Athletic Teams in Chronological order, by earliest recorded
- Tennis-Women’s
- 1907-08: Athletic Association Tennis Club
- 1911-1941: Intramural style
- 1969-1975: Collegiate tennis
- Archery-Women’s
- 1908-09: Athletic Association Tennis Club
- Basketball-Women’s
- 1909-1914; Athletic Association Basketball by class
- 1922-1949: Athletic Association Basketball, intramural style
- 1972-1978: collegiate level
- Baseball-Women’s
- 1923-24 Athletic Association
- 1929-31 Athletic Association
- Equestrian/Riding-Women’s
- Cheerleading:
- 1928: Women’s
- 1947-2004: Co-Ed and Women’s
- In May 2001, 12 full time scholarships between Men’s and Women’s sports were cut to 9 partial scholarships.
- Football-Men’s
- 1930-31: team made up of “local” men, dubbed “The Collegiates”
- 1940-42: Collegiate
- Golf-Women’s
- 1930-31: Intramural style
- Basketball-Men’s
- 1940-1950, sporadic, intramural style
- 1952-2004 collegiate
- In May 2001, 12 full time scholarships between Men’s and Women’s sports were cut to 9 partial scholarships.
- Last game at home was in February 2004. Athletics ended with end of 2003-2004 academic year.
- Baseball-Men’s
- 1940-1962: Intramural style
- 1967-1980
- (notable: Gary Redus and Chuck Merriwether played for ASC in the 1970s)
- Tennis-Men’s
- 1940-57: Intramural style
- 1964-1968: Collegiate
- Softball-Men’s
- 1947-Athens College men participated in Limestone County Softball Association
- Volleyball-Women’s
- 1949-50: Intramural style
- 1971-1978: Collegiate
- Gymnastics-Women’s
- 1970-75: Collegiate
- notable: ASU possibly first in state to offer scholarship for gymnastics
- Softball-Women’s Fastpitch
- 1990-2004: Collegiate
- In May 2001, 12 full time scholarships between Men’s and Women’s sports were cut to 9 partial scholarships.
- Last softball game in Spring 2004 was a loss at the NAIA National Championship.
Notes:
Significant gaps exist in digitized archival records from 1904-1907, 1915-1922, 1931-1940, 1943-1946, and prior to 1902.
No official university athletic programs were in operation from 1950-52. Yearbooks ceased publication in 1980. University athletic programs were discontinued with the end of the 2003-2004 school year. Scholarships were extended through the Spring Semester of 2005 for impacted athletes.
Research into active dates is ongoing and this timeline will be updated as new information is discovered, particularly regarding the distinction between intramural, club, and collegiate or varsity teams.
Sources:
Athens State University's digitized yearbooks and student newspapers, available at JSTOR.
