Radford Highlanders

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Radford University is a medium-size public, state-funded university in the City of Radford, in Southwestern Virginia, founded in 1910 as a women's college and coeducational since 1972. It was granted university status by the Virginia legislature in 1979. Radford offers liberal arts curricula for undergraduates, along with numerous graduate programs at the master's degree level, including the M.F.A. and M.B.A.; it plans to offer its first doctoral program in the fall of 2008, in counseling psychology. RU was the first educational institution in Virginia to integrate wireless technology campus wide, an indicator of its commitment to staying up-to-date and offering its students the best possible learning environment.

The university's teams are known as the Highlanders (in honor of the region's Scots-Irish heritage), and compete in the Big South Conference. Radford offers 19 NCAA varsity sports for men and women. The Radford men's basketball team won the Big South Conference tournament in 1998. They also won the Big South Conference Men's Tennis Championship in 2007.

The Dedmon Center is a recreational and convocation complex that opened in 1981. The Dedmon Center features a 1/6-mile indoor jogging track, five racquetball courts, a weight-training room, locker rooms, and several team rooms. The main arena features a main basketball floor and a secondary volleyball arena for intercollegiate competition and four recreational courts for basketball or volleyball. The complex features adjoining facilities, including intermural soccer, football and softball fields, and intercollegiate fields and courts for baseball, softball, field hockey and tennis. The Patrick D. Cupp Stadium adds an intercollegiate soccer and track and field complex.