The Navy Midshipmen are the athletic teams that represent the United States Naval Academy.

[4] They participate in the NCAA's Division I, as a non-football member of the Patriot League, a football-only member of the American Athletic Conference in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), and a member of the Collegiate Sprint Football League (men), Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (men), Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges, Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastics League (men), Mid-Atlantic Squash Conference (men) and Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association.

Varsity-letter winners wear a specially-issued blue cardigan with a large gold "N" patch affixed.

[5] The United States Naval Academy sponsors varsity teams in seventeen men's, ten women's, and three coed NCAA-sanctioned sports:[6] The men's basketball team has appeared in the NCAA tournament 11 times and made regional finals (the "Elite Eight") in 1954 and 1986.

The heavyweight crew won Olympic gold medals in men's eights in 1920 and 1952,[12] and from 1907 to 1995 at Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta the team earned 30 championships, was runner-up 29 times, and had 31 third-place finishes.

The lightweights are accredited with two Jope Cup Championships as well, finishing the Eastern Sprints with the highest number of points in 2006 and 2007.

The team played the sport under rules that made it much closer to soccer, where the players were permitted only to kick the ball in order to advance it.

Maxwell met with two of his friends, Tunstall Smith and Henry Woods, who played for the Baltimore Athletic Club and officially challenged their team to a game with the Naval Academy.

The squad received encouragement from some of the faculty, who allowed them to eat a late dinner and skip final drill for additional practicing.

[19][20] Founded in 1963 and a varsity sport since the 2022–23 school year, Navy plays its regular season in the Rugby East League and its post-season in the CRAA Championship.

With 88 registered players as of 2009, Navy was ranked as the largest college rugby program in the United States.

Navy also played in the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals and finishing with a 4-2 record, including a win over rival Air Force.

[32] 2010 – seventh straight Patriot League title and second consecutive Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) championship.

The Naval Academy won 13 NRA National Collegiate Open Pistol Championship, and 6 women's overall titles.

After the varsity program was terminated in 1993, Navy Fencing returned as an Extracurricular Activity in 2002 and became a club sport in 2012.

Navy Hockey began as an informal student group in the early 1960s and was officially formed in 1971.

Many midshipman from the mid 1970s- 2006 have fond memories of watching hockey games in Dahlgren Hall, a historic building on the Naval Academy Campus.

Although not currently a member of NCAA Division I ice hockey, Navy co-hosted the 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament with The Greater Washington Sports Alliance at the Verizon Center located in nearby Washington, D.C. Navy is the lone DoD military academy that does not field a Division I men's hockey team, although rumors have long abounded that the program is a candidate to be elevated to full varsity status.

Club Sport from 1963-2022 Founded in 1963, Navy plays its regular season in the Rugby East League and its post-season in the CRAA Championship.

With 88 registered players as of 2009, Navy was ranked as the largest college rugby program in the United States.

Navy also played in the 2012 USA Rugby Sevens Collegiate National Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals and finishing with a 4-2 record, including a win over rival Air Force.

At the NIWFA Championships in 2016, Naomi Ngalle won the gold medal in individual women's saber in 2016.

[100] "[I]n the twenty year period from 1910 to (the end of 1929) ... Navy has participated in 91 tournaments and dual meets and won 87 of them, including all seven of the intercollegiate championship events entered.