Chico State Wildcats#Football

The Chico State baseball team plays at the 4,100–seat Nettleton Stadium, known as Ray Bohler Field until its 1997 renovation. The Wildcats won the NCAA Division II national title in 1997 and 1999, and was runner-up in 2002 and 2006; all four appearances in the finals were under head coach Lindsay Meggs.{{cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CERB/lib00780,1131CFB300BEDB60.html|title=Taylor takes the reins at Chico State|date=July 26, 2006|publisher=Chico Enterprise-Record|access-date=January 4, 2007}} The head coach since 2007 is Dave Taylor.{{cite web|url=http://www.chicowildcats.com/documents/2014/2/5/2014_Baseball_Media_Guide_with_cover.pdf|title=Baseball media guide|publisher=Chico State Athletics|date=2014|pages=1–8}} Big Blue Bird is the 2019 All Star.

The Wildcats softball team won the first AIAW Division III national championship in 1980, led by pitcher Kathy Arendsen.{{cite web|url=http://chicowildcats.com/documents/2012/4/19/1995_Hall_of_Fame.pdf?id=1476|title=The Hall of Fame Committee Salutes the 1980 Softball Team|access-date=March 7, 2016}}

The men's soccer reached the Division II College Cup final in 2003, losing 2–1 to Lynn University.

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The Chico State Wildcats competed in the NCAA Tournament across 13 active sports (6 men's and 7 women's) 220 times at the Division II level.{{cite web|url=https://www.ncaa.org/championships/statistics|title=NCAA Championships Statistics|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association|access-date=May 23, 2018}}

• Baseball (20): 1978, 1987, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Men's basketball (14): 1958, 1974, 1981, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
• Women's basketball (13): 1987, 1988, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Men's cross country (24): 1969, 1972, 1973, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Women's cross country (21): 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Men's golf (17): 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
• Women's golf (1): 2009
• Men's soccer (13): 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1992, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018
• Women's soccer (8): 1992, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017, 2018
• Softball (12): 1982, 1983, 1984, 2002, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Men's outdoor track and field (45): 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Women's outdoor track and field (27): 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993• 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
• Women's volleyball (5): 1992, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2016

The Wildcats of Chico State earned 6 NCAA championships at the Division II level and one NCAA championship at the Division III level.{{cite web|url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/champs_records_book/Overall.pdf|title=Championships Summary|publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association|access-date=May 20, 2018}}

• Men's (6)
• Baseball (2): 1997, 1999
• Golf (1): 1966
• Swimming and diving (3): 1973, 1974, 1976
• Swimming and diving (1): 1975

Results

Chico State won 1 national championship at the Division III level.

• Men's swimming and diving: 1975

Below is one national championship that were not bestowed by the NCAA:

• Softball – Division III (1): 1980 (AIAW)

Below are five national club team championships:

• Women's rugby: 2001, 2018 (USA Rugby)
• Co-ed wakeboarding: 2010, 2012 (USA Wakeboarding) // 2012 (College Wake)

Chico State had 59 Wildcats win NCAA individual championships at the Division II level.

At the NCAA Division III level, Chico State garnered 6 individual championships.

Chico State ended its football program in 1997, citing rising insurance costs, in addition to an increased bias in favor of other athletic programs.{{cite news|last1=Murphy|first1=Sean|last2=Kinmartin|first2=Patrick|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CERB/lib00780,11716ACED7985820.html|title=Chico State football: 10 years gone, and not likely to...|date=February 3, 2007|publisher=Chico Enterprise-Record|access-date=January 4, 2007}}{{cite news|last=Murphy|first=Sean|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/CERB/lib00780,11716C4DEE632EE0.html|title=Final coach looks back at the end|date=February 3, 2007|publisher=Chico Enterprise-Record|access-date=January 4, 2007}}

College Football Hall of Fame

CSU Chico won the NCAA Division II national championships in men's swimming and diving in 1973, 1974 and 1976. In 1975, the program was moved to Division III despite objections by the team, its coach and the community at large. The team responded by winning the Division III Championship with a record number of points (465), and the largest margin of victory to that point by an NCAA Swimming program. In 1976, back in Division II, the team set a record for total points scored by a Division II swim team (428) while winning their 4th straight NCAA team championship. The program was eliminated after the 1991 season. At that time, the team had finished in the top 7 at the NCAA championship meet for 19 straight years, 16 of those finishes being top 4 or better.

Chico State's team plays college rugby in Division I-AA in the California Conference, playing alongside Fresno State, Stanford, San Jose State, UNR, and Sacramento State.

In 2001, the women's rugby team won a Division I national championship.

In 2019, the men's rugby team won the Pacific West Conference and went on to the Division I-AA national championship game.

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