Sports
The Heartland Conference sponsors 13 sports, seven for women and six for men. Both men and women compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, and tennis. Men compete in baseball and women compete in softball and volleyball.
Dallas Baptist's baseball team currently competes in D-I as a baseball affiliate of the Western Athletic Conference; it joined the WAC baseball conference after the 2012 season. OPSU sponsors non-conference football and rodeo squads. Incoming member McMurry has football, men's & women's indoor and outdoor track, and men's and women's swimming teams that will compete as independents.
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Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
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Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
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One only master grasps the whole domain,
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