San Jose State Spartans

San Jose State Spartans
University San José State University
Conference Mountain West Conference
NCAA Division I / FBS
Athletic director Gene Bleymaier
Location San Jose, California
Football stadium Spartan Stadium
Basketball arena San Jose State Event Center
Baseball stadium San Jose Municipal Stadium
Other arenas Sharks Ice at San Jose
Mascot Sammy the Spartan
Nickname Spartans
Colors Blue, White, and Gold[1]
              
Website www.sjsuspartans.com
Aerial view of San Jose State campus.

The San Jose State Spartans is the name of the athletic teams representing San José State University. SJSU sports teams compete in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) at the NCAA Division I level. (Football Bowl Subdivision formally known as Division 1-A for football.) The university has participated in athletics since it first fielded a baseball team in 1890.

San José State University sports teams have won NCAA national titles in track and field, golf, boxing, fencing and tennis.[2] As of July 2014, SJSU has won 10 NCAA national Division 1 team championships[3] and produced 50 NCAA national Division 1 individual champions.[2] SJSU also has achieved an international reputation for its judo program, winning 47 National Collegiate Judo Association (NCJA) championships in 53 years (as of 2014).[4][5]

SJSU alumni have won 19 Olympic medals (including seven gold medals) dating back to the first gold medal won by Willie Steel in track and field in the 1948 Olympics. Alumni also have won medals in swimming, judo and boxing.

The track team coached by "Bud" Winter earned San Jose the nickname "Speed City," and produced Olympic medalists and social activists Lee Evans, John Carlos and Tommie Smith. Smith and Carlos are perhaps best remembered for giving the raised fist salute from the medalist's podium during the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City.

Current varsity teams

San José State University sponsors teams in seven men's and thirteen women's NCAA sanctioned sports:[6]

Men's Intercollegiate Sports

Women's Intercollegiate Sports

Nickname and mascot history

Due to the school's original designation as a teachers' college, SJSU's mascot changed many times before the school finally adopted the Spartans as the official mascot and nickname in 1942. Mascots and nicknames prior to 1942 included the Daniels, the Teachers, the Pedagogues, the Normals, and the Normalites. The school's current mascot is Sammy the Spartan or Sammy Spartan for short.

After 1887, the official name of the San Jose campus was the State Normal School at San Jose. The school's athletic teams initially played under the "Normal" identity, but they gradually shifted to the State Normal School identity, as evidenced by images of the SNS football and basketball squads from this era. Despite the SNS identity, the school continued to be referred to as the California State Normal School, San José in official publications. A recent historical exhibit in the Martin Luther King Library on the San José State campus featured a number of pieces of State Normal School memorabilia, including a SNS pennant.

Fight songs

Spartan Fight Song

Fight on for dear old San Jose State;
Fight on for victory!
We are with you in every way.
No matter what the price may be!
Onward for Sparta noble and true,
Fight hard in everything you do!
And so we'll Fight! (RAH!) Win! (RAH!)
March onward down the field and we will win the day!
S...J...S...U...S..J..S..U..SJSU...SAN JOSE STATE!

Spartan Alma Mater

Hail, Spartans, Hail!
Hail, gold, blue and white!
We pledge our hearts and hands,
To keep thy colors ever bright,
Forward we go! We will not fail!
Sing to our Alma Mater,
Hail! Hail! Hail!

[8]

Rivals

San Jose State shares rivalries with fellow Mountain West members: Fresno State, San Diego State and Hawaii, as well as Stanford due to its close proximity, in all sports. With its shared history, CSU affiliate Fresno State University is SJSU's biggest rival, while fellow South Bay resident Santa Clara University athletic programs challenge for local turf, especially in SJSU vs. SCU soccer and basketball games.

Facilities

San Jose State vs. Utah at Spartan Stadium - 2009

The Event Center, Aquatic Center, and the Spartan Complex are the principal sports facilities on the main campus for athletes. Additional athletics facilities, including Spartan Stadium and Blethen Field (baseball), along with the athletics department administrative offices and multiple training and practice facilities, are located on SJSU's 62-acre (25.1 ha) south campus approximately 1.5 mi (2.4 km) south of the main campus.

In April 2014, a new $76 million master plan to renovate the entire South Campus was unveiled. The plan calls for construction of a 9-hole golf facility, new baseball and softball stadiums, new track and field facilities, new soccer and tennis facilities, and three beach volleyball courts. The project is currently in the planning stages.[9]

Main Campus

South Campus

Varsity sports

(NCAA Sanctioned)[10]

Baseball

Basketball

Football

The State Normal School at San Jose football team in 1910. Jerseys display a large "N" for "Normal."

San Jose State first fielded a football team in 1893[13] and has won 16 conference championships dating back to 1932. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Spartan football program was considered a powerhouse, winning eight conference championships over an 18-year span. The 1932 team finished 7-0-2 and the 1939 team finished 13-0, marking the only undefeated seasons in school history.[13]

San Jose State shares football rivalries with Stanford and Fresno State. The annual game played between Stanford and San Jose State is titled the Bill Walsh Legacy Game, after distinguished SJSU alumnus, the late Mr. Bill Walsh. The Fresno State and San Jose State game is simply known as the Valley Rivalry game.

Additional Football Facts

Golf

Soccer

Volleyball

Club sports

San Jose State has a very active and thriving club sport program consisting of 25 sports and 30 teams.[24] These sports include:

Archery, badminton, bowling, boxing, cycling, dance, ACHA Division II and Division lll ice hockey, judo, MCLA Division III men's lacrosse, women's lacrosse, mountain biking, power lifting, quidditch, roller hockey, men's rugby, salsa, men's & women's soccer, softball, swimming, table tennis, track & field, triathlon, ultimate frisbee, men's & women's volleyball, men's water polo, and wrestling.[25]

Hockey

Founded in 1990, the San Jose State men's ice hockey team garnered one PCHA Division ll championship (1992) and four PCHA Division l championship titles (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997), before withdrawing from the PCHA and becoming an independent American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division ll team in 1998.[26]

Judo

The San Jose State judo program was established in 1937 for the Police Studies Department. In 1940, sophomore biology major Yosh Uchida was hired as the student-coach. The program was disbanded during World War II, and reestablished in 1946 upon Uchida's return to the college.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Uchida and University of California, Berkeley coach Henry Stone established rules to allow their students to compete with each other, including a weight class system. Uchida and Stone convinced the Amateur Athletic Union to sanction judo as a sport, and San José State hosted the first AAU national championship in 1953.

In 1962, the Spartans won the first National Collegiate Judo Championship. They would continue to dominate the event to the present day, winning their 47th national championship in 2014.[4][5]

In 2005, alumnus and coach Mike Swain announced the establishment of the Swain Scholarship, the first full athletic scholarship in judo at an American university. In 2008, the SJSU judo program was named one of six National Training Sites by USA Judo.

Notable SJSU Judoka

Rugby

San Jose State Spartan Rugby was established in 1971 and competes in the Pacific Western Rugby Conference. The Pacific Western Rugby Conference plays at the Division 1AA level. The Spartans compete against Chico State, Fresno State, San Francisco State University, Stanford University, University of California Santa Cruz and University of Nevada. San Jose State competes for the USA Rugby National Championship in both 15's and in 7's. In 2013, SJSU finished first in the conference in 7's competition.[27] According to the published SJSU rugby team mission statement, "San Jose State Rugby teaches Spartans honesty, humility, and hard work through the game of rugby for Spartan success both on and off the field."[27]

Salsa

San Jose State's salsa team, "Spartan Mambo", was established in 2010 and competes at amateur and collegiate competitions across the country. Spartan Mambo holds two championship titles from the College Salsa Congress in 2011 & 2015 as well as the 2015 Collegiate Salsa Open.[28][29] Spartan Mambo also won the Collegiate Teams division at the 2013 World Latin Dance Cup.

Table tennis

The San Jose State table tennis team rose to No. 4 in the national rankings and competed in the NCTTA national championship tournament in 2012.[30][31]

Discontinued

Wrestling

Wrestling has a history at San Jose State University dating back to the early 1930s. The various teams throughout the years have gone up against other colleges, universities, military bases and even prisons.[32] Despite the fact wrestling is one of the most popular high school sports in California, only a handful of colleges and universities in the state have wrestling programs. Local interest in wrestling is high and some within the wrestling community would call the Bay Area a wrestling hotspot. Gilroy High School has one of the best high school wrestling programs in the state and sends a high number of graduates to SJSU. Despite student interest and the availability of local talent, SJSU has not sponsored a Division 1 wrestling program since the 1988 season.[33] Eddie Baza is one of three two-time All-America wrestlers in San Jose State University history and was inducted into the Spartan Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.[34]

National team championships

As of July 2, 2015, San Jose State has 10 NCAA team national championships.[35]

Additional SJSU athletics facts

Notable sports alumni

SJSU Alumnus Bill Walsh and former Spartans Head Football Coach Dick Tomey
James Jones catches a touchdown pass against Stanford in 2006 at Spartan Stadium.

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Golf

Olympic Games

Other

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