The WPI Engineers are the athletic teams of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The school sponsors 20 varsity sports. WPI teams participate as a member of the

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...

Division III In sport, the Third Division, also called Division 3, Division Three, or Division III, is often the third-highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Association football *Belgian Thir ...

. The Engineers are a member of the

New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut and ...

(NEWMAC). Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, rowing, soccer, swimming & diving, track & field and wrestling; women's sports include basketball, cross country, field hockey, rowing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, track & field and volleyball.

Sports Sponsered

Men's sports

Baseball

The sport of

baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

was played at the intercollegiate level on and off during the 1880s to the 1900s. During the years when WPI didn't have a sponsored team there would be contests between classes. Baseball was again introduced as a varsity sport in the spring of 1905 and has competed regularly since.

Basketball

The WPI Engineers men's

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

team dates back to the early 1900s and has competed regularly since 1915. The teams has four NEWMAC conference tournament championship (2005, 2006, 2013, 2022).

Football

The WPI Engineers football team has competed since 1887 and has the distinction of being Worcester's first college football team. The team has had three undefeated, untied seasons (1938, 1954 and 1983), two

Freedom Football Conference The Freedom Football Conference (FFC) was a college athletic conference that competed in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams were located in New England and New York. It was formed in 1992 and disbanded after the 2003 season. As can be deduced ...

(FFC) Championships (1992 and 1993), and one NEWMAC Championship (2019).

References

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* {{Massachusetts Sports