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The Cheyney Wolves are the athletic sports teams for Cheyney University. They compete as an independent and formerly played in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). [2] Women's sports include basketball, cheerleading and volleyball. Basketball is the only men's sport the university currently offers as of 2019.
Cheyney State and C. Vivian Stringer will get their long overdue recognition with the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame's Trailblazer of the Game award.
The 1981-82 Cheyney State Lady Wolves became the first HBCU men's or women's basketball program to play in the Division I championship game. The women of the team reflect on that historic season.
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley wears a Cheyney University jersey during the Gamecocks' second-round NCAA women's tournament win over South Florida on Sunday in Columbia, South Carolina.
The school's official name changed several times during the 20th century. In 1983, Cheyney was taken into the State System of Higher Education as Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. The university has traditionally offered opportunities to many students from Philadelphia's inner city schools. [8] Its alumni have close ties in the city and state.
The 1981–82 Cheyney State Lady Wolves basketball team represented Cheyney State College as an NCAA independent during the 1981–82 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The team was led by 11th–year head coach C. Vivian Stringer and played their home games at Cope Hall in Cheyney, Pennsylvania .
2018 – Cheyney left the PSAC to become an independent school without an affiliation with any athletic conference or any college sports organization after the 2017–18 academic year. 2019 – Shepherd University joined the PSAC in the 2019–20 academic year.
In the National Championship game, they faced Cheyney State, coached by future Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer. The Cheyney State team entered the match-up on a 23-game winning streak. [ 5 ] The Louisiana Tech team hit 56% of their field goals attempts to win easily, 76–62, and win the first National Championship in the NCAA era.