National Champion Ferris State Heads To The White House Monday; Follow Live Updates

Big Rapids, Mich. - The back-to-back NCAA Division II National Champion Ferris State University football squad will be honored along with other national championship teams from across the country on Monday (June 12) during a special ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C.

National Championship programs from Division I, II and III were invited to attend the celebration hosted by President Joe Biden. The event will be broadcast online at whitehouse.gov/live and on the White House Facebook page beginning at 11:30 a.mm. (ET).

Along with the live webstream, fans can follow social media coverage throughout the trip on the Bulldogs' twitter page @FerrisFootball or on instragram @ferrisstatefb.

The Bulldogs, who received an invitation from the 46th President of the United States along with First Lady Jill Biden, will send a group of nearly 25 FSU student-athletes, head coach Tony Annese and selected staff, who will depart on Monday morning for Washington, D.C., with the ceremony slated to take place on the South Lawn, weather permitting, as part of a "College Athlete Day" honoring several national championship teams from NCAA Divisions I, II and III.

Student-athletes from across all three NCAA divisions will be at the White House on Monday celebrating College Athlete Day, a milestone event created by the Biden administration to recognize NCAA national champions from the past year.

The NCAA Division II National Champion Ferris State Bulldogs, which claimed a second consecutive national title this past fall, were previously honored back in March by the state of Michigan during a special visit to the State Capital in Lansing.

This past fall, the Bulldogs captured a second consecutive NCAA Division II National Championship, finishing with a 14-1 overall record. Over the past two seasons of action, the Bulldogs own a 28-1 overall record and FSU has reached the NCAA Division II Playoffs eight consecutive years and counting. Ferris State has also reached the NCAA Division II National Semifinals five times in the past six seasons of action and ranks as the country's winningest program over the past eight full seasons in D2 Football. FSU is 55-3 over the last three seasons of on-field action.

The Bulldogs are also the country's preseason #1 team heading into the 2023 campaign according to Lindy's Sports.