University of California, Irvine, Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation publications, 1965-2008

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Summary

Creators:

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

Abstract:

This collection comprises the official publications of the Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Athletics publications include department-wide and sport-specific publications. Campus Recreation publications include those related to fitness and recreation programs and intramural sports. Also included are publications by organizations that support the UCI athletic program, such as the Big I Boosters and its successor, the Athletic Association.

Extent:

4.4 Linear Feet (8 boxes)

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation, University of California, Irvine Publications. PS-006. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

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Background

Scope and content:

Biographical / historical:

When the campus at the University of California, Irvine opened in the fall of 1965, the administration established the Department of Physical Education to complement the academic curriculum. UCI has never offered a physical education major, but recognizes fitness and recreation as part of a healthy lifestyle. Founding chancellor Dan Aldrich believed it was important to provide students and staff with the opportunity to participate in athletic activities. As a result, UCI has provided a wide range of non-academic athletic courses to students, staff, and the local community from the time of the university's inception. UCI Campus Recreation has held summer and winter sports camps for local youth since 1966 and also oversees intramural sports, club sports, and a variety of fitness programs on campus.

UCI's original Department of Physical Education was accountable to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. 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.

UCI began participating in intercollegiate athletics during its first academic year (1965-66). During that first year UCI fielded teams in basketball, golf, tennis, swimming, water polo, sailing, and crew. By 1975 UCI had teams in cross-country, women's volleyball, women's basketball, men's and women's tennis, and track and field. UCI first fielded a baseball team in 1970; due to budget cuts the baseball program was eliminated after the 1991 season, but reinstated in 2001. As of 2008, UCI sponsors 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 58 conference championships.

Chronology
Date	Event
1963	Wayne Crawford is named inaugural Chairman of the Department of Physical Education
1965	UC Irvine plays first basketball game vs. UC Riverside
1967	Dr. Ray Thornton becomes Chair of Physical Education and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
1970	First national championship for UCI athletics in water polo
1976	Linda Dempsay is named Chair of Physical Education and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
1977	UCI joins the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference (renamed Big West Conference in 1989)
1983	Dr. John E. Caine is named Chair of Physical Education and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
1987	Donald Bren Events Center opens
1989	T. J. Ford is named Chair of the Department of Athletics and Physical Education
1992	Daniel G. Guerrero is named Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation
1999	Anteater Recreation Center (ARC) opens
2002	Bob Chichester is named Director of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation

Acquisition information:

Transferred periodically from the Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation.

Processing information:

Processed by Leland Smith in 2003 and Cyndi Shein in 2008. Addition added by Laura Uglean Jackson, 2015.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in three series.

Series 1. Intercollegiate Athletics publications, 1965-2005, 3.7 linear feet
Series 2. Campus Recreation publications, 1966-2008, 0.5 linear feet
Series 2. Supporting groups publications, 1965-2007, 0.2 linear feet

Please note all boxes are described at the box level, except for boxes six and seven, which are described to the folder level.

Accruals:

Accruals are expected.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Recreation -- California -- Irvine
Intramural sports -- California -- Irvine
College sports -- California -- Irvine
Posters -- California -- Irvine -- 21st century
Physical education and training.
Brochures -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Programs -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Programs -- California -- Irvine -- 21st century.
Names:: University of California, Irvine -- Archives
University of California, Irvine -- Sports
University of California, Irvine. Big I Boosters
University of California, Irvine. Athletic Association
University of California, Irvine. Office of Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation -- Archives

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

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.

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