page_title: Pepperdine University
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Pepperdine University / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: English: Tennis courts, baseball court and swimming pool at the Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.
context_page_description: Pepperdine University is a private research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ and has its main campus near Malibu, California. Founded by entrepreneur George Pepperdine in South Los Angeles in 1937, the school expanded to Malibu in 1972. Courses are now taught at a main Malibu campus, six graduate campuses in southern California, a center in Washington, D.C., and international campuses in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Shanghai, China; London, United Kingdom; Heidelberg, Germany; Florence, Italy; and Lausanne, Switzerland.
  The university is composed of one undergraduate school and four graduate schools: the Caruso School of Law, the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, the Graziadio Business School, and the School of Public Policy.
context_section_description: Pepperdine University competes in NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics. Most teams play in the West Coast Conference, but men's volleyball plays in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation and men's water polo plays in the Golden Coast Conference. Pepperdine's teams are known as the Waves.
  Pepperdine University is often ranked by the NACDA Director's Cup as having one of the most successful athletic programs for non-football Division I schools, ranking first on three occasions (most recently in 2011–12) and finishing in the top three eight times in the last fifteen years. Pepperdine University sponsors seventeen NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletics teams: baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, tennis, track, volleyball, and water polo teams for men; and basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track, indoor volleyball, and beach volleyball for women. There are also several intercollegiate sports clubs such as women's lacrosse, surfing, and men's rugby.
  NCAA Division I team championships:
  Baseball (1992)
  Men's golf (1997)
  Men's tennis (2006)
  Men's volleyball (1978, 1985, 1986, 1992, 2005)
  Water polo (1997)
  NCAA Division I individual titles:
  Robbie Weiss (1988 tennis – singles)
  Carlos Di Laura & Kelly Jones (1985 tennis – doubles)
  Jerome Jones & Kelly Jones (1984 tennis – doubles)
  The water polo competitions for the 1984 Summer Olympics were held at Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool on campus.
caption: Pepperdine's tennis courts, baseball field, and swimming pool (2007)
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