North Carolina State University participates in intercollegiate athletics competition as a Division I-A member of the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Department of Athletics at NCSU conducts intercollegiate athletics programs in eleven varsity sports for men (baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, and wrestling); nine varsity sports for women (basketball, cross country, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, swimming, tennis, track and volleyball); and one coeducational varsity sport (rifle).
NCSU has a rich tradition of successful intercollegiate athletic competition. The University has won at least one ACC team championship for thirty-one consecutive years. During the 1992-93 academic year, NCSU produced three NCAA individual national champions; seventeen All-Americans; two ACC team championships; four ACC players-of-the-year; ten individual ACC champions; fifty-six different all-ACC performers; and two ACC coaches of the year. Ten NCSU teams finished the year ranked in the top thirty of their respective sports.
In 1992-93, NCSU's 458 student-athletes were enrolled in nine colleges, the Division of Undergraduate Studies, and the Graduate School, majoring in ninety different fields of study. Student-athletes garnered a number of individual academic honors: six were Academic All-Americans; four received postgraduate scholarship awards; and 125 were on the ACC Honor Roll (total grade point average of 3.0 or better for academic year). Student-athletes were also active in the community, making more than fifty school and civic organization presentations.
The athletics program is administered by the director of athletics with advisory oversight by the Council on Athletics. The Department of Athletics is self-supporting and is operated through gate receipts, radio and television revenues, ACC and NCAA revenue sharing, and student fees. Funds from athletics grants-in-aid are provided through the North Carolina State University Student Aid Association (the Wolfpack Club).
The administrative offices of the Department of Athletics are located in the Case Athletic Center. Training facilities for football, track, and wrestling are located in the Weisiger-Brown General Athletics Facility. All training facilities for women are located in Reynolds Coliseum, which is also used for men's basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, and wrestling. Facilities for intercollegiate competition include Reynolds Coliseum (12,400 seats) for basketball, volleyball, and wrestling, Carter-Finley Stadium (50,000 seats) for football, Doak field (3,800 seats) for baseball, Derr Stadium (3,000 seats) for track and soccer, Casey Natatorium (2,200 seats) for swimming, the Method Road Soccer Field (3,500 seats), and the NCSU Outdoor Tennis Complex (200 seats).
Current projects include a joint effort with the City of Raleigh, Wake County, and the State of North Carolina to build a $66 million, 22,600-seat general-purpose arena (which will house Wolfpack basketball), as well as expansion and renovation of on-campus training and dressing facilities in Weisiger-Brown and Reynolds Coliseum, complete renovation of the outdoor-track facilities, and construction of a new facility to house the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes, and enlargement of Carter Finley Stadium. These projects will be funded by the $45 million Capital Campaign being conducted by the Department of Athletics and the Wolfpack Club.
