Caltech has athletic teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, fencing, men's soccer, swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, track and field, women's volleyball, and men's and women's water polo.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

The school offers a range of men's and women's varsity sports, including football, baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball, track & field, cross country, tennis, and soccer.

Students compete in football, basketball, soccer, women's swimming, diving, women's volleyball, baseball, women's lacrosse, field hockey, golf, cross country, track and field, and softball.

Men's and women's soccer, women's softball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's cross-country and men's and women's track and field compete for NAIA championships only.

The Varsity Reds compete in the following sports: men's and women's basketball, men's hockey, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's volleyball, and swimming.

The UPEI Panthers have nine teams playing in the Atlantic University Sport ( AUS ) and the Canadian Interuniversity Sport ( CIS ), including men's and women's ice hockey, soccer, basketball, as well as women's field hockey and rugby union and co-ed swimming.

Besides hosting the Brahmas ' football and women's soccer teams, John Shepard Stadium ( current capacity 5, 500 ) The stadium was expanded to 16, 000-person capacity for the game.

* Hope Solo — United States women's national soccer team goalkeeper

The teams, nicknamed " The Maccabees ", include: men's baseball, basketball, golf, volleyball, wrestling, women's basketball, Cross Country, Fencing, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.

The Women's United Soccer Association, often abbreviated to the WUSA, was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals.

The league also hosted singular talents from nations which were not at the forefront of women's soccer, such as Maribel Dominguez of Mexico, Homare Sawa of Japan, Julie Fleeting of Scotland, Cheryl Salisbury of Australia, Marinette Pichon of France and Kelly Smith of England.

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.

ASU has won 23 national collegiate team championships in the following sports: baseball ( 5 ), men's golf ( 2 ), women's golf ( 7 ), men's gymnastics ( 1 ), softball ( 2 ), men's indoor track ( 1 ), women's indoor track ( 2 ), men's outdoor track ( 1 ), women's outdoor track ( 1 ), and wrestling ( 1 ).

The BWF organizes several international competitions, including the Thomas Cup, the premier men's international team event first held in 1948 – 1949, and the Uber Cup, the women's equivalent first held in 1956 – 1957.

* Montreal Blitz, a women's team

On January 13, 2007, the Caltech women's basketball team snapped a 50-game losing streak, defeating the Pomona – Pitzer Sagehens 55 – 53.

In 2007, 2008, and 2009, the women's table tennis team ( a club team ) competed in nationals.

The women's Ultimate club team, known as " Snatch ", has also been very successful in recent years, ranking 44 of over 200 college teams in the Ultimate Player's Association.

Association football is the most prominent team sport for women in several countries, and one of the few women's team sports with professional leagues.

* Cleveland Fusion, a women's American football team in the NWFA

1908 Summer Olympics in London: Display of the British women's gymnastics team

Hockey Tasmania has a men's team ( the Tasmanian Tigers ) and a women's team ( the Van Demons ) competing in the Australian Hockey League.

The Indiana Fever is a professional women's basketball team that plays in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

Prior to the tournament, Eduard Gufeld, Soviet GM and team coach for the Soviet women's team, dismissed the Polgárs.

" However, Hungary's women's team won the championship which was the first time it was not won by the Soviet Union.

Also in 1990, Judit and her sisters represented Hungary on the Olympic women's team winning the gold medal.

The women's team consisted of Judit and Zsuzsa Polgár, Pia Cramling, Maia Chiburdanidze, Ketevan Arakhamia and Alisa Galliamova.

Ferrigno was Team Unanimous ' project manager for the task depicted in the fifth episode, " I'm Going to Mop the Floor With You ", which was to create a viral video to promote O-Cedar's ProMist Spray Mop, placing him in competition with actress Tia Carrere, the project manager of the women's team, Forte.

* AZS AWF Poznań – women's volleyball team playing in Polish Seria A Women's Volleyball League: 8th place in 2003 / 2004 season.

* AZS Poznań – women's basketball team playing in Torell Basket Liga: 2nd place in 2003 / 2004 season ( formerly also called Danter AZS Poznań and Stary Browar AZS Poznań )

The St. John Fisher women's lacrosse team won the Empire 8 conference championships in both 2007 and 2009.

* Reena Patel, Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry ( Stanford University Press ; 2010 ) 219 pages ; traces changing views of " women's work " in India under globalization.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

Men's and women's track & field and cross country have been added as a varsity sport for 2010 / 2011 ; this is a joint Fredericton / Saint John Campus program.

A group of 15 competitive female ski jumpers filed a suit against the Vancouver Organizing Committee ( VANOC ) claiming that conducting a men's ski jumping event without a women's event in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010 would be in direct violation of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The first tournament was the women's doubles event at the 2010 Bank of the West Classic, where she won the title partnering Liezel Huber.

The Bears have won 19 NCAA Division III Championships — one in women's cross country ( 2011 ), one in men's tennis ( 2008 ), two in men's basketball ( 2008, 2009 ), five in women's basketball ( 1998 – 2001, 2010 ), and ten in women's volleyball ( 1989, 1991 – 1996, 2003, 2007, 2009 ) – and 144 UAA titles in 15 different sports.

Aomori has hosted several international curling events, two in 2003 ( including the Asian Winter Games ), and the local women's " Team Aomori " was selected to represent Japan at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy < sup ></ sup > and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.

The women's basketball team overcame a major tragedy during the 2010-11 season, with the Christmas Day 2010 death of Kristen Zawacki ( 1958-2010 ), the lone women's basketball coach in the program's 25-year history.

In a February 2010 interview with Jazzwax, Brubeck said he attended Mills, a women's college ( men were allowed in graduate programs ), specifically to study with Milhaud, saying, " Milhaud was an enormously gifted classical composer and teacher who loved jazz and incorporated it into his work.

Start of the women's 60 m at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships | 2010 World Indoor Championships

* The Skyhawks women's basketball team earned a berth in the NCAA Division II national title game in 2010.

Pete Fenson, the skip of the U. S. curling team that took the bronze medal at the 2006 Olympics, is a native of Bemidji, as is Natalie Nicholson, who was the lead for the United States women's team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

It also is the home of the first ever women's cross county state champions for 2010 and 2011.

The host site for the 1999, 2005 ,& 2014 U. S. Open Golf Championships, the 2008 U. S. Amateur, the 2007 women's U. S. Open Golf Tournament, the former home of the World Golf Hall of Fame ( now located in St. Augustine, Florida ), a former venue of the Tour Championship in 1991 & 1992, a recently chosen venue for the 2010 U. S. Junior Girls Golf Championship.

In addition to the Stag / Athenas and the Sagehens, there are several prominent 5C club sports teams, including roller hockey, men's and women's rugby union, both of whom attended Division II Nationals in 2004 and 2006, with women's team winning the Division II national championship in 2010, men's lacrosse, field hockey, crew, cycling, women's ultimate, who attended Nationals in 2004 and 2011, and men's ultimate frisbee, 2008 Southern California Sectional champions and 2011 Division III National champions.

The 2010 men's team won the MIAC regular-season championship and both the men and women's teams received at-large bids for the 2010 NCAA Division III tournament.

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 ).

The 2010 – 11 women's team, a # 11 seed in that year's NCAA Tournament, became the lowest seed ever to advance to a regional final in the history of the women's tournament.