[EricH]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

OK, I'm confused. This post was made a few minutes ago, in 2015. The girls team started later, and had a smaller number, but both teams have numbers like they started at least five years ago. TBA shows both teams as first competing in 2010. Or are your signature and team affiliation out of date?

The girls' team got a number from the other team's rookie year, per standard FRC numbering convention.

Long story short, if a team splits for any reason, and both halves are counted as veteran teams, an unused number is picked from the "pool" of numbers that weren't used--but could have been--during the team's rookie year and assigned to one of the two.

Edit: This document may be of interest, particularly Case 2.