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Association | NCAA |
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Commissioner | Karl Benson (since 1994) |
Sports fielded |
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Division | Division I |
Subdivision | FBS |
Region | Western United States, Southern United States (Louisiana Tech) |
Official website | wacsports.com |
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The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference, which was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I FBS (formerly Division I-A). The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions located in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah, plus the "non-western" state of Louisiana (traditionally associated with the South).
In 2012, the WAC will lose its presence in the states of Nevada and Hawaii, but will also gain institutions in Colorado and Texas starting in 2012. The WAC is generally considered a "mid-major" conference, since it is not an automatic-qualifier member of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) selection system.
History
Formation
The WAC formed out of a series of talks between Brigham Young University athletic director Eddie Kimball and other university administrators from 1958 to 1961 to form a new athletic conference that would better fit the needs and situations of certain universities which were at the time members of the Border, Skyline, and Pacific Coast Conferences. Potential member universities who were represented at the meetings included BYU, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Arizona State, and Wyoming. While the three Washington and Oregon schools elected to stay in a revamped Pac-8 Conference that replaced the scandal-plagued PCC, the remaining six schools formed the WAC, forcing the disbandment of the Border and Skyline conferences. New Mexico State and Utah State applied for charter membership and were turned down; they would eventually become WAC members 43 years later.
Charter members
- Arizona - (withdrew June 30, 1978 to join the Pacific-10 Conference)
- Arizona State - (withdrew June 30, 1978 to join the Pacific-10 Conference)
- Brigham Young - (withdrew June 30, 1999 to form the Mountain West Conference)
- New Mexico - (withdrew June 30, 1999 to form the Mountain West Conference)
- Utah - (withdrew June 30, 1999 to form the Mountain West Conference)
- Wyoming - (withdrew June 30, 1999 to form the Mountain West Conference)
Success and first expansion
The conference proved to be an almost perfect fit for the six schools from both a competitive and financial standpoint. Arizona and Arizona State, in particular, experienced success in baseball with Arizona garnering the 1963 College World Series runner-up trophy and ASU winning the CWS in 1965, 1967, and 1969. Texas-El Paso (UTEP), recently renamed from Texas Western College, and Colorado State joined in 1967 to bring membership up to eight.
With massive growth in the state of Arizona, the balance of WAC play in the 1970s became increasingly skewed in favor of the Arizona schools, who won or tied for all but two WAC football titles from 1969 onward. In the summer of 1978, the two schools left the WAC for the Pac-8, which became the Pac-10, and were replaced in the WAC by San Diego State and, one year later, Hawaii. The WAC further expanded by adding Air Force in the summer of 1980. A college football national championship won by Brigham Young in 1984 added to the WAC's reputation as the best of the so-called mid-major conferences. This nine-team line-up of the WAC defined the conference for nearly 15 years.
Second wave of expansion and turbulence
Fresno State expanded its athletic program in the early 1990s and was granted membership in 1992 as the nationwide trend against major college programs independent of conferences accelerated. The WAC merged with the High Country Athletic Conference, a parallel organization to the WAC for women's athletics, in 1990 to unify both men's and women's athletics under one administrative structure.
In 1996, the WAC expanded again, adding six schools to its ranks for a total of sixteen. Rice, TCU, and SMU joined the league from the Southwest Conference, which had disbanded. Big West Conference members San Jose State and UNLV were also admitted, as well as Tulsa from the Missouri Valley Conference. With the expansion, the WAC was divided into two divisions.
To help in organizing schedules and travel for the farflung league, the members were divided into four quadrants of four teams each, as follows:
Quadrant 1 | Quadrant 2 | Quadrant 3 | Quadrant 4 |
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Hawaiʻi | UNLV | BYU | Tulsa |
Fresno State | Air Force | Utah | TCU |
San Diego State | Colorado State | New Mexico | SMU |
San Jose State | Wyoming | UTEP | Rice |
Quadrant one was always part of the Pacific Division, and quadrant four was always part of the Mountain Division. Quadrant two was part of the Pacific Division for 1996 and 1997 before switching to the Mountain Division in 1998, while the reverse was true for quadrant three. The scheduled fourth year of the alignment was abandoned after eight schools left to form the Mountain West Conference.
The division champions in football met from 1996 to 1998 in a championship game at Sam Boyd Stadium (also known as the Silver Bowl) in Henderson, Nevada. ABC televised all three games.
Increasingly, this arrangement was not satisfactory to most of the older, pre-1990 members. Five members in particular (Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Utah, and Wyoming) felt that WAC expansion had compromised the athletic and academic excellence of the membership [2]. Additional concerns centered around finances, as the new league stretched from Hawaiʻi to Oklahoma and travel costs became a concern. In 1999, those five schools, along with old line WAC schools New Mexico and San Diego State, as well as newcomer UNLV, split off and formed the new Mountain West Conference, depriving the WAC of most of its competitive strength and almost all of its history (in addition to its 4 remaining charter members). Only UTEP and Hawaiʻi would remain from the WAC's "golden age".
WAC in the 2000s
In 2000, the University of Nevada, Reno of the Big West conference joined as part of its plan to upgrade its athletic program.
TCU left for Conference USA in 2001 (it would later leave C-USA to become the ninth member of the Mountain West in 2005).
When the Big West announced that it would drop football after the 2000 season, four of its members (Boise State, Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State) wanted to continue their football programs. Boise State was invited to join the WAC and promptly departed the Big West, while New Mexico State and Idaho joined the Sun Belt Conference (NMSU as a full member, Idaho as a "football only" member) and Utah State operated as an independent D-I program. At the same time, Louisiana Tech ended its independent D-I status and also joined the WAC. The Bulldogs had played in The Sun Belt for several sports throughout the 1990s.
In 2005, Conference USA sought new members to replenish its ranks after losing members to the Big East, which had lost members to the ACC. Four WAC schools, former SWC schools Rice and SMU, as well as Tulsa, and UTEP, joined Conference USA. In response, the WAC added Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State – all former Big West schools which left the conference in 2000 along with Boise State when that conference dropped football. The three new schools were all land grant universities, bringing the conference total to five (Nevada and Hawaii).
Rumors of further membership changes
Radio station KBOI in Boise reported on Nov. 11, 2008, that Boise State president Robert Kustra received a letter from Mountain West officials inviting Boise State to join the league. Despite the popularity of a prospective move among some fans and reporters, this report (also was carried by the Idaho Statesman newspaper) was later denied.[citation needed]
Later, on November 12, 2009, San Diego radio host Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton reported the Mountain West intended to expand in order to gain automatic access to the Bowl Championship Series by adding Boise State, Nevada, and Fresno State:
"These rumors are everywhere out of the nation's capital. There are negotiations between the people for the BCS as well as the Mountain West Conference. If the Mountain West wants to get a guaranteed spot in the BCS they must expand. The expansion would include Boise State, Nevada-Reno and Fresno State. Make it a power twelve team conference." [3]
The rumor created a commotion on Internet message boards across the country; however, no statement by Mountain West Conference, BCS, or NCAA officials was ever made to substantiate the rumor.
On September 29, 2010, it was reported that Seattle University could receive an invitation to join the Western Athletic Conference[1], along with the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas State University, and the University of Denver.[2]
Coming changes
Boise State's future became one of the many topics of discussion amid the widespread rumors and speculation of conference realignment in 2010. In early June, the WAC's athletic directors and university presidents held a meeting in Las Vegas to discuss contingency plans. At the time of the meeting, media reports indicated that Boise State was likely to receive an invitation from the Mountain West within the coming days. On June 11, the reports were confirmed when the MWC officially announced that Boise State would join the conference for the 2011–12 academic year.[3]
WAC commissioner Karl Benson indicated that the conference expected to lose Boise State and that there was no bitterness against BSU by the rest of the membership. He also said that the WAC was considering its own expansion plans, and was eyeing up to six members of the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA) as future members.[3] Benson has had talks with the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and Texas State University concerning those school's interest in joining the WAC. In addition, on September 28, 2010, 5 schools made official presentations to the WAC about joining the conference: UTSA, Texas State University at San Marcos , Montana, Denver, and Seattle.
During a September interview with WAC commissioner Karl Benson the only school invited to a private meeting for possible expansion of teams was the Montana Grizzlies of the University of Montana[4]. But on November 11, 2010 Montana announced that they will remain in the Big Sky conference.
In August 2010, media reports surfaced indicating that BYU was seriously considering leaving the MWC to become an independent in football and return to the WAC as a non-football member. The WAC was reportedly willing to accept BYU's non-football sports if it chose to pursue this option, with BYU reportedly scheduling anywhere from four to six football games each season against WAC teams.[5]. However, BYU passed on the WAC, moving to football independence while joining the West Coast Conference in other sports.
On August 18, just hours after the BYU news surfaced, the Mountain West responded by inviting Fresno State and the University of Nevada-Reno to join. Both schools accepted, leaving the WAC with just 6 schools.
On November 11, 2010, the WAC announced that invitations were extended to and accepted by the University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas State University-San Marcos, and the University of Denver to take effect in 2012. Then, on November 19, 2010, the University of Hawaii at Manoa entered negotiations to enter the Mountain West Conference for the 2012 football season, with its other athletic programs beginning negotiations to join the Big West Conference.[6]. These changes mean the WAC will go to eight teams in 2011.[7]
Membership timeline
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Current members
Institution | Nickname | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Joined | Endowment |
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Boise State University | Broncos | Boise, Idaho | 1932 | Public | 19,667 | 2001 | $54 million |
California State University, Fresno | Bulldogs | Fresno, California | 1911 | Public | 25,613 | 1992 | $91 million |
University of Hawaii at Manoa | Warriors/Rainbow Wahine | Honolulu, Hawaii | 1907 | Public | 20,135 | 1979 | $159 million |
University of Idaho | Vandals | Moscow, Idaho | 1889 | Public | 11,957 | 2005 | $149 million |
Louisiana Tech University | Bulldogs/Lady Techsters | Ruston, Louisiana | 1894 | Public | 11,289 | 2001 | $53 million |
University of Nevada, Reno | Wolf Pack | Reno, Nevada | 1874 | Public | 16,867 | 2000 | $186 million |
New Mexico State University | Aggies | Las Cruces, New Mexico | 1888 | Public | 17,198 | 2005 | $139 million |
San Jose State University | Spartans | San Jose, California | 1857 | Public | 32,746 | 1996 | $41 million |
Utah State University | Aggies | Logan, Utah | 1888 | Public | 23,925 | 2005 | $151 million |
Grey background indicates departing members. Boise State leaves in 2011. Hawaii, Nevada and Fresno State leave in 2012.
Future members
Institution | Nickname | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Year Joins | Endowment |
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University of Denver | Pioneers | Denver, Colorado | 1864 | Private | 11,644 | 2012 | $269.9 million |
University of Texas at San Antonio | Roadrunners | San Antonio, Texas | 1969 | Public | 30,395 | 2012 | $54.08 million |
Texas State University–San Marcos | Bobcats | San Marcos, Texas | 1899 | Public | 32,586 | 2012 | $95.1 million |
Affiliate members
The following schools field programs in the WAC for sports not sponsored by their primary conferences.[8]
Institution | Nickname | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Year Joined | Endowment | Primary Conference | Sport(s) |
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California State University, Fullerton | Titans | Fullerton, California | 1957 | Public | 36,996 | 2006 | $19 million | Big West Conference | women's gymnastics |
Northern Arizona University | Lumberjacks | Flagstaff, Arizona | 1899 | Public | 18,824 | 2004 | $89 million | Big Sky Conference | women's swimming & diving |
California State University, Sacramento | Hornets | Sacramento, California | 1947 | Public | 27,972 | 2006 | $19 million | Big Sky Conference | baseball, women's gymnastics |
University of San Diego | Toreros | San Diego, California | 1949 | Private | 7,548 | 2004 | $220 million | West Coast Conference | women's swimming & diving |
Southern Utah University | Thunderbirds | Cedar City, Utah | 1897 | Public | 7,509 | 2006 | N/A | The Summit League | women's gymnastics |
Former members
1978
- Arizona (1962–78)
- Arizona State (1962–78)
1999
- BYU (1962–99)
- New Mexico (1962–99)
- Utah (1962–99)
- Wyoming (1962–99)
- Colorado State (1967–99)
- San Diego State (1978–99)
- Air Force (1980–99)
- UNLV (1996–99)
2001
- TCU (1996–2001)
2005
2011
- Boise State (2001–2011)
2012
- Fresno State (1992–2012)
- Nevada (2000–2012)
- Hawaii (1979-2012)
Of the former members:
- Two (Arizona and Arizona State) are members of the Pac-10.
- Four (Rice, SMU, Tulsa, UTEP) are in Conference USA.
- One (Utah) is currently a member of the Mountain West but is scheduled to join the Pac-10 in July 2011.
- One (BYU) is currently a member of the Mountain West, but is scheduled to join the West Coast Conference in July 2011 (and will operate as an independent in football)
- One (TCU) is currently a member of the Mountain West, but is scheduled to join the Big East Conference in July 2012 (TCU was in Conference USA from July 2001 through June 2005 before joining the Mountain West)
- The remaining Ten make up the membership (from 2012 onward) of the Mountain West Conference.
Sports
The WAC crowns team and individual champions in 19 sports – 8 men’s and 11 women’s.
Men's sports
- Baseball
- Basketball
- Cross country
- Football
- Golf
- Tennis
- Indoor track and field
- Outdoor track and field
Women's sports
- Basketball
- Cross country
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- Soccer
- Softball
- Swimming and diving
- Tennis
- Indoor track and field
- Outdoor track and field
- Volleyball
Conference facilities
School | Football stadium | Capacity | Basketball arena | Capacity | Baseball stadium | Capacity |
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Boise State | Bronco Stadium | 33,500 | Taco Bell Arena | 12,380 | No baseball team | |
Denver | No football team | Magness Arena | 7,200 | No baseball team | ||
Fresno State | Bulldog Stadium | 41,031 | Save Mart Center | 15,544 | Pete Beiden Field | 5,422 |
Hawaiʻi | Aloha Stadium | 50,000 | Stan Sheriff Center | 10,300 | Les Murakami Stadium | 4,312 |
Idaho | Kibbie Dome | 16,000 | Cowan Spectrum | 7,000 | No baseball team | |
Louisiana Tech | Joe Aillet Stadium | 30,600 | Thomas Assembly Center | 8,000 | J.C. Love Field | 2,000 |
Nevada | Mackay Stadium | 29,993 | Lawlor Events Center | 11,784 | William Peccole Park | 3,000 |
New Mexico State | Aggie Memorial Stadium | 30,343 | Pan American Center | 13,071 | Presley Askew Field | 750 |
Sacramento State | Participates in Big Sky | Participates in Big Sky | Hornet Field * | 1,200 | ||
San Jose State | Spartan Stadium | 30,578 | The Event Center Arena | 5,000 | San Jose Municipal Stadium | 5,200 |
UTSA | Alamodome | 65,000 | Convocation Center | 5,100 | Roadrunner Field | 800 |
Texas State | Bobcat Stadium | 16,009 | Strahan Coliseum | 7,200 | Bobcat Baseball Stadium | 2,000 |
Utah State | Romney Stadium | 25,500 | Smith Spectrum | 10,270 | No baseball team |
* Baseball affiliate
Future members highlighted in gray
Members leaving highlighted in pink
Rivalries
- Conference
- Boise State-Fresno State - Mostly in football; the two schools have a milk can trophy given to the winner of the game, started in 2005
- Boise State-Hawaiʻi – An emerging football rivalry featuring two of the four non-BCS schools to participate in a BCS bowl game.
- Boise State-Idaho - A heated in-state rivalry in basketball and football since 1971. In football, the two teams play for the annual "Governor's Cup".
- Hawaiʻi-Fresno State - A very heated football rivalry that has been tied in the overall series. Some fans have also created a Screwdriver trophy from the rumored incident that it was thrown to the visiting Hawaii football players however no evidence has been linked towards it.
- Hawaiʻi-New Mexico State - Women's volleyball; both teams are consistently rated to be at the top of the WAC.
- Nevada-Boise State-Both former members of the Big Sky Conference and the Big West Conference and have been rivals since 1979 in all three conferences
- Louisiana Tech-Fresno State - Battle for the Bone; so named because both universities use Bulldogs as their mascots
- San Jose State-Fresno State - In-state rivalry between the two CSU institutions. The football rivalry dates back to 1921, and was particularly heated when both schools competed together in the PCAA (later Big West) conference.
- Texas State-University of Texas at San Antonio- The I-35 Rivalry based on close proximity of schools
- Non-Conference
- Boise State-Idaho State (Big Sky)- A holdover intrastate rivalry begun in 1970, when BSU joined the Big Sky.
- Fresno State-San Diego State (Mountain West). The student bodies of both schools dislike each other with a passion.[citation needed] Both are CSU institutions and both were members of the PCAA (Big West) and later the WAC.
- Hawaiʻi-BYU (Mountain West) - This rivalry is a leftover from the "golden age" of the WAC and is dwindling; last football game played in 2002.
- Hawaiʻi-Wyoming (Mountain West) - This rivalry was played for the Paniolo trophy, a Hawaiian cowboy.
- Hawaiʻi-UCLA (Pac-10) - A rivalry in volleyball, the two teams have played each other every season since 1980.[9]
- Idaho-Montana (Big Sky) - predates the PCC (& Big Sky); football plays for the Little Brown Stein, last played in 2003.
- Idaho-Washington State (Pac-10) - Battle of the Palouse, land-grant neighbors eight miles (13 km) apart, football last played in 2007.
- Idaho-Idaho State (Big Sky) - A holdover intrastate rivalry, both were charter members of the Big Sky in 1963.
- Nevada-UNLV (Mountain West) - The Battle for Nevada and the Fremont Cannon since 1969; UNLV was formerly a southern campus of UNR
- New Mexico State-New Mexico (Mountain West) - The Rio Grande Rivalry
- New Mexico State-UTEP (Conference USA) - Battle of I-10, 45 miles (72 km) apart
- San Jose State-San Diego State (Mountain West)
- San Jose State-Stanford (Pac 10) - The Bill Walsh Legacy Game
- Utah State-BYU (Mountain West)
- Utah State-Utah (Mountain West) - Battle of the Brothers
- Louisiana Tech-Tennessee (SEC) - women's basketball
Commissioners
- Paul Brechler (1962–68)
- Wiles Hallock (1968–71)
- Stan Bates (1971–80)
- Dr. Joseph Kearney (1980–94)
- Karl Benson (1994–present)
Awards
Commissioner's Cup: The WAC awards its Commissioner's Cup to the school that performs the best in each of the conference's 19 men's and women's championships.
Stan Bates Award: The award is named in honor of former WAC Commissioner Stan Bates and honors the WAC's top male and female scholar-athletes, recognizing the recipients’ athletic and academic accomplishments. In addition, the awards carry a $2,000 postgraduate scholarship.
Joe Kearney Award: Named in honor of former WAC commissioner Dr. Joseph Kearney, the awards are given annually to the top male and female WAC athlete. The WAC Athletics Directors select the male award winner, while the WAC Senior Woman Administrators choose the female honoree.
National championships
The following teams have won NCAA national championships while being a member of the WAC:
- Arizona - baseball (1976)
- Arizona State - baseball (1965, 1967, 1969, 1977)
- BYU - men's track & field (shared the national title in 1970)
- BYU - men's golf (1981)
- BYU - women's cross country (1997)
- Fresno State - softball (1998)
- Fresno State - baseball (2008)
- Rice - baseball (2003)
- UTEP - NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country (1969,1975,1976,1978,1979,1981)
- UTEP - NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field (1974,1975,1976,1978,1980,1981,1982)
- UTEP - NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field (1975,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982)
- UNLV - men's golf (1998)
The WAC has also produced one AP national champion in football:
- BYU (1984)
Football bowl games
The WAC regularly sends teams to three different bowl games: the Hawaiʻi Bowl, the Humanitarian Bowl, and the New Mexico Bowl. The WAC will also send a team to the Poinsettia Bowl if the Pac-10 conference cannot provide a team. In 2010 and 2013 the WAC will send a team to the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl. Additionally, the conference has the opportunity to send a team to a BCS game, and did so in 2006 with Boise State, 2007 with Hawaiʻi, and 2009, again with Boise State, with a 2-1 overall record.
Bowl Championship Series
The WAC champion will receive an automatic berth in one of the five BCS bowl games if they are the highest ranked non-automatic qualifying conference champion and either of the following:
- Ranked in the top 12 of the BCS Rankings. (Utah qualified under this criterion in 2004-05, 2007–08 and TCU in 2008-09)
- Ranked in the top 16 of the BCS Rankings and its ranking is higher than that of an automatic qualifying conference champion.
The 2006 Boise State and 2007 Hawaiʻi teams qualified under the first criterion above. The 2008 Boise State team was ranked in the top 12 of the final BCS standings, but did not qualify for an automatic BCS bid because Utah, the Mountain West Conference champion, was #6. The 2008 Broncos were passed over for a BCS berth despite being unbeaten in the regular season. Boise State was once again undefeated in 2009, and received a BCS Berth in the 2010 Fiesta Bowl despite the fact that TCU, also a mid-major, received the automatic bid.
Hawaiʻi Bowl
The bowl will select a WAC team and will match it against a Conference USA opponent. Hawaiʻi automatically qualifies for this bowl if it is bowl eligible and doesn't qualify for the BCS. In 2012, The Sheraton Hawaii Bowl will move to the Mountain West Conference when Hawaii Warriors move to the MWC. In 2012 opponent is still to be contracted.
Humanitarian Bowl
The bowl will select its best available WAC team and will match it against the #1 team from the Mid-American Conference.
New Mexico Bowl
The bowl will select a WAC team and will match it against a Mountain West Conference opponent.
Poinsettia Bowl
The bowl will select a WAC team in 2011 and 2012. The opponent will be a team from the Mountain West Conference.
Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl
This bowl (formerly the Emerald Bowl) will select a WAC team in 2010 and 2013 to play the Pac-10's 6th place team provided they are eligible.
Conference championships
Football
Basketball
Baseball
References
- ^ http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/seattleuniversity/2013026139_seattleu30.html
- ^ http://news.collegesportsinfo.com/2010/10/report-wac-to-invite-utsa-texas-st.html
- ^ a b "Boise State moves to Mountain West". ESPN.com. June 11, 2010. Retrieved June 11, 2010.
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(help) - ^ http://www.grizcentral.com/WAC Commissioner recognizes UM would be "perfect fit"
- ^ Katz, Andy (August 18, 2010). "Sources: BYU closer to independence". ESPN.com. Retrieved August 18, 2010.
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- ^ http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/sports/50655841-77/state-wac-football-teams.html.csp
- ^ http://www.wacsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=10100&KEY=&ATCLID=1365971 Retrieved 2009-07-18.
- ^ "Hawaii Up Next for Women's Volleyball: ", UCLA Bruins Official Athletic Site, 2006-08-29. Retrieved on 2008-09-25.
External links
- WAC sports.com - official site
- Helmet Project - past and present football helmets of current WAC teams