List of college athletic programs in Colorado

The main article is College sports.

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

TeamSchoolCityConference
Air Force FalconsUnited States Air Force AcademyColorado SpringsMountain West[lower-alpha 1]
Colorado BuffaloesUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulderPac-12[lower-alpha 2]
Colorado State RamsColorado State UniversityFt. CollinsMountain West[lower-alpha 3]
Denver PioneersUniversity of DenverDenverSummit[lower-alpha 4]
Northern Colorado BearsUniversity of Northern ColoradoGreeleyBig Sky[lower-alpha 5]
  1. ↑ Of Air Force's 26 varsity sports, 10 are not sponsored by the MW. The Falcons' outside affiliations are as follows:
  2. ↑ Three of Colorado's varsity sports are not sponsored by the Pac-12. Skiing, a coeducational sport with separate men's and women's squads, competes in the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association. The Pac-12 chooses not to sponsor men's and women's indoor track and field despite having enough participating schools to sponsor both; all Pac-12 members compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
  3. ↑ In women's water polo, a sport not sponsored by the MW, Colorado State competes in the Western Water Polo Association.
  4. ↑ Five of Denver's 16 varsity sports are not sponsored by The Summit League:
  5. ↑ Three of Northern Colorado's sports are not sponsored by the Big Sky. Baseball and women's swimming & diving compete in the Western Athletic Conference, and wrestling competes in the Big 12 Conference.

Division II

TeamSchoolCityConference
Adams State GrizzliesAdams State UniversityAlamosaRocky Mountain
Colorado Christian CougarsColorado Christian UniversityLakewoodRocky Mountain
Colorado Mesa MavericksColorado Mesa UniversityGrand JunctionRocky Mountain
Colorado Mines OrediggersColorado School of MinesGoldenRocky Mountain
CSU-Pueblo ThunderWolvesColorado State University-PuebloPuebloRocky Mountain
Fort Lewis SkyhawksFort Lewis CollegeDurangoRocky Mountain
Metro State RoadrunnersMetropolitan State University of DenverDenverRocky Mountain
Regis RangersRegis UniversityDenverRocky Mountain
UCCS Mountain LionsUniversity of Colorado Colorado SpringsColorado SpringsRocky Mountain
Western State MountaineersWestern State Colorado UniversityGunnisonRocky Mountain

Division III

TeamSchoolCityConference
Colorado College TigersColorado CollegeColorado SpringsSouthern Collegiate

NAIA

TeamSchoolCityConference
Johnson & Wales WildcatsJohnson & Wales UniversityDenverIndependent[lower-alpha 1]
  1. ↑ Johnson & Wales will move to NCAA Division III in 2018–19, joining Colorado College in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference.

NJCAA

TeamSchoolCityConference
Colorado Mountain EaglesColorado Mountain CollegeGlenwood SpringsScenic West
Colorado Northwestern SpartansColorado Northwestern Community CollegeRangelyScenic West
Lamar Runnin' LopesLamar Community CollegeLamarColorado CC
Northeastern (Colorado) PlainsmenNortheastern Junior CollegeSterlingColorado CC
Otero RattlersOtero Junior CollegeLa JuntaColorado CC
Trinidad State TrojansTrinidad State Junior CollegeTrinidadColorado CC

See also

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