Athletics
McMurry's school colors are maroon and white. All teams play in the NCAA Division III American Southwest Conference. McMurry fields teams in 19 different intercollegiate sports. For the men, McMurry competes in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis and indoor and outdoor track and field. For the women, McMurry competes in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field and volleyball.
McMurry University is transitioning to play in NCAA Division II. In July 2011, McMurry announced that it had been accepted as candidate for D-II membership and would join the Heartland Conference in the fall of 2012. This move will strengthen McMurry's cross-town rivalry with Abilene Christian University, a member of the D-II Lone Star Conference, while at the same time abandoning the cross-town rivalry with Hardin-Simmons University of the D-III American Southwest Conference. McMurry's first game of the 2012 football season is against the Abilene Christian Wildcats in Shotwell Stadium. Shotwell was also the venue 41 years earlier (1971) for the previous game between the two teams. That game, which Abilene Christian won 53-20, was the last in an old rivalry which Abilene Christian leads 24-15.
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