Boat champions in 2017. Also in 2017, USF launched the Bulls Unlimited channel on TuneIn, becoming the second school in the country to have its own 24/7 digital radio station. The station is available for free nationwide and carries live play-by-play coverage of all games in eight different sports plus highlights, shows, and more. A second channel, Bulls Unlimited 2, was launched in 2019 and mostly carries game replays, as well as live game coverage when games are happening simultaneously in two sports. 2020s In 2021, the women's basketball team won their first conference titles with both the regular season and tournament AAC crowns and became the first team besides Connecticut to win an AAC title in the sport. In November 2021, athletic director Michael Kelly announced that USF would add a women's lacrosse team beginning in the 2023–24 school year (later postponed to the 2024–25 school year), which will make it the first new sport at the school since 1997. The following February, USF announced that a women's beach volleyball team would be added in 2024–25. USF varsity teams have won a total of 160 conference championships and six national championships. The school's athletes have won an additional 193 individual conference championships, 16 relay conference championships, 17 individual national championships, and four relay national championships. Bulls teams also have four national runner-up finishes in the NCAA and two in the ICSA, plus numerous individual and relay national runner-up finishes. Club teams representing USF have won 13 national championships. Varsity sports USF sponsors 19 varsity sports teams, nine for men and ten for women. A women's lacrosse team and a women's beach volleyball team will be added in spring 2025. Football Under head coach Jim Leavitt, USF began college football play as a Division I-AA (now Division I FCS) independent for their first four seasons, finishing with a winning record three times and ranked in the AP Poll twice. During their final year in Division I-AA, the Bulls beat three teams ranked in the DI-AA top 15: No. 13 James Madison, No. 6 Western Kentucky, and No. 1 Troy State; as well as Division I-A Connecticut. That team finished with a 7–4 record, with all four losses coming to Division I-A opponents. They were ineligible for the Division I-AA playoffs as they were to transition to Division I-A the following year. The team grew rapidly and moved to Division I-A