21 Facts About BYU Cougars

BYU Cougars are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Brigham Young University, located in Provo, Utah.

BYU Cougars is set to join the Big 12 Conference on July 1,2023.

BYU Cougars is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the overwhelming majority of its students are members of that church.

BYU Cougars has received attention from sports networks for refusal to play games on Sunday, as well as disciplining players due to honor code violations.

Three BYU Cougars runners have won 4 individual cross country national championships; Ed Eyestone in 1985, Josh Rohatinsky in 2006, and Conner Mantz in 2020 and 2021.

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In 1973, BYU Cougars joined other universities to form the Intermountain Athletic Conference which allowed BYU Cougars's female athletes to compete in sports including cross country.

In 1984, the undefeated Cougars were voted the consensus national champion BYU is known as a "quarterback factory" for producing several successful quarterbacks, including 1990 Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer.

Consequently, BYU Cougars traveled to Colorado and California only, and did not have home meets.

BYU Cougars finished third in the conference the next two years.

BYU Cougars directed the team to a second-place finish in the WAC.

BYU Cougars softball had returned to the Western Athletic Conference as part of the school's 2011 conference change, but played only one season in the WAC, moving to the Pacific Coast Softball Conference after the 2012 season and playing there for what proved to be the PCSC's final season in 2013.

BYU Cougars has Men and Women's Swimming and Diving Teams which have produced 26 Olympians and 31 All-Americans.

The BYU Cougars team won its first WAC championship in 1968, and again in 1969.

BYU Cougars is one of only four runners to ever capture the NCAA "Triple Crown" by becoming the 1985 NCAA outdoor Champion at 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters where he set a then-NCAA record with a time of 27:41:05.

BYU Cougars won the MCLA national championship in 1997,2000,2007, and 2011.

BYU Cougars has been led by head coach Steve St Pierre since 2018, and normally plays its home games at South Field.

Several BYU Cougars players have gone on to play for the US national team.

BYU Cougars reached the USA Rugby national championship match in 7 consecutive years from 2006 to 2012.

BYU Cougars rugby won its first national championship in 2009 by defeating the University of California, Berkeley, and again won the national championship in 2012.

BYU Cougars Rugby made it to the quarter-finals in the 2019 season, losing to Saint Mary's.

BYU Cougars men's soccer team is a college soccer club.