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Covering Mocs Sports:

  • Football
  • Baseball
  • Softball
  • Volleyball

Chattanooga's colors are blue and gold; their men's teams and athletes are nicknamed Mocs, and women's teams and athletes are Lady Mocs. Chattanooga athletics teams compete in NCAA Division I (FCS for football) in the Southern Conference.

Chattanooga's men's basketball program has been one the top team in the Southern Conference since joining the league in 1977-78. The Mocs have won 10 SoCon Tournament titles, tied for first all-time with former member West Virginia and Davidson, 10 regular-season league championships prior to the change to the division format in 1995 and seven division titles for 27 totals titles. In 1997, led by coach Mack McCarthy and PG Wes Moore, the Mocs made a run to the Sweet 16 as a No. 14 seed, beating Georgia and Illinois before falling to Providence. Before making the move to Division I, Chattanooga won the Division II National Championship in 1977.[citation needed] In July 2008, the team was ranked number 48 on the ESPN list of the most prestigious basketball programs since the 1984-85 season.

The Mocs won the SoCon tournament once again in 2009; defeating the College of Charleston Cougars 80-69 in the championship game on their home court at the McKenzie Arena, the Mocs punched their ticket to the NCAA Tournament, their first since 2005.

Jimmy Fallon from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon chose the Mocs as his team of choice going into the 2009 NCAA Tournament. The Wednesday night (March 18) show included a live Skype chat with Head Coach John Shulman, as well as representatives of the pep band and cheerleading squads made in studio. Fallon's band "The Roots" wrote and performed an ode to Shulman titled, "The Don Juan of the SoCon" and Shulman and his six seniors (Nicchaeus Doaks, Zach Ferrell, Kevin Goffney, Khalil Hartwell, Stephen McDowell and Keyron Sheard) made an in studio appearance following their tournament game with UConn.

Chattanooga is home to the only NCAA Division I wrestling program in the state of Tennessee, in the past years the Chattanooga Mat Mocs have become one of the nations premier wrestling programs.

The Chattanooga Lady Mocs basketball team has been one of the most dominant forces in the Southern Conference in the last decade. The Lady Mocs basketball team has won the Southern Conference Regular Season Championship 9 years in a row and 14 times since 1984. The coach of the Lady Mocs is one of the most decorated in Socon history.

Wes Moore:
MOORE'S COACHING CREDENTIALS
• 2009-10 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2010 SoCon Tournament Champiohship
• 2010 NCAA Tournament
• 2008-09 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2006 NCAA Tournament
• 2006 SoCon Tournament Championship
• 2005-06 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2005-06 SoCon Coach of the Year
• 26-game win streak
• 2005 WNIT Sweet 16
• 2004-05 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2004-05 SoCon Coach of the Year
• 2004 NCAA Tournament Second Round
• 2004 SoCon Tournament Championship
• 2003-04 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2003-04 SoCon Coach of the Year
• 27-game win streak
• 2003 NCAA Tournament
• 2002-03 SoCon Tournament Championship
• 2002-03 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2002 NCAA Tournament
• 2001-02 SoCon Tournament Championship
• 2001-02 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2001 NCAA Tournament
• 2000-01 SoCon Tournament Championship
• 2000-01 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 2000 WNIT Sweet 16
• 2000 SoCon Tournament Runner-Up
• 1999-2000 SoCon Coach of the Year
• 1999-2000 SoCon Regular Season Title
• 1997-98 Division II Final Four
• 1996-97 PBAC Coach of the Year
• Two Division II National Tournaments
• Five Division III National Tournaments
• Three-time District Coach of the Year

    * Chamberlain Field - (1908-1997)
    * Finley Stadium - (1997-present)
    * Maclellan Gymnasium and natatorium - (Gym opened 1961; natatorium opened 1968)
    * McKenzie Arena - (1982-present) aka the Roundhouse, due to its circular shape and the city's association with the railroad industry.

The school's athletic teams are called the Mocs. The teams were nicknamed Moccasins until 1996. (The origin of the name is uncertain; however, Moccasin Bend is a large horseshoe-shaped bend in the Tennessee River directly below Lookout Mountain.)

The mascot has taken on four distinct forms, with a water moccasin being the mascot in the 1920s, and then a moccasin shoe (known as "The Shoe") was actually used as the school's mascot at times in the 1960s and 1970s. From the 1970s until 1996, the mascot was Chief Moccanooga, an exaggerated Cherokee tribesman.

In 1996, due to concerns over ethnic sensitivity,[6] the Moccasins name and image were dropped in favor of the shortened "Mocs" and an anthropomorphized mockingbird named "Scrappy" dressed as a railroad engineer. The school's main athletic logo features Scrappy riding a train (a reference to Chattanooga's history as a major railroad hub and to the song "Chattanooga Choo Choo"). The mascot takes its name from former football coach A.C. "Scrappy" Moore.

The fight song for Chattanooga is Fight Chattanooga. The lyrics are:

Fight Chattanooga,
'til the victory is won
Mighty Mocs you know
we're counting on you,
Go UTC Gold and Blue
Fight! Fight!
Roll on Chattanooga,
Ride the rails to victory
Ever more we pledge
to be true to UTC.

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