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ATHLETICS AT MISSOURI S&T
About athletics
Missouri S&T boasts a competitive athletic program as a
member of NCAA Division II and the Great Lakes Valley Conference
in all sports except football (playing currently as an NCAA Division
II independent; the GLVC will add football as a conference sport in
2012) and swimming (aligned with the New South Intercollegiate
Swimming Conference). With the addition of volleyball in 2007, S&T
fields eight men’s and seven women’s varsity teams.
Missouri S&T student-athletes have shown success at the national
level both on the field and in the classroom.
On the field
S&T teams have finished in the top 10 at the national level for
13 of the past 14 seasons. S&T has won four NCAA national titles on an
individual basis in swimming during the past 10 seasons, with Zlatan
Hamzic capturing the title in the 200-yard breaststroke at the 2009
NCAA Division II Championships. S&T’s 200-yard freestyle relay team
won back-to-back Division II championships in 2001 and 2002, while
the 400-yard freestyle relay team took home a national title in 2002.
The Miner swimming team has finished among the top four in the nation
in three of the past four years, headed by a runner-up finish at the
2008 national meet.
Missouri S&T’s men’s track and field team swept the GLVC titles in
2009 and combined with the women’s team to send eight individuals
to national competition -- and all of them finished among the top eight
to earn All-America honors.
S&T’s football team matched its best record over the last 23 seasons
in 2008, while the last year saw S&T’s men’s soccer, men’s and women’s
basketball and softball teams all qualify for GLVC post-season play. The
Lady Miner basketball and softball teams have made NCAA regional
competition in recent years, with the basketball team making it to the
championship game of the NCAA Great Lakes Regional in 2008.
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