Guilford Quakers

Guilford Quakers
University Guilford College
Conference Old Dominion Athletic Conference
NCAA Division III
Athletic director Nelson Bobb (interim)
Location Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Varsity teams 18
Football stadium Armfield Athletic Center
(2,200 capacity)
Basketball arena Ragan-Brown Field House
(2,500 capacity)
Baseball stadium Edgar H. McBane Field
Mascot Nathan the Quaker
Nickname Quakers
Colors Crimson and Gray
         
Website www.guilfordquakers.com

The Guilford Quakers are the athletic teams that represent Guilford College, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States in NCAA Division III intercollegiate sports. The Quakers compete as members of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. Altogether, Guilford sponsors 18 sports: nine each for men and women, respectively. In 2017, school administration created a full-time athletics director position and hired Nelson Bobb as interim to establish footing in Division III.[1]

Varsity teams

Mascot

Origins of the school mascot, named "Quaker Man", are unclear. Since the early 1900s, members of the cheerleading squad would attend baseball and football games dressed as Quakers. Whenever the team scored a touchdown, Quaker Man would fire a musket. Regarding a logo, the athletics department had been using the Quaker Oats Company logo, fashioned after William Penn, but, in 1968, athletic director John Lambeth called for a redesign and a "mean-looking" Quaker caricature was chosen. However, the logo was not fashioned for all team athletics, so the logo was reverted and/or changed to the school's maroon and grey initial. Since around the year 2000, the mascot, named "Nathan the Quaker" after school founder Nathan Hunt, has appeared at sporting events.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Wilkerson-New, Brant (September 6, 2017). "Nelson Bobb hired as interim athletics director at Guilford". News & Record. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Nathan the Quaker (Mascot)". guilfordiana.com. Retrieved January 7, 2018.


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