List of Michigan State Spartans championships

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MSU's Breslin Center hosts varsity basketball games and other events.

This is a list of Michigan State Spartans' varsity and club athletic team national championships and runner-up finishes.

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Michigan State University has 29 varsity sports teams that compete under the Spartan nickname. The university participates in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big Ten Conference in all varsity sports. Michigan State offers 14 varsity sports for men and 15 for women.

The university's current interim athletic director is Bill Beekman, following the resignation of Mark Hollis. [1]

MSU's Spartan Marching Band or Spartan Brass plays the fight song at every university event. Michigan State University was the first NCAA Division I athletic program to have multiple national championships in both football and basketball, as well as the only school to have multiple national championships in football, basketball, and hockey.

Varsity Team National Championships

Varsity Team National Runners-up

Basketball NCAA Final Four Appearances

Club Team National Championships

[2]

Club Team National Runners-up

Varsity Team Conference Championships

Fall Sports

Football

1953196519661978
1987199020102013
2015
19031905

Men's Cross Country

1951195219531955
1956195719581959
1960196219631968
19701971

Women's Cross Country

1981200120102011
20132014

Field Hockey

2001200320042009
20092013

Men's Soccer

2008
200420082012

Volleyball

19951996

Winter Sports

Men's Basketball

1957195919671978
1979199019981999
2000200120092010
2012201820192020
1999200020122014
20162019

Women's Basketball

199720052011
2005

Men's Ice Hockey

1985198619891990
199819902001
19661967
19591967197119731976
1982198319841985
1987198919901998
200020012006

Men's Indoor Track

196619721999

Men's Swimming

1957

Women’s Gymnastics

20222023

Wrestling

1961196619671968
1969197019711972

Spring Sports

Baseball

1954197119792010
1888188918931894
1902

Men's Golf

1969200520072008

Women's Golf

1974197519761977
1978198220012007
201120122014

Men's Outdoor Track

196519661972
1889189018921895
1897189818991900
1901190219031904
190519061907

Women's Outdoor Track

1982

Rowing

200520082009

Men's Tennis

19511967
1907

Women's Tennis

19731974

Notes

  1. "Michigan State names Bill Beekman as interim athletic director". Lansing State Journal. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. "From Worst to First: No. 2 Michigan State University Claims Fourth Men's National Collegiate Club Championship by Downing No. 1 University of California-San Diego, 12-11". 14 November 2021.

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