The University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks (commonly UMES and also known as the Eastern Shore Hawks) are the fifteen sports teams representing the
University of Maryland Eastern Shore in
Princess Anne, Maryland in intercollegiate athletics. These include men and women's basketball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, and tennis; women's sports include bowling, softball, and volleyball; men's sports include baseball and golf. The Hawks are members of the
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in most sports, with other memberships in the
Eastern College Athletic Conference and
Northeast Conference.
The Hawks compete in the MEAC for all sports except baseball, men's golf, and women's golf, in which they compete as Northeast Conference members, and additionally in the ECAC for cross country, track and field and bowling. Eastern Shore added beach volleyball, a women-only NCAA sport, in 2022–23; the Hawks' conference affiliation in that sport has yet to be determined, given that the MEAC does not sponsor the sport. It became the first
historically black institution
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community. Mo ...
to sponsor NCAA-sanctioned beach volleyball.
Teams
NCAA national championships
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