Humboldt State Lumberjacks

Humdoldt State Lumberjacks
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University Humboldt State University
Conference California Collegiate Athletic Association
Great Northwest Athletic Conference (football)
NCAA Division II
Athletic director Dan Collen
Location Arcata, CA
Varsity teams 12
Football stadium Redwood Bowl
Basketball arena Lumberjack Arena
Nickname Lumberjacks
Colors Green and Gold
         
Website hsulumberjacks.com

The Humboldt State Lumberjacks are the 12 varsity athletic teams that represent Humboldt State University, located in Arcata, California, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Lumberjacks compete as an associate member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association for all sports except football, which competes in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.

Varsity Sports

Teams

Men

  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Football
  • Soccer
  • Track & Field

Women

  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Rowing
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Track & Field
  • Volleyball

Basketball

Recently the men’s basketball achieved its first-ever West Region title and advancement to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II for the first time in the program’s 81-year history.

Softball

HSU's softball team has qualified for the NCAA post-season 18 times between 1990 and 2008, capturing the national championship in 1999 and in 2008.

Rowing

The women's rowing team claimed the NCAA Division II national rowing championship title in 2012 and 2014. In 2012 they took first in both the varsity 8 and varsity 4 boats. In 2014 the varsity 8 was first, and the varsity 4 took third.[1] In 2011 the team finished third overall at the national championships, placing second in the varsity 4 and third in the varsity 8. [2]The women’s rowing program advanced both its varsity 4 and varsity 8 boats to the NCAA Championships in 2004, with the varsity 4 earning the individual boat national title and the varsity 8 placing second at nationals. Women's rowing became an intercollegiate sport at Humboldt State in 1994.[3]

Track & Field

The Lumberjacks have produced national champions and All-Americans in cross country and track and field. In 1980, the school’s first year in Division II, the HSU men’s cross country team claimed a national title. A year later, cross country runner Mark Conover earned the individual crown and later represented the USA as a marathoner in the 1988 Summer Olympic Games.[4] The women's track and field team, led by future 1928 Olympic sprinter, Elta Cartwright, won the 1926 national championship meet conducted in telegraphic form by the Women's National Collegiate and Scholastic Track Association.[5]

Football

Conferences

National Championships

References

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  4. ↑ Dan Pambianco, Humboldt State Intercollegiate Athletics, Assistant AD/Media Relations
  5. 1 2 Tricard, Louise Mead (1996). American Women's Track and Field – A History, 1895 through 1980. Jefferson, North Carolina, U.S.: McFarland & Co., Inc. p. 58.

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