Wichita State Shockers.

About Wichita State Shockers

The Wichita State Shockers are the athletic teams that represent Wichita State University, located in Wichita, Kansas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the NCAA Division I ranks, primarily competing in the American Conference (American) since the 2017–18 academic year. The Shockers previously competed in the D-I Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) from 1945–46 to 2016–17; as an Independent from 1940–41 to 1944–45; in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (CIC) from 1923–24 to 1939–40; and in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1902–03 to 1922–23. As of the 2020s conference realignment, Wichita State is one of two full members of the American to have never been a full member of Conference USA, although it became a single-sport member of that conference for bowling in 2024. From Wichita State's arrival in the American until Grand Canyon joined the Mountain West Conference in 2025, it was the only non-football-sponsoring institution to be a member of an FBS conference.