We Are Awesome
Here is why.
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UT has won 23 team national championships all time including: women’s basketball, football, track and field, and swimming and diving.
—UT Athletics 2019 -
Alumnus James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986.
—Nobel Prize -
Our Volunteer athletes and alumni have won 39 gold medals in the Olympic games.
—UT Athletics -
Eight Pulitzer Prize winning writers have connections to UT. Their work includes public service, reporting, play writing, fiction, scientific research, and history.
—Pulitzer Prize -
A combination of 9 UT students and alumni have earned Rhodes Scholarships for scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others, and leadership potential.
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UT teams have won a total of 196 SEC championship titles.
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A total of 4,223 UT Volunteers broke the world’s record for the largest human letter by forming a giant power T on the field at Neyland Stadium on March 29, 2017.
—Guiness World Records