The athletic department is run by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association, a private organization located on campus. The current athletic director is J Batt. The department dedicates about $53 million per year to its sports teams and facilities. From November 28, 2016 until his dismissal on September 26, 2022, the athletic director of Georgia Tech was Todd Stansbury, who replaced Mike Bobinski after the latter left for the same position at Purdue.[3] On October 14, 2022, former Alabama executive deputy director of athletics, chief operating officer, and chief revenue officer J Batt was hired, with his tenure beginning 10 days later.[4] Most athletic teams have on-campus facilities for competition, including Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field for football, the McCamish Pavilion at Cremins' Court for men's and women's basketball, and Russ Chandler Stadium for baseball.
Georgia Tech was a founding member of the
Blake Van Leer's tenure.[6] The Yellow Jackets left the SEC in 1964 and remained independent until becoming a founding member of the Metro-6 Conference in 1975.[7] Georgia Tech moved to the ACC in 1978 and began competition within the ACC in 1979.[7]
The football team is traditionally the most popular at the Institute. The games are played at
Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field
or simply The Flats, which is the oldest on-campus stadium in Division I FBS football. The stadium was expanded in recent years, increasing the maximum capacity to 55,000.
Georgia Tech plays an Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division schedule in addition to yearly cross divisional games against Clemson[9] and two other Atlantic Division teams. In addition, the team has a yearly out-of-conference meeting with Georgia at the end of the season known as Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.
The football team is in the top 20 winningest Division I-A programs and was the first team to win all four of the historical big four bowls – the Rose (1929), Orange (1940), Sugar (1944), and Cotton (1955). Georgia Tech has won four national titles in the years 1917 going 9–0 under
William Alexander outscoring opponents 221–47, 1952 going 12–0 under Bobby Dodd outscoring opponents 325–59, and 1990 going 11–0–1 under Bobby Ross outscoring opponents 379–186.[11]
The Yellow Jackets have won a total of 15 conference titles. They won 5 SIAA titles in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, and 1921; 3 Southern Conference titles in 1922, 1927, and 1928; 5 SEC titles in 1939, 1943, 1944, 1951, 1952, and the 1990, 1998 and 2009 ACC championships along with the 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2014 ACC Coastal Division Championships. Paul Johnson and Georgia Tech won the 2009 ACC Championship in Tampa Florida. The team has played in 46 bowl games, posting a record of 26-20. The resulting win percentage of 0.629 is currently the second-highest among teams with over 20 bowl appearances.[11]
Three Jacket players were named to the ACC 50th Anniversary Team in 2002:
Atlantic Coast Conference Players of the Year hailed from Georgia Tech. They were Joe Hamilton (1999), Calvin Johnson (2006), and Jonathan Dwyer
Baseball is a very successful sport at Georgia Tech. The baseball team makes its home at
NCAA
. Georgia Tech baseball is notable for its high-scoring offenses, and stout defenses.
The team's success is guided by head coach Danny Hall. Hall has coached Tech for 13 seasons and has posted 579 wins over that span. He has led Georgia Tech to 12 years of NCAA regional play, and its only three College World Series appearances in 1994, 2002, and 2006. The baseball team, under Hall, has become an annual contender for the ACC regular season and tournament titles winning each four and three times respectively.
Georgia Tech fields a softball team under coach Aileen Morales.
Shirley Clements Mewborn Field. The Yellow Jackets softball team began play in 1987. The team has made eleven NCAA Tournament appearances in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. The current head coach is Aileen Morales
.
Golf
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's golf team is one of the most consistent Yellow Jacket teams. They have won 19 conference championships:[18]
Their best team finish is second place in 1993, 2000, 2002, and 2005.
The men's golf team made the NCAA Championship round ten straight years (1998–2007) under Bruce Heppler [d], head coach since 1996. In 2005, the program was rated by Golf Magazine as the #1 collegiate golf program in the country.
2006-07 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets women's tennis team
Georgia Tech has both men's and women's tennis teams. The teams play their home matches at the Ken Byers Tennis Complex, which opened in 2013. The facility houses six indoor courts, six outdoor competition courts, and four outdoor practice courts.
The women's tennis team became the first
UCLA in Athens, Georgia on May 22, 2007.[19][20] The 2007 National Championship team was coached by Bryan Shelton. As a player in his freshman season (1985), Shelton won Georgia Tech's first individual ACC title.[21]
The women's tennis team is currently coached by Rodney Harmon, and assisted by Christy Lynch.
The men's team has won six conference titles since 1918 (one in the SIAA, two in the SoConn, and three in the SEC). They have made 15 NCAA Tournament appearances. The men's tennis team is currently coached by former Georgia Tech player Kenny Thorne, and assisted by Jeremy Efferding.[22] In 2011, Thorne was named ITA National Coach of the Year.
Georgia Tech Women's Volleyball is one of the newer additions to Georgia Tech's athletic department, having only been started in the past twenty years. Despite the program's youth, it has been a dominant force in the ACC.[citation needed] O'Keefe Gymnasium has served as the home of the Georgia Tech volleyball team since 1995.[23]
Georgia Tech volleyball has become a powerful, perennial ACC title contender and NCAA tournament qualifier. Tech has been in the NCAA tournament three times in recent years and has set several school records for victories in a season, consecutive ACC victories, and consecutive victories.