The majority of Nanooks sports are members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC), the hockey team is an Independent (after spending several years in the CCHA) and plays at the 4,595-seat Carlson Center located west of downtown Fairbanks, while the women's swim team is a member of the Pacific Collegiate Swimming and Diving Conference (PCSC), the men's and women's skiing teams are members of the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association (RMISA), and the rifle team competes as a member of the Patriot Rifle Conference.

[3] The Nanooks returned to the Division I level in the 1985–86 season and joined the Great West Hockey Conference (GWHC).

[4] The team won the 1987–88 GWHC regular season and 1988 playoff championship.

[7] The Nanooks rifle team most recently won the 2023 National Championship, bettering its last runner-up finish to West Virginia University in 2015.

[8] In June 2013, the Nanooks became a charter member of the Patriot Rifle Conference.