The mission of the Department of Athletics at San Francisco State University is to provide a broad-based NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletics program that fosters the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development of a diverse and highly skilled group of student-athletes. Intercollegiate athletics are an important part of the heritage and vitality of the University and provide an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends to share experiences, and by doing so, enhance the cohesiveness of campus life. The athletics program at San Francisco State University is an integral part of the total university curricular experience. The program honors and embraces the mission of our diverse university and therefore “honors roots, stimulates intellectual and personal development, promotes equity, and inspires the courage to lead, create, and innovate.”
The core values of the program are to:
- Provide students the opportunity to earn a degree and to pursue their educational and future goals.
- Provide students with the opportunity to experience the intellectual, emotional, and ethical growth in values gained from participation in athletics.
- Provide access to excellent athletic instruction, leadership, and facilities.
- Provide members of a diverse student body the opportunity to participate in a range of sport activities.
- Provide an environment that values and supports cultural diversity, gender
equity and the physical, emotional and social welfare among its student-athletes, coaches and staff to honor all genders, ethnic diversity and sexual orientation.
- Provide gender equity in the number of participants, opportunities to participate, and support for facilities, equipment, travel and scholarships.
- Provide students with the opportunity to experience and develop team spirit that results from participation in athletics.
- Compete at the Division II NCAA Scholarship level.
- Provide students the opportunity to participate in the highest level of athletic competition based upon the resources and facilities of a state assisted university.
- Provide resource equity of opportunity for students to experience winning.
- Provide students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends the opportunity to share in the common experiences of pride, vitality, and cohesiveness/community that result from a first-rate athletics program.
