Wright State Raiders
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| University | Wright State University |
| Conference | Horizon League |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Bob Grant |
| Location | Dayton, Ohio |
| Varsity teams | 17 |
| Basketball arena | Nutter Center |
| Baseball stadium | Nischwitz Stadium |
| Soccer stadium | Alumni Field |
| Other arenas | C.J. McLin Gymnasium |
| Mascot | Rowdy Raider |
| Nickname | Raiders |
| Colors | Hunter Green and Vegas Gold |
| Website | www |
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The Wright State Raiders are the athletics teams of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. The school currently participates in fifteen sports at the Division I level of the NCAA, and are members of the Horizon League. The school's mascot is a wolf.
Wright State was founded in 1964 as a branch campus of both Miami University and Ohio State University. The school began its athletic program in 1968 as a NCAA Division II school, where the athletics program achieved great success, having over 200 All-American athletes and winning the 1983 Division II Men's Basketball national championship. In 1987, Wright State began the transition to Division I athletics, with its first tournament qualifier being a golfer in 1988. In swimming, the school spent time in the Penn-Ohio Conference. From 1991 to 1994 the school was a member of the Mid-Continent Conference (now known as the Summit League) before moving in 1994 to the Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now known as the Horizon League). Since joining the Horizon, several teams have won conference titles, many athletes have been named to all-conference teams, and several coaches have won Coach of the Year honors.
Among the Raiders' most notable athletic achievements are the NCAA Division II men's basketball national championship in 1983, and taking a turn at March Madness in 1993, qualifying for the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament as champion of the Mid-Continent Conference; the Raiders qualified again in 2007 as winner of the Horizon League tournament. The men's and women's swimming and diving teams are also consistently strong. The men have won 6 of the last 13 conference championships.
For many years, Wright State's sports teams used a character called Rowdy Raider as their mascot; a red-bearded Viking with a horned helmet, which emerged in 1986, a role played by Andrew "Legend" Winchek Jr. In 1997, the Viking was retired and the Wolf was born. In 2007, Rowdy Raider received a new update for the mascot suit; a gray, scarier wolf replaced the more humorous brown wolf.
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