{"id":221709,"date":"2024-12-05T05:57:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=221709"},"modified":"2024-12-06T08:50:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:50:58","slug":"uconn-firsts-first-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/12\/uconn-firsts-first-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Firsts: First National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"999\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-1024x999.png\" alt=\"UConn Firsts\" class=\"wp-image-218299 img-responsive lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/999;width:150px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-1024x999.png 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-768x749.png 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-1536x1499.png 1536w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-2048x1998.png 2048w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-430x420.png 430w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/uconnfirsts-682x665.png 682w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1948 UConn men\u2019s soccer team won the first national championship in school history in any sport. It was 11 years before the NCAA sponsored a national soccer championship, so it was up to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) to declare a national champion. UConn sported a perfect 11-0 record for head coach John Squires, who later was inducted into the NSCAA Hall of Fame. The Huskies were led by four All-American players \u2013 Carlos Fetterolf, Stuart Johnson, Merritt Baldwin, and Norman Pratt.\u00a0 UConn started the season with an impressive win at Yale, which set the tone for a season that included victories against the likes of Dartmouth, Tufts, and UMass. The highlight came with a 3-2 win over Springfield College, which was the two-time defending national champion and had a 32-match win streak. The first NCAA Championship for a UConn team came in 1981 when the field hockey team took home the title as the finals were played in Storrs. It was also historic because it was the first-ever NCAA Championship played in a women\u2019s sport. A few weeks later, the UConn men\u2019s soccer team won the NCAA Championship, marking the first-ever NCAA title for the Huskies in a men\u2019s sport. UConn has now won a total of 25 national championships\u2026 and counting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"98\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-1024x98.png\" alt=\"decorative abstract grid pattern\" class=\"wp-image-218295 img-responsive lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-1024x98.png 1024w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-300x29.png 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-768x73.png 768w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-1536x147.png 1536w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-2048x196.png 2048w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-630x60.png 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2028\/09\/grid-1300x124.png 1300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/98;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1948 UConn men\u2019s soccer team won the first national championship in school history in any sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":221710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1712,2235,2633,2225,2227,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2113],"class_list":["post-221709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-today-homepage","category-firsts","category-uconn-storrs","category-uconn-edu-homepage","category-university-life"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 14:00:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221711,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221709\/revisions\/221711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/221710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221709"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=221709"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=221709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}