• LSU's mascot, Mike VI, is a live Bengal-Siberian Tiger mix that lives in a 15,000 square foot habitat across from Tiger Stadium.
  
  
• LSU has won 45 national championships: Baseball (5), Men’s Basketball (1), Boxing (1), Football (3), Men’s Golf (4), Men’s Track and Field (6), Women’s Track and Field (25).
  
  
• “Hey, Fighting Tigers,” one of the more well-known songs at Tiger sporting events, was adapted from the Broadway show tune “Hey, Look Me Over,” written by Emmy and Tony award-winning composer Cy Coleman for the musical "Wildcat" starring Lucille Ball. LSU gained permission to adapt the music and change the lyrics.
  
  

LSU sponsors a broad spectrum of intercollegiate sports programs for men and women. LSU sponsors 20 varsity sports that participate in NCAA competition, 9 men’s sports and 11 women’s sports.

LSU Student-Athletes

Over 450 student-athletes compete annually in varsity sports at LSU. These student-athletes are offered support services designed to enhance their opportunity to win championships and graduate from LSU. These services include fully-staffed departments in academic support, athletic medicine, strength and conditioning and athletic equipment. In addition, LSU is committed to providing the finest in coaching instruction by hiring experienced and proven successful coaches.

Men’s Sports	Women’s Sports
Baseball	Basketball
Basketball	Cross Country
Cross Country	Golf
Football	Gymnastics
Golf	Soccer
Swimming & Diving	Softball
Tennis	Swimming & Diving
Indoor Track & Field	Tennis
Outdoor Track & Field	Indoor Track & Field
	Outdoor Track & Field
	Volleyball

 

 

Athletic Success

LSU has one of the most success athletic programs in the nation, and annually competes for conference, regional and national championships in most varsity sports. Since the beginning of LSU Athletics in 1893, Tiger sports teams have won 43 national championships in nine different sports (tied for the most in the Southeastern Conference) and have claimed 109 Southeastern Conference titles.

Individual Achievement

Some of the greatest individual athletes in the history of college sports have worn the Purple and Gold, many of which have won the highest individual honor in their respective sport. Some of the best known include:

- Billy Cannon
1959 Heisman Trophy (Football)

- Pete Maravich
1970 National Player of the Year (Men’s Basketball)

- Ben McDonald
1989 Golden Spikes Award (Baseball)

- Shaquille O’Neal
1993 National Player of the Year (Men’s Basketball)

- Seimone Augustus
2005, 2006 National Player of the Year (Women’s Basketball)

Athletics Facilities

LSU maintains numerous and varied athletic facilities in which its sports teams practice and participate.

Attendance

• LSU Athletic events are well-attended, and several sports rank among the nation’s leaders in annual attendance figures.
  
• Tiger Stadium is the sixth-largest on-campus football stadium in the country
  
• LSU has ranked among the nation’s top 10 in attendance seven years in a row and 41 times since official national attendance figures were kept beginning in 1957.
  
• The population of Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night is more than 48 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes.
  
• LSU led the nation in attendance in baseball for 11 straight years from 1995-2006, and finished No. 2 in 2007.
  
• Over 1.1 million fans annually pass through the turnstiles of LSU athletic facilities in all sports.
  

 

Southeastern Conference

LSU is a charter member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), formed in 1932. Other members of the SEC include the University of Alabama, the University of Arkansas, Auburn University, the University of Florida, the University of Georgia, the University of Kentucky, the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, the University of South Carolina, the University of Tennessee and Vanderbilt University.

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