The UC Riverside Highlanders (also UCR) represent the University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California in intercollegiate athletics. They field fifteen teams including men and women`s basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, and track and field, women`s-only softball and volleyball, and men`s-only baseball. A football team had been fielded, but the program was discontinued in 1975. The Highlanders compete in NCAA Division I; they are members of the Big West Conference. ^ http://www.bigwest.org/history/…