Win over Trinity propels Athenas volleyball to first NCAA quarterfinals in program history

The 1992 CMS volleyball team finished in a three-way tie for its first-ever SCIAC Championship under first-year head coach Vicki Neault, and earned its second NCAA bid in program history. However, the Athenas spent the offseason knowing they were so close to having even more. Their three SCIAC losses were all 3-2 scores, including two to La Verne and one to Occidental, and CMS fell to La Verne 3-2 for the third time in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

In 1993, the Matt M. Axelrood Aquatics Center opened to campus and CMS Aquatics

In 1993, the Matt M. Axelrood Aquatics Center first opened its doors on Claremont McKenna’s campus, and the timing couldn’t have been better.

The 1987-88 year was a first, as CMS won all three SCIAC All-Sports trophies

The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletic department has made a habit of placing bulk orders for SCIAC trophies. The Stags and Athenas have won 343 SCIAC titles, almost 100 more than any other SCIAC institution, despite getting a late start with their first year coming in 1958-59, more than 40 years after the Bulldogs, Poets, Tigers and Sagehens were up and running.

Cross country team trailblazes to take first women’s SCIAC title for CMS

Just two years into the program’s existence, the CMS women’s cross country team had the honor of winning the first SCIAC title for the Athena half of the athletic department following the introduction of women’s sports in 1976.

Claremont-Mudd men’s swimming and diving became first Stag team to score national title

The Claremont-Mudd athletic department was only nine years old when the Stags swimming and diving team stood on the starting blocks for the 800-yard freestyle relay at the 1967 NAIA Championships in Buffalo, with a chance to make history.

Claremont-Mudd Stags era begins with Bill Arce leading new athletic department

Claremont Men’s College had already made progress on the physical foundation for its new athletic department in the 1950s, constructing the football and track complex in 1954 and finishing its gymnasium in 1957. What was still needed, though, was the human foundation to go with it.

The new complex became home to football and men's track and field

By 1954, Claremont Men’s College student-athletes had been competing with Pomona in athletics for seven years, but the wheels were already visibly in motion to allow CMC to split from the Sagehens and form its own athletic department on the North side of Sixth Street.

A partnership with Pomona College allowed CMC students to compete on existing varsity sports teams

After its founding in 1946, Claremont Men’s College formed a new partnership with Pomona College, allowing its students to compete on the existing varsity sports teams for its consortium neighbors. In 1947-48, a total of 25 CMC students took advantage of the opportunity, with many carving out starting roles for the Sagehens.