UMSL Athletic Timeline
| 1966-67 |
| Men's basketball and men's tennis begin competing at the NAIA level. |
| 1967-68 |
| Men's cross country and men's golf programs are added. |
| 1968-69 |
| Baseball and men's soccer programs are added. |
| 1969-70 |
| Missouri-St. Louis moves to the NCAA Division II level. |
| 1971-72 |
| Men's swimming and wrestling are added, bringing the total number of Missouri-St. Louis sports to eight. |
| 1973-74 |
| Men's soccer wins the school's first, and only, NCAA Championship with a 3-0 victory over Cal-State Fullerton. |
| 1974-75 |
| Missouri-St. Louis adds four women's programs: basketball, field hockey, tennis and volleyball. |
| *Note: Several women's teams competed prior to 1974-75. However, that was the first year the women's sports programs received official recognition. |
| 1975-76 |
| Softball program is added, bringing the total number of sports to 13 (eight men's teams, five women's teams). |
| 1977-78 |
| Women's swimming program is added. |
| 1980-81 |
| Missouri-St. Louis joins the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). |
| 1981-82 |
| The athletic department eliminates the sports of wrestling and women's field hockey. |
| Women's soccer program is added. |
| 1982-83 |
| Men's cross country program is eliminated. |
| 1995-96 |
| Missouri St. Louis begins competing in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. |
| Men's and women's swimming programs are eliminated. |
| 1997-98 |
| Women's golf program is added, bringing the total number of sports to 11 (six women's, five men's), which represents its current status. |
| June 2001 |
| UMSL Sports Hall of Fame is created and holds inaugural ceremony by inducting 12 members as the first class into the Sports Hall of Fame. |
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