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.

In 2006, considerable controversy arose after the decision to cut 10 varsity teams ( including both men's and women's teams ) was deemed necessary by the Board of Visitors to comply with Title IX restrictions.

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.

Louisiana Tech fields 16 varsity NCAA Division I sports teams ( 7 men's, 9 women's teams ) and has been a member of the Western Athletic Conference since 2001.

RIT has 24 men's and women's varsity teams including Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field and Wrestling along with Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Cheerleading, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Volleyball.

Nebraska became the first team in the Big Eight to create women's soccer as a varsity sport in the 1995 season.

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 ).

In the late 1970s, women's club teams started to appear on college campus, but it wasn't until the 1980s that they started to gain recognition and gained a varsity status.

Brown University was the first college to grant full varsity level status to their women's soccer team.

Bowdoin offers thirty varsity teams, including men's teams in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, ice hockey, lacrosse, Nordic skiing, sailing, soccer, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field, and women's teams in field hockey, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, Nordic skiing, sailing, soccer, softball, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and rugby.

In 2004, Bowdoin became the second college in the United States to elevate the women's rugby team to varsity status.

While technically still varsity, the women's rugby team competes in New England Rugby Football Union, rather than NESCAC.

Along with these varsity sports PLU also offers both men's and women's Lacrosse and Ultimate Frisbee as club sports.

The six men's and nine women's varsity teams compete in NCAA Division I in the Pacific-12 Conference.

Seton Hill varsity men's and women's sports are offered including men's & women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's wrestling, men's and women's lacrosse, men's track, softball, women's cheerleading, women's field hockey, women's equestrian, women's soccer, women's volleyball, women's golf, and women's tennis.

The first national association was the Irish Ladies Hockey Union in 1894, and though rebuffed by the Hockey Association, women's field hockey grew rapidly around the world.

It took until 1982 for the two bodies to merge, but this allowed the introduction of women's field hockey to the Olympic games from 1980 where, as in the men's game, The Netherlands, Germany, and Australia have been consistently strong.

The strength of college field hockey reflects the impact of Title IX which mandated that colleges should fund men's and women's sports programmes comparably.

Men's field hockey has been played at each summer Olympic Games since 1908 ( except 1912 and 1924 ), while women's field hockey has been played at the Summer Olympic Games since 1980.

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.

The JMU women's field hockey gave the university their first national title in 1994.

* 23 June-The women of HC Den Bosch clinch the Dutch women's field hockey title by beating HC Rotterdam in the play-offs.

* Northern's multi-purpose student events center, funded in part by a $ 2 million donation by 1971 alumnus John Berry, opened in 1999 and is the home of the Northern Michigan University hockey and men's and women's basketball teams.

SU is a member of the Big East Conference for all NCAA Division I athletics, except for women's ice hockey, and the rowing team.

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.

Hayley Wickenheiser ( born August 12, 1978 ) is a women's ice hockey player from Canada.

Wickenheiser is a member of the Canada women's national ice hockey team.

Wickenheiser is currently playing for the University of Calgary women's hockey team.

In roller hockey, ( also known as rink hockey ) Wuppertal club RSC Cronenberg are current holders of the German championship and the German cup in both men's and women's competitions.

Adrienne Clarkson, then Governor General of Canada, alternately proposed that the Cup be presented to the top women's hockey team in lieu of the NHL season.

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.