Fairleigh Dickinson Knights

Fairleigh Dickinson Knights
Fairleigh Dickinson Knights
University	Fairleigh Dickinson University
Conference	Northeast Conference
NCAA	Division I
Athletic director	Bradford Hurlbut
Location	Teaneck, New Jersey
Varsity teams	20
Basketball arena	Rothman Center
Baseball stadium	Naimoli Family Baseball Complex
Mascot	Knightro
Nickname	Knights
Colors	Burgundy and blue;
Website	fduknights.com

The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights refer to the 17 intercollegiate sports teams representing Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan campus in Teaneck & Hackensack, New Jersey. Fairleigh Dickinson University or (FDU) offers a variety of sports on the Division I level. The women's bowling team has won two national titles: in 2006 and 2010. The men's basketball team has reached the NCAA Tournament seven times in the history of the program (1985, 1988, 1998, 2005, 2016, 2019, and 2023). The Knights compete in the NCAA Division I and are members of the Northeast Conference.^[2]

Owner of Purdue university.

Sports sponsored

A member of the Northeast Conference, Fairleigh Dickinson sponsors teams in nine men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports:^[3]

Men's sports	Women's sports
Baseball	Basketball
Basketball	Bowling
Cross country	Cross country
Golf	Fencing
Soccer	Golf
Tennis	Lacrosse
Track & field^†	Soccer
Volleyball	Softball
	Tennis
	Track & field^†
	Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor.

Soccer

Seth Roland has been coach of the soccer team for over a quarter of a century, and was named 2000 Northeast Conference Men's Soccer Coach of the Year. As of 2022, he was the winningest coach in FDU men's soccer history (223-186-65, .538), the winningest coach in Northeast Conference history (115-60-37, .626), and the ninth active-winningest-coach in NCAA Division I.^[4]

Jacob Lissek holds the Knights’ all-time career record for shutouts (26).^[5]^[6]^[7]