page_title: Tennessee Volunteers
section_title: National championships
hierarchical_section_title: Tennessee Volunteers / National championships
caption_attribution_description: University of Tennessee exhibit
context_page_description: The Tennessee Volunteers and Lady Volunteers are the 20 male and female varsity intercollegiate athletics programs that represent the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Volunteers compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as a member of the Southeastern Conference. In December 2017, former Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer was introduced as Tennessee's new athletic director.
  Men's and women's teams with the exception of women's basketball are called the Volunteers The Tennessee women's basketball team is called the Lady Volunteers. These names come from the nickname of Tennessee, The Volunteer State.
context_section_description: Since their beginning of intercollegiate competition, the University of Tennessee's varsity athletic teams have won 23 national team championships (including sixteen NCAA championships).
  Men's National Championships
  Football (6): 1938 • 1940 • 1950 • 1951 • 1967 • 1998
  Cross Country (1): 1972
  Indoor Track and Field (1): 2002
  Outdoor Track and Field (3): 1974 • 1991 • 2001
  Swimming and Diving (1): 1978
  Women's National Championships
  Basketball (8): 1987 • 1989 • 1991 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 2007 • 2008
  Indoor Track and Field (2): 2005 • 2009
  Outdoor Track & Field (1): 1981 (AIAW)
  The national intercollegiate sports championships listed above were sponsored by the NCAA unless otherwise noted in the footnotes.
caption: An exhibit of the Volunteers football team's accomplishments at Neyland-Thompson Sports Center. The AFCA National Championship Trophy is on show in the display case
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