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Intercollegiate sports teams of Old Dominion University

Old Dominion Monarchs andLady Monarchs

University	Onetime Dominion University
Briefing	Conference United states (primary)
NCAA	Division I (FBS)
Athletic manager	Camden Wood Selig
Location	Norfolk, Virginia
Varsity teams	xviii
Football stadium	Southward.B. Ballard Stadium
Basketball game arena	Chartway Loonshit
Baseball game stadium	Bud Metheny Baseball Complex
Sailing venue	ODU sailing centre
Mascot	Large Blue
Nickname	Monarchs
Colors	Slate blueish, argent, and light bluish^[1]
Website	www.odusports.com

The Old Dominion Monarchs and Lady Monarchs are composed of 18 intercollegiate athletic teams representing Sometime Dominion University, located in Norfolk, Virginia. Men'due south sports include baseball game, basketball, football, golf game, sailing, soccer, swimming, and lawn tennis. Women's sports include basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, golf, sailing, soccer, pond, tennis, rowing, and volleyball. The Monarchs compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and are members of Conference U.s.a. (C-U.s.); the academy joined the conference on May 17, 2012.^[2]

The football team played one flavor as an independent equally part of the transition to FBS and began competing as a total football game-playing member of C-United states in 2014.

Old Rule'due south field hockey team competes in the Big East Conference. The field hockey program had previously announced that it would join the original Large East for the 2013–14 school year. However, post-obit the split up of the original Large East, the two successor conferences, the new Big Due east and the American Athletic Conference, agreed that The American would not sponsor field hockey, and the new Large Eastward would have in all of The American's programs in those sports as associate members.

The women's lacrosse squad spent the 2013–14 academic year as an independent before joining the Atlantic Sunday Briefing every bit an associate member effective July 1, 2014. In 2017 information technology was announced that Old Dominion Women's Lacrosse would compete in the Large Due east Briefing beginning in 2019.^[3] In 2014 the women'due south rowing team became an associate fellow member of the Large 12 Conference, which effectively took over sponsorship of that sport from C-USA.^[4] Afterwards, the university announced that the rowing team would change its conference affiliation and compete in the American Athletic Conference beginning in the 2018–19 schoolhouse year.^[5]

Following the move to Conference USA, the men's swimming and diving team competed for two years equally an independent, equally C-USA does not sponsor the sport. On July sixteen, 2015, the squad announced information technology would bring together the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association, later on renamed the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, beginning with the 2015–16 season.^[6]

In 2017, the academy announced it would add Women's Volleyball equally a scholarship sport, slated to compete in Conference United states of america beginning in 2020.^{[ commendation needed ]} The academy discontinued wrestling in Apr 2020 after a written report on the athletic department's sport sponsorship, combined with added financial pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.^[vii]

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Men's sports	Women's sports
Baseball	Basketball
Basketball	Field hockey
Football	Lacrosse
Golf game	Golf game
Sailing	Sailing
Soccer	Soccer
Swimming	Swimming
Tennis	Lawn tennis
	Rowing
	Volleyball

Conference affiliation [edit]

Conference USA logo in Erstwhile Dominion's colors

Briefing	Sports Affiliated
Conference U.s.a.	Men'due south and Women's Basketball Baseball Football Men's and Women's Golf Men's and Women's Soccer Women's Swimming and Diving Men's and Women'southward Lawn tennis Women'south Volleyball
American Athletic Conference	Rowing Women's Lacrosse
Big East Briefing	Field Hockey
Coastal Collegiate Sports Association	Men's Swimming
Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association	Sailing

Sports [edit]

Field hockey [edit]

The ODU Monarchs field hockey team is i of the most successful higher field hockey programs in the nation. Overall the team has won 17 regular season conference titles and 15 conference tournament titles including eight straight CAA regular season and tournament titles from 1996 to 2003.^[viii] The squad has also won an NCAA field hockey record nine national titles. From 1990 to 1993 the Monarchs won 66 directly games including three national titles. As of 2013, 50 different Monarchs have been named All-Americans.

National Championships – 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2000
Conference Tournament Championships – CAA: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2011
Conference Championships – CAA: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012; Big East: 2013
NCAA Tournaments – 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

Note that field hockey is ane of two ODU women'southward sports that uses "Monarchs" equally its nickname instead of "Lady Monarchs", the other being lacrosse. The coeducational team in the non-NCAA sport of sailing besides uses "Monarchs".

Discontinued sports [edit]

Wrestling [edit]

Old Rule Monarchs wrestling was established in 1957. The school'due south departure from the CAA forced the wrestling team to become an associate member of the Mid-American Conference, as Conference USA does not sponsor wrestling. It too was a catalyst that caused the CAA to stop sponsoring the sport. Practices took place at the Wrestling Facility and dual meets and tournaments were held at the Ted Constant Convocation Heart located on campus.^[nine]

Former Monarch wrestlers who went on to compete in mixed martial arts include Brandon Vera (formerly UFC) and Shanon Slack (Bellator).

The wrestling plan was discontinued in April 2020 as the COVID-xix pandemic forced the university to cut back for fiscal reasons.^[7] The team's terminal head coach was Steve Martin, who had spent the last 16 years with the program.^[x]

Accomplishments [edit]

1994 ACC Champion
3 Individual NCAA Title Titles: Carl Ragland (152 lbs) in 1969, Wayne Brilliant (142 1bs) in 1970, Terry Perdew (118 lbs) in 1974
21 NCAA All-Americans
Coaches Association National Academic 1st squad selections: James Nicholson 2009,x & 11, Kyle Hutter 2009 & 2011, Ryan Williams 2008 & 2009, and Tristan Warner 2012.^[xi]

Championships [edit]

NCAA squad championships [edit]

Former Dominion has 10 NCAA team national championships.^[12]

Women's (10)
- Basketball game (ane): 1985
- Field Hockey (9): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998, 2000
Meet also:
- Briefing USA NCAA team championships
- Listing of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Sectionalisation I championships

References [edit]

^ Onetime Dominion Academy Able-bodied Department Branding Guidelines (PDF). ODUSports.com. July viii, 2019. Retrieved Apr 5, 2021.
^ "ODU Athletics History Timeline". ODUSports.com. May 11, 2016. Retrieved April 5, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
^ "ODU women's lacrosse squad to join Big Eastward in 2019". PilotOnline.com. October xi, 2017. Retrieved April v, 2021. {{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "Big 12 Invites Affiliates to Rowing Title" (Press release). Big 12 Briefing. January 31, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
^ "AMERICAN Able-bodied CONFERENCE ADDS OLD Dominion Every bit AN AFFILIATE MEMBER IN WOMEN'South ROWING". TheAmerican.org (Press release). June 20, 2018. Retrieved April 5, 2021. {{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ "ODU Men's Swimming to Bring together the CCSA" (Printing release). One-time Rule Monarchs and Lady Monarchs. July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
^ ^a ^b Parsons, Brian (Apr three, 2020). "Onetime Dominion eliminates wrestling program effective immediately". WAVY Boob tube 10. Retrieved Apr 3, 2020.
^ http://www.odusports.com/fls/31100/pdfs/fh/2013ODUFHRecordBook.pdf?SPSID=750423&SPID=127312&DB_OEM_ID=31100^{[ expressionless link ]}
^ "ODU Wrestling Information Facts". Erstwhile Dominion University Athletics.
^ "ODU Discontinues Wrestling Program". Old Dominion Monarchs. April two, 2020. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
^ "ODU Wrestling Stats" (PDF). Former Dominion University Athletics. 2007–2008. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
^ "CHAMPIONSHIPS SUMMARY THROUGH JAN. 1, 2022" (PDF). NCAA.