Catholic University Cardinals
| Catholic University Cardinals | |
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| University | The Catholic University of America |
| Conference | Landmark Conference & Old Dominion Athletic Conference |
| NCAA | Division III |
| Athletic director | Sean M. Sullivan |
| Location | Washington, D.C. |
| Varsity teams | 21 |
| Football stadium | Cardinal Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Raymond A. DuFour Center |
| Baseball stadium | Robert J. Talbot Baseball Field |
| Soccer stadium | CUA Soccer Field |
| Mascot | Red the Cardinal |
| Nickname | Cardinals |
| Fight song | C.U. Marching Song |
| Colors | Cardinal Red and Black |
| Website | www |
The Catholic University of America's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Cardinals (after the bird northern cardinal), and they compete in the NCAA's Division III. They are primarily members of the Landmark Conference, and associate members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference until July 1, 2017, when the football team will join the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. The team colors are red (PMS 1805) and black.
Catholic celebrates Homecoming in the fall to coincide with a home football game.
Originally known as the Red and Black after the colors they wore, Catholic University's athletes came to be known as the Cardinals (often the Flying Cardinals, occasionally the Fighting Cardinals) in the mid-1920s.
Women's teams were established after women were admitted as undergraduate students in the 1950s, and a Women's Sports Department was established in 1959. The Department originally offered dance lessons and ping-pong and badminton tournaments. Jone Rastapkevicius was hired as the first coordinator of women’s sports in 1961. She went on to become a coach and married fellow CUA coach Martin Dowd. In the early part of her 50 year tenure, she worked to schedule games with other local colleges, thereby turning many of the intramural sports into “extramural” ones. The Metropolitan Sports Association for Women (MISAW) was founded in the mid-1960s by CUA along with Trinity College, Georgetown, American University, and George Washington University. It operated until the early 1970s.
As a team, CUA won the national title in 1938. Besides, two cardinals won individual championships:
The NCAA discontinued boxing in 1961.
The football team appeared in two major bowl games (the 1936 Orange Bowl, which they won and the 1940 Sun Bowl, which they tied). In the fall of 2008, already in Division III, the team went to the ECAC Southeast Bowl and defeated Johns Hopkins University 18-17 to give the Cards their first post season win since 1936.
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