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The New Hampshire Wildcats, or 'Cats, are the athletic teams of the University of New Hampshire. The wildcat is the school's official mascot, the colors are UNH Blue and white. There are 21 varsity sports, 25 sport clubs, and 23 different Intramural sports. The men's and women's varsity teams compete at the NCAA Division I level; in football, it competes in the second tier of Division I, the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly Division I-AA). The football program plays in the Colonial Athletic Association, and the men's and women's hockey teams are members of Hockey East. The other teams compete in the America East, except for the ski teams and gymnastics team who compete in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) and Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) respectively. ==Sports== UNH is a member of the America East Conference for basketball, cross country, soccer, and track and field; and women's field hockey, gymnastics, lacrosse, swimming & diving, and volleyball. They also compete in Hockey East in men's and women's ice hockey, in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) in women's gymnastics, in the Eastern Intercollegiate Ski Association (EISA) in men's and women's skiing, and at the Division I FCS level (formerly Division I-AA) in the Colonial Athletic Association for football. The ice hockey teams are both perennial national powerhouses. Former Wildcat standout Rod Langway '79 was the first Wildcat ever to receive hockey's highest honor when he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. He won a Stanley Cup with the Montreal Canadiens in 1979 and joined the Washington Capitals in 1982, where he was captain for 11 years and was known to Capitals fans as the "Secretary of Defense". Langway was the first American in National Hockey League history to win the Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman. The football program has consistently ranked as one of the stronger teams on the Division I FCS level. The Wildcats have two NCAA National Championships, won in 1985 in women's lacrosse, and 1998 in women's hockey. UNH won the women's lacrosse national championship game 6-5 over Maryland, and the women's hockey national championship 4-1 over Brown University. The men's basketball program has a long-standing reputation for futility even though the team has improved significantly in recent years. UNH was one of the first schools to take up the sport, but since 1903, no Wildcats team has made it to the NCAA or NIT tournaments and no ex-Wildcat player has made it to the NBA. (However, a former Wildcats coach, Jim Boylan, eventually became the head coach of the Chicago Bulls for a while.) Perhaps the most famous ex-Wildcat basketball player is the former captain Blagoy Janev, who is now one of the stars of Australia's National Basketball League. The Wildcats' rivalry with the Maine Black Bears is the longest continuous basketball rivalry between any two non-Ivy League schools: the men's teams have played each other 107 seasons in a row, from 1904-1905 to the present season (2010-2011.) The University has invested greatly in both the men's and women's basketball programs since the hiring of Bill Herrion but they have yet to achieve the campus wide attention of the Hockey or Football teams. The UNH men's soccer team has been coached since 1995 by the highly regarded Rob Thompson. Thompson is the program's all-time wins leader and consistently turns out one of the nations best defensive teams. The Wildcats have come within a penalty kick shootout of making the NCAA tournament in the past few seasons and are poised to make steps in the future. Thompson routinely brings in the top recruits from the New England area and their recruiting has expanded to the mid-atlantic, midwest, and west coast over the past couple years as well as a strong connection with foreign university students from Sweden. The UNH soccer programs boast both natural grass and Field Turf playing surfaces, a beautifully renovated locker room and lounge area, and a state of the art weight room. The men's and women's soccer programs have won the America East Conference academic team award numerous times. The soccer programs are sponsored by Nike and benefit from a strong Alumni association as well as a local and youth connection through the Soccer Dimensions soccer camps. 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「New Hampshire Wildcats」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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