Team: Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders
Mohegan Sun
Championships: 0
Headcoach: Donnie Tyndall
The University of Middle Tennessee's athlete team is known as Blue Raiders. Female teams are known as the Lady Raiders. The nickname's origin goes back to a 1934 newspaper. An MTSU football player won $5 from The Daily News Journal with his winning entry "Blue Raiders", which he later admitted borrowing from Colgate University, whose teams were known as "Red Raiders" at the time. No official ... (more)
The University of Middle Tennessee's athlete team is known as Blue Raiders. Female teams are known as the Lady Raiders. The nickname's origin goes back to a 1934 newspaper. An MTSU football player won $5 from The Daily News Journal with his winning entry "Blue Raiders", which he later admitted borrowing from Colgate University, whose teams were known as "Red Raiders" at the time. No official names were existed prior to this time and so they were known as “Normalites.”
The university's athletic teams used to the school as "Middle Tennessee" or "MT", leaving the words “State University”. The underlying effort for the same was to change the name of the University to “University of Middle University”. Middle Tennessee State University's mascot is a pegasus named “Lightning”, which symbolizes the university's aerospace program. MTSU's original mascot was a student dressed as Nathan Bedford Forrest. Due to sensitivities within the African-American community, the mascot was changed to a blue-colored scent hound dog named "Ole Blue". The present mascot was adopted in the year 1998.MTSU athletic teams participate in NCAA Division I (I-A for football) in the Sun Belt Conference. NCAA-sanctioned athletic men's teams include: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Tennis, Track. NCAA-sanctioned athletic women's teams include:Basketball, Cross Country Golf, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Track, and Volleyball.
MTSU also fields sports such as rugby, ice hockey and inline hockey. These "club sports" are not sanctioned by the university, though each team does receive funding as a student organization. They are also authorized to use school logos, wordmarks, and identities. These teams do not compete at the NCAA level, though they do compete against other colleges and universities within unofficial intercollegiate organizations.
MTSU also has a very active equestrian team which competes in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association in both huntseat and western division. Though a club team, the members have won several individual national championships and were as a team the 2003 National Western Reserve Champions.
MTSU has won only one national championship in a team sport: golf, 1965. However, seven individuals have won national championships. All were in golf or track.
The University of Middle Tennessee's athlete team is known as Blue Raiders. Female teams are known as the Lady Raiders. The nickname's origin goes back to a 1934 newspaper. An MTSU football player won $5 from The Daily News Journal with his winning entry "Blue Raiders", which he later admitted borrowing from Colgate University, whose teams were known as "Red Raiders" at the time. No official names were existed prior to this time and so they were known as “Normalites.”
The university's athletic teams used to the school as "Middle Tennessee" or "MT", leaving the words “State University”. The underlying effort for the same was to change the name of the University to “University of Middle University”. Middle Tennessee State University's mascot is a pegasus named “Lightning”, which symbolizes the university's aerospace program. MTSU's original mascot was a student dressed as Nathan Bedford Forrest. Due to sensitivities within the African-American community, the mascot was changed to a blue-colored scent hound dog named "Ole Blue". The present mascot was adopted in the year 1998.MTSU athletic teams participate in NCAA Division I (I-A for football) in the Sun Belt Conference. NCAA-sanctioned athletic men's teams include: Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Football, Golf, Tennis, Track. NCAA-sanctioned athletic women's teams include:Basketball, Cross Country Golf, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Track, and Volleyball.
MTSU also fields sports such as rugby, ice hockey and inline hockey. These "club sports" are not sanctioned by the university, though each team does receive funding as a student organization. They are also authorized to use school logos, wordmarks, and identities. These teams do not compete at the NCAA level, though they do compete against other colleges and universities within unofficial intercollegiate organizations.
MTSU also has a very active equestrian team which competes in the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association in both huntseat and western division. Though a club team, the members have won several individual national championships and were as a team the 2003 National Western Reserve Champions. MTSU has won only one national championship in a team sport: golf, 1965. However, seven individuals have won national championships. All were in golf or track.
