Wayne State University

Athletics

The school's sports teams were traditionally known as the Tartars, but a need to be politically correct combined with a desire to alliterate changed their name to "Warriors". WSU competes in men's baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, football, golf, ice hockey, swimming and tennis, and women's basketball, cross country, fencing, ice hockey, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball.

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WSU is Division II in the Great Lakes Inter-Collegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) for all sports except hockey.

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Wayne State's Men's and Women's hockey programs compete in the Division-I level in the College Hockey America (CHA) conference.

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