Getting to Know the Sun Belt: Georgia State
7/21/2014 9:32:00 AM | General
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Quick Facts
Name: Georgia State University
Location: Atlanta, Ga.
Founded: 1913
Enrollment: 32,000
Nickname: Panthers
Mascot: Pounce
Colors: Blue & White
President: Mark P. Becker
Interim Director of Athletics: Bharath Parthasarathy
Varsity Sports: 16
Six men's sports (baseball, men's basketball, football, men's golf, men's soccer, men's tennis)
Nine women's sports (women's basketball, cross country, women's golf, sand volleyball, women's soccer, softball, women's tennis, track and field, volleyball)
Athletic Website: www.georgiastatesports.com
Athletic Twitter: @GSUPanthers
Athletic Facebook: www.facebook.com/GeorgiaStateAthletics
About Georgia State University
Georgia State University, an enterprising urban public research university, is a national leader in graduating students from widely diverse backgrounds.
Centered in the historic financial hub of downtown Atlanta, the university provides more than 32,000 students with unsurpassed connections to the city's business, government, nonprofit and cultural organizations.
The university offers 250 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in more than 100 fields of study in its eight colleges and schools: the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Law, the Honors College, the Institute of Public Health and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business.
About Georgia State Athletics
Georgia State University will have a 16-team athletic department competing in Division I, the highest level of NCAA competition, during the 2014-15 seasons. Football played its first game in 2010 and sand volleyball was added in 2012. It began competition in the spring of 2013.
After spending eight years in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), Georgia State became a full member of the Sun Belt Conference on July 1, 2013. It began its transition with 10 individual sport teams in the Sun Belt Conference in 2012.
In just its fifth year in 2014, football will be a full member of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics and twitter.com/GSAthletics, and its "Eagles GATA" mobile app for Android and iOS. To purchase tickets for Georgia Southern Athletics events, call 1-800-GSU-WINS or visit GSEagles.com and click on tickets in the top menu.
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