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Bakersfield Renegades

intercollegiate sports teams of Bakersfield College

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4849313 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bakersfield Renegades (referred to as BC Renegades or Gades) represent Bakersfield College in 22 sports. The college competes in the Western State Conference, which is affiliated with the California Community College Athletic Association.

Varsity sports

Bakersfield College competes in 20 varsity sports teams; 10 men's and 12 women's:

Football

The following is the record for BC football. It is effective as of 2015.

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The public source identifies “Bakersfield Renegades” as intercollegiate sports teams of Bakersfield College. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bakersfield, Renegades and intercollegiate.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bakersfield, Renegades and intercollegiate providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Bakersfield Renegades” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.