Association NAIA Varsity teams 17 | Athletic director Jim Abbott | |
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University Oklahoma City University Conference Sooner Athletic Conference Location Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | ||
Post game interview with coach latricia trammell of the oklahoma city stars
The Oklahoma City Stars are the athletic teams that represent Oklahoma City University, located in Oklahoma City, in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The university fields 17 varsity sports teams, and these teams compete in the NAIA and the Sooner Athletic Conference in all sports except women's wrestling which competes in the Women's College Wrestling Association.
Contents
- Post game interview with coach latricia trammell of the oklahoma city stars
- Mens basketball
- Baseball
- National championships
- Football
- Nickname and mascot history
- References
Until 1986, the Stars competed in the NCAA Division I Horizon League, which was known as the Midwestern City Conference at that time.
Men's basketball
Oklahoma City has made 18 NAIA tournament appearances: 1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010. As a member of the NCAA, Oklahoma City went to the NCAA tournament 11 times, the most of any school no longer a member of the NCAA. OCU appeared in the NCAA tournament in 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, and 1973; and the NIT twice, in 1959 and 1968.
Baseball
Oklahoma City has had 71 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965.
National championships
In 2012, Kevin Patrick Hardy (class of 2013) became OCU's first national champion in wrestling, taking the national title at 165 pounds. Hardy was a Division 1 three time state champion at Solon High School in Ohio.
Through the Spring 2012 sports season, Oklahoma City has won 41 national championships. Of these, 36 are NAIA championships, and four are WCWA championships.
Oklahoma City won the NACDA Director's Cup for the NAIA in 2002, awarded annually to the college or university with the most success in collegiate athletics.
OCU has won national championships in the following sports (number of championships in parentheses, NAIA titles unless otherwise specified):
Total men's Championships: 18 (in 4 different men's team sports)
Total women's championships: 25 (in 4 different women's team sports)
Football
Oklahoma City's football program and head coach Os Doenges made multiple innovative attempts to improving the game.
The first and most successful innovation was credited to opposing coach Dike Beede when the football team played in the 1941 Oklahoma City vs. Youngstown football game. This game marks the first American football game to use a penalty flag.
The second innovation was an unsuccessful venture to allow a coach to be on the field with the offense to help call plays and provide additional coaching as time allows. Doenges proposed tests with opposing coaches and at least two agreed to test the idea. However, the concept itself was considered a success and rules changes eventually allowed coaches on the sidelines to call plays and send plays in with a substitute.
Also, Doenges is credited with inventing the offensive V formation while at Oklahoma City. Nicknamed "Three dots and a dash" (Morse code for the letter "v"), the program presented the new offensive formation to great fanfare before losing to the Southwestern Moundbuilders by a score of 7–0.
The team played Toledo in the 1948 Glass Bowl, losing 27–14.
Nickname and mascot history
The school is currently known as the Stars, but was known as the Goldbugs or Gold Bugs in the 1920s, '30s and early '40s. From 1944, the university was known as the Chiefs a nickname changed in 1998 in reaction to the mounting pressure on schools to adopt names more sensitive to and respectful of Native American culture.