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34-538: The intercollegiate athletics program at UNCG began in the late 1940s during the days of the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (WCUNC), with students participating in national golf tournaments in 1948 and the school hosting the national tournaments for women's golf (1954) and tennis (1965). In 1964 males students were first admitted and the intercollegiate athletic program integrated male sports. In preparation for

68-589: A Big East School. 12 days later, UNCG beat ACC member Wake Forest on the road, marking the program's first victory over Wake Forest since 1977. In December 1989 UNCG played in the NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship game and lost to New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University), 1-3. On September 7, 1991 UNCG played its first game in UNCG Soccer Stadium , a $ 3.6 million facility. The Spartans defeated Campbell, 3–1. Four days later,

102-486: A general policy. One exception was made in 2012, when RIT successfully argued for a one-time opportunity for colleges with a D-I men's team to add a women's team. Since no more colleges would be allowed to move individual sports to D-I, the five non-scholarship programs (led by RIT and Union) petitioned to be allowed to offer scholarships in the interests of competitive equity. D-III membership voted in January 2022 to extend

136-554: A wrestling program ( UNC Greensboro Spartans wrestling ), which was stopped in March 2011. UNCG has won five national championships. All five were won while at the Division III level of the NCAA. Brian Moehler played at UNCG from 1991-1994 and was selected in the sixth round of the 1993 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. Moehler played 13 seasons of Major League Baseball and was inducted into

170-600: Is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their student-athletes. The NCAA's first split was into two divisions, the University and College Divisions, in 1956, the College Division was formed for smaller schools that did not have

204-678: Is a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) and sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports: Although not considered official sports teams, UNCG has a cheerleading squad, the UNCG Cheerleading Squad and dance team, The Spartan Gs . The UNCG club football team competes in the South Atlantic Conference of the National Club Football Association . UNCG formerly sponsored

238-447: Is about 2,750, although the range is from 418 to over 38,000. Approximately 40% of all NCAA student-athletes compete in D-III. D-III institutions must sponsor at least three team sports for each sex/gender, with each playing season represented by each gender. Teams in which men and women compete together are counted as men's teams for sports sponsorship purposes. In a feature unique to D-III,

272-453: Is designed to create more LGBTQ inclusion in D-III athletics within the NCAA . The program has facilitators from more than 40 colleges across the country, including Smith College , Agnes Scott College , and more. The group publicly condemned laws trying to limit transgender people in sports in 2021. A member of the program – Rhea Debussy who is a transgender rights activist – publicly left

306-415: Is to benefit athletic programs. D-III schools "shall not award financial aid to any student on the basis of athletics leadership, ability, participation or performance". Financial aid given to athletes must be awarded under the same procedures as for the general student body, and the proportion of total financial aid given to athletes "shall be closely equivalent to the percentage of student-athletes within

340-595: The Big South Tournament Championship and advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in Division I. Five seniors from the team had their numbers honored. Guard Scott Hartzell finished his career as the program's all-time leading scorer with 1,539 points. On March 4, 2001 UNCG won its first Men's Basketball SoCon Championship on David Schuck 's buzzer-beating layup. UNCG had their second trip to

374-664: The Greensboro Coliseum . On November 17, 2023 UNCG beat No.14 ranked Arkansas in Bud Walton Arena, 78-72. The upset was UNCG's first win over a Top 25 team and the first Southeastern Conference (SEC) win in UNCG program history. In December 2005, UNCG's women's basketball program enjoyed two of its greatest non-conference wins since moving to the Division I level. UNCG beat West Virginia in Fleming Gym , marking UNCG's first win over

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408-557: The NCAA Division I women's and Division III men's tournament finals. For the women's championship games, extra bleachers were brought in to expand the capacity to 10,583 people. The UNCG Soccer Stadium hosted the final of the 2020 Southern Conference men's soccer tournament , where the Spartans defeated Belmont to win their 6th. championship. The stadium was one of the hosts for the 2020 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament and

442-530: The "Big Dance" in five years. Guard Nathan Jameson was named first-team Verizon Academic All-America. On December 31, 2005 UNCG hosted top-ranked Duke at the Greensboro Coliseum in front of a record crowd of 21,124. The near capacity crowd was the largest to ever see a UNCG athletic event. On November 9, 2007 UNCG had their first win against an Atlantic Coast Conference opponent when they beat Georgia Tech at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, 83-74. On December 5, 2008 UNCG announced their home games would be played in

476-451: The 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament. In 2022 the stadium hosted the second round and quarterfinal games of the NCAA men's soccer tournament, both of which the UNCG men's soccer team played in. UNCG lost to Indianna in the quarterfinal game in front of a record setting crowd of 3,622. 36°04′13″N 79°48′46″W  /  36.070309°N 79.812895°W  / 36.070309; -79.812895 This article about

510-484: The NCAA does not split into divisions. Teams in these sports are not counted as playing in a different division from the rest of the athletic program. D-III members cannot award scholarships in these sports. In 2003, concerned about the disparity of some D-III athletic programs and the focus on national championships, the D-III Presidents' Council, led by Middlebury College President John McCardell , proposed ending

544-550: The Spartans stunned No. 2 NC State, 2–1. In 2004 UNCG was ranked No.1 for multiple weeks. In 2008 UNCG went into the SoCon Tournament as the #7 seed and was the lowest seed to win the SoCon Soccer Tournament Championship. During their unbelievable run, the Spartans knocked off Duke in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Loyola (MD) in overtime in the second round, and was the first team to make it to

578-527: The Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament with a losing record. On November 20, 2022 UNCG hosted Ohio State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and won in penalty kicks, 6-5. On November 27, 2022 UNCG played No.5 Stanford in the third round of the NCAA Tournament and won in penalty kicks, 3-1. On December 3, 2022 UNCG hosted No.13 Indiana in the Elite 8 and lost 0-2. After the season, UNCG Midfielder and 2022 SoCon Player of

612-654: The UNCG Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005. Danny Valencia played third base at UNCG and was the 2004 SoCon Freshman of the Year, and was voted second-team All-Conference. On April 18, 2006, UNCG earned its first win over a top-ranked team in any sport during the university's Division I era. The baseball team defeated top-ranked North Carolina, 7–6, in front of a crowd of 1,835. On February 20, 2024, UNCG beat No.1 Wake Forest, 4-3. On March 12, 2024, UNCG beat No.13 NC State, 18-3. On March 2, 1996 UNCG beat Liberty, 79–53, to claim

646-1093: The Year J.C. Ngando was picked fifth overall in the 2023 MLS SuperDraft and signed with the Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The university established the UNCG Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000. The Hall of Fame honors those athletes, coaches, and people whose outstanding contributions have enriched the athletic programs of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 5. UNCG Athletics History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 6. UNCG Baseball History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 7. UNCG Men's Baksetball History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 8. UNCG Women's Basketball History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 9. UNCG Men's Golf History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 10. UNCG Women's Golf History . Retrieved June 12, 2024 11. UNCG Men's Soccer History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 12. UNCG Women's Soccer History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. 13. UNCG Volleyball History . Retrieved June 12, 2024. NCAA Division III NCAA Division III ( D-III )

680-436: The athletic scholarship exemptions for D-I programs, eliminating redshirting, and limiting the length of the traditional and non-traditional seasons. At the January 2004 NCAA convention, an amendment allowed the exemption for grandfathered D-I athletic scholarships to remain in place, but the rest of the reforms passed. D-III announced the creation of a LGBTQ inclusion program in 2019. Named as their LGBTQ OneTeam Program, it

714-402: The grandfather clause to allow all ten colleges to offer athletic scholarships, effective immediately. Football and basketball may not be D-I programs at D-III institutions, because their revenue-enhancing potential would give them an unfair advantage over other D-III schools. In 1992, several D-I schools playing D-III football were forced to bring their football programs into D-I, following

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748-571: The incporporation of male students, the school became The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1963. During the 1980s, all Spartan teams competed in Division III (non-scholarship) and then Division II (scholarship) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and all teams have competed in Division I since Fall 1991. UNCG is a three-time winner of the Big South's Sasser Cup . UNCG

782-399: The organization's requirements for "all-sports" status. Ten D-III schools currently field Division I programs in one or two sports, one maximum for each gender. These schools are allowed to offer athletic scholarships only for their D-I men's and women's sports. Five of them are schools that traditionally competed at the highest level of a particular men's sport prior to the institution of

816-579: The passage of the "Dayton Rule" (named after the University of Dayton , whose success in D-III football was seen as threatening the "ethos" of Division III sports). This led directly to the creation of the Pioneer Football League , a non-scholarship football-only Division I FCS conference. In addition to the D-III schools with teams that play as D-I members, many other D-III schools have teams that compete alongside D-I and D-II members in sports that

850-552: The program after changes to the NCAA transgender policy in 2022. UNCG Soccer Stadium The UNCG Soccer Stadium is a 3,540-capacity soccer-specific stadium located on the campus of University of North Carolina (UNCG) in Greensboro, North Carolina . The stadium was opened for the practise of soccer in 1991 and is home to the UNC Greensboro Spartans men's and women's soccer teams. The stadium has hosted

884-459: The resources of the major athletic programs across the country. The College Division split again in 1973 when the NCAA went to its current naming convention: Division I , Division II , and Division III. D-III schools are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships, while D-II schools can. D-III is the NCAA's largest division with around 450 member institutions, which are 80% private and 20% public. The median undergraduate enrollment of D-III schools

918-489: The same in 2014. Hartwick College , which had been grandfathered in men's soccer and women's water polo, moved its men's soccer program to D-III in 2018 and dropped women's water polo entirely. The other five schools chose to field D-I programs in one sport for men and/or one sport for women after the original grandfather clause went into effect, so they were not grandfathered and thus were not allowed to offer athletic scholarships. Academic-based and need-based financial aid

952-468: The same treatment, a full scholarship. Another aspect that distinguishes D-III from the other NCAA divisions is that D-III institutions are specifically banned from using the National Letter of Intent , or any other pre-enrollment form that is not executed by other prospective students at the school. The NCAA provides for one exception—a standard, nonbinding celebratory signing form that may be signed by

986-474: The sponsorship requirements for that sex. There are minimum contest rules and participant minimums for each sport. D-III athletic programs are non-revenue-generating, extracurricular programs that are staffed and funded like any other university department. They feature student-athletes who receive no financial aid related to their athletic ability. Student-athletes cannot redshirt as freshmen, and schools may not use endowments or funds whose primary purpose

1020-487: The student body". The ban on scholarships is strictly enforced. As an example of how seriously the NCAA takes this rule, in 2005 MacMurray College became only the fifth school slapped with a " death penalty " after its men's tennis program gave grants to foreign-born players. The two service academies that are D-III members, Merchant Marine and Coast Guard , do not violate the athletic scholarship ban because all students, whether or not they are varsity athletes, receive

1054-432: The student upon his or her acceptance of enrollment. However, this form cannot be signed at the campus of that college, and staff members of that college cannot be present at the signing. An "all-sports conference" is defined here as one that sponsors both men's and women's basketball. While the NCAA has a much more detailed definition of the term, every NCAA conference (regardless of division) that sponsors basketball meets

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1088-801: The three division classifications in 1973, a decade before the NCAA governed women's sports. These five colleges (plus three others that later chose to return their D-I programs to D-III) were granted a waiver (a.k.a. a grandfather clause ) in 1983 to continue offering scholarships, a waiver that was reaffirmed in 2004. Presumably due to Title IX considerations, grandfathered schools are also allowed to field one women's sport in D-I, and all five schools choose to do so. Three formerly grandfathered schools moved completely to D-III. The State University of New York at Oneonta , which had been grandfathered in men's soccer, moved totally to D-II in 2006. Rutgers University–Newark , which had been grandfathered in men's volleyball, did

1122-433: The total number of required sports varies with each school's full-time undergraduate enrollment. Schools with an enrollment of 1,000 or less must sponsor five men's and five women's sports; those with larger enrollments must sponsor six for each sex/gender. Institutions that sponsor athletic programs for only one sex/gender (single-sex schools, plus a few historically all-female schools that are now coeducational) need only meet

1156-414: Was still available, as is the case for all of D-III. In addition, Lawrence University was formerly a non-grandfathered program in fencing, but the NCAA no longer conducts a separate D-I fencing championship. Lawrence continues to field a fencing team, but that team is now considered D-III (see below ). In August 2011, the NCAA decided to no longer allow individual programs to move to another division as

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