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24-493: Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns is the nickname of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette athletic teams. Ragin' Cajun may also refer to: Louisiana Ragin%27 Cajuns The university states that "Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns" is the nickname of the school's athletic teams. Founded in 1898 as Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (SLII), the school adopted Bulldogs as a team nickname in 1921. The nickname persisted when

48-549: A longstanding nickname overlap with the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs . The term Raging (or Ragin') Cajuns had been used in a number of contexts before 1963, including as the nickname of the Louisiana-based U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Squadron VMF-143. The team changed the nickname from "Raging" to "Ragin'" in 1967 and formally adopted it for all athletic teams in 1974. Briefly in 1984, USL's name became

72-479: Is Gerry Glasco . He replaced former head coach Michael Lotief , who was fired on November 19, 2017. 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982 Southland Conference Champions ; 1992, 1998, 2006, and 2014 Sun Belt Conference Champions, highest national ranking #15 (1988). The current head coach is Mark Jeffrey. They play their home matches at Cajun Courts, an off-campus tennis complex at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette near M. L. Tigue Moore Field at Russo Park ,

96-499: Is a series of radio and television networks that provide access to sporting events throughout the state of Louisiana. Two Lafayette radio stations, KPEL-AM and KHXT-FM , provide play by play radio commentary called by broadcasters Jay Walker, and Steve Peloquin. The full list of participating stations are: Television coverage is provided by Cox Communications as part of their Cox 4 and Cox Sports Television networks. Cox Sports Television now has over 2 million subscriptions in

120-513: Is located on the main campus Came to prominence under the leadership of head coach Beryl Shipley , who was responsible for breaking the color barrier in the South and won just under 70% of all games from 1957 to 1973. Notable Players include NCAA 2nd All-time leading scorer Dwight "Bo" Lamar , Dean Church, Andrew Toney , Marv Winkler , Dwayne Mitchell , and Elfrid Payton . In 1973, the university became one of only five schools to ever receive

144-568: Is married to Vickie Glasco and has three daughters, all of whom have been involved in softball, including Tara Glasco Archibald who is Head Coach at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois since August 2019, and was formerly the assistant coach at Illinois State 2017-2019. His daughter Erin Glasco Simons played softball at Texas A&M University . In 2019, Glasco's daughter Geri Ann Glasco, who had just been hired as

168-596: The NCAA's Death Penalty , when their basketball program was barred from competing in the NCAA for the 1973–74 and 1974–75 seasons. The current head coach is Bob Marlin . The Ragin' Cajuns women's basketball team plays their home games at the Cajundome . They are currently coached by Gary Brodhead. Football was the first team organized at the then Institute (SLII) in 1901, although an advertisement promoting women's gymnastics

192-1159: The Scrap Yard Dawgs in 2017, and again for USSSA Pride in 2019. All three teams won the NPF's Cowles Cup championship. Glasco also currently serves as the head coach for the Smash It Sports Vipers of the WPF an offspring of the NPF. The following table shows Glasco's record as a college head coach.        National champion          Postseason invitational champion          Conference regular season champion          Conference regular season and conference tournament champion        Division regular season champion        Division regular season and conference tournament champion        Conference tournament champion Glasco

216-680: The Smash It Sports Vipers of the Women's Professional Fastpitch (WPF). Previously, Glasco was a high school softball coach, an assistant at Georgia and Texas A&M , and head coach for the USSSA Pride and Scrap Yard Dawgs of the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF). Glasco was born in 1958 in Macomb, Illinois . He attended high school at Crab Orchard High School where he lettered in baseball and basketball. He attended college at

240-724: The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and earned a bachelor's degree in Agricultural Economics. From 2000 to 2004 and 2007 to 2008 at Johnston City High School in Johnston City, Illinois , Glasco was varsity assistant softball coach; he was also junior varsity head coach in 2008. During his time there, Glasco created the Illinois Southern Force 18U ASA team, for which he served as the head coach from 2002 to 2008. His team finished in

264-661: The University of Louisiana at Lafayette hired Glasco as head coach for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns softball team on November 20, 2017. At the time of his hire, Glasco had been associate head coach at Auburn . In his first season as head coach, Glasco led Louisiana to a 41–16 record, including a 3–2 record in the NCAA Tournament that had both a 5–4 upset win and loss in the regional final to host LSU . The 2019 season ended in similar heartbreak after Louisiana defeated Southeast Missouri State and Ole Miss in

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288-565: The 2022 Clemson Regionals. Glasco finished his tenure with the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, where he compiled a 300–88 record in seven years, securing five Sun Belt Conference regular-season titles and advanced to the NCAA Tournament each year. On June 20, 2024, Glasco was named the head coach at Texas Tech . < Glasco has been a head coach with National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) three times, first for USSSA Pride in 2014 then

312-526: The Athletic Training facility, Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park and Cajun Field . 1986 and 1987 Southland Conference Champions and 1990 and 1991 American Southwest Conference Champions, highest national ranking was in 2006 at No. 51. The current head coach is Stephanie Vallejos. They play their home matches at Cajun Courts, an off-campus tennis complex at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette near M. L. Tigue Moore Field at Russo Park ,

336-689: The Athletic Training facility, Yvette Girouard Field at Lamson Park and Cajun Field . Men's Lacrosse as part of the MCLA, Badminton , Bowling , Cheerleading , Cricket , Ice Hockey as part of the ACHA , Inline Hockey as part of the NCRHA , Judo , Powerlifting , Rugby , Men's Soccer , Sport Shooting , Tae Kwon Do , Water Skiing . Louisiana launched the Ragin' Cajun Radio Network in August 2011. The Network

360-419: The NCAA investigation. On December 15, 2017, Billy Napier was named head football coach of the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. The Softball team is among the most successful of all Ragin' Cajun teams, having won 21 regular season championships, 16 conference tournament championships, and six appearances in the Women's College World Series (1993, 1995, 1996, 2003, 2008, and 2014). During the 2008 WCWS appearance

384-518: The Oxford Regional to lose to Ole Miss 1–5 and force a game 7. In the game 7, the Cajuns would rally back from a 0–3 deficit to be 4–3, then eventually lose when Ole Miss would score 2 in the 7th inning. Following a shortened 2020 COVID-19 season, the Cajuns would repeat back-to-back as both conference regular season and tournament champions with appearances in the 2021 Baton Rouge Regionals and

408-720: The Ragin' Cajuns defeated #1 ranked Florida and eventually finished fifth. The Ragin' Cajun softball team has seen post-season play in 19 of the past 20 seasons. The Ragin' Cajuns have been Sun Belt Conference regular season champions in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019, Sun Belt tournament champions in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019 along with 27 NCAA Regionals, 33 NFCA All-Americans, and 37 consecutive winning seasons (only having one losing season, 1981, their first year of play in which they would finish 6–14). The current head coach

432-838: The Top 20 four times at the ASA Gold Nationals and won the championship in 2004. That year, Glasco and his coaching staff were named the National Coaching Staff of the Year for travel softball teams by the NFCA. Glasco started his collegiate career in softball at Georgia as assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator from 2009 to 2011. During his time at Georgia, he brought his team to a 282–92 cumulative record, topping NCAA and SEC rankings in almost all offensive categories and setting over 20 team records. In 2012, Glasco

456-416: The University of Louisiana, but was reverted to University of Southwestern Louisiana via court challenge. In 1999, it became the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) and maintained the Ragin' Cajuns nickname. The area where the majority of the school's athletic facilities are located is formally known as the "Edgar G. "Sonny" Mouton, Jr. Sports and Entertainment Plaza." It is located apart from

480-538: The main campus, and is bounded by West Congress Street to the north, Bertrand Drive to the west, Reinhardt Drive and Souvenir Gate to the south, and the coulee feeding into Coulee Mine to the east. It is more informally known as the Athletic Complex. Located in this area are: Additionally, while just outside the sports complex, Bourgeois Hall (Health & PE) is located immediately next to Lamson Park. Also, Earl K. Long Gym (Women's basketball and volleyball)

504-555: The school was renamed Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI) in 1921 and the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) in 1960. The university's 1963 football team was unusually strong in homegrown talent; 35 of its 39 players were from Louisiana, with 30 from within 100 miles of Lafayette. As a result, coach Russ Faulkinberry changed the team's nickname to the Raging Cajuns , a nod to the ethnic group based in south Louisiana . (The team went 4–5.) The name change also ended

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528-420: The states of Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Virginia. Additionally, all games aired by the channels will also be available online at ESPN3.com provided nationwide coverage to the Ragin' Cajuns. Gerry Glasco As an Assistant: Gerald Dean Glasco Jr. (born October 29, 1958) is an American college softball coach who is currently head coach at Texas Tech and

552-598: Was placed in 1900. The team participates in NCAA Division I FBS in the Sun Belt Conference. First played in 1901 under the school's previous name SLII. They are a charter member of NCAA Division I-A football. Louisiana vacated 22 wins from 2011 to 2014 including the 2011 and 2013 New Orleans Bowls and also vacated the 2013 Sun Belt Conference co-championship as the result of NCAA violations of ACT exam fraud, payments to recruits, and not cooperating with

576-614: Was promoted to associate head coach, a position that he held until 2014. In 2014, Glasco joined Texas A&M as associate head coach. In the 2016 and 2017 seasons, the Aggies led the SEC in home run in regular season conference play. In 2017, the Aggies had their best SEC Conference finish ever with a 16–7 conference record and advanced to the Women's College World Series. After firing former head coach Michael Lotief for alleged abusive conduct,

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