KSU Athletics Timeline

1983
Athletic department founded. KSU competed in the Georgia Athletic Conference, which was part of the National Intercollegiate Athletic Association.

1994
In final year in NAIA, the baseball team won the national tournament.

1994-1999
Under leadership of legendary coach Stan Sims, the cross country teams won six-straight Peach Belt titles in Division II of the NCAA.

1995-1996
Softball wins the Division II tournament two years in a row.

1996
Baseball wins its second national title, first as NCAA member.

2003
In just its second season, the women’s soccer team won the Division II national title.

2004
Men’s basketball wins NCAA Divison II Men’s Basketball Tournament.

2009
KSU moves up to Division I in all athletics, joining the Atlantic Sun Conference.
KSU opens KSU Stadium, an 8,300 seat, state-of-the-art soccer facility.

2010
Men’s basketball hosts Georgia Tech, defeating them 80-63.

2012
Logo set unveiled, along with fight song.

2013
Board of Regents approves football. Brian Bohannon, a former assistant at Georgia Tech, is hired as KSU’s first football coach.
KSU announces it will compete in the Big South as a football only member, starting in 2015.

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