The Washington State Cougars (known informally as the Cougs) are the athletic teams that represent Washington State University. Located in Pullman, Washington, WSU is a member of the Pac-12 Conference in NCAA Division I. The athletic program comprises ten women's sports and six men's intercollegiate sports, and also offers various intramural sports. Varsity athletics WSU formerly had varsity programs in rowing, boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, and rifle. In 1937, boxers Roy Petragallo and Ed McKinnon won individual titles and the Cougar team, under coach Ike Deeter (1902-2003), won the NCAA boxing championship, WSU's first national championship. (The Inland Northwest was a hotbed of the sport as Idaho and Gonzaga also had top programs and won national titles.) Collegiate boxing fell from favor in the 1950s and the Cougar program was dropped in May 1960; the NCAA stopped its sponsorship less than a year later. The WSU wrestling program was discontinued , after the 1986 season, and women's gymnastics the following year. Men's gymnastics was cut earlier, after the 1980 season, rifle in 1987, and men's tennis in 1994. Other former programs include men's swimming and skiing. WSU does not have a women's softball program, one of three Pac-12 members (USC, Colorado) without. The men's track and field team won the NCAA indoor national championship in 1977. Formerly free of charge, student tickets were introduced for home events in the fall of 1983, approved by a student referendum election. Football During the 2001–03 seasons, the Cougar football teams were distinguished by three ten-win seasons, three top ten poll rankings, and appearances in the Sun, Rose, and Holiday Bowls. The Cougars shared the Pac-10 title in 2002. Alumnus Paul Wulff, WSU's 31st head coach, was fired in late November 2011, after compiling a record in four seasons. Mike Leach coached the team from 2012 to 2019, guiding them to six bowl games. Leach left to coach Mississippi State in 2020 and was replaced by Hawaii head coach Nick Rolovich. Rolovitch was fired in October 2021 for not complying with the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Defensive coordinator Jake Dickert was named the interim head coach. Basketball The 1916–17 team had a 25–1 record, and was retroactively named the national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation and the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. When George Raveling was head coach (1972–1983), the Cougars were among the Pac-10's top teams and went to the NCAA tournament in 1980 and