Baskent knights
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Baskent Knights was established under the name of Başkent University on 1998. Baskent Knights is an university athletics team which is not under a management of any private sports club facility.
Baskent Knights founded on 1998 with the efforts of Gokhan Bilgesu. Gokhan Bilgesu who played college football for Gazi University football team for 2 years, decided to establish a new college football team to generalize football in Turkey. He established the football team under the control of the Athletics department of Baskent University and named this team as "Knights". Then he started his coaching career in Baskent Knights on 1998. After the foundation of Baskent Knights this team played football without protective equipments for 3 years and after the year of 2001 with the efforts of all new players they brought football equipments to their team and by these efforts they were being the second fully equipped football team of their country. After the reaction of Baskent Knights the other 15 college teams also started to bring those protective equipments to their teams. On the year of 2002 the first standard college football season was played with the contribution of 5 teams including Baskent Knights.
In the beginning of the 2003-2004 season Ozgur Irmak (former gazi warriors defensive player) was being the second coach of Baskent Knights. Until the year of 2005 Baskent Knights was not a successful team as general. But under the leadership of older players and under the management of Ozgur Irmak, Baskent Knights increased their performance by the end of 2005. With the special efforts of the oldest players -Ahmet Soyletir(QB)-Burak Dursun(QB)-Emre Basyigit(LB)-Tolga Onuk(DL)-Cem Ozparlak(RB)and by the approval of the athletics department managers, Eric Smithson started his coaching career in Baskent Knights on 2006. Under the management of Eric Smithson and with the help of the increasing performance on the previous year Baskent Knights improved their technical and physical skills in the year of 2006 and they promoted to the turkish college superbowl after a 8-3 winning season. On 2007, Cameron Gadger who was the assistant coach in 2006 took the management of the team.
Baskent Knights used Navy Blue-Grey-White colors until the year of 2004. On the year of 2004 Ozgur Irmak who was the head coach of Baskent Knights changed its color to Navy Blue-White-Orange and at the same year by the advice of the former special teams captain Tolga Onuk, the team changed their old logo to the current logo.
Baskent Knights is a standard college football team which resumes their athletics facilities under the name of Baskent University and plays in the 1st college league conference in Turkey.
