SIU Edwardsville Cougars
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| University | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| Conference |
Ohio Valley Conference (primary) |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Brad Hewitt |
| Location | Edwardsville, Illinois |
| Varsity teams | 8 men's & 8 women's |
| Basketball arena | Vadalabene Center |
| Baseball stadium | Roy E. Lee Field at Simmons Baseball Complex |
| Softball stadium | Cougar Field |
| Soccer stadium | Ralph Korte Stadium |
| Mascot | Eddie the Cougar, #57 |
| Nickname | Cougars |
| Fight song | Mighty Cougar Roar |
| Colors | Red and White |
| Website | www |
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Ohio Valley Conference (primary)
Missouri Valley (men's soccer)
The SIU Edwardsville Cougars are the intercollegiate athletic teams of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), located in Edwardsville, Illinois, United States. The Cougars' athletic program is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) and competes at the NCAA Division I level. The SIUE mascot is Eddie the Cougar #57, and the school colors are red and white. Cougar teams have won seventeen NCAA national championships in five sports.
SIUE entered intercollegiate athletic competition during the 1967–68 school year. At that time, college athletics was almost exclusively the realm of the male student athlete, but times were on the verge of change. On October 4, 1972, SIUE's first women's team took the field, as women's athletic director and coach Rosemarie Archangel's field hockey team played and won its first game. Field hockey has since been discontinued, and other sports have come and gone. Until 2007, when the university began the transition to Division I, SIUE had competed in Division II, except in men's soccer, which competed in Division I from 1973 through 1995. From 1994 to 2008, the Cougars were members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) after having previously been an independent. As part of the move to Division I, the Cougars joined the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) in 2008. The 2011–12 season was the Cougars' first campaigns for the OVC regular season titles, although they were not eligible for post-season play until 2012–13 except in softball and men's soccer, which were "fast-tracked" by the NCAA.
A member of the Ohio Valley Conference, SIU Edwardsville sponsors teams in eight men's and eight women's NCAA sanctioned sports:
Roy Lee initiated the baseball program in 1967–68 and headed it for its first eleven years. In that time, he garnered a record of 237–144–3, leading his teams to 8 consecutive NCAA Division II playoffs and 3 Division II College World Series, with a runner-up finish in 1976.
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