Athletics
George Fox’s athletic teams are known as the Bruins. The university offers 15 varsity sports – eight for women, seven for men – and competes in the nine-member Northwest Conference at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III level. George Fox offers baseball, basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, golf, and track and field for men. Women compete in basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, tennis, golf, track and field, and volleyball. In Spring 2014 women's lacrosse will debut as George Fox's 16th intercollegiate sport. Football is expected to return Fall 2014.
After four decades in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), George Fox University and the Northwest Conference switched affiliation to the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1998.
The Bruins have enjoyed recent success at the national level. The baseball team won the 2004 NCAA Division III national championship, a game that was named one of the top 50 moments in Northwest Sports History by Portland radio station KFXX AM 1080, "The Fan." In 2009, the school’s women’s basketball team went unbeaten (32-0) and capped the season with a 60-53 defeat of Washington University in St. Louis in the title game. In winning, George Fox claimed the first Division III national women's championship for any program west of the Rocky Mountains. Head coach Scott Rueck was named the NCAA Division III national coach of the year. More recently, the 2011-12 women's basketball team reached the championship game of the NCAA Division III tournament.
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