Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

The Georgia Institute of Technology sponsors teams in eight men's and seven women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Georgia Tech is the only Power Four school that does not sponsor women's soccer. Football The football team is traditionally the most popular at the Institute. The games are played at Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field or simply The Flats, which is the oldest on-campus stadium in Division I FBS football. The stadium was expanded in recent years, increasing the maximum capacity to 55,000. Georgia Tech plays an Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division schedule in addition to yearly cross divisional games against Clemson and two other Atlantic Division teams. In addition, the team has a yearly out-of-conference meeting with Georgia at the end of the season known as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate. at Hyundai Field The football team is in the top 20 winningest Division I-A programs and was the first team to win all four of the historical big four bowls – the Rose (1929), Orange (1940), Sugar (1944), and Cotton (1955). Georgia Tech has won four national titles in the years 1917 going 9–0 under John Heisman outscoring opponents 419–17, 1928 going 10–0 under William Alexander outscoring opponents 221–47, 1952 going 12–0 under Bobby Dodd outscoring opponents 325–59, and 1990 going 11–0–1 under Bobby Ross outscoring opponents 379–186. The Yellow Jackets have won a total of 15 conference titles. They won 5 SIAA titles in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, and 1921; 3 Southern Conference titles in 1922, 1927, and 1928; 5 SEC titles in 1939, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1952, and the 1990, 1998 and 2009 ACC championships along with the 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2014 ACC Coastal Division Championships. Paul Johnson and Georgia Tech won the 2009 ACC Championship in Tampa Florida. The team has played in 46 bowl games, posting a record of 26-20. The resulting win percentage of 0.629 is currently the second-highest among teams with over 20 bowl appearances. Some notable and more recent Georgia Tech basketball players are Josh Okogie, Iman Shumpert, Derrick Favors, Anthony Morrow, Javaris Crittenton, Thaddeus Young, Stephon Marbury, Matt Harpring, Dennis Scott, Kenny Anderson, Travis Best, Chris Bosh, Jarrett Jack, Mark Price, and John Salley. Women's basketball Like the men's team, the women's basketball team plays its home games in McCamish Pavilion. The current women's coach is Karen Blair, former associate head coach at Maryland.She took over for Nell Fortner, former US Women's National Team coach from 1997-2000. Baseball Baseball is a prominent sport at Georgia Tech. The baseball team plays its home games at Russ Chandler Stadium, and is one of the leading programs in the NCAA. The team's success is guided by head coach Danny Hall. Hall has coached Tech for 13 seasons and has posted 579 wins over that span. He has led Georgia Tech to 12 years of NCAA regional play, and its only three College World Series appearances in 1994, 2002, and 2006. The baseball team, under Hall, has become an annual contender for the ACC regular season and tournament titles winning each four and three times respectively. Some notable Georgia Tech baseball players are Erskine Mayer, Kevin Brown, Nomar Garciaparra, Matt Murton, Kevin Cameron, Charlie Blackmon, Matt Wieters, Eric Patterson, Brandon Boggs, Jay Payton, Mark Teixeira, and Jason Varitek. Jason Varitek's number 33 is one of two numbers retired, Coach Jim Luck's number 44 is the other. Softball Georgia Tech fields a softball team under coach Aileen Morales. In 2011, the team won their third straight ACC Regular Season title. Also in 2011, Sharon Perkins was named the ACC Coach of the Year; this is her third consecutive year winning that award, the first ACC coach win it in three consecutive years. In 2009, the team moved from Glenn Field to Shirley Clements Mewborn Field. The Yellow Jackets softball team began play in 1987. The team has made eleven NCAA Tournament appearances in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. The current head coach is Aileen Morales. Golf Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's golf team is one of the most consistent Yellow Jacket teams. They have won 20 conference championships: • Southeastern Conference (1): 1949 • Atlantic Coast Conference (18): 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2023 They have produced four NCAA individual champions: Watts Gunn in 1927, Charlie Yates in 1934, Troy Matteson in 2002, and Hiroshi Tai in 2024. The 2007 National Championship team was coached by Bryan Shelton. As a player in his freshman season (1985), Shelton won Georgia Tech's first individual ACC title. The women's tennis team is currently coached by Rodney Harmon, and assisted by Christy Lynch. The men's team has won six conference titles since 1918 (one in the SIAA, two in the SoConn, and three in the SEC). They have made 15 NCAA Tournament appearances. The men's tennis team is currently coached by former Georgia Tech player Kenny Thorne, and assisted by Jeremy Efferding. In 2011, Thorne was named ITA National Coach of the Year. Some notable recent Georgia Tech Tennis players are Christopher Eubanks, Irina Falconi, Kevin King, and Juan Carlos Spir. Volleyball Georgia Tech Women's Volleyball is one of the newer additions to Georgia Tech's athletic department, having only been started in the past twenty years. Despite the program's youth, it has been a dominant force in the ACC. O'Keefe Gymnasium has served as the home of the Georgia Tech volleyball team since 1995. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's volleyball has become a regular contender in the Atlantic Coast Conference and has qualified for the NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament multiple times in recent years. The team has also set school records for victories in a season, consecutive conference wins, and overall consecutive victories. ==Other sports==

Georgia Tech also fields men and women's track and field, men and women's swimming and diving, men and women's cross country, and assorted club sports. Georgia Tech's Angelo Taylor won gold medals in 400 m hurdles at the 2000 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Buddy Fowlkes was one of Tech's most successful track coaches. The non-NCAA sanctioned club sports include but are not limited to crew, cricket, cycling, equestrian, esports, fencing, field hockey, gymnastics, ice hockey, kayaking, lacrosse, paintball, roller hockey, rugby, sailing, skydiving, soccer, swimming, triathlon, ultimate, water polo, and wrestling. ==Traditions==

Mascots Costumed in plush to look like a yellow jacket, the official mascot of Georgia Tech is Buzz. The Ramblin' Wreck was the first official mascot of Georgia Tech. It is a 1930 Ford Model A Sports Coupe. The Wreck has led the football team onto the field every home game since 1961. The Wreck features a gold and white paint job, two gold flags emblazoned with the words "To Hell With Georgia" and "Give 'Em Hell Tech", and a white soft top. The Wreck is maintained by the Ramblin' Reck Club, a selective student leadership organization on campus. Spirit organizations The Ramblin' Reck Club is charged with upholding all school traditions and creating new traditions such as the SWARM. The SWARM is a 900-member spirit group seated along the north end zone or on the court at basketball games. This is the group that typically features body painting, organized chants, and general fanaticism. The marching band that performs at halftime and after big plays during the football season is clad in all white and sits next to SWARM at football games providing a dichotomy of white and gold in the North End Zone. The band is also the primary student organization on campus that upholds the tradition of RAT caps, wherein band freshman wear the traditional yellow cap at all band events. Fight songs and chants The band plays the fight songs ''Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech and Up With the White and Gold'' after every football score and between every basketball period. At the end of a rendition of either fight song, there is a series of drum beats followed by the cheer "Go Jackets" three times (each time followed by a second cheer of "bust their ass"), then a different drum beat and the cheer "Fight, Win, Drink, Get Naked!" The official cheer only includes "Fight, Win" but most present other than the band and cheerleaders will yell the extended version. It is also tradition for the band to play the "When You Say Budweiser" after the third quarter of football and during the second-to-last official timeout of every basketball game. During the "Budweiser Song", all of the fans in the stadium alternate bending their knees and standing up straight. Other notable band songs are Michael Jackson's Thriller for half-time at the Thrillerdome, Ludacris' Move Bitch for large gains in football. Another popular chant is called the Good Word and it begins with asking, "What's the Good Word?" The response from all Tech faithful is, "To Hell With Georgia." The same question is asked three times and then the followup is asked, "How 'bout them dogs?" And everyone yells, "Piss on 'em." ==Championships==

NCAA team championships Georgia Tech has won 1 NCAA team national championship. • '''Women's (1)''' • Tennis (1): 2007 • see also: • ACC NCAA team championships • List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I championships Other team championships Below are 4 national team titles that were not bestowed by the NCAA: • Men's: • Football: 1917, 1928, 1952, 1990 ==Notable alumni==

Approximately 150 Tech students have gone into the NFL, with many others going into the NBA or MLB. American football athletes include former students Calvin Johnson, Daryl Smith, and Keith Brooking, former Tech head football coaches John Heisman, Pepper Rodgers, and Bill Fulcher, and all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton, Pat Swilling, Billy Shaw, Joe Guyon, and Demaryius Thomas. Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Jose Alvardo, Iman Shumpert, Derrick Favors, Javaris Crittenton, Thaddeus Young, Jarrett Jack, Luke Schenscher, Stephon Marbury, and Chris Bosh. Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown, Mark Teixeira, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Varitek, and Jay Payton. In golf, the legendary Bobby Jones founded The Masters, David Duval was ranked No. 1 in the world in 2001, Stewart Cink the 2009 Open Championship winner, was ranked in the top ten, and Matt Kuchar won the U.S. Amateur. ==See also==