The Pacific Tigers represent the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California in intercollegiate athletics. They field eighteen teams including men and women's basketball, golf, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and water polo; women's-only cross country, field hockey, sand volleyball, soccer, softball,and track and field; and men's-only baseball and golf. A football team was previously fielded, but the program was discontinued in 1995. The Tigers compete in NCAA Division I; they are currently members of the Big West Conference. However, on March 28, 2012, Pacific announced that its sports programs would rejoin the West Coast Conference, effective with the 2013–14 season. On November 12, 2012, it was announced that Pacific would add three new sports teams to its roster - a men's soccer team, a women's track and field team and a women's beach volleyball team. The two women's sports began play in 2013, and the men's soccer team will begin play in 2014. read more