Colorado State won ifs seventeenth straight Rocky Mountain Conference crown in 1959. The Bears represented District 7 in the NCAA College World Series. This was the seventh time the Bears had represented District 7 in the tourney.
By the 1963-64 season, the Colorado State College wrestling team had won the Rocky Mountain Conference 28 times. Here the Bears are practice outside Gunter, 1964.
UNC joined and won the North Central Conference in 1980.
Home game, 2001
Men's gymnastics team, 1972-1973
Lonis “Pete” Butler (middle) was a star basketball, baseball and football player at CSTC. He received numerous awards throughout his athletic career, including eleven college letter sweaters. After he graduated, he soon returned to coach the CSTC basketball and baseball teams leading them to numerous victories.
Devon Beitzel and the UNC Bears won the Big Sky Conference and had their first NCAA Tournament appearance.
Men's athletics "started out in a most haphazard fashion" (Larson, Shaping Educational Change) with the baseball and football teams just as likely to play local high school teams as to participate in intercollegiate games. During the early years of the 20th century, men’s athletics grew into a well-established program that continues to excel. UNC has seen a multitude of highly successful teams and individual athletes, including over a dozen appearances at the College World Series by the baseball teams, twenty-nine straight wrestling Rocky Mountain conference championships and the 1996 and 1997 NCAA Division II champs.