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. The academy sponsors 33

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teams and 12 club sport teams."Wesley Brown Field House" Facts sheet
. USNA Public Affairs Office. Athletics Department webpage (Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website). Retrieved 2010-02-09.
. Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-02-10. Both men's and women's teams are called Navy Midshipmen or "Mids". They participate in the

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's Division I, as a non-football member of the Patriot League, a football-only member of the

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in the

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(FBS), and a member of the

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(men),

Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges The Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) is a college athletic conference of eighteen men's college rowing crews. It is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Members Eighteen colleges and universities are member ...

(men),

Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges The Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges (EAWRC) is a college athletic conference of eighteen women's college rowing crew teams. The conference is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Members :''See footnote''< ...

Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League The Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League (EIGL) is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference which sponsors men’s gymnastics. It is an affiliate of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Members :''See footnote'' * Army Black ...

(men), Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (men) and

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. Navy is also one of approximately 300 members of the

Eastern College Athletic Conference The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location fr ...

(ECAC). The most important sporting event at the academy is the annual Army–Navy Game. The 2014 season marked Navy's 13th consecutive victory over Army. The three major service academies (

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, and

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) compete for the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, which is awarded to the academy that defeats the others in football that year (or retained by the previous winner in the event of a three-way tie). Participation in athletics is, in general, mandatory at the Naval Academy and most Midshipmen not on an intercollegiate team must participate actively in intramural or club sports. There are exceptions for non-athletic Brigade Support Activities such as YP Squadron (a professional

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training activity providing midshipmen the opportunity to earn the Craftmaster Badge) or the

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. Varsity-letter

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wear a specially-issued

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"N" patch affixed. If they belong to a team that beats

in any sport designated "Star" competition, they are also awarded a gold star ("N-Star") to affix near the "N" for each such victory.

Teams

The United States Naval Academy sponsors varsity teams in seventeen men's, ten women's, and three coed

-sanctioned sports: * ^‡ = Men's heavyweight rowing is sanctioned by the

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; men's lightweight rowing is sanctioned by the

; neither is sanctioned by the NCAA. * ^∞ = Sprint football is sanctioned by the

, not by the NCAA. * ^† = Squash is sanctioned by the College Squash Association, not by the NCAA. * ^~ = Intercollegiate sailing is sanctioned by the

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; offshore sailing is sanctioned by various organizations; neither is sanctioned by the NCAA. * * = Rifle is technically a men's sport, but men's, women's, and coed teams all compete against each other; Navy has a coed team that competes in the

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. * ^# = The football team is a single-sport member of the

. * ^♦ = The gymnastics team competes in the

. * ^♥ = The water polo team competes in the

Collegiate Water Polo Association The Collegiate Water Polo Association is a conference of colleges and universities in the Eastern United States that sponsor 19 men's teams and 17 women's teams that compete in varsity water polo. The winners of the conference tournaments earn one ...

. * ^♣ = The wrestling team competes in the

Men's varsity sports

Baseball

:''See footnote''. ''See also: :Navy Midshipmen baseball,

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, and United States Navy Baseball''

Basketball

The men's basketball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 11 times and made regional finals (the "

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") in 1954 and 1986. *

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: Elite Eight, NCAA Tournament (7th seed) The team has won its conference tournament six times: once in the

(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

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and for the 1912–13 season by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

Crew

:''See also:

(EARC), , and Walsh Cup (rowing)''USNA Athletics
fficial webpage (on USNA official website). Retrieved 2010-02-13. Men's rowing (both heavyweight and lightweight) and women's lightweight rowing are not part of the NCAA and have separate championships. The NCAA does conduct championships for women's heavyweight (or openweight) crews (Divisions I, II and III). See:

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. The heavyweight crew won Olympic gold medals in men's eights in 1920 and 1952, and from 1907 to 1995 at

regatta the team earned 30 championships, was runner-up 29 times, and had 31 third-place finishes. The lightweight crew won the 2004 and 2021 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.

Fencing

The men's

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team won three NCAA Division I championships and was runner-up four times. ; NCAA Fencing Team Championship - Division I *1948: National Runner-up *1950: National Champion *1953: National Runner-up *1959: National Champion *1960: National Runner-up *1962: National Champion *1963: National Runner-up The varsity program was disestablished in 1993, but USNA does have club fencing (see Men's and Women's Club Sports below).

Football

*1926: National Champion

Lacrosse

; NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship * 1975: National Runner-up * 2004: National Runner-up

Soccer

; NCAA Men's Soccer Championship - Division I *1963: National Runner-up * 1964: National Champion ; Intercollegiate Soccer Football Association *1932: National Champion (with University of Pennsylvania)

Sprint football

:''See footnote'' ''See also:

(CSFL)'' *2014 CSFL National Champion

Squash

:''See footnote''. ''See also: '' The men's

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team was the national nine-man team champion in 1957, 1959, and 1967.

Swimming and diving

:''See footnotes''.Men's Swimming & Diving: Past Champions
. ECAC Sports.com. Retrieved 2010-03-03. ''See also:

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'' 2010 – seventh straight Patriot League title and second consecutive

(ECAC) championship.In 2010, the swimming and diving championships included 21 men's teams and 24 women's teams. Will Norton was named ECAC Co-Swimmer of the Year.

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Bill Roberts was named ECAC

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. 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 eighth straight Patriot League title and third straight ECAC title.

Track and field

:''See footnote''. ''See also:

NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship The NCAA Men's Indoor Track and Field Championship refers to one of three annual collegiate indoor track and field competitions for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for athletes from institutions that make up its thre ...

'' ;

NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship The NCAA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship refers to one of three annual collegiate outdoor track and field competitions for men organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for athletes from institutions that make up ...

*1945: National Champion

Wrestling

:''See footnote''. ''See also:

(EIWA) and

NCAA Wrestling Team Championship The NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships have been held annually since 1928, except for a hiatus in 1943–45 during World War II and in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 1928 and from 1931–1933, there was only an unofficial team tit ...

'' The Navy Midshipmen wrestling team is coached by

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. 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 1968, 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

:''See footnote''. ''See also:

NCAA Men's Cross Country Championship The NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championship is the cross country championship held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association each autumn for individual men's runners and cross country teams from universities in Division I. Teams a ...

'' :''See footnotes''. ''See also:

(EIGL) and

NCAA Men's Gymnastics championship The NCAA Men's Gymnastics Championships are a gymnastics competition held each year to determine the best men's college gymnastics team. All schools compete in one National Collegiate division because only 13 schools sponsor NCAA men's gymnastics ...

'' :''See footnote''. ''See also:

NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships The NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, played in late May or early June, is the top annual competition in U.S. men's collegiate golf. The teams that win their respective Division I conference championships are given automatic spots in th ...

'' :''See footnotes''Dyer Tennis Clubhouse houses the

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team and contains

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s, offices, a racquet stringing room, a lounge, and a viewing deck overlooking the

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. On each outdoor court is a

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honoring a past Navy tennis player. The building was dedicated by the Naval Academy Athletic Association in November 2000 and is named for the late Vice Admiral George Dyer (Class of 1919). Se
Facilities: Dyer Tennis Clubhouse
Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-02-10. See als

(Naval Academy Athletic Association). Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-02-13. ''See also:

NCAA Men's Tennis Championship The NCAA Men's Tennis Championships are annual tournaments held in the spring to crown team, singles, and doubles champions in American college tennis. The first intercollegiate championship was held in 1883, 23 years before the founding of the NCA ...

'' :''See footnote''. ''See also:

NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship The NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship is an annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Beginning in 1969, it has been held every year except 2020, when it was postponed to March 2021 because of the C ...

Women's varsity sports

Basketball

:''See footnote''. ''See also:

NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic ...

'' The head coach of the Navy team is Tim Taylor. His predecessor Stefanie Pemper is the winningest coach in program history with a 214–164 record from 2008 to 2020.

Crew

:''See footnotes''. ''See also:

(EAWRC) and ''

Cross country

:''See footnote''. ''See also:

NCAA Women's Cross Country Championship The NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship is the cross country championship held by the National Collegiate Athletic Association each autumn for individual runners and cross country teams from universities in Division I. Teams and ...

Lacrosse

:''See footnote''. ''See also: College lacrosse and

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'' The women's lacrosse team was U.S. Lacrosse WDIA national runner-up in 2001 and 2007. ; US Lacrosse Women's Division Intercollegiate Associates (WDIA) Championship *2001: National runner-up *2007: National runner-up

Soccer

:''See footnote''. ''See also: NCAA Women's Soccer Championship''

Swimming and diving

:''See footnote''. ''See also:

Tennis

:''See footnotes'' ''See also:

NCAA Women's Tennis Championship The NCAA Women's Tennis Championship refers to one of three annual collegiate tennis competitions for women organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for athletes from institutions that make up its three divisions: Division I, I ...

Track and field

:''See footnote'' ''See also:

NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship The NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship refers to one of three annual collegiate indoor track and field competitions for women organised by the National Collegiate Athletic Association for athletes from institutions that make up its th ...

Volleyball

:''See footnote'' ''See also:

NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship The NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship refers to one of three championships in women's indoor volleyball contested by the NCAA since 1981: *NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship *NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball Championship *NCAA D ...

Co-ed varsity sports

Alpine skiing (''defunct'')

:''Note: No longer listed as a sport at USNA''.NavySports.com Site Map
. Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. Retrieved 2010-02-20. The alpine ski team competes in the

United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association The United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) is the sports federation for collegiate skiing and snowboarding in the United States. With over 180 member colleges, the USCSA fields some 5,000 men and women, alpine, Nordic, fr ...

, 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

:''See footnote'' 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. ;

NCAA Rifle Championship The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The tournament includes an individual and team championships consisting of the two- ...

*1990: National runner-up * 1999: National runner-up

Sailing (intercollegiate)

:''See footnotes''.The Robert Crown Sailing Center contains offices, team classrooms, locker rooms, and equipment repair and storage facilities. It also houses the ICSA College Sailing Hall of Fame, including trophies, plaques, half-models, and the intercollegiate-sailing All-America lists. Also on display in the Hall are the Naval Academy's sailing trophies and awards
Facilities: Robert Crown Sailing Center
Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. Retrieved 2011-01-08. ''See also:

Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) is one of the seven conferences affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association that schedule and administer regattas within their established geographic regions. MAISA organiz ...

(MAISA),

Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association The Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) is a volunteer organization that serves as the governing authority for all sailing competition at colleges and universities throughout the United States and in some parts of Canada. History The fir ...

(ICSA), ICSA National Championships, and Intercollegiate sports team champions#Sailing'' 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)

:''See footnote''

Men's club sports

:''See footnote'' :''See also:

NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship The NCAA men's volleyball tournament, officially titled the NCAA National Collegiate Men's Volleyball Championship, is an annual competition that determines the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship in American college men ...

Boxing

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– National Team Champion (unofficial) *

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– National Team Champion (unofficial) *

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– National Team Champion (unofficial) *

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

– National Team Champion (unofficial)

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*1987 – National Team Champions *1996 – National Team Champions *1997 – National Team Champions *1998 – National Team Champions *2005 – National Team Champions

Fencing

After the varsity program was terminated in 1993, Navy Fencing returned as an Extracurricular Activity in 2002 and became a club sport in 2012. Midshipmen currently compete against other collegiate club level teams in the Baltimore-Washington Collegiate Fencing Conference (BWCFC) and the U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs (USACFC), and against varsity teams as a member of the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Fencing Association. At the USACFC National Championships, Joel Katz won the gold medal in individual men's epee in 2006, 2007, and 2008, the men's saber team of James Henderson, Sebastian Keefer, Christopher Meacham, and Andrew Weiss won the national championship in 2019, and the combined men's and women's team placed second at the 2019 USACFC National Championships.

Ice hockey

Navy Hockey plays at the McMullen Hockey Arena. Navy Hockey consists of three teams: an ACHA Division I team that plays in the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Association (ECHA), a Division II team in the ACCHL, and a women's Division II team that plays in

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. Navy Hockey is supported through donations to the Friends of Navy Hockey in conjunction with the United States Naval Academy Foundation. Navy Hockey began as an informal student group in the early 1960s and was officially formed in 1971. Vice Admiral Walter "Ted" Carter, known as Slapshot, played on the team for four years from 1977-1981. He was a major supporter of hockey in Annapolis during his tenure as the USNA Superintendent from 2014 to 2019. Many midshipman from the mid 1970s- 2006 have fond memories of watching hockey games in Dahlgren Hall, a historic building on the Naval Academy Campus. Upon completion of the Brigade Sports Complex in 2007, the hockey team moved into the McMullen Hockey Arena which has seating capacity to hold 695 people. The McMullen Arena was funded by and named after USNA alum John McMullen, who at the time owned the NHL's New Jersey Devils. Throughout the season the arena hosts dozens of hockey games ending the season with the Crab Pot Tournament, a fixture since 1978. Although not currently a member of

Division I ice hockey, Navy co-hosted the

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with The Greater Washington Sports Alliance at the Verizon Center located in nearby

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Navy is the lone DoD military academy that does not field a Division I men's hockey team, although rumors have long abounded that the program is a candidate to be elevated to full varsity status.

Rugby

:''See also:

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and '' Founded in 1963, Navy plays its regular season in the

Atlantic Coast Rugby League The Atlantic Coast Rugby League was an annual college rugby competition played every spring among eight universities—seven from the Atlantic Coast Conference, plus Navy (from the Patriot League). The league was disestablished in 2016. Member sc ...

and its post-season in the

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. 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

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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

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(CRC), reaching the quarterfinals in 2010 and again in 2012. Navy also played in the 2012

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, advancing to the quarterfinals and finishing with a 4-2 record, including a win over rival Air Force.

Women's club sports

:''See footnote''

Boxing

The women's boxing team began competing as part of the National Collegiate Boxing Association in 2015. In 2019, the women's team won the NCBA championship for the first time.

Fencing

Navy Women's Fencing competes against other collegiate club level teams in the Baltimore-Washington Collegiate Fencing Conference (BWCFC) and the U.S. Association of Collegiate Fencing Clubs (USACFC), and against varsity teams as a member of the National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association (NIWFA). At the USACFC National Championships, Rae Katz won the gold medal in women's individual epee in 2004, the combined women's team won the national championship in 2014, and the women's saber team won the national championship in 2015 and 2016 (Naomi Ngalle, Sara Shea, Maryam Al-Hassan (2015), and Naadia Puri (2016)). At the NIWFA Championships in 2016, Naomi Ngalle won the gold medal in individual women's saber in 2016.

Ice hockey

Navy Women's Ice Hockey officially became a club team (from Extra Curricular Activity team) as of Fall 2015.

Rugby

:''See footnote''. ''See also: ''

Softball

:''See footnote''. ''See also: ''

Co-ed club sports

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Intramural sports

:''See footnote'' *Basketball *Fieldball *

Flag Football Flag football is a variant of American football where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. The sport has a strong amateur following ...

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*Slow-pitch softball 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 St. John's College is a private liberal arts college with dual campuses in Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. St. John's is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in the United States as the successor institution of Kin ...

), 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 2017, the Midshipmen had a record of 7 wins and 28 losses to the St John's team.

Championships

NCAA team championships

Navy has won 5 NCAA team national championships. *Men's (5) **

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(3): 1950, 1959, 1962 ** Outdoor Track & Field (1): 1945 ** Soccer (1): 1964 See also: * American Athletic Conference NCAA team championships * List of NCAA schools with the most NCAA Division I team championships

Other national team championships

The following 79 national team titles were not bestowed by the NCAA (2 were unofficial NCAA championships): *Men's ** Swimming and Diving (2): 1925, 1926 (unofficial NCAA team titles) **Boxing (4): 1925, 1926, 1928, 1931 **Fencing (25): ''foil:'' 1901, 1905, 1907, 1910, 1915–1917, 1920–1922, 1925, 1929, 1939; ''epee'': 1924, 1933, 1938, 1939, 1943; ''saber'': 1922, 1932, 1943; ''3-weapon:'' 1924, 1925, 1939, 1943 **Gymnastics (1): 1925° **Lacrosse (17): 1928, 1929, 1938, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1954, 1960–1967, 1970 **Rifle (12): 1924–1926, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1967, 1969 **Outdoor rifle (1): 1921 **Rowing (16): 1921, 1922, 1925, 1931, 1938, 1947, 1952, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1982–1984, 1990, 1993, 1995, 2021 **Soccer (1): 1932 ° In 1925 Navy gymnasts defeated Chicago, 33 - 12, in a dual meet between winners of the Intercollegiate and Western Conference championship meets. " 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. see also: *

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Athletic Hall of Fame

:''See footnote''. ''See also: USNA § Campus, Anders Hall of Honor (soccer), and USNA sailing trophies and awards'' The Athletic Hall of Fame is housed in Lejeune Hall. Among the exhibits are two Heisman Trophies — won by

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in 1960 and

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in 1963 — and the Eastman Award won by basketball-star

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in 1987.

Awards

* Lt. Donald McLaughlin Jr. Award (national men's lacrosse award; named for a member of the Class of 1963) *

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(2008) – Doug Zembiec (Class of 1995), a USMC major who demonstrated heroism in several incidents before his death in Iraq. * NCAA Theodore Roosevelt Award: **1976 – Thomas J. Hamilton (football, basketball, baseball) **1984 – William P. Lawrence (basketball, football, tennis) **2000 –

(football)

Alumni

:''See: USNA alumni § Athletes, USNA alumni § Olympics competitors, and USNA alumni § Other sports figures''

Facilities

:''See footnote''Facilities: Athletic Facility Information
Naval Academy Varsity Athletics official website. * Alumni Hall (built 1991) (basketball) *Brigade Sports Complex (built 2007) *Dahlgren Hall (built 1903) (fencing) *Dyer Tennis

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(built 2000) *Fisher Rowing Center – ''see Hubbard Hall (below)'' *Fluegel-Moore Tennis Stadium – ''see Tose Family Tennis Center (below)'' *

Glenn Warner Soccer Facility The Glenn Warner Soccer Facility is a soccer-specific stadium at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The college soccer facility is named for beloved longtime coach Glenn Warner. It was the site of Crystal Palace Baltimore's ...

(built 2002) *

Halsey Field House Halsey Field House is a multi-purpose arena at the United States Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, with a seating capacity of 5,000. It was home to the Navy Midshipmen men's basketball team until the Alumni Hall opened in 1991. It is named ...

(built 1957) (indoor track and field) *Hooper Brigade Sports Complex – ''see Brigade Sports Complex (above)'' * Hubbard Hall (built 1930; renovated 1993) (crew) – ''see '' *Jack Stephens Field at

Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is an open-air stadium located off the campus of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Opened in 1959, it serves as the home stadium of the Navy Midshipmen college football and lacrosse team ...

(football, lacrosse) *Lejeune Hall (built 1982) (swimming, water polo, wrestling) – ''see '' *MacDonough Hall (built 1903; renovated 1982) (boxing, gymnastics) – ''see '' *Max Bishop Stadium – ''see Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium (below)'' * McMullen Hockey Arena (ice hockey) – ''see Brigade Sports Complex (above)'' *Naval Academy Golf Club *Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium – ''see Jack Stephens Field (above)'' *Ricketts Hall (built 1966; renovated 2004) – ''see '' *Rip Miller Field (sprint football) *Robert Crown Sailing Center (sailing) *Scott

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(built 1923; renovated 1982) * Terwilliger Brothers Field at Max Bishop Stadium (renovated 2005) (baseball) *Tose Family Tennis Center – ''see Brigade Sports Complex (above)'' *

Wesley Brown Field House The Wesley Brown Field House is a sports arena at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is located between the 7th Wing of Bancroft Hall and Santee Basin. The facility houses physical education, varsity sports, club sport ...

(built 2008) (cross country, track and field, sprint football, women’s lacrosse, sixteen club sports)

Apparel

Since the 2014–15 season, the Navy Midshipmen wear

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uniforms. The team previously used

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apparel.Naval Academy signs apparel deal with Under Armour
- Jack Lambert, 17 January 2014

References

External links

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