" The Meredith " Avenging Angels " compete on seven NCAA Division III athletics teams: basketball, soccer, softball, cross country, volleyball, lacrosse and tennis.

To remain close to them, he takes the form of Yanagiba, a popular upperclassman at the school and captain of the soccer team, but when turning into Yanagiba, he has no memory of the Love Angels or that he is one himself until later in the season ( in the anime ).

In the episode " The Big Score ", Dil becomes the mascot for the middle school soccer team by dressing up as various animals, including a slug and a monkey not unlike the Los Angeles Angels ' Rally Monkey.

The stadium is also the former home stadium of the San Fernando Valley Quakes men's soccer team, which competed in the USL Premier Development League.

Historically no Shikoku-based team has competed in the top Japanese division of baseball, football ( soccer ) or even rugby union.

Hague competed in soccer, basketball, and baseball.

Thorpe notably also competed professionally in soccer, baseball, American Football, and basketball ; and competed collegiately in track and field, soccer, baseball, lacrosse, and did ballroom dancing.

Haverford College competes at the NCAA Division III level in the Centennial Conference and has a rich history in collegiate athletics: Haverford boasts the only varsity cricket team in the United States ; its men's and women's track and field and cross country teams are perennial powerhouses in their division, with men's cross country winning the 2010 Cross Country Division III National Championships ; its soccer team is the nation's oldest and won the first intercollegiate soccer match in 1905 against Harvard College ; its lacrosse team has recently become a national power after placing well in the NCAA championships ; its fencing team has competed since the early 1930s and is a member of both the Middle Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association ( MACFA ) and the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association ( NIWFA ).

Hakoah Vienna was a Jewish sports club founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1909 whose teams competed with the Star of David on the chest of their uniforms, and won the 1925 Austrian League soccer championship.

* Austin Lone Stars, a soccer club that competed in the SISL, USISL and United Soccer Leagues from 1987 to 2000

* Boston Bulldogs ( soccer ), a professional football ( soccer ) team that started as the Worcester Wildfire in 1997 and competed in the A-League and the USL Pro Soccer League

* Los Angeles Aztecs, a soccer team that competed in the North American Soccer League from 1974 to 1981

They replace the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's United Soccer Association, as the Boston area's professional women's soccer team.

* Mark Longwell, All-New England soccer player at Fairfield University competed for the United States men's national soccer team and Tampa Bay Rowdies, a 1977 Trumbull High School graduate.

In 2001, the women's basketball and soccer teams competed in their respective NCAA tournaments, with both teams advancing to the second round.

Ahidjo also played soccer at school and competed as a cyclist.

After graduation, Gordon attended the University of Oregon, where he also competed as a halfback on the football team as well as in gymnastics, soccer and the long jump.

In 2008 both the men's soccer team and the women's field hockey team competed in the ECAC Southern Region Tournament.

Men's soccer competed at the club level in the fall of 2007, before entering NCAA and Atlantic Sun competition as a scholarship program in the 2008 season.

The Calgary Boomers were a professional soccer team, that competed in the North American Soccer League during the 1981 season, after which they folded.

In some events, however, Brazil only competed partially, such as in Basketball and Football ( soccer ), where both men's teams failed to qualify for the Olympics in their respective pre-Olympic trials.

Sports sanctioned by the NCAA include the following: basketball, baseball ( men ), softball ( women ), football ( men ), cross country, field hockey ( women ), bowling ( women ), golf, fencing ( coeducational ), lacrosse, soccer, gymnastics, rowing ( women only ), volleyball, ice hockey, water polo, rifle ( coeducational ), tennis, skiing ( coeducational ), track and field, swimming and diving, and wrestling ( men ).

The Academy's intercollegiate program has 17 men's and 10 women's NCAA sanctioned teams, nicknamed the ‘‘ Falcons .’‘ Men's teams compete in football, baseball, basketball, ice hockey, cross-country, fencing, golf, gymnastics, indoor and outdoor track, lacrosse, rifle, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, water polo and wrestling.

The Sportsplex has hosted the SEC Women's Soccer Tournament on numerous occasions in addition to the NCAA Division II men and women's soccer tournament.

* Men's soccer have been NCAA Division II national champions in 2005, 2009, and 2011, and were national runners-up in 1999 and 2006.

John Walker was hired to coach the soccer team in April 1994 and was determined to get the Huskers into an NCAA tournament by 2008.

Most sports teams are in the NCAA Division III, with the exception of Division I teams in men's hockey and women's soccer.

Colorado College competes at the NCAA Division III level in all sports except men's hockey, in which it participates in the NCAA Division I Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and women's soccer, where it competes as an NCAA Division I team in Conference USA.

Though the PDL does have some paid players, it also has many teams that are made up entirely or almost entirely of college soccer players who use the league as an opportunity to play competitive soccer in front of professional scouts during the summer, while retaining amateur status and NCAA eligibility.

Both leagues serve roughly the same purpose for women's soccer that the USL's PDL serves for men's soccer, in that they allow collegiate players to maintain NCAA eligibility while continuing to develop their game against quality opponents.

Missouri State University sponsors NCAA Division I inter-collegiate athletic teams in men's and women's basketball, golf, soccer, swimming and diving ; men's baseball and football ; and women's cross country, field hockey, softball, track, and volleyball.

* NCAA Division I independent schools ( soccer )

Recent NESCAC champions include men's ice hockey ( 2011, albeit officially forfeited ), men's tennis ( 2008 ), women's volleyball ( 2011 ) men's cross country ( 2001, 2002 ), women's basketball ( 2001 – 2007, 2009 ), women's ice hockey ( 2002, 2004 ) and women's field hockey ( 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ); recent NCAA tournament appearances include women's basketball ( Elite Eight, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 ; Final Four, 2004 ), women's field hockey ( Final Four, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 ) men's rugby ( sweet 16, 2001 ), women's ice hockey ( Final Four, 2002, 2003 ; Elite Eight, 2004, 2005 ), men's soccer ( Final Four, 2010 ) and women's lacrosse ( Final Four, 2011.

The Gauchos have won NCAA national championships in men's soccer and men's water polo.

SJU made MIAC history in the fall of 2006 by winning team titles ( or a share thereof ) in all four fall sports: football, soccer, cross-country and golf ( the golf team went on to finish first at the NCAA III championships in the spring ).

The Linc also plays host to several soccer games each year, and in the past ( 2005, 2006 ) it has played host to the NCAA lacrosse national championship ; it will do so again in 2013.

CCIW schools have accounted for 45 national championships in NCAA Division III competition, including 14 in men ’ s cross country, six in men ’ s basketball, six in men ’ s outdoor track and field, four in football and men's indoor track and field, three in women's soccer, two in women's outdoor track & field, women's basketball and men ’ s soccer and one apiece in baseball and women's indoor track and field.

Every fall, a soccer tournament called OMSA is held with towns from the area participating.

* Lamar Hunt U. S. Open Cup, soccer ( association football ) tournament held between American soccer clubs from MLS, minor leagues, and amateur associations

Every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship, a beach soccer tournament.

The annual youth soccer tournament draws thousands of young soccer players, their parents, siblings and even grandparents to Bullhead City.

The Altamont Lions Club currently operates the youth basketball and soccer programs, have an annual Fishing Rodeo, sponsor a golf tournament, participate in Lions International Candy Day each fall, sponsor local youth for trips abroad and within the USA, and contribute toward Ballard Nature Center and the local parks.

The boy's soccer team finished as runner-up in the state tournament in 2007.

Because of this border past, a local annual indoor soccer tournament of Eibergen's police has grown to the world's largest sports event of its kind: the World Police Indoor Soccer Tournament.

Monroe Township Soccer Club hosts a tournament every year on the soccer fields that are located in the park, and they get a very good turnout every single season.

The park can host many events such as graduation parties, birthday parties, as well as the annual kids soccer jamboree, and the annual Happy Pike fishing tournament.

In October 2006, the 15th annual YMS ( Yardley-Makefield Soccer ) Columbus Cup soccer tournament was recognized by Gotsoccer. com as a Premier Elite Tournament, which puts the YMS tournament at the same level as the Disney Showcase, Jefferson Cup, Bethesda, Dallas Cup, WAGS, Raleigh Shootout and the other most highly rated tournaments.

The area hosts a youth soccer tournament called Clash of the Cleats.

The tournament attracts youth soccer clubs throughout Pennsylvania, and now is starting to attract teams from neighboring states.

* 1985 Heritage Christian Academy Boys win state soccer tournament.

In May, the Big Horn Equestrian Center is often host to the Mars Big Horn Mountain Spring Cup, a soccer tournament for dozens of Wyoming traveling teams.

During the tournament three polo fields are converted into 18 regulation-size soccer fields.

Sporting Cristal was finalist in the Copa Libertadores de América 1997, South America's most important soccer tournament.

That tournament helped demonstrate the high caliber of play in women's soccer.

In 1951, Palmeiras won the international Copa Rio, known as the first world soccer club tournament, after beating Juventus of Italy.

The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women ( AIAW ) sponsored the first regional women's soccer tournament at college in the USA, which was held at Brown University.

The North American Sand Soccer Championships, a beach soccer tournament, is held annually on the beach in Virginia Beach.