Athletics
The Berry College mascot is the Viking. Berry fields competitive teams in 18 intercollegiate sports including men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, tennis, running, lacrosse, swimming and diving, and golf, as well as men’s baseball and women’s volleyball, softball and equestrian.
The Berry College women's basketball team won the Division II national championship in 1976.
The Berry College Board of Trustees recently voted to add football beginning in the fall of 2013, with track and field coming soon after. According to the school newspaper, The Campus Carrier, adding football will not affect the Title IX regulations.
Berry is a founding member of the Southern Athletic Association (SAA), an NCAA Division III conference that was formed in 2011 and began play in fall 2012. Other SAA members are Birmingham-Southern College, Centre College, Hendrix College, Oglethorpe University, Millsaps College, Rhodes College, and Sewanee: The University of the South.
On August 23, 2012, Collin McHugh became the first Berry athlete to ever play in the majors when he took the mound for the New York Mets against the Colorado Rockies. McHugh pitched 7 innings, allowed 2 hits and no earned runs in his MLB debut.
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