The Florida Tech Panthers are the athletic teams that represent the
Florida Institute of Technology
The Florida Institute of Technology (Florida Tech or FIT) is a private research university in Melbourne, Florida. The university comprises four academic colleges: Engineering & Science, Aeronautics, Psychology & Liberal Arts, and Business. A ...
, located in
Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is located southeast of Orlando. As of th2020 Decennial Census there was a population of 84,678. The municipality is the second-largest in the county by both size and population ...
, in intercollegiate athletics at the
Division II level of
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athlete, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic sports, ...
(NCAA), competing in the
Sunshine State Conference. Sports currently offered by the program include baseball, softball, women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming.
Due to financial difficulties, the women's golf as well as both the men's and women's tennis programs were canceled in the spring of 2019. The men's football program was also canceled in the spring of 2020.
Other sports formerly offered by the program include men's golf, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's rowing, and men's and women's track field (both indoor and outdoor).
Varsity sports
Baseball
Florida Tech has had 9
Major League Baseball Draft
The first-year player draft is the primary mechanism of Major League Baseball (MLB) for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on a lo ...
selections since the draft began in 1965.
Basketball
Florida Tech's basketball teams competes in the
Sunshine State Conference. They compete in a very competitive NCAA DII Conference with schools like
Florida Southern that have won National Championships. Due to this Florida Tech occasionally plays higher caliber Florida D1 Schools such as
Florida State,