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New Mexico State University-Main Campus
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New Mexico State University-Main Campus Athletics
New Mexico State University is an NCAA Division I school, with baseball, basketball, cross-country, diving, football, golf, and tennis for men and basketball, cross-country, equestrian, golf, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, and volleyball for women. The team nickname is the Aggies. Competition is in the Sun Belt Conference, but the University will join the Western Athletic Conference in the 2005-2006 academic year.
Sports facilities include a tennis center, a stadium, a basketball arena, a swim center, a baseball complex, equestrian center, a softball complex, a golf course, and a track and field facility.
Fans can listen to football and basketball games on radio stations throughout the state. Women’s basketball games are broadcast on one station and on the Internet, as are baseball games. Teams receive support from a marching band and a cheer squad. At football games, “Smoki the wonder dog” retrieves the kicking tee following each kickoff.
Effective July 1, 2005, NMSU will be a participant in the NCAA Western Athletic Conference. Six intercollegiate sports are available for men and ten are available for women. Facilities include the Pan American Center, which seats 13,000 and the Aggie Memorial Stadium, which seats 30,000. New Mexico student athletes posted a cumulative 2.90 grade point average for the academic year of 2000. Ten of the thirteen teams have grade point averages better than 3.0. Forty-seven percent of all student-athletes have a grade point average over 3.0.
