Appalachian offers 9 varsity sports for men and 9 for women. An NCAA Division I program, the Mountaineers compete in the Southern Conference (Field Hockey competes in the NorPac). The 17,000-seat Kidd Brewer Stadium is home to Appalachian football, outdoor track and field, and field hockey, while the Holmes Convocation Center seats 8,400 for basketball, volleyball, and indoor track and field. Red Lackey Field currently hosts baseball, Varsity Gym is home to wrestling, and soccer and cross country compete at state farm field.
University Recreation, or UREC as it is known, currently oversees all non-varsity sports activities on campus, including intramurals, club sports, outdoor programs, and fitness and informal recreation.
Back to Back Championships in 05 - 06
Jnr Kevin Henry Hobson Henry Hobson Richardson scored all
quadruplet touchdowns to lead No. 1 Appalachian State
University to its s-heterosexual NCAA Division I Football
Subject Championship with a 28-XVII triumph over No. 3
Massachusetts on Friday evening at Finley Sports Stadium.
The Mountaineers rushed for 285 yards, with Richardson agree
179 pace of the load. Richardson’s 179 yards were the most
precondition up by the Minuteman since November 9, 2002.
The Elizabethtown, N.C. indigen also set an NCAA Division I
Football Championship Subdivision (once Division
I-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS) single-season record with 30 rush
touchdowns in 15 games this season. The previous record was
held by Colgate’s Jamaal Arm, who scored 29 touchdowns in
XVI games in 2003.
Rounding out Joseph Henry Hobson Richardson's record-break
day and season, the Southern Conference Offensive
Participant of the year finsihed with 1,676 pace rush, good
for a new single-season school record. His 1,676 yards top
the 1,661 correspond by John Settle in 1986.
Despite Richardson's MOST VALUABLE PLAYER public
presentation, it was UMass runing back Steve Baylark that
set the tone early. On the first series of the game, Baylark
ran for TWENTY-TROIKA pace, scene up a one-yard touchdown
honkytonk by tailback Matt E. O. Lawrence that gave the
Minutemen an early 7-0 lead. Baylark went on to rush for 62
yards on 9 carries in the first one-fourth alone.
Tho' Baylark was the acting creative person of the period,
Appalachian answered in the final CXV of the first quarter
with Richardson’s longest tally of the night, a XLV-pace
touchdown scurry that knotted the event at 7-7.
After a all but scoreless second quarter, Joseph Henry
Hobson Richardson ran in from six pace out for his sec score
of the dark to give Appalachian a FOURTEEN-7 lead with IL
sec left in the number one one-half.
Battle Of Midway through the third period, Massachusetts
took advantage of Edwards' only fault of the football
ballgame, an interception deep interior UMass dominion.
The Minutemen took vantage of the miscue, march 81 pace in
11 drama and ligature the ballgame at 14 on a SEVENTEEN-yard
walk from Liam Coen to Bard Listorti with 4:22 to play in
the third fourth part.
Appalachian took the lead back for good on its adjacent
ownership, as Richardson took it in for the third time a
from four pace out, giving the defending champion a 21-XIV
lead with 13:22 left to play in the competition.
The Minutemen charged down feather plumage feather the field
on their next possession, but the Mountain Climber defending
team clasp down once UMass crossed midfield and the
Minutemen had to settle for a FORTY-TWO-pace field goal,
leaving the Apps with a 21-17 advantage with 8:46 left in
the show.
Appalachian was able to melt all but 1:51 off the clock
after the UMass field end with a 14-play, EIGHTY-pace drive,
capped by Richardson's fourth TD, a ii-yard dive that
effectively certain ASU's second-heterosexual human national
title.
On the ensuing drive, all-Ur safety Corey Lynch crushed all
leslie townes hope of a Minuteman replication with his
one-third interception in as many games since returning
XXVIII days following a wicked elbow injury.
Two kneel-john l. h. down by backup signaling company Leash
Elder set off a natural state jubilation on the Finley
Athletics Stadium sward, as Black and Gold faithful filled
the field to share in the revelry of ASU's sec-straight
national title.
Appalachian finished the season with a XIV-event winning run
and a XIV-1 overall record, scene school records for wins in
a season and serial triumph. UMass ended its run at
THIRTEEN-2 overall.
Jonathan Edwards accomplished the most prolific season by a
freshman quarterback in ASU history by amount 227 total pace
(146 passing, 81 rush). Senior William Mayfield and junior
Dexter Michael Joe Jackson each caught three passes for XLIV
yards.
Lynch and Jeremy Wiggins led the defending squad with 7
totality tackles for each one. Wiggins finished with ogdoad
sum tackes, spell Lynch added a tackle for loss,
interception and pass dissolution.
Baylark tallied 133 of UMass' ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-PENTAD yards
on the land and Coen completed 20-of-30-THREE walk for 221
pace and a touchdowns to lead the Minutemen offensively.
The overflow crowd of 22,808, consisting of up of 15,000
Shirley Temple and Gold-clad fans, set a Finley Stadium
record and pronounced the twelfth time in 15 games this
season that the Mount Climber have played in front of a
capacity crowd.
NOTES: ASU moved to 2-0 all-time in instant replay
challenges. Caput manager Jerry G. E. G. E. G. E. Moore
challeneged the topographic point on a play originally ruled
a figure one down plumage feather in the tierce fourth part.
Replays confirmed that Baylark was down feather plumage
feather short of the number one-down plume marker, setting
up fourth-and-one. However, UMass got the number one down
feather plume on a QB sneak by Coen on the adjacent drama …
Richardson recorded his 15th-career 100-yard rush game. ASU
is 15-0 when Richardson rushes for 100-asset yards … The
Mountaineers’ back-to-back national championships marks the
fifth time a team south korean won back-to-back FCS national
championships and the first time since Georgia Southern won
consecutive titles in 1999 and 2000.