The Tennessee Wesleyan Bulldogs are the athletic teams that represent

Tennessee Wesleyan University Tennessee Wesleyan University (TWU) is a Private university, private United Methodist Church, Methodist university in Athens, Tennessee. It was founded in 1857 and is affiliated with the Holston :wikt:conference, Conference of the United Meth ...

, located in

Athens, Tennessee Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidistantly between the major cities of Knoxville a ...

, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for higher education, colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic schola ...

(NAIA), primarily competing in the

Appalachian Athletic Conference The Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Members of the conference are located in the Southeastern United States in Tennessee, Kentu ...

(AAC) since the 2001–02 academic year. The Bulldogs were at once point in the now-defunct

Smoky Mountain Conference The Smoky Mountain Conference – officially the Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference – was an intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from December 1926 to October 1966. Most teams in the league were located in Tennessee, and there were ...

, having joined in 1956.

Varsity teams

Tennessee Wesleyan competes in 22 intercollegiate varsity sports:

Baseball

They have a proud history in baseball, having won the

NAIA World Series The NAIA World Series (officially branded as the Avista NAIA World Series for sponsorship purposes from 2013) is a double-elimination tournament, held since 1957, to determine the baseball champion of the National Association of Intercollegiate ...

2 times (2012, 2019) as well as 24 conference championships and 12 conference tournament championships.

Notable people

* Nick Akoto, soccer player *

Tom Browning Thomas Leo Browning (April 28, 1960 – December 19, 2022) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1984 to 1995, spending almost his entire career with the Cincinnati Reds. In his rookie season in 1985, ...

, baseball player * Ron Campbell, baseball player * Chris Cattaneo, soccer player

Varsity teams

Baseball

Notable people

National championships

Team

References

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