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Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros

collegiate sports club in the United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ16971368
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The Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros (also CSU Dominguez Hills Toros, CSUDH Toros, and California State-Dominguez Hills Toros) are the athletic teams that represent California State University, Dominguez Hills, located in Carson, California, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Toros compete as members of the California Collegiate Athletic Association for all 9 varsity sports.

The men's soccer team plays at Toro Stadium (capacity 3,000). Other sports venues for the university are the Torodome (capacity 3,602) for basketball and volleyball; Toro Field (capacity 300) for baseball; and Toro Diamond (capacity 300) for softball. Select home games are nationally televised live via Internet TV. Even though Dignity Health Sports Park, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, is located on the campus of CSUDH the Toros do not play there.

Individual teams

Baseball

Kevin Pillar played center field for the Toros baseball team, for which he was an All-American. In 2010, as a junior he set an NCAA Division II record at the school, with a 54-game hitting streak. In August 2013, he became a major leaguer, for the Toronto Blue Jays. Bubby Rossman ('14) played for the team, and became a major league baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies in 2022.

Soccer

The men's soccer won its second national NCAA Division II championship in a match against Dowling College on December 7, 2008 at the University of Tampa’s Pepin Stadium.

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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—2010, 2013, 2022, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, State, Dominguez and Hills is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16971368. Authority coordinates are 33.863, -118.254. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2013, 2022 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros” 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.