Virginia Tech Hokies

Virginia Tech Hokies
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UniversityVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
ConferenceACC (Coastal Division)
NCAADivision I (FBS)
Athletic directorWhit Babcock
LocationBlacksburg, Virginia
Varsity teams22
Football stadiumLane Stadium/Worsham Field
Basketball arenaCassell Coliseum
Baseball stadiumEnglish Field
Soccer stadiumThompson Field
MascotHokie Bird
NicknameHokies
Fight songTech Triumph
ColorsChicago maroon and burnt orange[1]
   
Websitehokiesports.com
Atlantic Coast Conference logo in Virginia Tech's colors

The Virginia Tech Hokies are the athletic teams representing Virginia Tech in intercollegiate athletics. The Hokies participate in the NCAA's Division I Atlantic Coast Conference in 22 varsity sports. Virginia Tech's men's sports are football, basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and wrestling. Virginia Tech's women's sports are basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, golf, and volleyball.

Virginia Tech's individual athletes have won 21 individual national titles in various track and field events, wrestling, and swimming. Though not affiliated with the NCAA, Virginia Tech won the 2007 national championship of bass fishing.[2] The Hokie men's basketball team won the 1973 and 1995 NIT tournaments and went to the Sweet Sixteen of NCAA tournament in 1967 and 2019. The Hokies football team lost to Florida State in the 2000 Sugar Bowl (BCS National Championship Game) and finished the 1999 season with a #2 ranking in the BCS Poll. Virginia Tech is one of only three "Power Five" conference members who has never won an NCAA national championship, along with Kansas State and UCF.

  1. ^ "Virginia Tech University Trademarks". Retrieved September 22, 2019.
  2. ^ Carter, Kyle (October 21, 2007). "Virginia Tech wins national championship". ESPNOutdoors.com. Retrieved January 13, 2010.

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