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Starting with the 2010–11 school year Comcast and Xfinity in Western Pennsylvania will receive an all-Pitt-Panthers network featuring all sports and commentary hosted by Pitt in second-tier cable packages. The channel, located on the Comcast Network Channel 188 or 210, will also feature rebroadcasts of games carried by CBS, ABC or ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU shot by its own production crew and with the Pitt Radio announcers on play-by-play. The university promises at least 500 hours a year of sports games and matches. Pittsburgh Panthers women's soccer is currently coached by Randy Waldrum and was established in 1996. The team also plays home games at Ambrose Urbanic Field at the Petersen Sports Complex.
Fans still looking for parking options for Thursday's game can purchase parking by visiting SPOT HERO. Fans are encouraged to plan ahead and arrive early. Parking options are expected to be severely limited for fans who do not already have parking passes secured for Thursday's game. Fans can now purchase 2022 Pitt football single-game tickets for six of the Panthers' home games here.
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Kancey picked up a first-team All-American honor from Sporting News, joining his prior first-team honors from the Walter... Pitt fans interested in 2022 football season tickets can also fill out a ticket interest form here. After nearly a month away from home, Pitt opens November with another showdown against Syracuse, a team that the Panthers have played in football each season since 1955. Pitt, on the other hand, lost the turnover margin in three straight games up until their win over Virginia. Leonard ranks No. 2 on the team in carries and has the most rushing touchdowns out of anybody on the roster. Leonard is no slouch throwing the football either — the sophomore is up to 2,113 yards and 15 touchdowns on the season.
Most other sponsored varsity and club sports fielded by both schools also shared a similar rivalry, and some continue despite the conference realignment for both schools. Traditionally the most popular sport at the University of Pittsburgh, football has been played at the highest levels at the university since 1889. During the more than 125 years of competitive football at Pitt, the university has helped pioneer the sport by, among other things, instituting the use of numbers on jerseys, having the first live radio broadcast of a college football game, and desegregating the Sugar Bowl. Among the top schools in terms of all-time wins, Pitt teams have claimed nine national championships and boast 87 players that have been chosen as first-team All-Americans.
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The Cheerleading team also oversees the costumed Panther mascot named Roc, who finished 6th in the NCA/NDA College Nationals Mascot Competition in 2011. In 2019, the Pitt Cheer team won the national championship in Intermediate Small Co-ed Division 1 and finished sixth in Division 1 Team Performance dance competition at the NCA/NDA College Cheer and Dance Championships. The history rich University of Pittsburgh Varsity Marching Band was founded in 1911 and performs at sports and other events, including at every home football game and select away football games. Its constituent group, the Pitt Pep Band, performs at all home basketball games and at post-season away games. The Pitt Band's drumline, known as The Crew, also performs at football games and occasionally at select basketball games.

Pitt announced that it will field a varsity women's lacrosse team beginning with the 2021–22 season. Women's lacrosse currently exists as a club sport program at the university and has had significant success at that level including winning the club sport national championship in 2014 and 2019 and finishing as the national runner up in 2017. Teams have to win six games to be bowl eligible, though there are a few exemptions, so we already know what most teams are. But with opt-outs, transfers, coaches leaving for other jobs, and such, as well as teams’ will to win a final game, you never really know what you’re going to get in the college football postseason. The 2022 home slate includes two of the most enticing nonconference matchups of the college football season – West Virginia and Tennessee – in addition to an ACC schedule that features challenging games against Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Syracuse and Duke.
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The Panther Club was previously known as Team Pittsburgh, and prior to 1997, was known as the Golden Panthers. Although independent of the Athletic Department, the Pitt Alumni Association often coordinates with the Athletic Department and Panther Club in hosting events corresponding with both home and away athletic events. The team moved into a new facility, Ambrose Urbanic Field at the Petersen Sports Complex, in the spring of 2011. It advanced to the NCAA College Cup during the 2020 season (the 2020 season NCAA tournament was played in May 2021 due to COVID-19).

In a tradition that began in 1983, the upper section of the Cathedral of Learning is illuminated "gold" after every football team victory, as well as important victories in other sports. From 1935 to 1941 Pitt football had a notable series with Fordham University which was then coached by Jim Crowley and featured guard Vince Lombardi. The series received attention because, at the time, both schools were national football powers whose first three meetings resulted in scoreless ties (1935, 1936 & 1937). The university Athletic Department has an official booster club, the Panther Club, which is directly active in raising money for the athletic department from alumni, boosters, and fans. It also oversees the Varsity Letter Club, a booster club specifically for former Pitt student athletes.
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The 2012 calendar year, Pitt's last competing in the Big East Conference, out of approximately 450 Pitt athletes, 350 achieved a GPA of 3.0 or above, with 16 earning a perfect 4.0. In addition, 148 student-athletes were named as Big East Academic All-Stars and 26 members of the football team were named to the all-academic Big East football team. This does not include 15 additional athletes from the wrestling and gymnastics teams that compete in other conferences. In 2010, volleyball standout Meagan Dooley was named the Big East Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the university's seventh male or female Big East scholar-athlete of the year winner since the award was instituted in 1985. Dooley was also awarded one of 87 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships for women in 2010.
Softball began play in 1998 as an independent and entered the Big East in 1999. All of Pitt's Big East sports transitioned to the ACC beginning in the 2013–14 season. Pitt's men's gymnastic team competed in the Intercollegiate Gymnastic League. Pitt wrestling competed in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association until it entered the Eastern Wrestling League in 1976 where it competed before moving into the ACC in 2013–14. The men's swimming and diving team previously competed in the Eastern Collegiate Swimming Association.
Pitt's biggest rivalry in recent years has been with West Virginia University, which began with football games that date back to 1895, and spills across multiple sports. The football rivalry represents the most played opponent for each school, and in recent seasons has been traditionally played on Thanksgiving weekend, with the result often having implications both on the conference and national level. A men's basketball rivalry with WVU shared an intensity similar to that of the football one, and was also shared between the women's basketball teams as well.
Pitt and UConn also met for the championship in 2004 and have since played in many conference games of significance since. In the 2008–2009 season, Pitt earned its first win over the country's top-rated team by beating UConn on the road, and later at home while Connecticut was again ranked #1. However, the future of the rivalry is uncertain with Pitt's pending move to the ACC. Each year the university honors student-athletes who have achieved academic success during the University of Pittsburgh Scholar-Athlete Awards Breakfast where it hands out Blue and Gold awards to student-athletes who have earned over a 3.0 GPA.
Softball was founded as a varsity sport at Pitt in 1998 and entered the Big East in 1999 and ACC for the 2013–14 season. In 2011, Pitt won a program record 34 games in a single record en route to a team record third straight winning season and was the ACC Tournament runner-up in 2015. The team moved into a new softball facility, Vartabedian Field at the Petersen Sports Complex, in 2011. The football team will play five of its first six games at Heinz Field, starting with the nationally televised 105th Backyard Brawl between the Panthers and West Virginia. It’s the first of four games in four seasons between the two schools and the first since 2011. The student section for basketball, the "Oakland Zoo", has received national acclaim for the atmosphere it helps to create in the Petersen Events Center.

Dubbed the City Game, the inter-city rivalry pits the only two Division 1 basketball schools located within Pittsburgh's city limits. With their campuses located only three miles apart, it was the most intense basketball rivalry for both schools through the 1970s. The series currently scheduled to be held every year at the PPG Paints Arena and attracts significant local interest. Founded in 1981 and then reestablished in 1990 as a member of the Allegheny Rugby Union, the University of Pittsburgh Rugby Football Club played college rugby in Division 2 thru 2012, winning the Midwest Territory and advancing to the National Final 8 in 2003–04. They were promoted to Division 1-AA in 2013 and joined the newly formed Keystone Conference.
The team qualified for the NCAA and ACC Tournaments for the first time in 2022, but lost in the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tournament and the second round of the ACC Tournament. They also participated in the Big East Conference Women's Soccer Tournament when the Panthers were part of the Big East Conference. For the 2022 season, all single-game tickets will utilize "dynamic ticket pricing," which bases ticket cost on such factors as opponent, weather, kickoff time and day of the week among other variables. Because prices can change based on these conditions, Pitt encourages fans to plan early and lock in the best available prices during the initial stages of ticket availability. PITTSBURGH—Ahead of Pitt's highly anticipated 2022 football season, the Panthers Ticket Office announced today that single-game tickets are now on sale for all home games except West Virginia. The final home game of Pitt's football season will once again be Senior Day, with the Panthers to honor a championship-winning group before the game against Duke.
Baseball, Pitt's oldest varsity sport started in 1869 and has produced multiple All-Americans, Major League Baseball players, and was a regular threat in the Big East baseball tournament championship. The baseball team was ranked in the top 25 during several of the past seasons and moved into a new facility, the Charles L. Cost Field at the Petersen Sports Complex, in 2011. The Pitt Panthers football team is one of the most storied college programs in history. Pitt has won nine national football championships—the most of any major college program in the East and the sixth-highest total ever. The Backyard Brawl, set to open the college football season in Pittsburgh on Thursday, Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. In front of a nationally televised ESPN audience, will have its own exclusive on-sale date on Aug. 2.