List of college athletic programs in West Virginia

This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Notes:

  • This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
    • Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
    • Full name of school.
    • Location of school.
    • Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
  • Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
    • Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use "Charleston" for that school's athletic program).
    • Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
    • The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.

NCAA

Division I

TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
Foot-
ball
BasketballBase-
ball
Soft-
ball
Soccer
MWMW
Marshall Thundering HerdMarshall UniversityHuntingtonC-USAFBS
West Virginia MountaineersWest Virginia UniversityMorgantownBig 12FBS [lower-alpha 1]
  1. West Virginia's men's soccer team competes in the Mid-American Conference.

Division II

TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
Foot-
ball
BasketballBase-
ball
Soft-
ball
Soccer
MWMW
Alderson Broaddus BattlersAlderson Broaddus UniversityPhilippiMountain East
Bluefield State Big Blues and Lady BluesBluefield State CollegeBluefieldIndependent [lower-alpha 1] [lower-alpha 1]
Charleston Golden EaglesUniversity of CharlestonCharlestonMountain East
Concord Mountain Lions and Lady LionsConcord UniversityAthensMountain East
Davis & Elkins Senators and Lady SenatorsDavis & Elkins CollegeElkinsMountain East
Fairmont State FalconsFairmont State UniversityFairmontMountain East
Glenville State Pioneers and Lady PioneersGlenville State CollegeGlenvilleMountain East
Ohio Valley Fighting ScotsOhio Valley UniversityViennaGreat Midwest
Salem TigersSalem UniversitySalemIndependent
Shepherd RamsShepherd UniversityShepherdstownPennsylvania
West Liberty Hilltoppers and Lady ToppersWest Liberty UniversityWest LibertyMountain East
West Virginia State Yellow JacketsWest Virginia State UniversityInstituteMountain East
West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats and Lady BobcatsWest Virginia Wesleyan CollegeBuckhannonMountain East
Wheeling CardinalsWheeling UniversityWheelingMountain East
  1. Bluefield State announced the re-addition of its football team to play again and addition of a women's soccer team to play in 2021–22.

Division III

TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
Foot-
ball
BasketballBase-
ball
Soft-
ball
Soccer
MWMW
Bethany BisonBethany CollegeBethanyPresidents'

NAIA

TeamSchoolCityConferenceSport sponsorship
BasketballBase-
ball
Soft-
ball
Soccer
MWMW
West Virginia Tech Golden BearsWest Virginia University Institute of TechnologyBeckleyRiver States

NJCAA

TeamSchoolCityConference
Potomac State CatamountsPotomac State College of West Virginia UniversityKeyserWestern Pennsylvania

See also

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