San Diego State to Join the Pac-12 Conference

SAN DIEGO — San Diego State has accepted an invite to affix the Pac-12 Convention, the varsity introduced Thursday morning. The Aztecs will formally turn into a member of the Pac-12 on July 1, 2026. 

SDSU joins league stalwarts Oregon State and Washington State, together with Boise State, Colorado State and Fresno State as the most recent members of the league.

“We’re ecstatic to be becoming a member of the Pac-12 Convention,” San Diego State director of athletics John David Wicker mentioned. “Whereas we’re grateful to be a founding member of the Mountain West with 26 years of success within the convention, we’re excited at what lies forward with these new alternatives. We’ll proceed to compete for convention championships on the sphere and to graduate leaders locally.”

“The transfer to the Pac-12 is a transformative second for our total college,” SDSU President Adela de la Torre mentioned. “Becoming a member of the Pac-12 opens the door to thrilling partnerships and monetary development, all of which can contribute to the success of our student-athletes and the vitality of our college neighborhood. That is just the start — we’re poised to draw much more top-tier expertise, compete on the highest nationwide degree and determine new alternatives that can profit our One SDSU neighborhood and the San Diego area.”

Oregon State and Washington State are at present working as members of the Pac-12 Convention as a part of an NCAA two-year grace interval and can proceed to take action for the 2025-26 tutorial season earlier than the 4 new members formally be a part of. The collective six universities will collaboratively chart further membership and different future convention issues.

“For over a century, the Pac-12 Convention has been acknowledged as a number one model in intercollegiate athletics,” Commissioner Teresa Gould said. “We’ll proceed to pursue daring cutting-edge alternatives for development and progress, to finest serve our member establishments and student-athletes. I’m grateful to our board for his or her efforts to welcome Boise State College, Colorado State College, California State College, Fresno, and San Diego State College to the convention. An thrilling new period for the Pac-12 Convention begins immediately.”

The Aztecs have received a Mountain West report 96 league titles (solely contains sports activities SDSU competes in), together with probably the most championships in every of the final three years. Within the 2023-24 marketing campaign alone, San Diego State captured six MW championships, together with ladies’s soccer (common season), swimming & diving, males’s golf, ladies’s tennis (event) and softball (common season and event). The Aztecs additionally had 4 convention gamers of the 12 months – Mac Barbara (softball, co-player), Yasmine Kabbaj (ladies’s tennis), Denise Castro (ladies’s soccer, offensive) and Alex Roberts (swimmer) – and three convention coaches of the 12 months – Stacey Nuveman Deniz (softball), Mike Shrader (swimming) and Roland McDonald (diving).

SDSU has additionally been an influence on the nationwide stage as its mixed .727 successful proportion in soccer and males’s basketball because the fall of 2010 ranks first within the nation, simply forward of Ohio State (.726), Oregon (.713), Duke (.706) and Alabama (.693). San Diego State has additionally excelled within the skilled ranks. Most not too long ago, former Aztec males’s golfer Xander Schauffele received two of the 4 main championships in 2024, whereas former NCAA observe & subject champion Shanieka Ricketts (Thomas) received the silver medal within the triple bounce on the Paris Olympics this summer time.

Within the classroom, 366 San Diego State student-athletes had been acknowledged as scholar-athletes in April for attaining a semester GPA of three.20 or greater or sustaining a cumulative GPA of three.0 or greater. Moreover, 38 student-athletes earned Malik Award distinction for posting a 4.0 grade-point common.

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The collective six universities will collaboratively chart further membership and different future convention issues.u003Cbr>u003Cbr>“For over a century, the Pac-12 Convention has been acknowledged as a number one model in intercollegiate athletics,” Commissioner Teresa Gould said. “We’ll proceed to pursue daring cutting-edge alternatives for development and progress, to finest serve our member establishments and student-athletes. I’m grateful to our board for his or her efforts to welcome Boise State College, Colorado State College, California State College, Fresno, and San Diego State College to the convention. An thrilling new period for the Pac-12 Convention begins immediately.”u003Cbr>u003Cbr>The Aztecs have received a Mountain West report 96 league titles (solely contains sports activities SDSU competes in), together with probably the most championships in every of the final three years. Within the 2023-24 marketing campaign alone, San Diego State captured six MW championships, together with ladies’s soccer (common season), swimming & diving, males’s golf, ladies’s tennis (event) and softball (common season and event). The Aztecs additionally had 4 convention gamers of the 12 months – Mac Barbara (softball, co-player), Yasmine Kabbaj (ladies’s tennis), Denise Castro (ladies’s soccer, offensive) and Alex Roberts (swimmer) – and three convention coaches of the 12 months – Stacey Nuveman Deniz (softball), Mike Shrader (swimming) and Roland McDonald (diving).u003Cbr>u003Cbr>SDSU has additionally been an influence on the nationwide stage as its mixed .727 successful proportion in soccer and males’s basketball because the fall of 2010 ranks first within the nation, simply forward of Ohio State (.726), Oregon (.713), Duke (.706) and Alabama (.693). San Diego State has additionally excelled within the skilled ranks. 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