In 2013, UNF President John Delaney revealed the school would begin preliminary discussions about adding the sport.

UNF's first Division I conference title came in 2008 when the men's golf team captured the Atlantic Sun crown.

[5] On July 16, 2014, UNF released updated logos and a custom font to represent the Ospreys across all sports.

The two new facilities are a student wellness and sports education center, and a baseball stadium with a seating capacity of 3,000.

It was designed in 1986 at the urging of Dusty Rhodes and continued, and brought extra attention to the baseball program.

The North Florida Ospreys men's basketball team began play in the 1992–93 season as members of the NAIA.

The Ospreys women's basketball team is currently led by head coach Darrick Gibbs, who is in his first season in 2015–16.

[16] North Florida made the NCAA Division II Tournament twice, in 2003 and 2004, and were the 2009–10 Atlantic Sun Conference runner-up.

[17] However, they began to struggle in the following years, posting two last-place finishes in the Atlantic Sun and a combined conference record of 4–28 over the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons.

Team honors: North Florida soccer's home matches are held at Hodges Stadium.

[22] Men's soccer won their first Atlantic Sun Conference tournament title in 2015 by defeating USC Upstate 7–0 at Hodges Stadium.

[28] A women's sand volleyball team was added in 2012;[29] The current head coach is Samantha Dabbs.

[31] "The Swoop" is a key UNF tradition, similar in principle to UF's Gator Chomp or FSU's Tomahawk Chop as the recognized gesture to show school spirit.

[34] The two universities contest the "River City Rumble", in which the school with the most wins over the other across all sports receives a trophy, the SunTrust Old Wooden Barrel.

In individual sports, the team that finishes higher at the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship earns one point.