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TCU Horned Frogs
Texas Christian University features 18 varsity sports teams. The school's mascot is the Horned Frog and its women's athletics teams are referred to often as the Lady Frogs.

The University's current athletic director is Dr. Daniel Morrison. They participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Div I-Bowl Sub-Division for football competing in the Mountain West Conference.

Athletic History
Texas Christian University began its athletic life as an independent program with a six-year (1914-1920) stint in the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association before eventually joining its longtime home, the Southwest Conference (SWC), in 1923.

TCU remained a member of the SWC until it disbanded after the 1994-1995 academic year because of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor defecting to the Big 8 Conference to form the Big 12 Conference.

The Horned Frogs, without a conference to call home after 72 years, joined the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), along with SMU and Rice.

TCU called the WAC home from 1996 through 2000. In 2001, TCU joined Conference USA (C-USA) and remained there through 2004.TCU joined its current home of the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in 2005.

Baseball
TCU has fielded a baseball team since 1896, before the school found its home in Fort Worth, TX. The Horned Frog baseball team began playing baseball in the Southwest Conference when it became a member of the conference in 1923.

That year they finished the year with a 13-11 overall record and a 2-10 conference record. In 1933 Dutch Meyer, also the coach of the football team led TCU to its first SWC title with a 9-1 record. During the rest of their time in the SWC, the Frogs would win 6 more regular-season SWC baseball titles.

Their next conference championship would come while members of Conference USA in 2004 and 2005. 2006 saw the Horned Frogs in a new conference, the Mountain West Conference.

The Frogs went 17-5 in their first year in the MWC and never left first place. They also only had to play 3 games in the conference tournament to win the MWC Tournament Title to complement the regular season title.

Appearances in the NCAA Tournament
TCU has made six appearances in the NCAA Baseball Tournament: 1956, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007.TCU has 23 All-Americans, 6 Freshman All-Americans, 3 players of the year awards, and 2 pitchers of the year not to mention countless All-Conference selections.The TCU Baseball Team makes its home in Lupton Stadium. It is located on the campus of TCU, and it holds 3,500 patrons.

TCU Men's Basketball
TCU Men's Basketball has played since the 1908-1909 season. That first year they entered the Waco City League and left with a record of 2-3, losing to the Baylor teams and defeating the Waco High teams.

The TCU Men's Basketball Team was coached from 2002 to 2007 by Neil Dougherty. He was fired in March, 2008, after TCU limped through yet another season with a losing record.

Jim Christian, formerly with Kent State, was hired shortly after Dougherty was fired. The TCU Men's Basketball Team plays their home games in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum on the campus of TCU.

The Lady Frogs
The Lady Frogs sported their first women's basketball team in the 1977-78 season, in which TCU boasted a 5-18 record. The Lady Frogs improved significantly in the following year, going 19-8. Current coach Jeff Mittie has been the coach of the team since the 1999-00 season.

During the 2000-01 season, the Lady Frogs won their first regular season and conference championship at the WAC Tournament.The Lady Frogs would match that accomplishment the very next season their first season in Conference USA during the 2001-2002 season.

They then proceeded to win the C-USA tournament in 2002-03 and 2004-05. Of the four years the Lady Frogs were in C-USA, they would win the conference title 4 out of 5 years.

The Texan Christian University's football team are the TCU Horned Frogs. Based in the Fort Worth area, the team is part of the Mountain West Conference in the NCAA's Division 1 Football Bowl Subdivision. It carries the Horned Frog mascot high above any other college football team in the region. Its position and importance in American intercollegiate football is quiet significant. The cumulative strength of the team and players, its competitive rivalries and all time performance profile; culminates to the making of a potential big time winner of college football. The team is already a proud owner of two national championships, seventeen Conference titles, fifteen Consensus All American and a Heisman Trophy.

Since its formal introduction to intercollegiate football, the team performed exceptionally well. For over thirty years it acted as a power house of best college football players. The team went on a hiatus of wins for almost half a century returning with full force to backlash all. It has succeeded well in establishing, reclaiming and marinating its position. With the best FBS profile of wins the team has regained its prominence The Amon G. Carter Stadium, houses coaching training and stages the TCU Horned Frogs from time to time. Over the years, hits and misses have led to arch rivalries with the SMU Mustangs and Baylor Bears. Games featuring them are undeniably entertaining in all regards. As for all Frogs games, treat football fans with enthusiasm and energy they have never experienced before, making TCU Horned Frogs Tickets a must buy.