San Jose State Spartans - Additional SJSU Athletics Facts

Additional SJSU Athletics Facts

• SJSU garnered 17 NCAA boxing championship titles including three consecutive national team titles (1958–1960) before the NCAA banned the sport in 1961.

• SJSU men's cross country team won the NCAA National championship in 1962 and 1963.

• In July 2007, SJSU was selected by the United States Olympic Committee to serve as the primary processing center for all Team USA members bound for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. All team members used SJSU campus housing and dining facilities during at least two days of document checks, health exams, cultural briefings, portrait sittings, uniform fittings and last-minute workout sessions. The actual location of the processing center on the SJSU campus was kept secret for security reasons.

• SJSU softball coach Vicky Galindo won an Olympic silver medal competing with the United States women's national softball team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

• In April 2009, SJSU student Marc Sanchez was crowned the 132-pound weight class national boxing champion at the National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) championships held at the University of Maryland, College Park. He became SJSU's first national boxing champ since the sport was banned by the NCAA in 1961.

• The SJSU women's water polo team has earned a top-10 postseason national ranking nine out of 12 seasons beginning in 1998, and earned a top-20 postseason national ranking 12 seasons out of 12 from 1998 through 2009.

• The SJSU women's gymnastics team was named the Western Athletic Conference regular-season champion in 2012.

• The SJSU women's swimming and diving team won two consecutive WAC championship titles in 2012 and 2013.