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TCU Horned Frogs

Intercollegiate sports teams of Texas Christian University

TCU Horned Frogs

Summary

Intercollegiate sports teams of Texas Christian University

FieldValue
nameTCU Horned Frogs
logoTCU Horned Frogs logo.svg
logo_width200
universityTexas Christian University
associationNCAA
conferenceBig 12 (primary)
PRC (rifle)
divisionDivision I (FBS)
locationFort Worth, Texas
teams21
directorMike Buddie
stadiumAmon G. Carter Stadium
basketballarenaSchollmaier Arena
mascotSuper Frog
nicknameHorned Frogs
fightsongTCU Fight
pageurlhttps://gofrogs.com/
altlogo[[File:Tcu hornedfrogs wordmark 2013.png200px]]
baseballfieldLupton Stadium

PRC (rifle)

The TCU Horned Frogs are the athletic teams that represent Texas Christian University. The 18 varsity teams participate in NCAA Division I and in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) for football, competing mostly in the Big 12 Conference. The school was a founding member of the Southwest Conference and was a member of the Western Athletic Conference, Conference USA (CUSA), and the Mountain West Conference before joining the Big 12. One TCU team participates outside the Big 12 in a sport not sponsored by that conference. The rifle team competes in the Patriot Rifle Conference. The beach volleyball team formerly played in CUSA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association prior to the Big 12 sponsoring beach volleyball in 2024-25.

The "horned frog" nickname and mascot refer to the Texas horned lizard, also known as the "horned frog".

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 1995–96 academic year when the University of Texas, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University and Baylor University defected from the conference to form the Big 12 Conference together with the members of the Big Eight Conference; the University of Arkansas had previously left for the Southeastern Conference in 1990, in the aftermath of the Southern Methodist University football scandal, leaving the SWC with no presence outside of the state of Texas. 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 (CUSA) and remained there through 2004. TCU joined the Mountain West Conference (MWC) in 2005. In 2010, TCU accepted an invitation to join the Big East Conference in all sports starting in 2012; however, on October 10, 2011, TCU announced that it had reversed its decision and would be joining the Big 12 (headquartered in another Metroplex city, Irving) in 2012 instead, a move that went into effect July 1.

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Notable non-varsity sports

Rugby

The Texas Christian University Rugby Football Club plays in Division 1 of college rugby in the Southwest conference against other in-state rivals. TCU rugby plays its home games at the TCU Rugby Pitch, located at 3400 W. Berry St. TCU rugby has been led since 2008 by head coach Ben Cole, a USA Rugby certified coach.

Traditions

Horned Frog Mascot

Super Frog at a Baseball game.

The Horned Frog first appeared in 1897 on the cover of the first AddRan yearbook. By 1915, the mascot made its way onto the first TCU seal. During the post-WWII years, the Horned Frog Mascot was embraced in costume, on stationery, class rings and the band's bass drums. In 1979 the mascot was renamed from Addy the All-American Frog to Super Frog.

TCU has capitalized on its mascot by marketing a bumper sticker (in a role reversal of where a frog, once kissed, turns into a prince) stating "My Princess Turned into a Frog".

Team colors

TCU's official colors are purple and white. Since the 1990s, the Horned Frogs have gradually incorporated black as a color and it now features prominently as a tertiary color with most uniforms having black trim and TCU teams occasionally wearing black alternate uniforms. The Horned Frogs will also occasionally wear red as an accent color, a reference to horned lizards shooting blood from their eye sockets as a defense mechanism.

Music

Fight song

The TCU fight song "TCU March" was written for the marching band by Claude Sammis in 1928.

Cheers

TCU's most notable cheer is Riff Ram Bah Zoo.

Championships

NCAA team championships

TCU has won 7 NCAA team national championships.

  • Men's (1)
    • Tennis (1): 2024
  • Women's (2)
    • Beach volleyball (1): 2025
    • Golf (1): 1983
  • Co-ed (4)
    • Rifle (4): 2010, 2012, 2019, 2024
  • see also:
    • Big 12 Conference national team titles
    • List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships

Other national team championships

TCU claims 5 additional team titles not bestowed by the NCAA:

  • Men's (4)
    • Football (2): 1935, 1938
    • Indoor Tennis (2): 2022, 2023
  • Women's (1)
    • Equestrian (1): 2008
  • see also:
    • List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships

Championship coaches

YearSportCoach
1935Football1Dutch Meyer
1938FootballDutch Meyer
1983Women's GolfFred Warren
2008Women's EquestrianGary Reynolds
2010Rifle 2Karen Monez
2012RifleKaren Monez
2019RifleKaren Monez
2022Men's Tennis (indoor)David Roditi
2023Men's Tennis (indoor)David Roditi
2024RifleKaren Monez
2024Men's Tennis (outdoor)David Roditi
2025Beach VolleyballHector Gutierrez

1 – Named Co-National Champion by the Williamson System along with LSU. SMU was named National Champion by the Dickinson System which was favored at the time. Princeton and Minnesota also claim a national championship from this season by other poll systems active at the time.

2 – Although the NCAA Rifle Sport is coed, the TCU Rifle National Championship Team was made up of only females, marking the first time an all-women team has won the national title.

Conference championships

TCU has won 145 conference championships: 26 in the Big 12, 34 in the Mountain West, 18 in Conference USA, 15 in the WAC, 40 in the Southwest Conference, 1 in the TIAA, 7 in the Patriot Rifle Conference, and 1 in the CCSA.

Football (18)

Baseball (30)

  • Regular season (20): 1933, 1956, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1994, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2022
  • Conference tournament (10): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2021, 2023

Men's basketball (11)

  • Regular season: 1931, 1934, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1968, 1971, 1986, 1987, 1998

Women's basketball (8)

  • Regular season (4): 2001, 2002, 2010, 2025
  • Conference tournament (4): 2001, 2003, 2005, 2025

Men's golf (9)

  • 1986, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009

Women's golf (5)

  • 1983, 1998, 2002, 2007, 2011

Rifle (7)

  • 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024

Soccer (4)

  • Regular season (4): 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025
  • Conference tournament (1): 2021

Men's tennis (29)

  • Regular season (13): 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2025
  • Conference tournament (16): 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2023

Women's tennis (17)

  • Regular season (10): 1991, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
  • Conference tournament (7): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012

Beach volleyball (6)

  • Regular season (3): 2022, 2023, 2024
  • Conference tournament (3): 2023, 2024, 2025

References

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