Old Dominion Monarchs and Lady Monarchs

Old Dominion Monarchs
Lady Monarchs
University Old Dominion University
Conference Conference USA
Mid-American Conference (wrestling)
Big East Conference (field hockey)
Atlantic Sun Conference (women's lacrosse)
Big 12 Conference (women's rowing)
Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (men's swimming)
NCAA Division I FBS
Athletic director Camden Wood Selig
Location Norfolk, Virginia
Varsity teams 18
Football stadium Foreman Field
Basketball arena Ted Constant Convocation Center
Baseball stadium Bud Metheny Baseball Complex
Mascot Big Blue
Nickname Monarchs
Colors Slate Blue, Silver, and Light Blue[1]
              
Website www.odusports.com

The Old Dominion Monarchs and Lady Monarchs are composed of 18 teams representing Old Dominion University in intercollegiate athletics, including men and women's basketball, golf, soccer, sailing, swimming & diving, and tennis. Men's sports include baseball, football, and Wrestling. Women's sports include field hockey, lacrosse, and rowing. The Monarchs compete in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and are members of Conference USA.[2]

For the 2012-13 academic year, under bylaws of its previous conference, the Colonial Athletic Association, ODU was ineligible for conference championships in team sports in 2012–13. The football team played one season as an independent as part of the transition to FBS and began competing as a football-playing member of C-USA in 2014.

Old Dominion's field hockey team competes in the Big East Conference. The field hockey program had previously announced that it would join the original Big East for the 2013–14 school year. However, following the split of the original Big East, the two successor conferences, the new Big East and the American Athletic Conference, agreed that The American would not sponsor field hockey, and the new Big East would take in all of The American's programs in those sports as associate members.

The women's lacrosse team spent the 2013-14 academic year as an independent before joining the Atlantic Sun Conference as an associate member effective July 1, 2014. At the same time, the women's rowing team became an associate member of the Big 12 Conference, which effectively took over sponsorship of that sport from C-USA.[3]

Following the move to Conference USA, the men's swimming and diving team competed for two years as an independent, as C-USA does not sponsor the sport. On July 16, 2015, the team announced it would join the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association, later renamed the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, for the 2015–16 season.[4]

Teams

A member of Conference USA, Old Dominion sponsors teams in eight men's and eight women's NCAA sanctioned sports:[5]

Men's Intercollegiate Sports

Women's Intercollegiate Sports

Notes
  1. 1 2 Sailing is sanctioned by the Intercollegiate Sailing Association, not by the NCAA. ODU competes as a member of the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association.
  2. ↑ The men's swimming team joined the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association in 2015.
  3. ↑ The wrestling team competes as an affiliate member of the Mid-American Conference.
  4. ↑ The field hockey team competes as an associate member of the Big East Conference.
  5. ↑ The lacrosse team competes as an associate member of the Atlantic Sun Conference.
  6. ↑ The rowing crew competes as an affiliate member of the Big 12 Conference.

Field hockey

The ODU Monarchs field hockey team is one of the most successful college 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 1996-2003.[6] The team has also won a NCAA field hockey record nine national titles. From 1990-1993 the Monarchs won 66 straight games including three national titles. As of 2013, 50 different Monarchs have been named All-Americans.

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

Wrestling

Old Dominion Monarchs wrestling was established in 1957. The school's 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 also was a catalyst that caused the CAA to stop sponsoring the sport. The Old Dominion head wrestling coach is Steve Martin, currently in his tenth season with the program. Practicing takes place at the Wrestling Facility and duals & tournaments are held at the Ted Constant Convocation Center located on campus.[7]

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

Old Dominion Monarchs Wrestling team accomplishments:

References

  1. ↑ "ODU Athletics Logo Identity Guidelines" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-03-24.
  2. ↑ "Old Dominion Official Athletic Site". odusports.com. Retrieved 2012-06-28.
  3. ↑ "Big 12 Invites Affiliates to Rowing Championship" (Press release). Big 12 Conference. January 31, 2014. Retrieved June 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ "ODU Men's Swimming to Join the CCSA" (Press release). Old Dominion Monarchs and Lady Monarchs. July 16, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Old Dominion Athletics". Old Dominion University Athletics. Retrieved May 27, 2015.
  6. ↑ http://www.odusports.com/fls/31100/pdfs/fh/2013ODUFHRecordBook.pdf?SPSID=750423&SPID=127312&DB_OEM_ID=31100
  7. ↑ "ODU Wrestling Information Facts". Old Dominion University Athletics.
  8. ↑ "ODU Wrestling Stats" (PDF). Old Dominion University Athletics. Retrieved 2014.

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