The Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (also CSU Dominguez Hills Toros, CSUDH Toros, and California State-Dominguez Hills Toros) are the athletic teams that represent

California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH, CSU Dominguez Hills, or Cal State Dominguez Hills) is a public university in Carson, California. It was founded in 1960 and is part of the California State University (CSU) system. In 2020, ...

, located in

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, in

NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is the intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environment ...

intercollegiate sports. The Toros compete as members of the

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for all 9 varsity sports. The men's

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

team plays at Toro Stadium (capacity 3,000). Other sports venues for the university are the Torodome (capacity 3,602) for

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...

and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

; Toro Field (capacity 300) for

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball games, bat-and-ball sport played between two team sport, teams of nine players each, taking turns batting (baseball), batting and Fielding (baseball), fielding. The game occurs over the course of several Pitch ...

; and Toro Diamond (capacity 300) for

softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

. Select home games are nationally televised live via Internet TV. Even though

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, home of the

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, is located on the campus of CSUDH the Toros do not play there.

Individual teams

Baseball

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played center field for the Toros baseball team, for which he was an

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n. In 2010, as a junior he set an

record at the school, with a 54-game

hitting streak In baseball, a hitting streak is the number of consecutive official games in which a player appears and gets at least one base hit. According to the Official Baseball Rules, such a streak is not necessarily ended when a player has at least 1 pl ...

. In August 2013, he became a major leaguer, for the

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. Bubby Rossman ('14) played for the team, and became a major league baseball pitcher for the

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in 2022.

Soccer

The men's soccer won its second national NCAA Division II championship in a match against

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on December 7, 2008 at the

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’s Pepin Stadium. The women's soccer team won an NCAA Division II title in 1991. It is the alma mater of Sierra Leone Player Kei Kamara.

Track & Field

The university's most notable athlete alumna is the fastest woman in the world, sprinter

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(Class of ’06, B.A., kinesiology), who is a 2012 Olympic bronze, silver and gold medalist.

Golf

The university's men's golf team has won the 2015, 2016, 2018, & 2019 PGA Works Collegiate Golf Championships, a National Championship open to Historically Minority Colleges.

Championships

Appearances

The CSU Dominguez Hills Toros competed in the NCAA Tournament across 9 active sports (4 men's and 5 women's) 72 times at the Division II level. * Baseball (5): 1986, 1987, 1994, 2009, 2010 * Men's basketball (5): 1981, 1987, 1989, 2009, 2011 * Women's basketball (7): 1995, 1996, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015 * Men's golf (2): 1985, 1989 * Men's soccer (14): 1982, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017 * Women's soccer (12): 1989, 1991, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009 * Softball (9): 1982, 1989, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013 * Women's indoor track and field (5): 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012 * Women's outdoor track and field (13): 1985, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

Team

The Toros of CSU Dominguez Hills earned 3 NCAA team championships at the Division II level. * Men's (2) **

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(2):

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* Women's (1) **

(1): 1991 Results Below are two national club team championships: * Men's badminton (2): 1975, 1979 ( ABA)

Individual

CSU Dominguez Hills had 1 Toro win an NCAA individual championship at the Division II level.

References

External links

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