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UC Riverside fields a Division I tennis program in the Big West. The Highlanders bring 12 tennis players into the Big West this season. The Highlanders are building toward the tournament schedule this season with Michael Chang pacing the roster (5-11 singles record). The Highlanders list 12 athletes for the 2026 season. The class distribution includes 4 freshmen, 3 sophomores, 2 juniors, and 3 seniors. The Highlanders host home events on the UC Riverside campus. The Highlanders' tournament schedule will be updated as results are posted. Scotty Highlander anchors UC Riverside tennis's identity, with "Brave Scots" as the program's fight song. When fans fuel a Highlander athlete on RallyFuel, 90% lands directly with the athlete — funding training, recovery, and the realities of college sports.
University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) is in Riverside, California, and its teams are the Highlanders. The school competes in NCAA Division I with 17 varsity teams. It has been a member of the Big West Conference since 2001, and the campus was founded in 1954.
The Highlanders sponsor baseball, basketball, softball, soccer, volleyball, golf, tennis, track and field and cross country. The campus sits on land that was once the University of California's Citrus Experimentation Station, and its athletics teams carry the Highlanders name chosen by students.
The Big West credits UC Riverside with 15 conference championships, 10 in the postseason and five in the regular season. The Highlanders also won four Division II national championships:
In 2022 the men's soccer team won the Big West regular-season and tournament titles in the same year for the first time in program history. That earned the team the Big West's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Distance runner Brenda Martinez, who ran for the Highlanders, qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Basketball and volleyball play at SRC Arena, and men's basketball has drawn sold-out crowds there. Baseball plays at the Riverside Sports Complex, and softball plays at Amy S. Harrison Softball Field.
Scotty Highlander is the mascot and leads the crowd at home games. UC Riverside's notable alumni include major league pitchers Troy Percival and Joe Kelly.