Tennessee Volunteers Background Ticket Information

The Tennessee Volunteers represent the University in 20 mens and womens sports. They have a separate mens and womens team. The womens team is known as the Lady Volunteers. The Volunteers play in the Southeastern Conference and represent the University of Tennessee in the Division I of the NCAA championships.

The team was given this nickname, because Tenessee was given the name of "The Volunteer State". The state itself got this name because during the War of 1812 and the Mexican War there were a lot of volunteer soldiers from this state. The Tennessee Volunteers have a live mascot. It is the hound. The teams official colors are orange and white (the colors of a daisy, which were a lot on the Hill – one of the Universitys campuses). These colors were suggested to be the teams official colors by Charles Moore (one of the University first athletes). The University provides different sports facilities for its athletes. It has the largest basketball stadium in the USA - Thompson-Boling Arena, one of the largest football stadiums - Neyland Stadium, and Stokely Athletics Center – for the womens volleyball team.

The most successful Volunteers teams are their football, track and fields, and womens basketball teams. The Tennessee women's basketball team is the dominant team in the NCAA. It has achieved great success. The Lady Vols' has made the SEC championships 13 times and the National Championships 6 times. Under the leadership of Pat Summitt the team is having an upturn.

The Tennessee footballers have also scored the SEC and the NCAA championships 13 and 6 times correspondingly. Altogether, the University of Tennessee mens team gained most of the SEC championship titles (110), and 19 NCAA championships. By the way, in 2005-2006 season the Lady Vols scored 31 team titles. They have also won 3 Southeastern championships during the last seasons. What is more, 75 Volunteer sportsmen have gained SEC honors. The Tenessee Volunteers tickets give you a great chance to see these young and talented athletes at play with your own eyes. Vividseats.com ticket broker can offer you a wide choice of College sports tickets. Youll find the best tickets at reasonable prices available at this site. Purchase you Tenessee Volunteers tickets from Vividseats.com right now.