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The UCF Knights women's outdoor track and field team was organized in 1984; the indoor track and field team was formed in 2006. The University of Central Florida joined Conference USA in 2005, and the Knights track team began to compete in C-USA in 2006. [2] UCF joined the American Athletic Conference in 2013. [4]
The UCF Knights women's volleyball program represents the University of Central Florida in National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division I. The Knights compete in the Big 12 Conference and play their home games on UCF's main campus in Orlando, Florida at The Venue at UCF. The Knights are currently led by head coach Jenny Maurer. [2]
The Knights soccer program began in 1981 under Jim Rudy, who also started the men's soccer program at UCF in 1975. [5] The Knights went 11–3–0 in their inaugural year, defeating Miami in their first match 20–0. [6] Rudy led the Knights to the AIAW Finals in their first year. UCF faced North Carolina in the final AIAW Championship, falling ...
From 2013 to 2016, the Knights were 121–114 under Rooney's leadership. The Knights joined the American Athletic Conference (The American) in 2013. [11] UCF did not appear in another NCAA tournament despite a 36–23 record in 2014 where Rooney won American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. In 2015, the Knights were 22–7 and ranked No ...
In 2005, UCF moved to Conference USA, where they remained until joining the American Athletic Conference in 2013. [7] UCF joined the Big 12 Conference after the 2023 season. [8] The UCF Softball Complex opened on March 14, 2006, with the Knights winning two games that day, a 10–9 victory over Marshall and a 7–3 win over Furman.
The UCF varsity athletic program began during the 1969–70 academic year. Then known as the "Florida Technological University Knights of Pegasus", the university was a charter member of the Sunshine State Conference in 1975. [citation needed] Since the 1970s, the UCF athletic programs have become a major competitor in college athletics.
This coincides with UCF's July 2023 move from the American Athletic Conference (The American), a league in which it had been a member since 2013, [2] to the Big 12 Conference, which sponsors soccer only for women. [3] They play their home games on UCF's main campus in Orlando, Florida at the UCF Soccer and Track Stadium.
The UCF football program can be traced back to a speech given by the university's second president, Dr. Trevor Colbourn, in January 1979. [18] Colbourn believed that a successful athletics program would bring the university greater renown, and tasked Dr. Jack O'Leary with the job of creating a new football program at the school. [19]