UC Riverside Highlanders baseball
| UC Riverside Highlanders | |
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| Founded | 1958 |
| University | University of California, Riverside |
| Conference | Big West |
| Location | Riverside, CA |
| Head coach | Troy Percival (1st year) |
| Home stadium |
Riverside Sports Complex (Capacity: 2,500) |
| Nickname | Highlanders |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| National Championships | |
| Division II: 1977, 1982 | |
| College World Series appearances | |
| Division II: 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991 | |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |
| Division II: 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999 Division I: 2003, 2007 |
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| Conference champions | |
| CCAA: 1977, 1981, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996 Big West: 2007 |
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The UC Riverside baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of California, Riverside, located in Riverside, California, United States. The program has been a member of the NCAA Division I Big West Conference since the start of the 2002 season. The program's home venue is the Riverside Sports Complex, located on the university's campus. Alumnus and former major leaguer Troy Percival was named the program's head coach ahead of the 2015 season. The program has won two Division II national championships. It has appeared in four Division II College World Series and 12 NCAA Tournaments (two in Division I). It has won eight California Collegiate Athletic Association championships and one Big West Conference championship. As of the start of the 2013 Major League Baseball season, 16 former Highlanders have appeared in Major League Baseball.
Although the school traces its history to the early 20th century, the University of California, Riverside opened for classes in February 1954. It adopted the Highlanders nickname in a student election held later that year. The varsity baseball program was founded shortly thereafter, beginning play in 1958.
Little record exists of the program's early years, though it competed as an Independent in the NCAA College Division (made up of small-school athletic programs) through the end of the 1970 season. Don Edwards, who had assisted in the development of the program prior to its first season, became the program's second head coach prior to the 1960 season. From 1965–1968, future UC Irvine and UCLA head coach Gary Adams was an assistant coach under Edwards.
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