page_title: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: More Pitt Johnstown action (UPJ vs Fairmont State)
context_page_description: University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown is a state-related college in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is a state-related, baccalaureate degree-granting satellite campus of the University of Pittsburgh. The university is located in Richland Township, a suburban area of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and was founded in 1927 as one of the first regional campuses of a major university in the United States.
context_section_description: Pitt-Johnstown, known athletically as the Mountain Cats, is a Division II member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), as well as a member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC), becoming that conference's first member from the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Prior to the 2013–14 season, UPJ's first in the PSAC, the school competed as a member of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC).
  UPJ sponsors fifteen varsity men's and women's sports. Current university-sponsored varsity sports teams include:
  
  
   
  Men's sports
  Baseball
  Basketball
  Cross country
  Golf
  Ice Hockey
  Soccer
  Track and Field, Indoor
  Track and Field, Outdoor
  Wrestling
   
  Women's sports
  Basketball
  Cross Country
  Soccer
  Softball
  Track and Field, Indoor
  Track and Field, Outdoor
  Volleyball
   
  Perhaps the most prominent sport at UPJ is wrestling, which has had several top national finishes and won the Division II National Championships in 1996 and 1999. The wrestling program also includes several highly decorated wrestlers among its former athletes, including the most decorated wrestler in NCAA history, Carlton Haselrig, who went undefeated during his career and won three Division I and three Division II individual national championships.
  Men's Basketball is also successful and has advanced to four NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournaments, including appearances in the tournament in 2008 and 2009. The men's basketball team has appeared in the Division II national rankings several times, and finished as high as fifth in the nation in 1999. Women's basketball at UPJ has appeared in 13 Division II and 3 Division III NCAA tournaments, including the 1987 Division II Final Four.
  The baseball team plays some of its home games at Point Stadium. The baseball program participated in the NCAA North Atlantic Regional Tournament in the 2006 and 2008 seasons.
caption: UPJ men's basketball game in 2010
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