Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens

Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens
University Pomona College
Pitzer College
Conference Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference[1]
NCAA Division III
Athletic director Lesley Irvine[2]
Location Claremont, California
Football stadium Merritt Field[3]
Basketball arena Voelkel Gymnasium
Baseball stadium Alumni Field
Softball stadium Pomona-Pitzer Softball Stadium
Soccer stadium Pomona-Pitzer Soccer Stadium
Lacrosse stadium South Athletics Complex
Natatorium Haldeman Aquatics Center
Other arenas Pauley Tennis Complex
Strehle Track
Mascot Cecil the Sagehen
Nickname Sagehens
Colors Blue and Orange
Website www.sagehens.com

Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens is the joint athletics program for Pomona College and Pitzer College, two of the Claremont Colleges. It competes in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference of the NCAA Division III. Its mascot is Cecil the Sagehen. Its primary rival is the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags and Athenas, the joint team of the three other undergraduate Claremont Colleges.[4]

Sports

There are 10 men's and 11 women's teams.[5]

Men's sports

Women's sports

Nickname

The nickname "Sagehen" first appeared in a 1913 issue of The Student Life, the Claremont College's student newspaper.[6] In the timespan from 1914 to 1917, two nicknames were used: "Hun" and "Sagehen". At the beginning of 1918, they began using the "Sagehen" as the only symbol of Pomona. One popular myth is that a reporter intended to refer the teams as sage Huns, but accidentally typed "hens". However, many say this tale is very unlikely because the "u" and "e" on a keyboard are quite far.[6] Later Pomona-Claremont began using it, and it is now the nickname for the combined Pomona-Pitzer team.

"Sagehen" refers to the Greater Sage Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), a large ground-dwelling bird native to western United States, distinguished by is its long-pointed tail. If feeds mainly on sagebrush (hence its name).

Mascot

Cecil the Sagehen is the official mascot of the team, and serves as its graphic image. The first reference to "Cecil" was made in the 1946 Metate (Pomona College's yearbook).[7] Rather than in grouse's natural brown and white colors, the mascot is rendered in the team's official blue and orange colors.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Administration". sagehens.com.
  2. ↑ "Athletic History". sagehens.com.
  3. ↑ "Pomona Pitzer Athletic Facilities". sagehens.com.
  4. ↑ "Sports and the Outdoors". Pomona College. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens". Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  6. 1 2 "The History of Cecil the Sagehen". Pomona-Pitzer Athletics. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  7. ↑ Hotaling, Debra (February 7, 1999). "Mascots Unmasked". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Cecil Image and Athletics Color Usage Guidelines". Pomona-Pitzer Athletics. Retrieved 2018-09-27.
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