University of California, Irvine, Athletics and Physical Education records, 1951-2015

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Summary

Creators:

University of California, Irvine. Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation

Abstract:

This collection consists of records of the department of Athletics and Physical Education at the University of California, Irvine. It contains files on all sports administered by the Athletics Department. This includes men's and women's teams in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, golf, sailing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and water polo. Files may contain player rosters, game schedules, photographs, programs, news releases, and more. The collection also includes video recordings of athletic events such as games, weekly highlights and interviews with coaches and players. There are also records and press releases from the Big West Conference organization.

Extent:

41.3 Linear Feet (44 boxes, 1 oversize folder and 4 gigabytes of scanned PDFs) and 0.4 unprocessed linear feet

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

University of California, Irvine, Athletics and Physical Education records. AS-063. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of records of the department of Athletics and Physical Education at the University of California, Irvine, from 1965-2004. It contains files on all sports administered by the Athletics Department. This includes men's and women's teams in baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, golf, sailing, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and field, volleyball and water polo. Files may contain player rosters, game schedules, photographs, programs, news releases, and more. The collection also includes video recordings of athletic events such as games, weekly highlights and interviews with coaches and players. There are also records and press releases from the Big West Conference organization. In 2015, UCI Special Collections and Archives scanned the Athletics press releases. These are available online.

Biographical / historical:

The UCI Athletics Department was formed with the university's founding in 1965. Wayne Crawford, for whom the original athletic facility was later named, served as the first chair of the Department of Physical Education, overseeing both intercollegiate athletics and recreational activities on campus. By 1968 Intercollegiate Athletics and the Recreation Sports Program were part of the Student Affairs Office, while the Department of Physical Education remained under Academic Affairs. The administrative authority under which the two departments served fluctuated a number of times until Physical Education and Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation were combined into a single office in 1995. In 1995 the Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation became independent of Student Affairs and directly accountable to the chancellor. Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation ascended to the level of an executive office in 1999, with the athletic director holding an administrative position equivalent to that of vice chancellor.

Basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, water polo, sailing, and crew were all introduced in 1965 independent of an athletics association or conference. 1965 also saw the formation of the first athletics support group (called the Big I Boosters) and the first UCI athletics game, a water polo match, on October 8. Over the years more sports were added including baseball (1970), track and field and cross country (1971), soccer (1984), and men's volleyball (1987). Women's teams were informally offered beginning in 1967, with teams in sailing, tennis, volleyball, and swimming/diving. The first full-time coach of a women's team was Doreen Irish, appointed to coach women's tennis in 1973. In 1977, UCI joined the Pacific Coast Athletics Association (PCAA) and became a Division I athletics institution within the NCAA. The PCAA changed its name to the Big West Conference in 1988.

As of 2008, UCI sponsored 23 intercollegiate athletic teams: 11 men's teams, 11 women's teams and one coed sailing program. UCI has won over 25 national team championships since 1969 and has produced 63 individual national champions. More than 400 UCI student-athletes have earned All-America honors, and UCI Anteater teams have captured over 58 conference championships.

Acquisition information:

Transferred from the UCI Athletics Department in 2015 and 2016 (a small portion of this collection was acquired by the archives in 1976).

Processing information:

Processed by Laura Uglean Jackson, 2015. Additional accretions added by Kim Evans in 2015.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in five series:

Series 1. Sports files, 1951-2004 17.4 linear feet
Series 2. Basketball (Men's) files, 1965-1993, 9.0 linear feet
Series 3. Big West Conference files, 1979-2002, 2.4 linear feet
Series 4. Audio and Video Recordings, 1981-2002, 12.0 linear feet
Series 5. Press Releases, 1965-2009, 4 Gigabytes. Available on the Online Archive of UCI History

The collection also contains one unprocessed addition. Accession 2015.035. UCI Athletics photographs, 1970-2015. 0.4 linear feet + digital material.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: College sports -- California -- Irvine
Intramural sports -- California -- Irvine
Names:: University of California, Irvine -- Archives

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. Material in box 44, "Biographical Information on Players and Staff," contains personally identifiable information and is restricted for 75 years from date of creation. Access to original video recordings and disk media is restricted, researchers may request access copies. Access to Series 5, Press Releases, is made available on Calisphere.

Terms of access:

Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

For information on use, copyright, and attribution, please visit: http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html