Last Updated on August 28, 2023
this is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Notes:
- This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
- Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school’s athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both genders.(Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men’s and women’s teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men’s teams and the other is used for women’s teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
- Full name of school.
- Location of school.
- Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
- Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
- Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms “University” and “College” are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use “Charleston” for that school’s athletic program).
- Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name “University of North Carolina” may variously be found at “C” (Charlotte), “N” (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and “U” (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
- The prefix “St.”, as in “Saint”, is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.
Contents
NCAA[edit]
Division I[edit]
- ^ Hampton will move to the Colonial Athletic Association in 2022–23.
- ^ James Madison will move to the Sun Belt Conference in 2022–23.
- ^ Liberty will join Conference USA in 2023–24.
- ^ Liberty’s football team competes as an independent. It will move to Conference USA in 2023–24.
- ^ Old Dominion will rejoin the Sun Belt Conference in 2023–24.
- ^ Richmond’s football team competes in the Colonial Athletic Association.
- ^ The university prefers the shortened name “Virginia Tech” over its legal name for both athletic and non-athletic purposes.
Division II[edit]
| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foot- ball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Soccer | ||||||
| M | W | M | W | |||||||
| Emory and Henry Wasps | Emory and Henry College | Emory | Independent [a] |  | | | | | | |
| Virginia State Trojans | Virginia State University | Petersburg | CIAA | | | | [b] | |  | |
| Virginia Union Panthers | Virginia Union University | Richmond | CIAA | | | | | | | |
| Virginia–Wise Cavaliers | University of Virginia’s College at Wise | Wise | South Atlantic | | | | | | | |
- ^ As of the 2021–22 academic year, Emory & Henry is in the first year of a three-year transition to Division II and will be an active member in 2024–25, joining the South Atlantic Conference in 2022–23.
- ^ Virginia State’s baseball team competes as an independent.
Division III[edit]
- ^ Averett will join the Old Dominion conference in 2022–23.
- ^ Christopher Newport’s football team competes in the New Jersey Athletic Conference.
- ^ Southern Virginia’s football team competes in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.
NAIA[edit]
| Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foot- ball | Basketball | Base- ball | Soft- ball | Soccer | ||||||
| M | W | M | W | |||||||
| Bluefield Rams | Bluefield College | Bluefield | Appalachian Athletic | [a] | | | | | | |
- ^ Bluefield’s football team competes in the Mid-South Conference.
NJCAA[edit]
| Team | School | City | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryant & Stratton Bobcats | Bryant & Stratton College | Virginia Beach | Region X |
| Patrick Henry Patriots | Patrick & Henry Community College | Martinsville | Region X |
| Paul D. Camp Hurricanes | Paul D. Camp Community College | Franklin | Region X |
| Richard Bland Statesmen | Richard Bland College | Prince George | Region X |
USCAA[edit]
| Team | School | City | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Apprentice Builders | The Apprentice School | Newport News | Eastern Metro |
| Christendom Crusaders | Christendom College | Front Royal | |
| Virginia University of Lynchburg Dragons | Virginia University of Lynchburg | Lynchburg |
See also[edit]
- List of NCAA Division I institutions
- List of NCAA Division II institutions
- List of NCAA Division III institutions
- List of NAIA institutions
- List of USCAA institutions
- List of NCCAA institutions
