Varsity Sports
Georgetown University fields 23 varsity level sports teams, 11 men's teams, 11 women's teams, and one co-ed team. Intercollegiate sports include (inaugural season in parentheses):
- Men's: baseball (1870), basketball (1907, crew (1876; 1958), cross country (1924), football (1887), golf (1925), lacrosse (1951), soccer (1952), swimming and diving (1949), tennis (1920), and track and field (1891)
- Women's: basketball (1960), crew (1975), cross country (1976), field hockey (1960), golf (2001), lacrosse (1975), soccer (1991), softball (2005), swimming and diving (1975), tennis (1960), track and field (1976), and volleyball (1960)
- Coed: sailing (1937)
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“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)