The BYU Cougars are an amateur soccer team, that currently plays in the Premier Developmental League of the United States.
The team is, essentially, the college soccer team of Brigham Young University. Before joining the PDL, the Cougars were probably the premier Club soccer team in the United States college system, but were unable to compete at a higher level because of a lack of other college teams in the region.
So, in 2003, the Cougars took a bold step and associated itself with the PDL, a regional amateur soccer league, played during the summer, in which teams are primarily composed of college players away from school for the summer.
The team was terrible in their first year, finishing with 2 wins, 15 losses, and 1 tie, with 21 goals for versus 52 against. Their second year, however, was a significant improvement, as the team finished slightly below .500 at 8-9-1.
BYU is wholly owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the church provides it with a large subsidy from Latter-day Saint funds, providing roughly 70% of the cost of education at BYU.
BYU's rivalry with the University of Utah is historic, regional, and nationally-ranked.
BYU's reputation as a place to court potential mates is well known both within and without the BYU community, and is encouraged to some extent by the school's administrators and ecclesiastical leaders, who publicly highlight "successful" marriage statistics.
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