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| University | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Conference | Pac-12 |
| NCAA | Division I / FBS |
| Athletic director | Dan Guerrero |
| Location | Los Angeles, California |
| Varsity teams | 22 |
| Football stadium | Rose Bowl |
| Basketball arena | Pauley Pavilion |
| Baseball stadium | Jackie Robinson Stadium |
| Other arenas | Drake Track Stadium |
| Mascot | Joe & Josephine Bruin |
| Nickname | Bruins |
| Fight song | "Sons of Westwood" |
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True Blue and Gold |
| Website | www |
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The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Pac-12 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). For football, they are in the Football Bowl Subdivision of Division I (formerly Division I-A). No school has won more NCAA team championships than UCLA. UCLA offers 10 varsity sports programs for men and 13 for women.
UCLA sponsors teams in eleven men's and fourteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports:
Men's Intercollegiate Sports
Women's Intercollegiate Sports
The UCLA athletic teams' colors are True Blue and Gold. In the early days of the school, UCLA had the same colors as the University of California, Berkeley; Yale blue and gold.
When football coach Red Sanders came to UCLA for the 1949 season he redesigned the football uniforms. The Yale blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in a film. He would dub the baby blue uniform "Powderkeg blue", powder blue with an explosive kick. For the 1954 football season, Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders, the UCLA Stripe. UCLA still uses different color blues. They have an alternate uniform that is predominately Navy. Their helmet has the UCLA script in Royal.
In 2014, UCLA named all of its recreation and athletics facilities in honor of Jackie Robinson, who was a four-sport student-athlete at the school and went on to play Major League baseball as the first African American to do so in the league. The Jackie Robinson "42" Athletics and Recreation Complex monument was installed in front of the John Wooden Recreation Center and was unveiled on March 5, 2016. The school also retired number 42 which was the number Robinson worn as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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