Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros | |
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2024 Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team | |
University | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
Head coach | Derek Matlock (7th season) |
Conference | Western Athletic Southwest Division |
Location | Edinburg, Texas |
Home stadium | UTRGV Baseball Stadium (Capacity: 4,000) |
Nickname | Vaqueros |
Colors | Orange and gray[1] |
College World Series appearances | |
1971 | |
NCAA Tournament appearances | |
1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986 | |
Regular season conference champions | |
2019 |
The UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros baseball team, or the UTRGV Vaqueros, is the varsity intercollegiate baseball team of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, an NCAA Division I institution with several campuses in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, United States. UTRGV was formally founded in 2013 with the announced merger of the University of Texas–Pan American (UTPA), with its main campus in Edinburg, and the University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) in Brownsville, with the merged university beginning operation in the 2015–16 school year. The Vaqueros compete in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), play home games at UTRGV Baseball Stadium in Edinburg, and are coached by Derek Matlock.
Prior to the merger, UTPA competed in Division I as the Texas–Pan American Broncs,[2] while UTB, a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, had no baseball program. In 2014, the University of Texas System announced that UTRGV would directly inherit the UTPA athletic program, including UTPA's WAC membership.[3]