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FOOTBALL 2004 Rose Bowl Champions 2003 National Champions Back-to-Back Pac-10 Champions (2002 • 2003) 2003-04 WOMEN'S WATER POLO 2004 NCAA Champions Perfect 29-0 Record 2004 MPSF Champions A CHAMPIONSHIP YEAR 44 • This is USC This is USC • 45 MEN'S WATER POLO 2003 NCAA Champions 2003 MPSF Champions KALYN KELLER 1500m Freestyle 2004 NCAA Champion KAITLIN SANDENO 200 IM 2004 NCAA Champion 400 IM 2004 NCAA Champion WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL Back-to-Back NCAA Champions (2002 • 2003) Perfect 35-0 Record Back-to-Back Pac-10 Champions (2002 • 2003) 44 • This is USC This is USC • 45 (Background) Blythe Hartley 2002 NCAA Diver of the Year, Two-Time NCAA Champion THE USC ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE USC has a proud athletic heritage — and with good reason. Angela Williams Four-Time NCAA 100m Arguably, Troy could be regarded as the "Collegiate Athletic Champion Program of the 20th Century." Consider: 2002 Honda-Broderick Cup Winner u Trojan teams have won more national championships, 84 men’s (including a national-best 72 men's NCAA titles) and 20 women’s, than all but two other universities; u The Trojans won at least one national team title in 26 con- secutive years (1959-60 to 1984-85); u USC has won the National College All-Sports Championship — an annual ranking by USA Today (previously the Knoxville Journal) of the country’s top men’s athletic programs — six times since its inception in 1971; u USC has twice won (2002, 2004) the annual Lexus Gauntlet Trophy, a year- long all-sports competition between Troy and crosstown rival UCLA; u Trojan men athletes have won more individual NCAA titles (284) than those from any other school in the nation (the Women of Troy have brought home an- other 41 individual NCAA crowns); 2002 Orange Bowl Champions u Troy has also established a stellar reputation and a long tradition of nur- turing Olympic athletes. Since 1904, 340 Trojan athletes have competed in the Games, taking home 104 gold medals (with at least one gold in every summer Olympics since 1912), 59 silver and 54 bronze. Carson Palmer 2002 Heisman Trophy Winner u Three Trojans have won the prestigious Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in America: diver Sammy Lee (1953), shot putter Parry O’Brien (1959) and swimmer John 2002 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Champions Naber (1977). u Two Women of Troy athletes have won the Honda- Broderick Cup as the top collegiate woman athlete of the year: Cheryl Miller (1983-84) and Angela Williams (2001-02). u USC athletes have appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated a total of 92 times. Along with the great accomplishments on the playing fields, USC student-athletes have received 48 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, seventh among all schools. In addition, USC has had 26 first team Academic All-Americans and three athletes who were Rhodes Scholars. 46 • This is USC This is USC • 47 (Background) Mark Prior 2001 Golden Spikes Award, THE USC ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE National Player of the Year FOOTBALL • Since starting football in 1888, USC has amassed an all-time won-loss record of 695-296-54 (.709)... Nine national championships... 42 bowl appearances... 21 conference 2002 NCAA Men’s Tennis championships... Five Heisman Trophy winners... 129 All-American honors. Champions BASEBALL • No school can match the long tradition USC has in baseball since its beginnings in 1924... 12 national championships (far more than any other school)... A 2256-1119-17 (.668) all-time record... 38 conference championships... 168 All-Americans honors. MEN’S BASKETBALL • One of only four dozen schools to have compiled more than 1,000 victories... Since 1907, the Trojans have compiled a record of 1362-975 (.583)... 14 conference championships... 29 All-American honors. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL • USC is one of only three schools to win back-to-back NCAA Championships (1983 & 1984)... An all-time record of 505-290 (.635)... Five conference championships... 13 All-American honors... Two Naismith Players of the Year... One Broderick Cup winner. MEN’S GOLF • Program has produced three NCAA individual champions... 17 Pac-10 team titles... 19 Pac-10 individual champions... 87 All-American honors... Numerous players in the professional ranks. WOMEN’S GOLF • As one of college’s finest golf programs, the Women of Troy won their first-everNCAA Championship in 2003... Two NCAA individual champions... Won Pac-10 Championship in 1989... 20 All-American honors... One Honda Award winner. WOMEN’S ROWING • The women’s rowing team has been active since the early 1970s, but scholarships were first awarded in 1998 and in that short time USC has emerged as one of the nation's top programs... Won1998 NCAA Varsity Four championship... Six NCAA championship appearances... Six All-American honors. WOMEN’S SOCCER • The women's soccer team began competing in 1993 and since then has compiled a 124- 80-19 (.608) program record... Six NCAA appearances... One conference championship... One conference Player of the Year... Five All-American honors. MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING • USC has captured nine NCAA Championships and 108 NCAA individual and relay titles... Dominating the field, Trojans have made Olympic teams 110 times and won 36 gold, 21 silver and 16 bronze medals... 17 conference championships... 521 All-Americans honors. WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING • USC has had compa- rable success on the women's side... Finished in the top 10 nationally 23 of the last 28 years... One NCAA champion- ship... 32 NCAA individual championships... Four conference championships... 221 All-American honors. MEN’S TENNIS • USC’s men’s tennis legacy has produced 16 NCAA team championships (second most in the country), 13 singles champions (tied for second most in the country), and 20 doubles champions (more than any other school)... 14 conference championships... 138 All-American honors. WOMEN’S TENNIS • The most successful women’s program at USC, in terms of national titles, is the tennis team... Seven national championships... Five singles champions and one Mikaela Parmlid doubles champion... 71 All-American honors... One Honda 2003 NCAA Golf Individual Champion Award winner. MEN’S TRACK & FIELD • The Trojans have won an un- precedented 26 NCAA titles in the 82-year history of NCAA outdoor track, plus two indoor NCAA titles... 34 conference 2003 Women's Golf NCAA Champions championships... 111 NCAA individual championships... 86 places on Olympic teams, including 33 Olympic titles (in- cluding relay wins). WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD, CROSS COUNTRY • One of the nation’s finest, Erik Vendt placing in the Top 10 of the NCAA Championships 11 times... One NCAA 2002 NCAA Swimmer of the Year team championship... 18 NCAA individual championships... 19 places on Five-Time NCAA Champion Olympic teams, including four Olympic titles... One Broderick Cup winner. MEN’S VOLLEYBALL • One of the premier programs with a 618-329 (.652) program record, USC has captured six national championships and made 11 Final Four appearances... Six conference championships... 50 All-American honors... 13 places on Olympic teams. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL • USC won the first-ever NCAA championship in 1981 and has since captured six total national crowns... A 688-242-4 (.740) all-time program record... Six conference championships... 48 All-American honors... 22 places on Olympic teams... Two Honda Award winners. MEN’S WATER POLO • Since starting water polo in 1922, the Trojans have com- piled an 934-469-8 (.666) record... Two national championships... 14 conference championships... 128 All-American honors... 25 places on Olympic teams. WOMEN’S WATER POLO • USC’s newest sport, the women's water polo team began play in 1995 and have compiled a 225-90 (.714) program record... Two national championships... 36 All-American honors... Two National Players of the Year... Four Olympians. 46 • This is USC This is USC • 47 Student●ATHLETES SC is as proud of its student-athletes’ achievements In 1988, Haden was inducted into the charter Uin the classroom, as well as on the playing field. six-member class of the GTE Academic All-American After all, the Trojans not only are second in the na- Hall of Fame and baseball star Don Buford Jr. won tion in the number of national team championships (84 the first-ever Woody Hayes Academic All-American by the men and 20 by the women), but rank in the Top Award presented by the Columbus Touchdown Club 10 in the number of NCAA post-graduate scholarship to the top NCAA Division I male student-athlete recipients (49). (footballer John Jackson won the award in 1990 and Also, USC athletics has had three Rhodes Scholars volleyballer Katie Haller won the women’s award (quarterback Pat Haden, swimmer Desmond Koh and in 1994). Jackson was also named a winner of the trackster James O’Toole), 26 first team Academic All- first-ever NACDA/Disney Scholar-Athlete Award in Americans (including 22 footballers, tops among Pac-10 1990, and Jeremy Hogue, Matt Keneley and Mike Van schools and sixth best in the nation), eight winners of Raaphorst were 1996, 1997 and 2000 NACDA Foun- the prestigious NCAA Today’s Top Six scholar award, dation Preseason Games Scholar-Athletes, respectively 12 National Football Foundation Scholar-Athletes, nine (Keneley also received a NACDA Foundation Post- recipients of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award (tied Graduate Scholarship in 1997). for most in the nation), an NCAA Inspiration Award In 1997, Keith Van Horne was named to the winner (swimmer Mike Nyeholt), a Luce Scholar (swim- GTE Academic All-American All-Time Football mer Dennis Scannell), a NCAA Women’s Enhancement Team. Program Post-Graduate Scholar (soccer player Laura Ser- The November 1994 issue of The Sporting News vis), a NCAA Ethnic-Minority Enhancement Program examined the relative academic strength of the nation’s Post-Graduate Scholar (footballer Dong Koo) and two top 25 football teams and found USC’s players ranked USC valedictorians (water poloist Craig Furniss and second in high school GPA, sixth in SAT scores and volleyballer Alaina Kipps).