A state-of-the-art training facility will help Shepherd athletic teams continue their record of success. Pictured above is the lacrosse team who earned the MEC title in 2015
Shepherd University athletics has a tradition of success and is one of the university’s many assets. Our athletic program offers 12 varsity sports and membership in the NCAA Division II Mountain East Conference, and our student-athletes, coaches, and teams are often considered among the elite in the East.
Shepherd’s history of on-field success is matched by few of our competitors. From the 1955 undefeated football team to the Shepherd Rams baseball program, which won 20 consecutive games in 2014, student-athlete success is a hallmark of our programs. Ram Nation is also proud of alumni such as James L. Taylor ’59, our first African-American football player, and Cheryl Roberts ’80, a 2015 Athletic Hall of Fame inductee and a pioneer as the first woman to be hired as a full-time assistant for a men’s collegiate basketball team. Since 2010 our athletic achievements have included:
- Six conference championship teams
- Three coach of the year awards
- Nine Academic All-American distinctions
- Women’s basketball won the WVIAC Sportsmanship Award
- Women’s lacrosse won NCAA statistical award for goals per game
- Men’s tennis appeared in NCAA Regional tournament
- Football finishing the regular season undefeated for the 4th time in school history
- Baseball won its first NCAA tournament game since 2004
- Women’s soccer received team ethics and sportsmanship award
- Three teams won MEC conference titles, with women’s basketball appearing in the NCAA DII Atlantic Region semifinals
- All 12 teams were represented by all Mountain East Conference selections
- Forty-six student-athletes achieved Dean’s List honors for fall semester 2014
- Overall student-athlete GPA was 2.96 during fall semester 2014