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Goldy Gopher is the mascot for the University of Minnesota and the associated sports teams, known as the Golden Gophers, as well as a four-time UCA Mascot National Champion (2011, 2013, 2017, and 2018). [1]
During the 2006–07 academic year, the Golden Gophers wrestling team won the NCAA national championship and the Big Ten team title. The Golden Gophers also won conference championships in men's ice hockey, men's golf, women's rowing, men's swimming and diving, and women's indoor track and field.
Being the first program ever to form worldwide, the University of Minnesota is consequently considered the "Birthplace of Cheerleading". [2] Today, the Gopher Spirit Squads consist of four separate squads: a cheer squad, a dance team, a hockey cheer squad, and the school's mascot, Goldy Gopher. The squads consistently perform well at national ...
Golden Knight - mascot of Clarkson University [9] Golden Lion – mascot of the Raritan Valley CC Golden Lions; Goldy the Gopher – mascot of the Minnesota Golden Gophers; Gompei – goat mascot of the WPI Engineers; Gorlok – mascot of Webster University; Gnarls – narwhal mascot of The New School since 2013 [10]
From their 1997–1998 season to their 2001–2002 season the Golden Gophers shared their home ice with the men's team at Mariucci Arena. The Golden Gophers moved into Ridder Arena in the 2002–2003 season, a facility dedicated solely to a women's hockey team, and named for team benefactors Robert Ridder and Kathleen Ridder. [15]
The Golden Gophers claim seven national championships, [5] including four (1936, 1940, 1941, and 1960) from the major wire-service: AP Poll and/or Coaches' Poll. Since 2009, the Golden Gophers have played all their home games at Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. [6] The team is currently coached by P. J. Fleck.
Their uniforms — purple, black and white, with MINNESOTA stitched on the jersey — are basic placeholders, made just for the first season of the new Professional Women's Hockey League.
The Minnesota Golden Gophers represent the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in women's gymnastics. They are coached by Jenny Hansen. The Gophers have 6 Big Ten Conference titles, most recently in 2021. In 1990 Marie Roethlisberger won the NCAA Championship in uneven bars, the Gophers' only NCAA champion to date.