Welcome, Alumni and Mustang fans
We hope you'll come back to PolyLink often, and visit this page to get in touch with former Mustang athletes and friends from teams past.
If you played on a Cal Poly Collegiate Athletics team -- any sport, any era -- PolyLink is here for you. Log in to look up former teammates in the Online Directory; send them an e-mail to check in and see what they're up to now.
See if your team has a PolyLink group, where you can get in touch with teammates, send messages and plan get-togethers. If your team doesn't have a PolyLink page yet, submit a request to start one!
If it's been a while since you caught up on Mustang athletics, here are some highlights:
- Cal Poly student-athletes are graduating at a rate on par with Cal Poly's general student body.
- The university offers a well-rounded program of men's and women's athletics teams, competing in 20 intercollegiate sports nationally.
- Cal Poly competes in the Big West Conference in all sports except for football, which competes in the Great West Conference; wrestling, a member of the Pac 10 Conference; and women's indoor track and field, a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
- The university has won 20 Big West Conference Titles in seven sports since joining the conference in 1996. The most recent championships were in Softball and Men's Tennis.
- Mustang Football has won three American West/Great West Conference titles since going to NCAA Division I. The last three Buck Buchannan Award winners (recognizing the best defensive player in the NCAA Football Championships) have been from Cal Poly: 2006 linebacker Kyle Shotwell, 2005 Defensive end Chris Gocong and 2004 linebacker Jordan Beck.
Cal Poly's athletic tradition includes 35 NCAA Division II National Championships in 7 sports:
- Football - 1980
- Cross Country - Men (2) 1978,1979, Women (10) 1982-1991
- Track & Field - Men (6) 1968-70, 1979-1981, Women (6) 198201984, 1989-1991
- Tennis - (2) 1986, 1990
- Wrestling - (8) 1966, 1968-1974
Since joining the NCAA Division I in 1994, Cal Poly has:
- Competed in 18 NCAA team playoffs
- Competed in 133 individual playoffs
- Won 3 NCAA individual championships
- Earned 6 NCAA National or Regional Coach of the Year awards
- Fielded 24 teams that made the Top 25 in National Rankings
- Fielded players who won 54 All-American Honors
- Earned 290 All-Conference selections
- Earned 410 All-Conference Academic selections, and
- Earned 25 Conference Coach of the Year Awards
Cal Poly also maintains a national ranking and reputation in many team sports like Women's Lacrosse, Men's Rugby that are part of the Club Sports system on campus. If You're an alumni member of those teams or the Cal Poly Triathlon Team, you'll find alumni and teammates after you log in to Poly Link as well.
Visit GoPoly.com, Cal Poly's public Collegiate Athletics Sports Web, anytime.
Or use the navigation bar at left to enter PolyLink and participate in - or start - group pages for athletic alumni, and reconnect with old friends.
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