Occidental Tigers


Located in Los Angeles, Occidental College competes in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference at the NCAA's Division III level. Approximately 25 percent of all students play a varsity sport, and nearly half of all students participate in all athletics activities combined.
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History

In 1889–90 Professor James Parkhill organized intramural games for interested College men and Academy boys. His enthusiastic leadership laid the groundwork for establishing the nickname and school colors after his undergraduate alma mater, Princeton. The school dropped football in 2020.

Rivalries

Every year Occidental played two football games for rivalry trophies. One game was against Pomona-Pitzer and the winner awarded "The Drum." The Drum rivalry is the oldest rivalry game in Southern California, having been contested since 1895. Oxy leads Pomona-Pitzer all time in the series 65–54–3. The other game was against Whittier College and the winner awarded "The Shoes," which are a pair of bronzed cleats from a 1940 graduate from Whittier named Myron Claxton.

Varsity sports

The Tigers have 10 varsity men's teams and 11 varsity women's teams.
Men's sportsWomen's sports
BaseballBasketball
BasketballCross country
Cross countryGolf
GolfLacrosse
SoccerSoccer
SwimmingSoftball
TennisSwimming
Track and fieldTennis
Water PoloTrack and field
Volleyball
Water polo

Men's basketball

For the last decade, under alumnus and winningest coach in school history Brian Newhall, the Tigers have found great success on the court. In that time span the program has compiled a 146–59 record and have won a pair of SCIAC conference championships. Furthermore under Newhall, the Tigers have earned regional and national rankings, produced the only perfect 14–0 record in SCIAC history and triumphed in two NCAA playoff games to reach the NCAA III Elite 8 in 2003. Some Oxy players have pursued professional careers overseas, including four players from Oxy's 25–3 Elite 8 team, have gone overseas. One example is Oxy alumnus Blair Slattery, the all-time career scoring and rebounding leader who signed on with the Munster Basketball Club in Germany in 1993.
The program plays its games in Frank Neill Rush Gymnasium with a seating capacity of 1,800.

Club sports

The college also have six club sport teams:

Facilities

VenueSportRef.
Patterson FieldSoccer
Patterson FieldLacrosse
Patterson FieldTrack and field
Anderson FieldBaseball
Bell FieldSoftball
McKinnon Family CenterTennis
De Mandel Aquatics CenterSwimming
Upper and Lower FieldsSoccer '
Alumni Gymnasium'

National championships

SportTitlesAssoc.DivisionYearRival/runner-upScore
Cross country 1NCAADivision III1977Humboldt State149–152
Track and field 3NAIASingle1956Abilene Christian89½–56
Track and field 3NAIASingle1957Abilene Christian148½–34
Track and field 3NAIASingle1958Winston-Salem State93–62

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Conference championships

All the titles won in the SCIAC
SportTitlesWinning years
Football42004, 2005, 2006, 2008
Cross country 12006
Basketball 22006–07, 2007–08
Basketball 12007–08
Baseball12016
Track and Field341938, 1943, 1948, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990
SCIAC All Sports Champions31978, 1983, 1984
Soccer 12023