The Oregon State Beavers is an athletic team representing Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. The Beavers compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for college football) as members of the Pac-12 Conference. The Oregon State mascot is Benny the Beaver. Both male and female teams share names, competing in 7 NCAA Division 1 sports and 10 NCAA Division I female branches respectively.
The main rival of Beavers is the Oregon Ducks from the University of Oregon, located 45 miles (72 km) south of the Oregon State campus in Eugene, Oregon. The football competition between Beaver and Duck, known as the Civil War, is one of the longest in the country, which has been contested 121 times at the end of the 2017 season. Other regional rivals include Washington Huskies and Washington State Cougars.
Beginning in June 2017, Beavers have won one national championship of the pre-NCAA team and three NCAA national team championships. The 1926 wrestling team won the national championship Amateur Athletic Association, the 1961 men's Cross-country team won the NCAA title, and the last baseball team won the World Series 2006 and 2007. Other notable performances included a second-place finish in the 1973 and 1995 NCAA wrestling finals, two Final appearances Four by the men's basketball team, a Final Four performance by the women's basketball team, the football team beat Notre Dame by 32 points in the Fiesta Bowl 2001 (and finished the season ranked # 4 in the poll), six appearances in the World Series of Higher Education baseball programs, and individual NCAA championship titles in gymnastics, wrestling, and track & amp; field.
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Sports team
Men's sports
The state of Oregon has three NCAA championships: two in baseball (2006 and 2007), and one in a cross country man (1961). The school dropped across the country and tracked the program in 1988 due to budget cuts, even though women's and trans-state trails were restored in 2005. Periodically, some men continue to compete individually in unbound status.
Baseball
The Oregon State University baseball program was founded in 1907. Since then, dozens of players continue to play in minor leagues and over 20 continue to play in majors. The most prominent of these major league players are New York Yankees winger Jacoby Ellsbury and Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Darwin Barney
The baseball team has won the 26th conference championship and has reached the College World Series six times, first in 1952 and recently 2017. They won the NCAA championships in 2006 and 2007. The team is headed by head coach Pat Casey and they play at the Goss Stadium at Coleman Field.
Basket
The men's basketball team at Oregon State experienced a significant period of success from the early 1920s to the early 1990s - with 12 conference championships, 16 NCAA Tournament performances, and only 14 seasons losing from 1922 to 1991 - but falling in those days difficult, suffering 19 losing seasons and making no NCAA Tournament performance from 1992 to 2015 before returning in 2016. The program has reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament twice, the Eight Elite on six occasions, and 17 total tournament appearances. A number of former OSU players have had a successful career in the NBA, including NBA All-Star Gary Payton 9 times and "Iron Man" A. C. Green. The OSU alumni have also won a total of 10 NBA champion rings and four Olympic gold medals. The team has beaten more Oregon rivals than any other team that has beaten an opponent in a college sport, with 186 victories over Duck at the end of the 2016-17 season.
The basketball program has been lost in recent times by the relative success of OSU football and the baseball program, the latter of which recently won two national championships.
Wayne Tinkle was hired as head coach before the 2014-15 season. His first team produced a record of both programs in the last nine seasons and he then led the school to their first NCAA Tournament performance since 1990 in 2016.
Football
Jonathan Smith is the current head coach, replacing Gary Andersen, who left school after six matches in 2017.
The football program has been part of Oregon State University since 1893, working as a platform for more than a hundred players to enter the NFL, such as Heisman Cup winner Terry Baker and Atlanta Falcons currently running the backs of Steven Jackson and Jacquizz Rodgers, currently Los Angeles Rams punter Johnny Hekker, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco and TJ Houshmandzadeh, New Orleans Saints wide receiver Brandin Cooks, Buffalo Bills midfielder Nick Barnett, Carolina Panthers quarterback Derek Anderson, Kansas City Chiefs safety Sabby Piscitelli, Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Sammie Stroughter, Miami Dolphins quarterback Matt Moore, and New England Patriots cornerback Brandon Browner. They have won their conference championship five times.
Soccer
The Oregon State men's soccer team coach is Steve Simmons, former head coach at Northern Illinois University.
Golf
Golf teams practice and compete at Trysting Tree Golf Club, Oregon State, a nationally recognized course that has hosted numerous tournaments.
Rowing
The state of Oregon has long been a powerhouse for rowing men, giving 13 different athletes to the highest level of rowing in the US. And over the past five years, a pair of former beavers have represented America and the Oregon State rowing program very well. Recently these athletes include Josh Inman, Joey Hansen and Chris Callaghan.
Throughout its history, paddling in Oregon State was led by a committed and visionary coaching. Ed Stevens, former Harvard coach, took control of the Mechanical Engineering Professor J.P. Othis. Stevens led the program from 1931 to 1949 and during this program gained recognition and recognition as a highly competitive crew.
Karl Drlica took over from Coach Stevens and will lead the program for the next 30 years. One of Coach Drlica's first steps was to build women as an integral part of the program when she started an intramural competition in 1952. OSU was one of the first college programs to support a female rowing.
Achievements Coach Drlica and his crew were recognized in 1967 when the Space Athlete Council received a male heavyweight crew as a university sport. Ten years later, Drlica Coach will set the height of female landings and light to the status of the university as well.
In 1983 the athletic department employed Dave Emigh to assist the crew program and in 1985 he was appointed head coach. Emigh spent 11 years at OSU and continued to develop the program with the same innovative style of his predecessors. Under Emigh, the crew achieved stability within the athletic department and firmly established themselves as leaders on the West Coast rowing.
Fred Honebein joined the Oregon State family in 2004 and led his squad to finish the ninth place at the Templar Intercultural Massage Templar. The Beavers' finish marks the fifth consecutive year they completed among the top ten in the nation and eighth in ten years.
Steve Todd has been appointed as the temporary head coach of the Oregon State University men's rowing program for the 2006-07 season. Todd replaced former head coach Fred Honebein in June after leading the Beavers to 14th place at the Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championship. A former rower at the University of Washington, Todd rowed into the national championship at Huskies' JV8 in 1997 and won a medal on the Varsity boat in 1998 and 1999. Todd has been part of Oregon State's rowing program for four years as a new male coach. During his time with the Beavers, Todd's crew had been married for four years at Pac-10 Championships including a silver medal in 2003. The 2003 Tood air force crew also took second place in the San Diego Crew Classic and in the process defeated the traditional Washington. Recently, Todd's Freshman 4 came in fourth in the IRA Regatta in June.
Dave Friedericks in his first season as assistant rowing coach. Friedericks, a former member of the US national team, directed the Oswego Lake Paddle Center for the past two years. While in Lake Oswego, Friedericks helped develop the club from a dozen members to 75 members with 100 additional rowers taking classes.
Oregon State University, Varsity 8, has 10th place at the 2007 Association of Paddle Row Championships.
Wrestling
Traditionally, the Oregon State wrestling team has become a national force, winning their conference championship 49 times and ending at the top ten NCAA-21 times (second twice, in 1973 & 1995) since the team's birth in 1909, 93 seasons. They have 12 individual NCAA championship titles and have 90 individual All-American (which 2 athletes earn 4 times all-American by Babak Mohammadi (1991, 1992, 1994 & 1995) and Larry Bielenberg (1974-1977)). Pre-NCAA in 1926, OSU won the national Amateur Athletic Association team championship. Dale Thomas, Oregon State coach from 1957-1990 and member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, holds the NCAA record for a double win in a coaching career in 616. In addition, seven OSU alumni have represented the United States at the Olympics, including in 1924 where the Oregon State alumni won gold and silver medals in the same heavyweight. Only 5 of the 90 seasons of the State of Oregon have produced a losing record. The all-time double attendance record at Oregon State at the end of the 2009-10 season is 950-307-26, ranked 3rd in the NCAA for the all-time winner. With retirement after the 2005-06 season of one of OSU's most successful coaches, Joe Wells, National Wrestling Hall of Fame member Jim Zalesky was named head coach, currently in the 8th season with Beaver.
Female Women's sports
Basketball
The women's basketball program at Oregon State has long been a force. From the 1980s and Carol Menken, until the mid-1990s with a team led by Tanja Kostic who made it to the NCAA tournament. Recently Oregon State basketball has seen many strong players. Felicia Ragland, whose number since retirement, played for OSU in the early 2000s before a career in WNBA. Scott Rueck has led the program to new heights in recent years, guiding the beavers to 2015, 2016 and 2017 Pac-12 regular season title conferences, the 2016 Pac-12 Conference Tournament title, and five direct NCAA Tournament berths (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) and Final Four (2016).
Golf
The women's golf team has had many athletes to continue to play professionally. Mary Budke won the national championship of the 1974 AIAW individual academy.
Gymnastics
The women's gymnastic team is historically known as one of the best teams in the country. They are ranked # 13 in the country in Polling Preseason Coaches 2006, and have one of the strongest schedules in the country. The Beavers came second in the NCAA West Regional 2006, qualifying for the NCAA Championships held at their home in Oregon State. OSU gymnasts have won seven national championships on the training floor and balance beam, most recently Amy Durham on the floor in 1993.
Soccer
The Oregon State women's soccer team has a newer head coach at Linus Rhodes, an 8-year assistant coach at OSU. With the new coaching staff, the beaver has turned a new leaf. The recent increase so far is a victory over the nationally-rated Washington State. Surprising Cougars the OSU Beavers snapped a 21-game winning streak.
The captains in 2008 and 2009 were Red Nixon and Najma Homidi. Compete to start goalkeeper are Colleen Boyd and Katie Bell. Starting all Pac-10 games is Colleen Boyd. He has been keeping Beavers in the game and is a great vocal leader behind.
The 2009 Oregon Women's football team won the first NCAA tournament in program history, and angered both Ohio and Florida national states in the first two rounds to advance to Sweet 16.
Softball
The women's softball team was the co-champion for the Pac-10 title in 2005, ending the season with a 43-16 record. They have made an NCAA regional tournament appearance eight years in a row, including the 2006 season where they made it to the Women's College World Series (WCWS). The team has appeared on WCWS four times (1977, 1978, 1979, 2006). They were ranked # 12 in the country in 2006 ESPN.com/USA Softball Preseason Top 25 Collegiate Poll. They had 28 consecutive wins in the 2006 season, the longest winning streak the NCAA ever saw since 2002 and the longest in the history of the Oregon State program. The 28-game streak ranks 16th (t) all the time on the NCAA Division I logbook for the longest winning streak, and the Beaver is one of only 11 teams in NCAA history to win 28 straight games.
Swimming
The women's swimming team finished 31th in the NCAA championship for the 2006 season. In 2006, there were a total of 5 NCAA All-American swimmers since the sport was added at Oregon State. In 2008, Saori Haruguchi won the individual NCAA championship in the 200-meter butterfly. He also made a record of NCAA meetings during this event.
Track and locate and cross country
Oregon State and field and cross country programs were cut in 1988 but started their comeback in 2004 with the return of the women's distance program, led by Kelly Sullivan, a former coach of Willamette University. The Beavers competed massively on a smaller scale, the 3rd Division met, but has enjoyed some success in the Pac-12 Conference, including the ninth place finish by Ashley Younce at the 2006 Western Regional NCAA track & amp; field meet and recent graduation three times All-American and holders of five school-records, Laura Carlyle. Male tracks and pitches are limited to club level, although individual male athletes from football teams recently joined the Women's team during meetings, among them Jordan Bishop is All-American in a high jump in 2010. Phase One Settlement of Whyte Track & amp; Field Center is a major step in the effort to fully rebuild the program on both teams of women and men.
Championship NCAA team championship
Oregon State has won 3 NCAA national team championships.
- Male (3)
- Baseball (2): 2006, 2007
- Cross Country (1): 1961
- see also:
- Pac-12 Conference NCAA championship
- List of NCAA schools with the NCAA Division I championships
Other national team championships
The Beavers have won a national team title not awarded by the NCAA:
- Man:
- Wrestling (1): 1926 (AAU)
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Notable non varsity sports
Rugby
The Oregon State University rugby club was formed in 1961. In recent years, Oregon State rugby has played at the Northwest Conference against In-Conference rivals such as Oregon, Washington and Washington State. Beginning with the 2012-13 season, however, Oregon State abandoned the Northwest Conference and joined another school of Pac-12 to form a new rugby conference that would reflect Pac-12 and bring increased exposure. Oregon State Rugby has been successful in recent years. The Beavers finish the 2012 season at # 9 in the country, and finish the 2011 season with # 12 ranking. The Oregon state plays an unbeaten regular season in 2012 and becomes the 2012 Northwest winner of the conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the DI-AA national.
Climbing indoor climbing
The indoor rock climbing club was formed in 2015 as a sports club in OSU. The climbing club competes with other schools in the Pacific Northwest as part of the Northwest Collegiate Climbing Circuit (NC3).
Fishing
Oregon State Fishing Team was established in 2012.
Beaver Nation
Oregon State University fans, alumni, and supporters are often referred to as Beaver Nation by the media and rewarded by giving a good court benefit on all OSU sporting events. Reser Stadium, Gill Coliseum, and Goss Stadium at Coleman Field are regularly filled by fans dressed in school colors, creating intense orange and black oceans in Beavers.
Beaver Nation has also developed a very interesting reputation for "traveling well" to support his various teams, with a large number of fans dressed in orange and black following beavers to go games, bowl games, and tournaments.
Some of the most notable shows featuring fanatical support of OSU and the willingness to travel include the 2001 Fiesta Bowl, the 2012 Alamo Bowl, 2016 Women's Finalists, and the World Series tournaments in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013 and 2017. In 2000, Oregon State football finished with a regular 10-1 season record and an invitation to the Fiesta Bowl 2001. The Beavers football team brought about 38,000 fans with them to Tempe, Arizona and then destroy Notre Dame with a score of 41-9. In June 2006 and again in June 2007, the Oregon State baseball team traveled consecutively to Omaha, Nebraska for the World College Series. Beaver Nation appeared by thousands, creating huge orange pockets dominating at Rosenblatt Stadium, and encouraging the team to the second year's National Championship.
Beaver Sports Radio Network
Members of the Beaver Sports Radio Network aired a number of sporting events. Mike Parker is the premier broadcaster and has been a beaver since 1999. Members as of February 1, 2012 include:
* Only for Soccer ** Women's Basketball Only - *** Baseball Only - ^ Talk Show Only
See also
- Oregon Sports Hall of Fame
References
External links
- Official website
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