Tallahassee, Florida - Sports

Sports

• The Florida State University Seminoles compete in the NCAA Division I, and the Football Bowl Subdivision. The Florida State Football team won national championships in 1993 and 1999, and is the first school to go wire-to-wire (ranked #1 in every week of the season) in the history of college football. Florida State accomplished this unprecedented feat in 1999.
• The Florida A&M University Rattlers compete in the NCAA Division I, and the Football Championship Subdivision. Florida A&M won the first FCS national championship (then known as Division I-AA) in 1978.
• The Tallahassee Community College Eagles compete in the Panhandle Conference in Men's and Women's basketball, baseball and softball. The TCC men are two-time NJCAA region champions, including national runners-up in 2008.
• The Tallahassee RollerGirls are a women's flat track Roller Derby league that competes against other WFTDA and regional Roller Derby leagues.
• The Tallahassee Rugby Football Club are a Division III Rugby Club that competes in the Deep South Rugby Football Union.
• Local public high schools and middle schools compete in athletics, and share Gene Cox Stadium for football.
• The Tallahassee Scorpions were an EISL team that played from 1997 to 1998.
• The Tallahassee Tiger Sharks were an ECHL team from 1994 to 2001 that reached the ECHL semifinals on two separate occasions, in the 1994-95 and 1995-96 seasons.
• The Tallahassee Thunder were a charter member of the af2 arena football league that played in Tallahassee from 2000 to 2002.
• The Tallahassee Tigers were an American Basketball Association team.
• The Tallahassee Titans were an Indoor Football team that played their only season in the American Indoor Football Association.
• The Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center, home of Florida State Seminoles basketball, hosted the First and Second Rounds of the 1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, including a memorable game that saw 14-seed Weber State upset 3-seed Michigan State.