• In 2005, with the coaching of Bob Graf, Craig Galaydick took 12th place in the Discus Throw at the 2005 outdoor NCAA Div II National Track and Field Championship in Abilene Texas, becoming the first field athlete in UCCS history to place in a National Championship.

Gray finished fourth in the women's 3, 000 steeplechase at the NCAA DivisionII Outdoor National Track and Field Championships to join UCCS teammates Trent Briney and Maddi Bosen in ranking among the nation's top 10.

* UCCS Events Center ( 2010 ) – Money originally allocated to construct a temporary new home for Mountain Lion athletics was instead added to a larger budget to significantly expand the current athletics gym and create a new Events Center, which will, in addition to providing a larger gym for volleyball and basketball, will serve as a venue for conferences and large lectures when completed.

The official website for UCCS athletics is www. gomountainlions. com and keeps updates on the teams, rosters, record, and news for each sport.

With the recent success of men ’ s basketball, achieving the best record in UCCS history, amongst other things, led to an acceleration of plans to replace the facility with mounting pressure from students and athletes alike.

In addition to varsity sports, UCCS has a large number of club sports including a dance team and a cheerleading club, cycling, baseball, billiards, fencing, hockey, karate, kendo, kung fu, lacrosse, paintball, racquetball, rugby, tai chi, tennis, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, womans soccer, and an active intramural program.

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs ( UCCS ) is a campus of the University of Colorado system, the state university system of Colorado.

As of Fall 2012, UCCS has 9, 777 undergraduate and 1, 460 graduate students, with 24 % ethnic minority students.

In 2006, the U. S. News & World Report college and university rankings put the UCCS College of Engineering and Applied Science as ranking the fourth-best among public universities and the 16th best overall among bachelor and master's degree engineering schools.

U. S. News ranked UCCS as the 32nd in regional universities in the West for the 2011 rankings.

In 1965 UCCS moved to its current location on Austin Bluffs Parkway in the Cragmor neighborhood of northern Colorado Springs.

The first building built exclusively for UCCS, Dwire Hall, was not complete until 1972.

A 1997 community referendum merged Beth-El College of Nursing with UCCS.

In 2001 UCCS purchased an building at the corner of Union and Austin Bluffs to house the Beth-El College of Nursing.

The College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences is the UCCS college of liberal arts and sciences.

It is the largest college at UCCS, offering undergraduate programs in anthropology, art history, biology, chemistry, communication, economics, English, film studies, geography and environmental studies, history, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, sociology, Spanish, and visual and performing arts.

The Beth-El College of Nursing & Health Sciences is the UCCS nursing school.

The College of Business and Administration is the UCCS business school.

The College of Education is the UCCS school of education.

The College of Education is located in Columbine Hall on the UCCS campus.

Annually the COE holds a symposium at UCCS for local teachers and administrators that discusses various sub-topics and special topics that involve culturally responsive education.

* Daegu Gyeongbuk English Village: In 2006 UCCS and Yeungjin College, a prominent national university in South Korea, joined forces to construct a world-class English language learning campus in Daegu.

UCCS last hosted the event in 2008.

* Pikes Peak Educational Research Center: The PPERC was established to allow UCCS to collaborate with local school districts in order to meet accountability challenges.

* UCCS Teacher / Cadet Alliance: A project designed to encourage outstanding students to enter and complete undergraduate teaching programs offered by the COE.

The College of Engineering and Applied Sciences is the UCCS engineering college.

In the U. S. News & World Report " America ’ s Best Colleges ," the 2008 college rankings edition, " the magazine ’ s editors ranked the UCCS undergraduate engineering program ninth in the nation among public engineering schools offering bachelor ’ s or master ’ s degrees.

Arizona State University's NCAA Division I-A program competes in 9 varsity sports for men and 11 for women.

Rice competes in 14 NCAA Division I varsity sports and is a part of Conference USA, often competing with its cross-town rival the University of Houston.

St. John Fisher College competes at the NCAA Division III level, and is a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference ( ECAC ) and the Empire 8.

The Clan competes in Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ) and the U. S. National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association ( MCLA ).

USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the NCAA Pacific-12 Conference.

Lexington's only other collegiate team, the Transylvania University Pioneers, competes in NCAA Division III athletics.

Eight of the seventeen conference schools are football members and the Big East competes as a BCS conference in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), the top level of NCAA competition in that sport ( also known by its former designation: Division I-A ).

The conference competes in the NCAA's Division I ; its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), formerly known as Division I-A, the highest level of NCAA competition in that sport.

Formed in 1913, the SIAC is a member of the NCAA and competes in Division II athletics.

Oglethorpe University teams participate as a member of the NCAA Division III, and competes as a member of the Southern Athletic Association.

Tulane competes in NCAA Division I as a member of Conference USA.

Haverford College competes at the NCAA Division III level in the Centennial Conference and has a rich history in collegiate athletics: Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States ; its men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division, with men's cross country winning the 2010 Cross Country Division III National Championships ; its soccer team is the nation's oldest and won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905 against Harvard College ; its lacrosse team has recently become a national power after placing well in the NCAA championships ; its fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association ( MACFA ) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association ( NIWFA ).

Colorado College competes at the NCAA Division III level in all sports except men's hockey, in which it participates in the NCAA Division I Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and women's soccer, where it competes as an NCAA Division I team in Conference USA.

Football competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision.

The Bowdoin College Polar Bears ( the college mascot ) competes in the NCAA Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference ( NESCAC ), which also includes Amherst, Conn College, Hamilton, Middlebury, Trinity, Tufts, Wesleyan, Williams, and Maine rivals Bates and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium ( CBB ).

Ferris State offers an intercollegiate athletic program which includes 14 men ’ s and women ’ s sports at the NCAA Division II level, except for men's ice hockey which competes in NCAA Division I. Ferris States is a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ) in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

There are more than 120 active student organizations on campus, a campus recreation center, 16 NCAA Division II sports teams, and the Division I River Hawks ice hockey team that competes in the Hockey East Conference.

Vassar, known athletically as the Brewers, competes in Division III of the NCAA, as a member of the Liberty League.