Navy Midshipmen

Teams

The United States Naval Academy sponsors teams in seventeen men's, ten women's, and three coed NCAA sanctioned sports:

Men's baseball

Men's basketball

The men's basketball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 11 times and made regional finals (the "Elite Eight") in 1954 and 1986.

The team has won its conference tournament six times: once in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) (1985), twice in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) (1986 and 1987), and three times in its current conference, the Patriot League (1994, 1997, and 1998).

Navy was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1912–13 and 1918–19 seasons by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll and for the 1912–13 season by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

Men's crew

The heavyweight crew won Olympic gold medals in men's eights in 1920 and 1952, and from 1907 to 1995 at Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta the team earned 30 championships, was runner-up 29 times, and had 31 third-place finishes.

The lightweight crew won the 2004 National Championship and has finished second three times, the most recent being 2010. The lightweights are accredited with two Jope Cup Championships as well, finishing the Eastern Sprints with the highest number of points in 2006 and 2007.

Men's fencing (defunct)

As of 2002, the men's fencing team had won three NCAA Division I championships and was runner-up four times.

Men's football

Men's lacrosse

Men's soccer

Men's Sprint football

Men's squash

The men's squash team was the national nine-man team champion in 1957, 1959, and 1967.

Men's swimming and diving

2010 – seventh straight Patriot League title and second consecutive Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship. Will Norton was named ECAC Co-Swimmer of the Year. Head coach Bill Roberts was named ECAC Coach of the Year.

2011 – Navy Men moved into the top 25 in NCAA Division I polling. The 2010-11 team handed Princeton its first ever loss in Denunzio Pool at Princeton, 167-133. The team also won its eight straight Patriot League title and third straight ECAC title.

Men's track and field

Men's wrestling

The Navy Midshipmen Wrestling team is coached by Iowa Alum Joel Sharratt. The wrestling team at the United States Naval Academy have competed beginning since 1920 and have been competing for the NCAA Championships starting in the 1931 season. The team has placed as high as 5th at the NCAA Championships back in 1942 and most recently 18th both in 2007 & 2008. With 44 wrestlers placing 61 times as All-Americans at the NCAA Division I Championships and 6 overall four-time All-Americans throughout its time. The Navy Midshipman compete on campus at the Wesley A. Brown Field House for home dual meets and tournaments competing in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association, as the Patriot League does not sponsor wrestling.

Other sports

Basketball

The head coach of the Navy team is Stefanie Pemper.

Crew

Cross country

Lacrosse

The women's lacrosse team was U.S. Lacrosse WDIA national runner-up in 2001 and 2007.

Soccer

Swimming and diving

Tennis

Track and field

Volleyball

Alpine skiing (defunct)

The alpine ski team competes in the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association, and has made regular appearances in this decade at the USCSA National Championships.

Pistol

The Naval Academy won 13 NRA National Collegiate Open Pistol Championship, and 6 women's overall titles.

Rifle

In intercollegiate shooting, the Naval Academy has won nine National Rifle Association rifle team trophies, seven air pistol team championships, and five standard pistol team titles.

Sailing (intercollegiate)

The ICSA College Sailing Hall of Fame is located in the Robert Crown Sailing Center. Also on display in the Hall are the Naval Academy's sailing trophies and awards.

Sailing (offshore)

Men's club sports

Men's boxing

Men's hockey

Navy Hockey plays at the McMullen Hockey Arena and currently competes at the ACHA Division I level in the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association. Although not currently a member of NCAA Division I ice hockey, Navy co-hosted the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament with The Greater Washington Sports Alliance at the Verizon Center located in nearby Washington, D.C..

Men's rugby

Founded in 1963, Navy plays its regular season in the Atlantic Coast Rugby League and its post-season in the Varsity Cup Championship. With 88 registered players as of 2009, Navy was ranked as the largest college rugby program in the United States.

Navy's rugby program is one of the most successful college rugby programs in the country. Navy's best season was 1994, when Navy reached the national finals before losing to Cal 27-13. Since the inception of the national collegiate championship in 1980, Navy men's rugby reached the national semifinals twice in the 1980s and reached the semifinals 7 times during the 12-year span from 1996-2007. More recently, in the 2010-11 season Navy reached the national quarterfinals and finished the season ranked 9th in the country. Navy finished the 2012-13 season first in the Atlantic Coast Rugby League, and ranked 11th in the country.

Navy has been successful in rugby sevens. Navy plays each year in the Collegiate Rugby Championship (CRC), reaching the quarterfinals in 2010 and again in 2012. Navy also played in the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals and finishing with a 4-2 record, including a win over rival Air Force.

Women's club sports

Navy Women's Hockey, officially a club as of the Fall 2015

Co-ed club sports

Intramural sports

There is an unofficial (but previous National Champion) croquet team. Legend has it that in the early 1980s, a Mid and a Johnnie (slang for a student enrolled at St. John's College, Annapolis), were in a bar and the Mid challenged the Johnnie by stating that Midshipmen could beat St. John's at any sport. The St. John's student selected croquet. Since then, every April on the St. John’s lawn, thousands attend the annual croquet match between St. John's and the 28th Company of the Brigade of Midshipmen (originally the 34th Company before the Brigade was reduced to 30 companies). As of 2008, the Midshipmen had a record of 5 wins and 21 losses to the St John's team.

NCAA team championships

Navy has won 5 NCAA team national championships.

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Other national team championships

The following 68 national team titles were not bestowed by the NCAA (2 were unofficial NCAA championships):

° In 1925 Navy gymnasts defeated Chicago, 33 - 12, in a dual meet between winners of the Intercollegiate and Western Conference championship meets. "[I]n the twenty year period from 1910 to (the end of 1929) ... Navy has participated in 91 tournaments and dual meets and won 87 of them, including all seven of the intercollegiate championship events entered." (Those seven events were conference, not national, championships.) Navy was so strong that the Intercollegiate Association asked Navy not to participate in the 1926 championship meet. Navy was not a participant in the 1926, 1927 and 1928 championship meets.

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Athletic Hall of Fame

The Athletic Hall of Fame is housed in Lejeune Hall. Among the exhibits are two Heisman Trophies — won by Joe Bellino in 1960 and Roger Staubach in 1963 — and the Eastman Award won by basketball-star David Robinson in 1987.

Awards

Alumni

Facilities