St. Cloud State Huskies | |
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University | St. Cloud State University |
Conference | Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference |
NCAA |
NCAA DII (most sports) NCAA DI (ice hockey) |
Athletic director | Heather Weems |
Location | St Cloud, Minnesota |
Varsity teams | 21 |
Football stadium | Husky Stadium (4,198) |
Basketball arena | Halenbeck Hall (6,400) |
Ice hockey arena | Herb Brooks National Hockey Center (6,600) |
Baseball stadium | Joe Faber Field (2,000) |
Mascot | Blizzard the Husky |
Nickname | Huskies |
Fight song | St. Cloud State Rouser |
Colors | Spirit red, Black, and White |
Website | www |
The St. Cloud State Huskies are the athletic teams for St. Cloud State University. The university is primarily a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC), and currently sponsors 18 NCAA Division II teams. SCSU also sponsors a women's Nordic skiing team through membership in the CCSA, as well as men's and women's Division I ice hockey teams that are members of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (men) and Western Collegiate Hockey Association (women). The teams go by the nickname Huskies, and the school's mascot is a husky named Blizzard.
St. Cloud State was a charter member of the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (which has since become known as the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) in 1932, St. Cloud State competed as a member of the North Central Conference at the NCAA Division II level from 1982 to 2008. The North Central Conference disbanded at the end of the 2007-08 academic year, and St. Cloud State's NCAA Division II sports once again became members of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference in 2008-09.
The St. Cloud Athletic Department sponsors the following intercollegiate sports:
Men's sports
Women's sports
The St. Cloud State men's hockey program made the move to the NCAA Division I level in 1987-88, and it joined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) in 1990-91. The Huskies men's team have played in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) since the 2013-2014 season. The women's hockey team, which began its first season of intercollegiate competition in 1998-1999, remain members of the WCHA. The Huskies hockey teams play all of their home games in the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center (5,371 capacity), which was opened on December 16, 1989.