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Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball

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Location
  
Edinburg, TX

Head coach
  
Manny Mantrana

Nickname
  
Vaqueros

Home ground
  
UTRGV Baseball Stadium

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University
  
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Home stadium
  
UTRGV Baseball Stadium (Capacity: 4,000)

Colors
  
Kelly Green, Navy Blue, and Orange

Conference
  
Western Athletic Conference

The Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team, or the UTRGV Vaqueros, is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, an NCAA Division I institution with several campuses in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. UTRGV was formally founded in 2013 with the announced merger of the University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA), with its main campus in Edinburg, and the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) in Brownsville, with the merged university beginning operation in the 2015–16 school year. The Vaqueros compete in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), play home games at UTRGV Baseball Stadium in Edinburg, and are coached by Manny Mantrana.

Prior to the merger, UTPA competed in Division I as the Texas–Pan American Broncs, while UTB, a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, had no baseball program. In 2014, the University of Texas System announced that UTRGV would directly inherit the UTPA athletic program, including UTPA's WAC membership.

Major League Baseball

UTPA had 35 Major League Baseball Draft selections from the start of the draft in 1965 until the 2015 merger that created UTRGV.

References

Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball Wikipedia