Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball

UTRGV Vaqueros
Founded:


University University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Conference WAC
Location Edinburg, TX
Head coach Manny Mantrana (8th year)
Home stadium UTRGV Baseball Stadium
(Capacity: 4,000)
Nickname Vaqueros
Colors Kelly Green, Navy Blue, and Orange[1]
              
College World Series appearances
1971
NCAA Tournament appearances
1971

The Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team, or the UTRGV Vaqueros, is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, an NCAA Division I institution with several campuses in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. UTRGV was formally founded in 2013 with the announced merger of the University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA), with its main campus in Edinburg, and the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) in Brownsville, with the merged university beginning operation in the 2015–16 school year. The Vaqueros compete in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), play home games at UTRGV Baseball Stadium in Edinburg, and are coached by Manny Mantrana.

Prior to the merger, UTPA competed in Division I as the Texas–Pan American Broncs,[2] while UTB, a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, had no baseball program. In 2014, the University of Texas System announced that UTRGV would directly inherit the UTPA athletic program, including UTPA's WAC membership.[3]

Major League Baseball

UTPA had 35 Major League Baseball Draft selections from the start of the draft in 1965 until the 2015 merger that created UTRGV.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "UTRGV Trademark Licensing". Retrieved 2016-04-17.
  2. ↑ "Texas–Pan American Broncs". d1baseball.com. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
  3. ↑ "Project South Texas: Ask a Question". University of Texas System. July 30, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  4. ↑ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "University of Texas Pan American (Edinburg, TX)"". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-06-16.
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