Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks and Ladyjacks

The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks and Ladyjacks are composed of 14 teams representing Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) in intercollegiate athletics. Stephen F. Austin teams participate in Division I as a member of the Southland Conference (SLC), having rejoined that conference on July 1, 2024 after three years in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). The football team competes in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, formerly known as Division I-AA) for football in the SLC.

Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks and Ladyjacks
University	Stephen F. Austin State University
Conference	Southland CUSA (women's bowling)
NCAA	Division I (FCS)
Athletic director	Michael McBroom
Location	Nacogdoches, Texas
Varsity teams	14
Football stadium	Homer Bryce Stadium
Basketball arena	William R. Johnson Coliseum
Baseball stadium	Jaycees Field
Softball stadium	SFA Softball Field
Soccer stadium	SFA Soccer Field
Other venues	Schlief Tennis Complex Shelton Gym
Nickname	Lumberjacks
Colors	Purple and white[1]
Website	sfajacks.com

On July 1, 2021, SFA was one of five institutions announced as future members of the WAC, alongside three other Southland members from Texas (Abilene Christian, Lamar, Sam Houston) plus Big Sky Conference member Southern Utah.^[2] Initially, all five schools were to join in July 2022, but the entry of SFA and the other Texas schools was moved to 2021 after the Southland expelled its departing members.^[3] Because the WAC does not sponsor beach volleyball, SFA joined the Atlantic Sun Conference (then officially known as the ASUN Conference) for that sport.^[4] After the 2022 season, SFA moved beach volleyball to the Sun Belt Conference.^[5]

SFA football played the 2021 and 2022 seasons in a football-only alliance between the WAC and the ASUN. After the 2022 season, the WAC and ASUN fully merged their football leagues under the new identity of United Athletic Conference.^[6]

On July 1, 2024, SFA officially rejoined the SLC for all sports except women's bowling, which remained in Conference USA.^[7]

SFA announced on May 22, 2025 that it would drop four sports effective at the end of the 2024–25 school year—women's beach volleyball and bowling, plus men's and women's golf.^[8]

Sports sponsored

Men's sports	Women's sports
Baseball	Basketball
Basketball	Cross country
Cross country	Soccer
Football	Softball
Track and field†	Tennis
	Track and field†
	Volleyball
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor

Bowling

The Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks bowling team won the 2016 NCAA national championship, going to a deciding seventh game in defeating defending national champion Nebraska. The Ladyjacks added their second national title in five seasons in 2019, defeating Vanderbilt by a 4–1 score.^[9]

SFA was a member of the single-sport Southland Bowling League from that conference's formation in 2015 until its merger into CUSA after the 2022–23 season.^[10] Bowling was dropped after the 2024–25 season.^[8]

Softball

Main article: Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks softball

The Ladyjacks softball team has appeared in four Women's College World Series in 1978, 1983, 1985,1986.^[11]

National Championships

Team (3)

• Softball: 1986
• Bowling: 2016
• Bowling: 2019

Individual (5)

• Steve Riza (Men's Tennis - Singles): 1984
• Tom Goles & Chris Langford (Men's Tennis - Doubles): 1985
• Neil Smith (Men's Tennis - Singles): 1986
• Demi Payne (Women's Pole Vault): 2015
• Branson Ellis (Men's Pole Vault): 2021