any law school in the United States. The newly-completed law library is perhaps the finest facility of its kind in the world. Two miles from the center of Hartford, the Law School is located in a neighborhood of large Victorian homes. UConn has long had an undergraduate campus in the Greater Hartford region and plans are now underway to relocate that campus to the center of downtown Hartford. The UConn campus in downtown Stamford is surrounded by a cluster of corporate headquarters including a number of Fortune 500 companies, such as Pitney-Bowes and Charter Communications. The UConn campus in Waterbury is housed in a new state-of the-art facility. Options exist to transfer to the Storrs campus after two years or earn a degree right in Waterbury. UConn’s “campus by the ocean” is located at Avery Point in the southern portion of the state in Groton. Avery Point is the home to the Connecticut Sea Grant Program in conjunction with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Project Oceanography, and education program for middle school and high school students, is also on the Avery Point campus. The Torrington campus, located in the hills of the western portion of the state, is home to the famed Litchfield County Writers Program. The program attracts visits by some of the country’s most preeminent writers including Roxana Robinson and the late Madeline L’Engle and Arthur Miller.
The Huskies Are The Center Of
Media Coverage
• UConn’s football and basketball programs are among the most televised and widely distributed in the country. Of UConn’s 72 total regular season football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball games during the 2012-13 academic year, 97% (70 games) were shown by a regional or national television carrier. • UConn continues to command a strong and growing television audience. UConn football (+10%), men’s basketball (+9%) and women’s basketball (+22%) ratings in its primary market all saw year-over-year ratings growth. UConn regularly commands strong individual game ratings of 7+ in the Hartford-New Haven market, beating all other programming on cable and broadcast networks. The Huskies are registering viewers in the nation’s largest market, too. In the New York DMA, the Huskies are averaging .20-to-.35 ratings figures for football and men’s basketball and approximately .15 for women’s basketball. • UConn was the host site for the first ever “ESPN College Gameday” for both men’s and women’s basketball. • There are 1,347,980 television households in the State of Connecticut and of that total 85.1% are cable television households (1,146,780). • The 85.1% penetration of cable television households is the fourth largest state-bystate penetration in the United States. • The cable television household penetration surpasses the cable penetration of 17 states that are scheduled to have institutions in the five BCS Conferences in 2014 (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC, and Pac 12). • The Huskies own the Hartford/New Haven market as the state does not have a “Big 4” professional sports team within its borders. • Connecticut’s Fairfield County, home to over 900,000 of the state’s residents and many UConn alumni, sits in the New York television market. • UConn is located in the Hartford/New Haven television market, which is the 30th -sized market in the country. • UConn is also located within 70 miles of the country’s No. 7 TV market in Boston.
UConn Football Facilities
UConn Basketball Facilities
UConn Athletic Facilities Men’s And Women’s Soccer
Joseph J. Morrone Stadium is ranked the fourth-best soccer venue in the United States (professional or college) by Goal.com.
Baseball
The Huskies play home games at J.O. Christian Field and a number of minor league parks around the state, including hosting a 2010 NCAA Regional at Dodd Stadium in Norwich.
Rowing
The Husky rowing team calls Coventry Lake – one of the most scenic bodies of water in New England – home.
Field Hockey, Women’s Lacrosse, Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track And Field
The George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex is a multiple-use facility and has hosted conference and regional championships in a number of sports.
Softball
The Burrill Family Field is the long-time home of UConn’s softball program.
Men’s And Women’s Indoor Track And Field
Men’s And Women’s Swimming And Diving
The Hugh S. Greer Field House,the former home of UConn basketball before Gampel Pavilion, has been renovated and now is the facility for Husky men’s and women’s indoor track and field.
The Wolff-Zackin Natatorium is adjacent to Gampel Pavilion and gives the Huskies a modern home.
Men’s And Women’s Ice Hockey
Volleyball
UConn plays on-campus games at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum and starting in 2014, men’s games will go “downtown” to the XL Center as the Huskies join Hockey East – the preeminent league in the country.
In addition to men’s and women’s basketball, the volleyball team also plays at the Harry A. Gampel Pavilion.
Husky Football:
A Long Tradition, A Quick Championship Transition Football was first played at UConn in 1896 and has developed as a program as the institution has grown into one of the top public universities in the country. The Huskies made a seamless transition from NCAA FCS status to the NCAA Bowl Championship Subdivision in 2003 and became a member of the BIG EAST Conference in 2004. UConn has played in five bowl games over its history and has won two BIG EAST Championships. When UConn gained its first AP ranking in 2007, it became the second-quickest team to rise from FCS status to a national ranking. There are 18 former Huskies in the NFL in 2013 – a program high. These players include 2009 first round draft pick Donald Brown with the Indianapolis Colts and 2012 NFL all-rookie pick Kendall Reyes with the San Diego Chargers. The Huskies had a program-high five players taken in the 2013 NFL Draft and only five schools (Alabama, Florida State, LSU, Florida and Georgia) had more players picked in the first six rounds than UConn. Connecticut has played in five bowl games in its bowl history, including an appearance in the 2011 Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
“We’re getting pounded and we love it. We have done an incredible
business from Huskies fans. The Connecticut fans have come down in swarms.
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Greg Ruffino, manager , Ri-Rah Irish Restaurant and Pub, during UConn’s bowl trip to Charlotte, N.C.
“UConn has been the epitome of a bowl
hungry team. They’ve done everything we asked of them and they’ve done it first class. They’re probably the most enthusiastic team we’ve ever had here. They’re used to travelling for basketball and it has translated over to football. They did a tremendous job. I can’t say enough about them.
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Ken Hoffman, bowl executive
Men’s Basketball:
Elite At The Highest Level Dating back to 1900, the University of Connecticut always had a proud tradition of excellence on the regional level. Connecticut was a New England powerhouse under such legendary coaches as Dee Rowe and Hugh Greer and made trips to the 1964 Elite Eight and the 1976 Sweet 16. Jim Calhoun took over the program that had recently joined the BIG EAST and uttered two words – “It’s doable.” – and he lived up to those words. Three national championships and four Final Four trips and 17 conference championships are the legacy of the Hall of Fame coach, who retired at the end of the 2012-13 season. UConn men’s basketball is now under the guidance of energetic head coach Kevin Ollie, a former student-athlete under Calhoun, who knows what hard work is all about.
“It’s doable.
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Jim Calhoun at his introductory press conference, May 1986
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As I embark on this journey, I want to say we’re going to take the stairs and not the escalator.
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Kevin Ollie at his introductory press conference, September 2012
Women’s Basketball
A Dominant and Beloved Program The University of Connecticut women’s basketball program has set the standard for collegiate athletic programs. The team has won eight national championships, played in 14 Final Fours and 19 Elite Eights. The Huskies have won a combined 37 conference championships. There is a 100 percent graduation rate among four-year players for Hall of Famer Geno Auriemma. The longest winning streak in college basketball history…trips to the White House…Olympic gold medalists…they are all part of the UConn women’s basketball tradition.
A New Look
For the Huskies
The 2013-14 academic year marked the debut of a new look for the uniforms worn by University of Connecticut student-athletes and coaches of all 24 Husky teams. The two major changes are the use of “UCONN” across the front of every uniform worn by each team and a new look for the Jonathan Husky logo. The new look is part of an institutional branding and marketing program that uses “UCONN” as the primary mark of the University in all signage, publications, advertising and marketing activities. A new Husky logo was also developed as a part of a review of all athletic team logos and marks, which in recent years had moved away from a consistent look on team uniforms. The new Jonathan Husky logo is a reflection of comments by coaches and student-athletes who participated in the process of reviewing the branding and logos used in the Division of Athletics.
Baseball The UConn baseball program dates back to the early days of the university and the Huskies have advanced to the College World Series five times.
College World Series Teams
Head coach Jim Penders has led the Huskies to NCAA appearances in 2010, ’11 and ’13, joining an elite group of less than 40 programs who have made the tournament in three of the past four seasons. In 2010, the Huskies played host to an NCAA Regional and the following year, UConn won the Clemson Regional and advanced to Super Regional play. The 2013 Huskies won the BIG EAST Conference tournament – the final conference event in history of the league. UConn has had a long history of sending Huskies to the big leagues from 1950 American League Rookie of the Year Walt Dropo to having two of the first 19 picks in the 2011 MLB Draft.
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Field Hockey The tradition of UConn field hockey dates back to 1974 and is among the finest in the country as the program boasts two NCAA Championships, ten trips to the NCAA semifinals and 24 NCAA tournament berths. UConn has won a combined 24 regular season and conference championships and produced 40 first team AllAmericans. Hall of Fame head coach Nancy Stevens is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division I history with more than 550 victories. UConn has a long tradition of players being selected for international play, including 2012 United States Olympian Melissa Gonzalez.
Men’s Ice Hockey Ice hockey has been played in Storrs for over 100 years – starting with games on outdoor ponds. The team moved to varsity in the early 1960’s and in 2014 the Huskies will become members of Hockey East – the strongest conference in the country. Leading UConn into this exciting transition will be head coach Mike Cavanaugh – who is considered one of the top recruiters in the country and has coached in ten Frozen Fours with four national championships.
Women’s Ice Hockey
UConn started a women’s ice hockey team in 2000 and the team plays in Hockey East, one of the top women’s hockey leagues in the country. The Huskies have played in two Hockey East championship games during their history and advanced to the semifinals four times. During its history, UConn has been ranked among the top ten teams in the country. Chris MacKenzie, who has extensive experience as both a head coach and assistant coach, began his first season with the Huskies in 2013-14.
Men’s Golf UConn added golf as a varsity sport in 1941 and have been New England and ECAC Champions on a consistent basis. The Huskies have taken part in NCAA Championship play four times. Dave Pezzino became the head coach in 2007 and plays an ambitious national schedule as the Huskies compete on some of the top courses in the country against the best programs.
Women’s Lacrosse UConn added the sport of women’s lacrosse in 1997 as the popularity of the game grew on the scholastic level in Connecticut and the Northeast. The Huskies made their first-ever appearance in the NCAA tournament in 2013 and consistently ranked among the top 20 teams in the country all season long. Current head coach Katie Woods was an All-American performer in her collegiate career.
Men’s Soccer UConn began playing men’s soccer in 1928 and has won national championships in 1948, 1981 and 2000. The Huskies have won 18 conference championships and played in 33 NCAA tournaments, including a current streak of 15 consecutive. The Huskies have played in the NCAA quarterfinal in three of the last six seasons.
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Head coach Ray Reid is the winningest active coach in college soccer today. The Huskies are also perennial national leaders in attendance – earning that mark in eight of the past 14 seasons.
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Women’s Soccer UConn has one of the strongest women’s soccer traditions in the country. The Huskies have played in the NCAA semifinals eight times and NCAA quarterfinals 19 times. The Huskies have played in 28 of the 31 NCAA tournaments and was just one of two teams to qualify for each of the first 26 tournaments. Head coach Len Tsantiris, a former UConn men’s player, has been in charge of the program since 1981 and is just one of two coaches in the history of the game to have 500 career wins. The Huskies have won 10 conference regular season or tournament titles and produced 44 All-Americans.
Rowing Rowing became a varsity sport at UConn in 1997 and the Huskies annually compete in some of the top events in the sport, including the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta each fall in Boston and the Dad Vail Regatta each spring in Philadelphia. Jennifer Sanford-Wendry has been the head coach of the Huskies since the program started and led the Huskies to the 2005 Dad Vail team championship. The team annually makes a training trip to Florida during winter break and then returns to the Sunshine State for competition during spring break.
Softball The tradition of softball at UConn is strong dating back to the founding of the program in 1975. Head coach Karen Mullins has been at the helm of the program since 1984 and has won over 800 games during her career. UConn has made a trip to the Women’s College World Series and has earned eight NCAA tournament berths. The Huskies have also won a combined 12 regular season and tournament conference titles.
Men’s and Women’s Men’s swimming and diving started at UConn in the late 1930s while a women’s team was added during the 1970s. Head coach Bob Goldberg has had a long and successful tenure in charge of both the men’s and women’s programs. UConn diver Danielle Cecco is an NCAA Zone champion and advanced to the NCAA nationals in 2011 and ‘12. Diver Stephen Ferreira was an NCAA participant in 2010. Caitlin Gallagher advanced to the NCAA Championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2009 while Courtney Haney was in two events at the 2008 NCAAs. UConn was represented by a pair of swimmers at the 2012 London Olympics in the sibling combination of Chinyere and Diguan Pigot, who represented their native Suriname. Chinyere was in her second Olympics and was the flag bearer for her country at the opening ceremonies of the London games.
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Men’s and Women’s Tennis UConn has had a men’s tennis team since 1932 and a women’s program was added in 1974. Longtime Director of Tennis Glen Marshall serves as the coach for the women’s team while Mike Louis is the new head coach of the women’s team. Both Husky teams annually take training trips to such locations as Florida, Bermuda or Puerto Rico. UConn will make a significant scholarship in women’s tennis over the next several seasons and will look to contend for conference championships and excel in national play.
Men’s Track and Field One of the oldest teams at UConn, the men’s track and field/cross country program has enjoyed incredible success over the last decade-plus under veteran head coach Greg Roy. The program has won 13 conference tiles under head coach Greg Roy. Since 2000, 13 different Huskies have earned All-America honors a total of 24 times. UConn’s Olympic tradition includes Andy Bessette of the United States in 1980 and Dudley Dorival of Haiti in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
Women’s Track and Field UConn head coach Bill Morgan is in his 32nd year with the program and tenth as head coach. He and his staff have built the Huskies into a consistent top 25 team that sends numerous performers to NCAA Championships each year. The UConn women’s cross country team qualified for the NCAA Championship in 2012 for the first time in history and was ranked as high as 14th during the season. The Huskies have produced 17 AllAmericans since 2010. UConn has also produced a number of performers on the international stage, including Phylicia George, who finished sixth in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2012 London games as she represented her native Canada.
Women’s Volleyball Volleyball became a varsity sport at UConn in 1976 and plays its home games in Gampel Pavilion. Head coach Holly Strauss enjoyed a stellar collegiate career at North Carolina and was a two-time team captain. Strauss is the winningest coach in the history of the UConn program. The Huskies have won a pair of conference championships during the program’s history.
Huskies in the Community An important part of the UConn student-athlete experience is community service. Through a generous grant from the SBM Charitable Foundation, UConn teams spend time in schools around the state working with elementary school and middle school students. UConn’s Student-Athlete Advisory Council holds a number of charitable drives are held each year to collect toys, coats and books to help those in need.