The school's mascot was Rocky the Terrier, who was officially introduced in 1933 by the college's athletic association.

[2] The basketball, volleyball, water polo, and swimming and diving teams for the Terriers competed in the Generoso Pope Athletic Complex.

On March 20, 2023, St. Francis College announced that it would end intercollegiate athletic competition at the close of the spring semester due to financial and enrollment concerns.

[5] [6] Their last coach was Julius "Indian" Yablok a former quarterback at Colgate University, who replaced Salvatore "Tut" Maggio.

[10] The college previously came to be known as St. Francis (NY) when the athletics program joined the Division I Northeast Conference in 1981.

In 2018 it was announced that women's soccer[11] and men's volleyball[12] would be added as sports programs to the existing teams at St. Francis College.

On September 30, 2021, the NEC announced it would start a men's volleyball league in the 2023 season (2022–23 school year).

Both the men's and women's teams hosted their home games at The Pope and were members of the Northeast Conference.

[19] The team played its home games on the Peter Aquilone Court at the Generoso Pope Athletic Complex.

[7] Glenn Braica replaced Brian Nash who resigned after five seasons, 3 of which his team did not make the postseason.

[23] The Terriers coach with the most wins is Daniel Lynch who from 1948 to 1969 accumulated a 282–233 record and won 3 regular season conference championships.

For the third time in the programs history, the 2012 Terriers won the Eastern Championships and earned an NCAA final four birth.

The Terriers also went on to defeat Air Force to win their first national tournament match for a third-place finish.

From 2013 to 2014, Srdjan Mihaljevic an alumnus of St. Francis College and former water polo player was the head coach.

[33] Mihaljevic inherited a team that placed third in the 2012 NCAA Final Four and was ranked tenth in preseason polls.

In winning back-to-back Eastern Championships, St. Francis joins Yale University (1972–74), Bucknell (1977–80), Brown (1983–85), the United States Naval Academy (1986–88, 2006–08) and the University of Massachusetts (1993–96, 1998–99) as the only programs in league history to claim back-to-back crowns.

[34] The Terriers defeated UC San Diego in the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship play-in game.

The Terriers then lost in the semi-finals to top seeded USC and in the consolation game to Stanford, to finish fourth in the NCAA tournament.

[39] The final head coach, Tom Giovatto, joined the Terriers in 2007 and led the team to a 120–85–32 record.