Fort Hays State Tigers

Fort Hays State University Tigers

University	Fort Hays State University
Conference(s)	MIAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association	Division II
Athletics director	Curtis Hammeke
Location	Hays, KS
Varsity teams	16
Football stadium	Lewis Field
Basketball arena	Gross Memorial Coliseum
Baseball stadium	Larks Park
Mascot	Victor E. Tiger
Nickname	Tigers
Fight song
Colors	Black and Gold
Homepage	Fort Hays Tigers home page

Fort Hays State University athletic teams are known as the Tigers. The school's teams participate in the NCAA Division II Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA),^[1] except for wrestling, which competes as a member of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC).

1 Athletics department
2 Basketball
- 2.1 Men's
- 2.2 Women's
3 Football
4 Other sports
5 Conference membership history
6 References
7 External links

Athletics department

Fort Hays State offers sixteen sports at a varsity level. Entering the 2010–2011 school year, Fort Hays State has captured 58 Conference titles in the following conference, Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC), Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIAC), Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), Central States Intercollegiate Conference (CSIC), and Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). They also have captured nine total national championships.^[2]

The Fort Hay State Tiger are represented in the following NCAA Division II varsity sports:

Men's sports
- Baseball - RMAC(5)
- Basketball - KIAC(2), CIAC(6), CSIC(3), RMAC(5), NAIA National Champions(2), NCAA II Champions (1)
- Cross country - RMAC(2), NAIA National Champions(4)
- Football - KIAC(2), CIAC(5), CSIC(1), RMAC(2)
- Golf
- Skeeball
- Soccer
- Track and field - RMAC(7)
- Wrestling - RMAC(2)

Women's sports
- Basketball - CSIC(4), RMAC(5), NAIA National Champions(2)
- Cross country
- Golf - RMAC(1)
- Soccer
- Softball - RMAC(1)
- Tennis
- Track and field - RMAC(1)
- Volleyball

Basketball

Men's

The Fort Hays State basketball program holds several national basketball titles; the men's team claimed national championships in 1984 and 1985 (NAIA), back to back, and in 1996 (NCAA Division II) with a remarkable 34 and 0 record.

Women's

The women's basketball team also brought home the national title in 1991 (NAIA).

Football

The football program at Fort Hays began in 1902.^[3] The first year a coach was assigned to the team was 1913 when Ira Van Cleave led the team to a record of 4 wins and 2 losses.^[4] Other coaches in the schools history include Wayne J. McConnell, Jim Gilstrap, James J. Yeager, and former Kansas Governor Andrew Frank Schoeppel. The coach beginning in 2011 is Chris Brown.