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48-638: The Santa Clara University Broncos baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team that represents the school in NCAA Division I. Santa Clara Baseball competes in the West Coast Conference, of which the Broncos were a charter member. The Broncos play their home games on campus at Stephen Schott Stadium, which opened in 2005. The Broncos and are led by head coach Rusty Filter , who is in his third season. Santa Clara began play in 1883 and has enjoyed

96-479: A 1–1 tie. In 1991 , they again faced Virginia and again tied after regulation, this time 0–0, but lost on penalty kicks. In 1999 , they lost to Indiana University , 0–1. The men's soccer team is led by coach Cameron Rast, who is in his 23rd season at Santa Clara. The women's soccer team is one of the nation's elite programs in the NCAA consistently ranking among the top ten teams nationally with twenty consecutive years in

144-645: A catcher, but found his calling as a pitcher for the Aztecs as a sophomore. Filter made 80 appearances and recorded 10 saves in his career. Filter was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1990 Major League Baseball draft . Filter played the 1990 season with the St. Catharines Blue Jays , where he appeared in 19 games recording a 4.50 ERA and 2 saves. Filter left the professional ranks following his stint in rookie ball, and became an assistant coach at San Diego State. He left

192-517: A long history of baseball excellence. Santa Clara has won eleven conference titles and appeared in twelve NCAA Tournaments, including a runner-up finish in the 1962 College World Series . Individually, 34 Broncos have been named All-Americans, and 158 players have been drafted in the MLB Draft, with 48 players making it to the Major Leagues. Men's basketball played its first season in 1904. Since then,

240-687: A match between the Western New York Flash and magicJack in Abby Wambach's hometown of Rochester, New York on July 20, 2011. A new attendance record for a WPS final was also set just a few weeks later at Sahlen's Stadium again in Rochester when 10,461 fans filled the stadium on August 27, 2011, for the championship game between the Flash and the Philadelphia Independence . The final

288-423: A record of 10–20 during the season of 2014–15, the Broncos came out with an outstanding record of 23–9 beating Stanford University on November 23, (61–58). Coach JR Payne accepted a head coaching position at Colorado University at the end of the 2015–16 season. In April 2016 the Broncos hired Bill Carr, who was the head coach for 8 seasons. In October of 2024 coach Carr resigned and Associate Head Coach Michael Floyd

336-422: A then-unnamed city. Later, Boston and New York/New Jersey were announced as other markets to have teams. In September 2007, the launch was pushed back from Spring of 2008 to 2009 to avoid clashing with 2007 Women's World Cup and the 2008 Olympic Games and to ensure that all of the teams were fully prepared for long-term operations. On May 27, 2008, the league announced that it would expand to Philadelphia for

384-631: A vote of league coaches following the U.S. women's national team allocation. A general draft was held in October, followed by a combine for college seniors and undrafted players in December, a post-combine draft in January, and local tryouts by individual teams in February. Before the season began, WPS was only able to secure two sponsors, and most teams did not advertise much or get their rosters finalized until late in

432-825: Is Brandi Chastain who took the Broncos to two NCAA Final Four appearances in 1989 and 1990. She would later be on the American Olympic team that won the gold medal in 1996 and the American World Cup teams that won in 1991 and 1999. Her husband Jerry Smith is the coach of the Santa Clara women's team, currently in his 36th season at the helm. Other notable players include Olympian Aly Wagner , 2015 and 2019 Women's World Cup champion Julie Ertz , and United States women's national soccer team & OL Reign player, Sofia Huerta . Santa Clara University fielded an intercollegiate football team from 1896 to 1992. The Broncos were

480-600: Is in his ninth season. Women's basketball played its first season in 1963. Since then, the women's basketball team has historically been a strong program within the West Coast Conference . The Women's Basketball team won the WNIT in 1991. The 2012–13 Santa Clara Broncos women's basketball team was another notable team. Head Coach JR Payne signed a contract with the Santa Clara Bronco in the 2014 season. Finishing with

528-511: The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup , though, the Independence started an incredible streak that saw them temporarily overtake the Flash at the top of the table. The success of the United States women's national soccer team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup resulted in an upsurge in attendance league-wide and helped set a new all-time league attendance record for a single game at 15,504 during

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576-510: The Atlanta Beat , who had only earned one point until then and ultimately finished the season at the bottom of the table. The other expansion franchise, the Philadelphia Independence fared much better, finishing third on the season and ultimately losing the WPS Final to the incredibly dominant FC Gold Pride . Around the same time, WPS announced the addition of a western New York franchise for

624-477: The WPSL Elite League . WPS commissioner Tonya Antonucci said that unlike WUSA, which had higher expectations and employed a top-down model, WPS would take "a local, grass roots approach", and "a slow and steady growth type of approach", citing WUSA's losses of close to $ 100 million. She said the new league would have a closer relationship with Major League Soccer , the top men's professional league in

672-478: The 1952 Final Four. The 1992–1993 Santa Clara team, led by future NBA MVP Steve Nash, was one of 6 #15 seeds to defeat a #2 seed in the NCAA tournament . On February 12, 2007, the men's basketball team snapped Gonzaga's 50-game home winning streak. At the time, it was the longest ongoing home winning streak in the NCAA. The Broncos are led by head coach Herb Sendek , a coach of the year in three different conferences, who

720-482: The 2010 season, with the franchise likely sharing facilities with MLS's Philadelphia Union . Despite being the eighth named team, the league still considered adding an eighth team to play in the league's inaugural season. An eighth team for the inaugural season was tentatively announced as being located in San Diego, and was finalized later. Still, despite the extra time given to the original five cities for preparations,

768-470: The 2011 season, spawning from the existing Buffalo Flash organization. Despite these strong showings, overall attendance for 2010 was noticeably down from 2009, and one team (the Washington Freedom ) made public mid-season that it was looking for new investors. Also, at the championship game, commissioner Tonya Antonucci announced she would step down, with Anne-Marie Eileraas taking leadership as

816-593: The 2011 season. In 2008, the Santa Clara Paintball Team made it to the final rounds of the NCPA national competition in Florida. The Santa Clara University Rugby Football Club has a rich history. The rugby team began in 1907, around the time that a number of California schools were dropping American football due to its violence. The team went undefeated in the 1916 regular season, and in the "Big Game" against Stanford —

864-508: The 2012 season, citing several internal organization struggles as the primary cause. Some of these issues included an ongoing legal battle with magicJack owner Dan Borislow and the lack of resources invested into the league. On May 18, 2012, WPS announced the league folded and would not return in 2013. After the WPS folded, the National Women's Soccer League formed in 2013 and took WPS's place as

912-515: The Aztecs after one season to become an assistant at Mission Bay High School. After two seasons at Mission Bay, Filter returned to San Diego State. Filter spend 16 seasons at SDSU and helped produce Stephen Strasburg as the first overall pick in the 2009 Major League Baseball draft . Filter moved on to be the pitching coach for the Stanford Cardinal in 2010. Filter stayed with the Cardinal for

960-617: The Dallas franchise did not materialize, citing stadium issues. Thus the league began with seven teams. The new name of the league, Women's Professional Soccer, was announced on January 17, 2008, along with the logo, which featured the silhouette of retired player Mia Hamm . Player allocation began on September 16, 2008, after the Beijing Olympics in August, when WPS announced the allocation of 21 US national team players, three players to each of

1008-652: The Division II football team, and elected not to field a team at the Division I-AA level. There is no indication football will return to the school in the future, although rumors of the return of Bronco football have not been put to rest. Advocates for the reinstatement of the football program argue that major collegiate football will generate enormous media buzz surrounding the small university. Sponsored club sports include: The Santa Clara Women's Lacrosse team has made it to nationals multiple years and placed 3rd in

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1056-483: The Sol took advantage of as they won the inaugural season), several season-ending injuries, two major trades, decisions from the WPS disciplinary committee and commissioner, and a Cinderella-run to the championship title (won by Sky Blue FC ). Most teams considered the first season a moderate success, despite many losing more money than planned. This success/optimism did not extend to the Sol, though, as after AEG failed to sell

1104-536: The Top 10. The program won the national title in the 2001 NCAA Women's Soccer Championship , beating University of North Carolina 1–0, and again in the 2020 NCAA Championship , defeating Florida State 4–1 on penalties. The team was mentioned several times in the film Bend It Like Beckham . The team has had over 40 players in play in the top professional leagues in the country: Women's Professional Soccer and National Women's Soccer League . The team's most famous player

1152-575: The United States", including the founding of a new professional league. Attempts to relaunch WUSA in full fell through in 2004 (when the league's member teams played in two WUSA Festivals instead) and 2005. In June 2006, WSII announced the relaunch of the league for the 2008 season. In December 2006, the organization announced that it reached an agreement with six owner-operators for teams based in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Washington, DC, and

1200-613: The United States, to cut costs on staff and facilities, and for marketing. The team budgets for the inaugural season was $ 2.5 million. WPS players were represented by the Women's Professional Soccer Players Union (WPSPU), an independent, democratic labor organization run by and for the players. The WPSPU was certified and recognized by the league on September 8, 2010, in Washington, DC. Jennifer Hitchon served as Executive Director and Robert H. Stropp of Mooney, Green, Baker & Saindon, PC,

1248-622: The WPS All-Star Game. Fox Sports Net aired the semifinal and league championship contests. The national television contract was in effect through the 2011 season with an option for 2012. Some local networks aired games. ^- Team was originally named the Washington Freedom WPS handed out seven end-of-year awards. Six of them dated to the league's formation, while the Rookie of the Year award

1296-406: The advent of professional football, Santa Clara dropped football in 1952. The team was reinstated in 1959 . It competed favorably at the college division (later Division II) level until football was once again discontinued in 1992, due to new NCAA regulations which mandated all sports be played at the same level at each university. Santa Clara had fielded all Division I teams with the exception of

1344-1016: The duration of Mark Marquess tenure with the Cardinal, and interviewed to be his replacement, but when Stanford chose David Esquer , Filter pursued other options. On June 23, 2017, Filter was named the new head coach of the Santa Clara Broncos baseball program.        National champion          Postseason invitational champion          Conference regular season champion          Conference regular season and conference tournament champion        Division regular season champion        Division regular season and conference tournament champion        Conference tournament champion Women%27s Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer ( WPS )

1392-422: The first five selections, first pick Formiga (Bay Area), Marta (#3, Los Angeles), Daniela (#4, St. Louis), and Cristiane (#5, Chicago) were Brazilian , and a total of 10 Brazilian players were selected. England 's Kelly Smith (#2, Boston) and Japan 's Homare Sawa (#6, Washington), and Australia 's Sarah Walsh rounded out the first round. The draft order was based on a weighted ranking determined by

1440-646: The first team to play the Cal Bears in Memorial Stadium . In Santa Clara's football heyday, they drew crowds of up to 60,000 to Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, where they played home games. The Broncos competed favorably on a national scale, winning the 1937 and 1938 Sugar Bowls (both against Louisiana State ) and the 1950 Orange Bowl against Paul "Bear" Bryant 's Kentucky Wildcats , 21–13. Combatting increased costs, rising enrollments at public universities and

1488-471: The league announced suspension of the 2012 season, citing several internal organization struggles as the primary cause. Some of these included an ongoing legal battle with ex-franchise owner Dan Borislow , and the lack of resources invested into the league. Prior to the formal announcement, the USSF showed reservation about renewing sanctioning for WPS, citing the sparsity and geographic concentration of WPS team as

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1536-462: The main problem. (USSF requires professional, top-division leagues to have at least eight teams over at least three time zones.) Ultimately, USSF granted WPS a waiver on this issue for the third time in WPS's history, on the conditions that WPS expands to six teams by 2013 and eight by 2014. On May 18, 2012, the WPS announced that the league had officially ceased operations. The Boston Breakers and Western New York Flash were later assimilated into

1584-409: The men's basketball team has historically been a strong program within the West Coast Conference . The program has produced 13 All-Americans , with their first, Ralph Giannini, coming in the 1940 season. The program has produced NBA stars Steve Nash , and Kurt Rambis , as well as college stars Ken Sears and Bob Feerick . The Team has played in the NCAA tournament in 11 different seasons, reaching

1632-610: The move to DI in the Northern California League (Nor Cal League). In 2012 Santa Clara men's rugby won the 2012 Nor Cal Conference Championship and advanced to the round of 16 of the D1 National Playoffs. In 2013, Santa Clara was promoted to Division 1-A and played in the California conference. In 2014, Santa Clara finished second in the California conference, qualifying for the playoffs, beating Colorado State 49–12 in

1680-662: The new WPS CEO. More problems came to light early in the offseason. Four teams – FC Gold Pride , the Chicago Red Stars , the Boston Breakers , and Washington – all missed the payment deadline for a large up-front escrow meant to prevent what happened to St. Louis from happening again. Ultimately, the Gold Pride could not find the necessary money and folded. Chicago was given a 30-day extension but announced in December that they would not play in WPS in 2011, opting to regroup in

1728-547: The new groups potentially coming from the western half of the country, but ultimately no ownership groups were ready to join in time and instead aimed for the 2013 season. On November 20, 2011, the United States Soccer Federation gave WPS 15 days to field a sixth team, in order for the league to maintain its Division 1 status, after magicJack was terminated by the league. magicJack would later be reinstated as an exhibition team, slated to play seven games each for

1776-602: The next two seasons against WPS teams. The league had sought an extension of the league size waiver through the 2012 season, which would include the 2012 Summer Olympics , in hope of attracting more sponsors for the 2013 season. USSF granted sanctioning, with conditions requiring expansion, through 2014. At the time, WPS was interested in expanding beyond the East Coast and several MLS teams had expressed interest in cooperating with expansion teams, among them Seattle Sounders FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC . On January 30, 2012,

1824-537: The only other undefeated rugby team that season — Santa Clara won 28–5. Santa Clara's Rudy Scholz was a member of the U.S. national rugby teams that won gold at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. Santa Clara rugby faded after that, however, and it was not until the 1960s that the rugby team was re-founded. Following their success on the DII national stage and the creation of the College Premier Division, Santa Clara made

1872-482: The preseason. During the season, though, WPS secured several more sponsors, and WPS announced the expansion to Atlanta as the ninth team for next season. WPS's inaugural game was played to a crowd of over 14,000 fans at the Home Depot Center as the hosts Los Angeles Sol beat the Washington Freedom 2–0. The first season saw several issues occur, including an uneven schedule due to the odd number of teams (that

1920-594: The round of 16, before losing to Saint Mary's in the quarterfinals. Santa Clara rugby is led by head coach Paul Keeler . Rusty Filter Russell Dean Filter Sr. (born November 30, 1968) is an American college baseball coach and former catcher and pitcher . Filter is the head coach of the Santa Clara Broncos baseball team. Filter attended Mission Bay Senior High School in San Diego , California . Upon graduation from high school, Filter enrolled at San Diego State University . Filter began his college career as

1968-438: The second-tier Women's Premier Soccer League . Washington and Boston ultimately were able to make their payments, leaving six teams for the 2011 season. The beginning of the league's third season was marked by three overshadowing challenges: low attendance, problems with (ex-Freedom) magicJack owner Dan Borislow , and an FC Gold Pride -like dominance by the Western New York Flash . While national team players were away at

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2016-462: The seven teams that began play in the 2009 season. Most players were matched with teams they had some previous connection to, such as hometown, college, WUSA, or W-League affiliation. All of the allocated Americans played in the 2009 season except for Kate Markgraf , who was pregnant at the start of the season. A week later, the league held the 2008 WPS International Draft , in which the seven teams selected four international players each. Four of

2064-496: The team it was announced that the Sol would be disbanding. As AEG had given the Sol back to the league, a dispersal draft was held to distribute the players to the remaining eight teams. This was not the case when the Saint Louis Athletica suddenly and unexpectedly ran into financial problems and folded mid-May. The league schedule had to be re-done, and all of Athletica's players became free agents. Most were signed by

2112-554: The top professional women's soccer league in the United States. After the folding of Women's United Soccer Association , which played its third and final full season in 2003, WUSA Reorganization Committee was formed in September of that year. The committee led to the founding in November 2004 of the non-profit organization, Women's Soccer Initiative, Inc. (WSII), whose stated goal was "promoting and supporting all aspects of women's soccer in

2160-655: Was General Counsel. The players who made up the 2011–2012 WPSPU Executive Committee were: Eniola Aluko , Rachel Buehler , Allison Falk , Leslie Osborne , Christie Rampone , Becky Sauerbrunn , Cat Whitehill , and Kristine Lilly (member emeritus). These players were responsible for advising the Executive Director, setting union priorities, approving union bargaining positions and proposals, and responding to WPS counter-proposals, among other activities. Fox Soccer Channel and Fox Sports en Español with Samuel Jacobo and Jorge Caamaño aired weekly Sunday night matches and

2208-484: Was also the closest-contested in the league's short history, with both teams scoring and ultimately going into penalty kicks, where the Flash bested the Independence 5–4 with a last-round save made by Ashlyn Harris . The national exposure to women's soccer, and the upswing in attendance, sparked other groups interested in bringing teams to the WPS. The league had hoped to have ten teams for the 2012 season, with most of

2256-507: Was named interim Head Coach. The men's soccer team is one of the nation's elite teams having since 2006 been among the top eight programs of the NCAA for developing professional players overall. The men's soccer team has reached the championship match of the College Cup three times. In 1989 , they faced the University of Virginia ; both teams were declared co-champions after the game ended in

2304-408: Was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 season, with continued plans for future expansion. The WPS was the highest level in the United States soccer pyramid for the women's game. On January 30, 2012, the league announced suspension of

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