Omaha Mavericks: Difference between revisions

| conference = [[Summit League]] (primary)<br />[[National Collegiate Hockey Conference|NCHC]] (men's ice hockey)

| director = [[TrevAdrian Alberts]]Dowell

| pageurl = httphttps://omavs.com/

A long-time member of the [[North Central Conference]], UNO joined the [[Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association]] on July 1, 2008 after the NCC ceased operations. In &nbsp;March 2011, the school announced its intentions to move up from Division II to Division I and join [[The Summit League]]. In the process it would abandon its [[Nebraska–Omaha Mavericks football|football]] and wrestling programs to better fit with the sports sponsored by The Summit League and to maintain [[Title IX]] compliance.

Wrestling had been the school's most successful sport with [[NCAA Wrestling Team Championship|national championships]] in 1991, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/156765564 |title=Americanchronicle.com |publisher=Americanchronicle.com |access-date= |accessdate=2015-05-13}}</ref> Football also had a long, successful history with multiple conference championships (1983–1984, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004–2007) and several NCAA Division II tournament appearances. [[Marlin Briscoe]], the first black starting quarterback in modern [[Professional football (gridiron)|American professional football]] (the [[American Football League]]), attended and played for UNO from 1964–1967. Former Maverick football players currently playing in the NFL include names such as [[Zach Miller (tight end, born 1984)|Zach Miller]], [[Kenny Onatolu]], and [[Greg Zuerlein (American football)|Greg Zuerlein]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.omavs.com/attachments1/233333.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=31400 |title=History of UNO Football |publisher=Omavs.com |accessdateaccess-date=2015-05-13}}</ref> As part of its Division I move, Omaha added men's soccer (becoming the only school in the [[University of Nebraska system]] to sponsor the sport for men) and men's golf, both of which are sponsored by The Summit League. [[Omaha Mavericks men's ice hockey|Hockey]] moved to the new NCHC starting with the 2013-142013–14 season.

The women's soccer (2005) and softball (2001) teams have won NCAA's Division II national championships, as had the wrestling team, who were seven-time national champions (1991, 2004–20062004–06, and 2009–20112009–11).

| TennisSwimming & diving || Swimming & diving

The Omaha men's basketball team is led by head coach [[DerrinChris HansenCrutchfield]], and also moved into Baxter Arena starting in 2015–16. They transitioned from Division II to Division I beginning in the 2011–12 season. The 2015–16 season iswas the first in which they arebecame eligible for NCAA-sponsored postseason play (either the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA Tournament]] or the [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]]). The Mavericks' all-time record is 1,087–1,083. Omaha won regular season [[North Central Conference]] championships in 1979, 1984, 2004, and 2005.

Wrestling has also been a top sport for the Mavericks, winning the Division II championships in 1991, 2004–2006 and 2009–2011.<ref name="straight">{{Cite news|url=http://www.omaha.com/article/20100313/MAVS/703139788/-1|title=Mavericks lock down second straight title|last=White|first=Rob|work=Omaha World-Herald|date=March 13, 2010|accessdateaccess-date=January 23, 2011}}</ref> However, in 2011 Trev Alberts made the decision to canceldisband the wrestling team justonly a few hours after it had won its third consecutive NCAA team title in order for Omaha to transition to NCAA Division I.<ref name="jump">{{Cite news|work=[[ESPN]]|url=httphttps://sportswww.espn.go.com/ncaacollege-sports/news/story?id=6212338|title=Nebraska-Omaha to make jump to D-I|date=March 13, 2011|accessdateaccess-date=April 24, 2011}}</ref> Head coach Mike Denney and a number of his wrestlers later transferred to [[Maryville University]] to start a Division II team.

'''Basketball, Women's''' – 1980, 1982, 1982<br>

'''Volleyball''' – 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1996⁶, 1997⁶, 2000⁷, 2023

Before 1939, UNO teams were known as the [[Northern Cardinal|Cardinals]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unoalumni.org/about_us/flashback/archive/131/ |title=UNO Alumni Association |publisher=Unoalumni.org |date=1949-05-13 |accessdateaccess-date=2015-05-13}}</ref> From 1939 to 1971, the UNO teams were the [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]]; the mascot at this time was a Native American named Ouampi. In ''The Native Peoples of North America: A History'', the mascot is described as "so tacky by comparison that he made the [[Cleveland Indians]]' [[Chief Wahoo]] look like a real gentleman."<ref name=johansen-2006>{{cite book|last=Johansen|first=Bruce E.|title=The Native Peoples of North America: A History, Volume 1|year=2006|publisher=Rutgers University Press|page=428|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiKgBuSUPUIC&pg=PA428|isbn= 9780813538990 }}</ref> The switch to "Mavericks", the current team name, occurred in the summer of 1971. A resolution, passed by an 18–7 vote of the student senate, a 27–0 vote of the university senate, and approved by the university president, called for UNO to "discontinue use of the name 'Indian' for its athletic teams, abolish "Ouampi" as a school mascot and end the misuse of the Native American culture at university activities, such as homecoming and Ma-ie Day.