Kansas State Wildcats - Athletics Department

Athletics Department

Kansas State offers fourteen sports at a varsity level. Entering the 2012–2013 school year, Kansas State has captured 65 total conference championships through the years (not counting competition in the old Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association). Kansas State has not won any team NCAA championships, but has had dozens of individual national champions.

The Kansas State Wildcats are currently represented in the following NCAA Division I varsity sports:

  • Men's sports
    • Baseball
    • Basketball
    • Cross country
    • Football
    • Golf
    • Track and field
  • Women's sports
    • Basketball
    • Cross country
    • Equestrian
    • Golf
    • Rowing
    • Tennis
    • Track and field
    • Volleyball

In the 2007–2008 school year, Kansas State was the only school in the nation to have a consensus All-America in both football (Jordy Nelson) and men's basketball (Michael Beasley). Also in 2007, Kansas State led the Big 12 Conference with a 64 percent graduation rate for all sports. The Wildcats were second in the Big 12 with a 69 percent graduation rate in football.

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