Providence Friars#NCAA team championships

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Providence College had a varsity football program from 1921 to 1941.

The Friars fielded a varsity baseball team from 1923 to 1999. They won the Big East Conference baseball tournament in 1992 and 1999. They reached the NCAA Division I baseball tournament nine times: 1962, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1992, 1995, 1999.

In October of 1998, school president Rev. Philip A. Smith announced that baseball (alongside men's golf and tennis) would be discontinued "in order to comply with gender equity and proportionality strictures" as set by Title IX regulations. Charlie Hickey was the last coach for the Friars. The last game in Providence at Hendricken Field was on May 15, 1999 against Villanova, which the Friars won 7-4.{{Cite news |last=Berkow |first=Ira |date=1999-05-19 |title=BASEBALL; The Other Side of Title IX |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/19/sports/baseball-the-other-side-of-title-ix.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} Their final game was on May 30 against Florida State in the NCAA Tournament with a 14-3 loss.{{Cite web |title=1999 Baseball Schedule |url=https://friars.com/sports/baseball/schedule/1999 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Providence College Athletics |language=en}} In 2024, Providence College started fielding a club team in baseball in Division II of the National Club Baseball Association.{{Cite web |title=Baseball |url=https://recreation.providence.edu/club-sports/baseball/ |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=Recreation at Providence College |language=en-US}}

Providence has won 3 NCAA team national championships.{{cite web |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |title=Championships summary through Jan. 1, 2022 |date= |website=National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) |access-date=2015-02-25 |archive-date=2014-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320185655/http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf |url-status=live}}

• Women's (2)
• Cross Country (2): 1995, 2013
• Men's (1)
• Ice Hockey (1): 2015
• see also:
• Big East Conference NCAA team championships
• List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships

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The Dominicans' use of black and white as the colors of their habits were passed on from the earliest days at Providence College as the school colors. Through the years, various highlight colors have come and gone, including yellow, red and gold; the current highlight color of silver dates to the introduction of the current logo in 2002. The current logo shows a cowled Friar in profile. It is used by all teams except the hockey teams, who have used the "Skating Friar" logo since 1973.{{cite web|title=School Colors|url=https://friars.com/sports/2018/6/15/trads-prov-colors-html.aspx?id=3289|website=Friars.com|date=June 15, 2018|access-date=December 26, 2019}}

The nickname "Friars" dates back to 1929, when a Providence Journal article used the nickname in reference to the baseball team. Previously, the teams were variously known as "The Black and White" or "Dominicans." The Friars nickname comes from the short-form nickname of the Dominican Order, the "Blackfriars." There have been several versions of the Friar Dom mascot throughout the years, with the most recent dating to the 2000s. In 2017 the Friars reintroduced a costumed dalmatian mascot as a companion to Friar Dom; a prior version had existed in the late 1990s. Both are based on the traditional dalmatian mascot of both the college and the Dominican Order in general; dalmatians have been called "the watchdogs of the Lord." The most recent live dalmatian mascot on campus was Friar Boy V, who died in 2004.{{Citation needed|date=June 2018}}

The original Friars fight song was "Friar Away." However, in the 1950s, WPRO, the radio station that still carries Friar basketball games to this day, began using "When The Saints Go Marching In" as the theme music to their coverage of PC basketball games. The fans took to it so well that it has become the fight song of the college, with Friar Away slipping into obscurity, other than a brief attempted revival in the 1990s.

All teams compete on campus except for the men's basketball team who play at the Amica Mutual Pavilion in Downtown Providence, Rhode Island (however on rare occasions, the women's basketball team has also played "home" games at the Amica Mutual Pavilion, most notably for games against the University of Rhode Island (URI) in the Ocean State Rivalry or the University of Connecticut (UConn), where demand for tickets would be enough to warrant an arena larger than the 1,854-seat on-campus Alumni Hall). The men's and women's swimming and diving teams home practice and competition pool is Taylor Natatorium, located in the Peterson Recreation Center adjacent to Alumni Hall. The men’s and women’s cross country teams home course is the Mark Coogan Cross Country Course at Highland Park in Attleboro, Massachusetts.{{Cite web|title=2021 Men's Cross Country Schedule|url=https://friars.com/sports/mens-cross-country/schedule|access-date=2021-10-03|website=Providence College Athletics|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=2021 Women's Cross Country Schedule|url=https://friars.com/sports/womens-cross-country/schedule|access-date=2021-10-03|website=Providence College Athletics|language=en}}{{OSM Location map|float=center|mark-coord1={{coord|41.845350|-71.433540}}|label1=M/W Soccer, M Lacrosse|label-color2=black|label2=M/W Ice Hockey|mark2=White pog.svg|label-pos1=bottom|nolabels=1|label-color1=black|label-pos=left|mark1=Green pog.svg|label-color=black|height=450|label=W Basketball, W Volleyball|mark=Black pog.svg|mark-coord={{coord|41.846268|-71.437006}}|caption=Locations of the sports at the on-campus athletics facilities used by the Providence Friars athletic teams, 2021-2022 10px Alumni Hall, 10px Schneider Arena, 10px Tennis Courts, [https://friars.com/facilities/tennis-courts/28] 10px Glay Field [https://friars.com/facilities/glay-field/20], 10px Chapey Field at Anderson Stadium, 10px Lennon Family Field [https://friars.com/facilities/lennon-family-field/13], 10px Ray Treacy Track at Hendricken Field [https://friars.com/facilities/ray-treacy-track-at-hendricken-field/17], and 10px Taylor Natatorium [https://friars.com/facilities/taylor-natatorium/18]. M = Men's W = Women's|mark8=Blue pog.svg|label8=M/W Swimming & Diving|label-pos8=right|label-color8=black|width=450|zoom=16 |mark-coord5={{coord|41.845030|-71.438780}}|label5=M/W Track & Field|label3=W Tennis|label-color3=black|label-pos3=right|mark-coord4={{coord|41.845759|-71.435526}}|mark4=Yellow pog.svg|label4=Field Hockey|label-color4=black|label-pos4=bottom|mark5=Brown pog.svg|mark-coord3={{coord|41.845582|-71.434416}}|label-color5=black|coord={{coord|41.8441517|-71.4354484}}|label-pos5=right|label6=Softball|label-pos6=bottom|label-color6=black|mark6=Red pog.svg|mark-coord6={{coord|41.842543|-71.432899}}|mark3=Orange pog.svg|label-pos2=right|title=Providence Friars on-campus athletic facilities locations|mark-coord2={{coord|41.846440|-71.433628}}|mark-coord8={{coord|41.84606|-71.43610}}}}{{OSM Location map|float=center|label-pos=right|mark-coord={{coord|41.823611|-71.418333}}|mark=Black pog.svg|label=M Basketball|label-color=black|mark-coord1={{coord|41.943515|-71.296163}}|mark1=White pog.svg|label-color1=black|title=Providence Frairs off-campus athletic facilities locations|nolabels=1|label-pos1=bottom|label1=M/W Cross Country|width=450|height=450|zoom=11 |coord={{coord|41.8863571|-71.3891085}}|caption=Locations of the sports at the off-campus athletics facilities used by the Providence Frairs athletic teams, 2021-2022 10px Slavin Center (Campus Center), 10px Amica Mutual Pavilion, and 10px Mark Coogan Cross Country Course at Highland Park. [https://friars.com/sports/mens-cross-country/schedule] [https://friars.com/sports/womens-cross-country/schedule] [https://friars.com/news/2021/9/8/mens-cross-country-cross-country-teams-to-open-season-on-friday.aspx] [https://friars.com/news/2021/9/8/womens-cross-country-cross-country-teams-to-open-season-on-friday.aspx] M = Men's W = Women's|mark-coord2={{coord|41.84511428674078|-71.4371576337991}}|mark2=Gold pog.svg|label2=Campus Center|label-color2=black|label-pos2=left}}

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