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North Dakota State University-Main Campus Athletics
The North Dakota State University Bison previously competed in the NCAA’s Division II, but have since transferred to Division I in 16 different varsity sports. Today they are only affiliated with the Great West Football Conference, and compete in the “Independent” classification of Division I sports. Men’s sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, track, and wrestling. Women’s sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, track, and volleyball. The bison have won twenty team championships in their long athletic history, including football (1965, 1968, 1969, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, and 1990), wrestling (1988, 1998, 2000, 2001), women’s basketball (1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996), men’s cross country (1972), softball (2000), and women’s indoor track and field (2002). Individual Bison athletes have also accumulated fifty individual national titles over the years. The Bison football team have the privilege of playing in the impressive Fargodome, a $48 million indoor football complex that seats nearly 19,000. The Fargodome is a college-sized version of the more impressive indoor NFL arenas today, complete with opposing scoreboards and statistic boards on either end of the field, luxury suites, and giant video screens for action playback.
North Dakota State University is an NCAA Division I School. The football team (Division I-AA) competes in the Great West Conference; other teams are independent. Men’s sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, track & field, and wrestling. Women’s sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, track & field, and volleyball. The sports teams are supported by a spirit squad, which includes a co-educational cheer squad, an all-women’s squad, and a dance team. The team nick-name is the Bison.
Athletic facilities at North Dakota State University include a fieldhouse, a sports arena for basketball, wrestling, and indoor track, a sports complex with two soccer fields, four softball diamonds, and a track, a recently renovated wrestling complex, a baseball stadium with a seating capacity of 4,509, and the Fargodome, which is an indoor football and event stadium. The baseball stadium is shared with the minor league Moorhead-Fargo RedHawks.
Among the championships and awards that North Dakota State University has received are 59 Academic All-American awards, 35 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, 8 football national championships, 5 women’s basketball national championships and other individual and team national championships.
Student athletes receive academic support from the university in the form of tutorial assistance. Athletes are also helped with media exposure by the athletic media relations office.
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