Sports
Member universities compete in the following sports:
- Baseball - Men
- Basketball - Men & Women
- Cross Country - Men & Women
- Field hockey - Women
- Football - Men
- Golf - Men & Women
- Indoor track and field - Men & Women
- Lacrosse - Men & Women
- Rowing - Women
- Soccer - Men & Women
- Softball - Women
- Swimming & Diving - Men & Women
- Tennis - Men & Women
- Track and field - Men & Women
- Volleyball - Women
- Wrestling - Men
Outside of the ACC, Boston College plays ice hockey as a member of Hockey East; and Maryland, North Carolina, and NC State are members of the East Atlantic Gymnastics League for women's gymnastics. Notre Dame hockey will join with BC in Hockey East in 2013.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldnt tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didnt do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrants hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?1774)
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. Whats the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)