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.
| Club | Sport | League | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida State Seminoles football | Football | Florida State University | Doak Campbell Stadium |
| Florida State Seminoles men's basketball | Basketball | Florida State University | Donald L. Tucker Center |
| Tallahassee Thunder | American Football | Arena Football | Donald L. Tucker Center |
| Tallahassee Titans | American Football | AIFL | Donald L. Tucker Center |
| Florida A&M Rattlers | American Football | Florida A&M University | Bragg Memorial Stadium |
| Florida A&M Rattlers men's basketball | Basketball | Florida A&M University | Teaching Arena |
| Tallahassee Tiger Sharks | Hockey | ECHL | Donald L. Tucker Center |
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What’s the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)