Utah Utes baseball

Utah Utes
2024 Utah Utes baseball team
Founded1892
UniversityUniversity of Utah
Head coachGary Henderson (3rd season)
ConferencePac-12
(Big 12 in 2025)
LocationSalt Lake City, UT
Home stadiumSmith's Ballpark
(Capacity: 15,500)
NicknameUtes
ColorsRed and white[1]
   
College World Series appearances
1951
NCAA Tournament appearances
1951, 1959, 1960, 2009, 2016
Conference tournament champions
2009
Regular season conference champions
1964, 1965, 1997, 2016

The Utah Utes baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The program's first season was in 1892, and it was a member of the NCAA Division I Pac-12 Conference from the start of the 2012 season until the conference's collapse after the 2024 season. The Utes will join the Big 12 Conference for the 2025 season and beyond.

Through the 2024 season, its home venue has been Smith's Ballpark, located in downtown Salt Lake City. With the ballpark's main tenant, the Triple-A Salt Lake Bees, opening the new Daybreak Field in nearby South Jordan in 2025, combined with the planned redevelopment of the Smith's Ballpark site, the university is building the new on-campus America First Ballpark and plans to open it for the 2026 season. The university has not yet announced its plans for a 2025 venue.[2]

Gary Henderson is the team's head coach starting in the 2022 season. The program has appeared in 5 NCAA tournaments. It has won 1 conference tournament championship and 4 regular season conference titles. As of the start of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, 17 former Utes have appeared in Major League Baseball.

  1. ^ University of Utah Athletics Brand Guide (PDF). August 23, 2023. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
  2. ^ "University of Utah Ballpark". University of Utah. Retrieved June 10, 2024.