ATHLETIC TEAMS

Teams should be referred to by gender, then team name (both in lowercase). Examples:
men’s ice hockey, women’s soccer, men’s basketball, women’s lacrosse.

Use “men’s” or “women’s” only when needed. Note that football, baseball, softball and
volleyball are not co-ed programs, so gender is redundant.

Union College teams are capitalized ONLY when the word “Union” precedes them.
 Union Hockey
 Union Swimming and Diving
 Union Volleyball

Use Dutchmen to refer to men’s teams, Dutchwomen to refer to women’s teams. Do not
use “Dutch,” “Lady Dutch,” “Flying Dutchmen” or “Fighting Dutchmen.”

Union offers 12 intercollegiate sports for men: Baseball, basketball, crew, cross country,
football, ice hockey, indoor track and field, lacrosse, outdoor track and field, soccer,
swimming and diving, tennis.

Union offers 13 intercollegiate sports for women: Basketball, crew, cross country, field
hockey, ice hockey, indoor track and field, lacrosse, outdoor track and field, soccer,
softball, swimming and diving, tennis, volleyball.

All but two programs are NCAA Division III and compete in the Liberty League (a 10-
school conference that also includes Clarkson University, Hamilton College, Hobart
College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Rochester, St. Lawrence
University, Skidmore College, Vassar College and William Smith College.

Men’s and women’s ice hockey are NCAA Division I and play in the ECACHL (a 12-
school conference that also includes Brown University, Clarkson University, Colgate
University, Dartmouth University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Quinnipiac
University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University and Yale
University).

Club sports and organizations, which do not compete at the intercollegiate level, are
offered through Student Activities. They include men’s and women’s rugby, and cycling.