UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball
| UC Santa Barbara Gauchos | |
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| Founded | 1922 |
| University | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Conference | Big West |
| Location | Santa Barbara, CA |
| Head coach | Andrew Checketts (5th year) |
| Home stadium |
Caesar Uyesaka Stadium (Capacity: 1,000) |
| Nickname | Gauchos |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| College World Series appearances | |
| 2016 | |
| NCAA Regional Champions | |
| 2016 | |
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |
| 1952, 1972, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2013, 2015, 2016 | |
| Conference champions | |
| 1950, 1952, 1954, 1972, 1983, 1986 | |
The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos baseball team represents the University of California, Santa Barbara in the sport of baseball. The Gauchos compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) through the Big West Conference. They are currently led by head coach Andrew Checketts, who led his fifth season with the Gauchos in 2016.
Few records exist from the start of Santa Barbara's baseball program. Through its different incarnations, Santa Barbara has fielded a team as early as 1922. The first known head coach is Kenneth Bolton, who coached in only the 1922 season before handing the reigns to O. J. Gilliland in 1923. C.J. Anderson, Ralph DeBolt, Henry Minetti, Lewis Peters, Arthur Peterson, Harold Sanford, Fred Seegert, Louis Sherril, William Thrasher, Linn Unkefer, and John Vince are the first known players and were listed on the 1923 team.
Santa Barbara State Teachers College, as one of the precursors to the present day UC Santa Barbara, played in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference as far back as the 1932–33 season. It is likely to have had even earlier teams in the SCIAC as records show Santa Barbara joined the conference in 1931.
Santa Barbara's first reliable team of record can be traced back to 1947, then led by Theordore "Spud" Harder. Wearing multiple hats, Harder served as Santa Barbara's Director of Athletics, football head coach, and baseball head coach. The team played in the California Collegiate Athletic Association from at least 1947 until 1958 when it left to compete in the California Intercollegiate Baseball Association.
Roy Engle, a duel sport head coach in football and baseball in the mold of Spud Harder, took over the program in 1952 and led the Gauchos to their first ever post-season berth. The Gauchos lost both games they played against the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team by a combined score of 28-6.
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