page_title: Minnesota State Mavericks
section_title: Minnesota Vikings
hierarchical_section_title: Minnesota State Mavericks / Minnesota Vikings
caption_attribution_description: English: 2008 Minnesota Vikings training camp conducted at Blakeslee Stadium on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato.
context_page_description: The Minnesota State Mavericks are the college athletic teams of Minnesota State University, Mankato. More than 600 students participate each year in athletics for the university. Most of the university's athletic teams compete at the NCAA Division II level in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The men's and women's ice hockey teams compete at the Division I level in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Minnesota State began competition in the NSIC in 2008-09, due to the dissolution of the North Central Conference.
  The university has won 6 team and 49 individual national championships. The combined teams have won the NSIC US Bank All-Sports Award 4 times. Since 1993 the Mavericks have been awarded the most National Championships out of all sixteen colleges and universities in the Northern Sun Conference. The Mavericks also participate in the Division II Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup national competition.
context_section_description: Minnesota State University was the location of the summer training camp for the Minnesota Vikings National Football League team from 1966 to 2017, when the team moved to the Minneapolis suburb of Eagan, Minnesota.
caption: 2008 Minnesota Vikings training camp at Blakeslee Stadium.
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