Sports
Member universities compete in the following sports:
- Baseball - Men
- Basketball - Men & Women
- Cross Country - Men & Women
- Field hockey - Women
- Football - Men
- Golf - Men & Women
- Indoor track and field - Men & Women
- Lacrosse - Men & Women
- Rowing - Women
- Soccer - Men & Women
- Softball - Women
- Swimming & Diving - Men & Women
- Tennis - Men & Women
- Track and field - Men & Women
- Volleyball - Women
- Wrestling - Men
Outside of the ACC, Boston College plays ice hockey as a member of Hockey East; and Maryland, North Carolina, and NC State are members of the East Atlantic Gymnastics League for women's gymnastics. Notre Dame hockey will join with BC in Hockey East in 2013.
Read more about this topic: Atlantic Coast Conference
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Come, my Celia, let us prove
While we may the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever,
He at length our good will sever.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)