翻訳と辞書 ・ Akron Series in Poetry
・ Akron Summit Assault
・ Akron Symphony Orchestra
・ Akron Township
・ Akron Township, Big Stone County, Minnesota
・ Akron Township, Michigan
・ Akron Township, Minnesota
・ Akron Township, Peoria County, Illinois
・ Akron Township, Wilkin County, Minnesota
・ Akron Tyrites
・ Akron Westfield High School
・ Akron Wingfoots
・ Akron Yankees
・ Akron YMCA Building
・ Akron Youth Symphony
・ Akron Zips
・ Akron Zips baseball
・ Akron Zips basketball
・ Akron Zips football
・ Akron Zips men's basketball
・ Akron Zips men's soccer
・ Akron Zoo
・ Akron, Alabama
・ Akron, Bedford and Cleveland Railroad
・ Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad
・ Akron, Colorado
・ Akron, Illinois
・ Akron, Indiana
・ Akron, Iowa
・ Akron, Kansas
|
|
Akron Zips
The intercollegiate athletic teams at the University of Akron are known as the Zips. Teams compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level and in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for college football. Since 1992, the Zips have been members of the Mid-American Conference. The Zips name is unique in college athletics and comes from "zippers", rubber overshoes made by the BF Goodrich Company that were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925, a campus-wide contest had been conducted to choose a nickname for the university's athletic teams. Suggestions submitted by students, faculty, and alumni included Golden Blue Devils, Tip Toppers, Rubbernecks, Hillbillies, Kangaroos, and Cheveliers. The winner, freshman Margaret Hamlin, received a prize of $10 for "Zippers". Athletic director Kenneth Cochrane officially shortened the nickname to ''Zips'' in 1950. The university's mascot is "Zippy", a kangaroo. Zippy is one of only a few female college mascots in the United States.
==History==
Mack Rhoades was hired as athletic director in 2005. That year, the men's basketball team, under head coach Keith Dambrot, won their first ever Division I post-season game by defeating Temple in the NIT, led by first team All-MAC performer Romeo Travis (former teammate of LeBron James in high school) and also won the most games in a season, 23. The football team won their very first MAC championship giving them a chance to play in the Motor City Bowl, Akron's first Division I bowl game appearance where they lost to the University of Memphis. That same year the women's cross country team and the men's soccer team also won the MAC championship in their respective sports. The men's soccer team was also the first team in the history of Akron sports to have a #1 rating in the nation.
Rhoades left Akron in 2009, taking the Athletic Director position at the University of Houston. He was replaced that year by Tom Wistrcill, who was the Athletic Director until his resignation in June 2015. Larry Williams II will become Athletic Director on September 1, 2015.
The 1978 men's archery team, led by 3-time national individual college champion Richard Bednar and hall-of-fame coach Bill Bednar, was the first team in UA history to win a national collegiate team championship.〔Archery World, "1978 Intercollegiate National Championships," Sept 1978, Vol 27, No 5, p84〕〔http://www.archeryhalloffame.org/Bednar%20William.html〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Akron Zips」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|