Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns
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Athletics founded	1901
Conference	Sun Belt
NCAA	Division I
Athletics director	David Walker
University	Louisiana-Lafayette
Location	Lafayette, LA USA
Stadium	Cajun Field, The Swamp
Arena	Cajundome
Mascot	Cayenne
Colors	Vermilion and White
Homepage	www.ragincajuns.com

Ragin' Cajun redirects here. This article is about an American college athletics program. For other uses, see Ragin' Cajun (disambiguation).

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns is the trademarked nickname of the athletic teams of The University of Louisiana at Lafayette. UL Lafayette, at that time known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana, was the first to adopt the nickname Ragin' Cajuns, using it initially in the 1960s to refer to its football team.

Prior to the 1960s, the team nickname was the "Bulldogs." In 1963 then football coach Russ Faulkinberry changed the nickname of the football team "Bulldogs" to "Ragin' Cajuns." By the 1970s, the athletic department, the sports information director Bob Henderson and the student body picked up on the nickname. As published in the 1974 football guide, the nickname became official that year. Until the 2006-07 academic year, women's teams were referred to as the Lady Cajuns, but they now use the same "Ragin' Cajuns" nickname as the men's teams.

Athletics

History

Football was the first team organized at the then Institute (SLII) in 1901, although an advertisement promoting women's gymnastics was placed in 1900.

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns compete in the following NCAA sports
Men's sports			Women's sports
Sport	Division	Conference	Sport	Division	Conference
Baseball	I	Sun Belt	Softball	I	Sun Belt
Basketball	I	Sun Belt	Basketball	I	Sun Belt
Cross country	I	Sun Belt	Cross country	I	Sun Belt
Football	I FBS	Sun Belt	Soccer	I	Sun Belt
Golf	I	Sun Belt	Volleyball	I	Sun Belt
Tennis	I	Sun Belt	Tennis	I	Sun Belt
Track & field (indoor)	I	Sun Belt	Track & field (indoor)	I	Sun Belt
Track & field (outdoor)	I	Sun Belt	Track & field (outdoor)	I	Sun Belt

Club sports

Badminton, Bowling, Cheerleading, Cricket, Hockey, Judo, Powerlifting, Rugby, Sport Shooting, Men's Soccer, Tae Kwon Do, Water Skiing

Team records

See also: Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns baseball

• Baseball - First Year of Baseball: 1903. First Year of Division I: 1972. Years of Baseball: 91st season. All-Time Record (since 1960): 1,256-940-4 (.572). All-Time Division I Record: 1,074-748-3 (.589). All-Time Sun Belt Record: 206-123 (.626). NCAA Appearances/Last: Ten/2007. All-Time NCAA Tournament Record: 17-20. Regular Season Conference. Championships: 13; Gulf States Conference (1949-53, 1966); Southland Conference (1972-73); American South Conference (1988-91); Sun Belt Conference (1997, 2005, 2007). Conference Tournament championships: 1 Sun Belt Conference (1998). Last time in postseason: 2007 College Station Regional (2-2). Finished tied for 3rd at 2000 College World Series after knocking off overall #1 South Carolina in Super Regional. Defeated Clemson and San Jose State, lost to Stanford twice in 2000 College World Series.

• Basketball - 2003-04 Sun Belt west division champions 2004 Sun Belt Conference Tournament champions. 2005 Sun Belt Conference Tournament champions. NIT Participant 2002 and 2003. NCAA Tournament participant 2000, 2004*, and 2005*.
  *vacated by NCAA

• Football - Participate in NCAA Division I FBS in the Sun Belt Conference. 2005 Sun Belt Conference co-champions. 1993 and 1994 Big West Conference co-champions.

• Softball - Sun Belt Conference champions 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005. 14 NCAA Regionals, 33 All-Americans, 24 consecutive winning seasons.

• Water Skiing - First year of competition: 1989. Has finished no worse than third in the annual NCWSA National Collegiate Water Ski Association championships since 1993. National champions: 1995, 1997, 2003, 2005.

Traditions

Mascots

Former

• Bulldog
• Mr. Cajun (animated)
• RC the Bulldog (live)
• "Gee" the bulldog (live) prior to being the Ragin' Cajuns
• "The Fabulous Cajun Chicken" (animated) 1982-1999 - Most popular and most entertaining mascot of all time

Current

• Cayenne (animated)

Songs and cheers

Ragin' Cajuns Fight Song

Fight on, Cajuns, fight on to victory

For the Red and White,

We will sing of triumph and glory,

For our team tonight,

You will hear the rage of the Cajuns,

So let's give a yell, (AHH-YEE)

Hustle up and bustle up and

Fight on to victory - go U L!

Cajuns' Cheers

Yeah Rouge

Yeah Blanc

Yeah Cajuns

Allons!

...............................

Hot Boudin!

Cold Coush-Coush!

Come on Cajuns,

Push! Push! Push!!!

Notable sports alumni

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun alumni have had notable professional sports careers in the NFL, NBA, MLB and as Olympic medalists. A major example would be NFL quarterback Jake Delhomme of the Carolina Panthers and Former All-star Pitcher Ron Guidry of the New York Yankees. Also the late Kim Perrot of the Houston Comets.

Further information: List of University of Louisiana at Lafayette people

External links

• Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns official athletics website.
• Ragin' Cajuns Athletic Network official athletics network.
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette official university website.
• RaginPagin.com unofficial Ragin' Cajun fan portal and resource guide.