Boston University has ten men's and eleven women's varsity athletic teams competing in NCAA Division I. The men compete in basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, and wrestling. Women compete in basketball, cross country, golf, ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, rowing, soccer, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, and softball. There is no varsity baseball team, but Fenway Park and the Boston Red Sox are practically on campus. Boston University is a non-sectarian private university located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The word varsity can refer to several things. ... Division I is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ... The term cross-country, when used by itself, can refer to: Cross-country running Cross-country skiing Cross-country equestrianism Cross-country or XC mountain biking Fell running also known as hill running and mountain running This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams hit a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Rowing refers to several forms of physical activity: For rowing boats in general, see Watercraft rowing. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Swimming is the method by which living creatures move themselves through water in a method not involving simply walking on the bottom. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... The word track can mean more than one thing. ... Andrell Durden (top) and Edward Harris grapple for position during the All-Marine Wrestle Offs. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... High School lacrosse action. ... Italic textSoftball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches in circumference, is thrown by a player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... Picture of Fenway Park. ... Fenway Park is the home ballpark for the Boston Red Sox baseball club. ... The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

Boston University's team nickname is the Terriers, (Boston Terriers of course) and the official mascot is Rhett the Boston Terrier. The school colors are Scarlet and White. Rhett the Terrier This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Country of origin United States Classification Breed standards (external links) FCI, AKC, ANKC KC(UK), NZKC, UKC The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America. ... Rhett is the official mascot of the Boston University Terriers and has been the BU mascot since 1922. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... Scarlet is a color with a hue between red and orange. ...

Terrier Hockey

Boston University's Hockey team is one of the nation's premier sports programs. The Terriers have appeared in more NCAA Frozen Fours (Hockey's Final Four) than any other team (20 times in 27 tournament appearances). In all, BU has won 4 National Championships and 5 runner-up trophies since the NCAA hockey tournament began in 1948. The Terriers play in the Hockey East Conference, along with crosstown arch-rivals Boston College and Northeastern. Under long-time coach and former player, Jack Parker, BU dominated the 90's by winning six of ten Hockey East regular season titles, the 1995 National Championship and 3 National runner-up trophies. Every year the four major Boston area schools, BU, BC, Northeastern and Harvard meet at the TD Banknorth Garden (formerly the FleetCenter) for a mid-season tournament called the Beanpot. The televised tourney is a local institution, and a fierce battle for bragging rights. As of 2005, the Terriers have won 26 of 53 beanpots and 9 of the last 11 to earn a strong claim to the title of Boston's best. Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a hard, round ball or a puck into the opponents goal, past the goalkeeper or goaltender (often abbreviated goalie), using a stick. ... The Frozen Four is the trademarked name of the final two rounds of the NCAA Division I championship of ice hockey in the USA. Schools advance in a single-elimination tournament from four regional sites to a single site, where the national semifinals and final game are played. ... Final Four is a sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament. ... Hockey East is a college athletic conference which operates in New England. ... Boston College is a private university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts in the New England region of the United States. ... Northeast is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... Northeast is the ordinal direction halfway between north and east. ... Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... The FleetCenter is a sports arena in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Beanpot is the name of a renowned college ice hockey tournament between the four major college hockey schools of the Boston, Massachusetts area, held yearly since the 1952- 1953 season. ...

Other Varsity Sports

For most other sports, BU competes in the America East Conference (formerly called the North Atlantic Conference). The Men's Basketball team has earned post-season berths in the NCAA tournament or NIT in each of the last 4 years (2002-2005). The Program is notable for grooming big name college coaches such as Rick Pitino and Mike Jarvis. The Terriers also have a history of national success in men's and women's soccer, field hockey, and women's lacrosse. The men's and women's rowing teams compete in the EARC and EAWRC respectively, the oldest and most competitive conference in College rowing (United States). In 1991 and 1992 women's rowing won back to back national championships. The America East Conference is a College Athletic Conference whose members are located mainly on the East Coast of the United States. ... Basketball is very popular in U.S. colleges. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Nit can refer to: A common name for various types of lice eggs. ... Rick Pitino (born September 18, 1952 in New York City) is a basketball coach with experience in NBA and NCAA basketball leagues. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. ... High School lacrosse action. ... Rowing refers to several forms of physical activity: For rowing boats in general, see Watercraft rowing. ... Rowing is the oldest intercollegiate sport in the United States. ...

Dropping Football

Boston University terminated their money-losing DI-AA football program on Homecoming Weekend 1997 during a winless season in the Atlantic 10. It was a controversial decision (made worse by the timing of the announcement). The decision was especially painful for alumni and students who felt a national university needed a football team to be credible as a "major" college. The players at the time were allowed to keep their 4-year scholarships or transfer without NCAA penalties. Since then, the University has used those football scholarships to expand and improve other men's and women's sports teams while adhering to the letter and spirit of Title IX (women typically make up more than 55% of BU's undergraduates). BU has also greatly improved facilities for hockey and the other sports, assuaging critics' concerns that football was dropped for mere penny-pinching or as part of a plan to neglect athletics. United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Homecoming is a tradition observed at many American and Canadian high schools and colleges, usually in late September or October. ... The Atlantic 10 Conference (A10) is a college athletic conference which operates mostly in the eastern United States; it also has two member schools in Ohio. ... Patsy T. Mink, late Congresswoman from Hawaii, wrote the law as an outgrowth of adversities she faced in obtaining her college degrees at the University of Hawaii, University of Nebraska and University of Chicago. ...

New Facilities

In 2005, Boston University opened Agganis Arena for Hockey and Basketball. The facility was designed as a top of the line hockey arena: a departure from BU's Walter Brown Arena which had the smallest playing ice in Division I. Agganis Arena seats six to seven thousand, and also serves the city of Boston as a mid-size venue for popular events that could not fill the 20,000+ seat Fleet Center. The arena is named after Harry Agganis, "The Golden Greek," BU alumn, Terrier sports star, Boston Red Sox first baseman, and Boston native who died of a pulmonary embolism in 1955 at the age of 25. Agganis Arena is a 6,300-seat multi-purpose arena in Boston, Massachusetts. ... An arena is a circular or oval shaped public space (akin to a classical amphitheatre), designed to showcase theater, musical performances, or sporting events. ... A Venue is commonly the scene of an event or action (especially the place of a meeting). ... Harry Agganis - Topps baseball card - 1955 Series, #152 Aristotle George (Harry) Agganis (April 20, 1929 - June 27, 1955) nicknamed The Golden Greek, was an American athletic star in two sports. ... An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ... The Boston Red Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The position of the first baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that players team. ...

Other facilities include the indoor Track and Tennis Center and the Fitness and Recreation Center, which includes a pool and diving well for the swim teams. The 200 meter indoor track is modelled on the previous high-banked armory track, which attracted programs looking to run fast times. The turns, banked up to 18.5 degrees help runners push through turns at normal speed and rhythm, and can produce many personal indoor bests. The Track and Tennis Center hosts the annual BU Invitational. The word track can mean more than one thing. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ...

Outdoor track, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey and other outdoor sports continue to be played on the artificial surface of Nickerson Field. Nickerson Field is located on the site of Braves Field, in Boston, Massachusetts the former home of the National League Boston Braves baseball team, now located in Atlanta, Georgia. ...

External links

• BU Athletics Home Page
• Boston University Men's Rugby