Virginia Tech's men's sports are football, basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, and wrestling.

Virginia Tech's women's sports are basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, golf, and volleyball.

Virginia Tech's athletes have won 22 individual national titles in various track and field events, wrestling, and swimming.

Virginia Tech is one of only three "Power Five" conference members who has never won an NCAA team national championship, along with Kansas State and UCF.

According to Johann Norstedt, now a retired Virginia Tech English professor, "[Hokie was] a word that people used to express feeling, approval, excitement, surprise.

Whatever its original meaning, the word in the popular cheer did, as Stull wanted, grab attention and has been a part of Virginia Tech tradition ever since.

This rivalry developed into the original "Military Classic of the South," which was an annual football game between VMI and VPI on Thanksgiving Day in Roanoke, Virginia.

[8] Tech was passed over for membership in December of that year, despite a proposal by North Carolina to add the Gobblers and West Virginia Mountaineers.

[12] The lawsuit was settled when Metro agreed to pay the Hokies $1,135,000 and Virginia Tech joined the Atlantic 10 Conference, along with fellow newcomers Dayton and LaSalle in June 1995.

Virginia Tech finally had achieved what Frank Moseley had sought so long ago — membership in the ACC.

"[16] When Virginia Tech's football team proceeded to do precisely that in their very first season in the league, Brill's house in Chapel Hill, North Carolina received hundreds of mocking phone calls from angry Virginia Tech fans, curious to learn when the funeral arrangements would be held.

[21] On November 29, 2015, Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Whit Babcock announced that Justin Fuente was hired from the University of Memphis to succeed the retiring Frank Beamer.

Virginia Tech's men's basketball team saw a resurgence of fan support since the arrival of coach Seth Greenberg in 2003–04 and the university's entry into the ACC in 2004–05.

In March 2014, Virginia Tech Director of Athletics Whit Babcock announced the hiring of Buzz Williams as the Hokies' new head men's basketball coach.

In April 2019, Whit Babcock announced the hiring of Mike Young after Buzz Williams left to become the head coach at Texas A&M.

Tech, the seven seed, won 82-67 and only reached the final after beating Clemson, Notre Dame, and North Carolina in consecutive nights.

[25] Women's soccer at Virginia Tech began in 1980 with two club teams under the guidance of Everett Germain and his two daughters, Betsy and Julie.

The Hokies' trip to the College Cup is the equivalent of men's basketball Final Four and was the soccer team's most successful season.

[29] Since starting its varsity program in 1996, the Virginia Tech softball team has played in six conference championship games, winning both the ACC regular season and tournament titles in 2007.

[30] Under head coach Scot Thomas and behind the strength of one of the nation's best college pitchers, senior All-American Angela Tincher,[31] the Hokies made their fourth consecutive NCAA tournament appearance in 2008.

On May 25, 2008, they defeated the fourth-seeded Michigan Wolverines to advance to their first College World Series, though the Hokies were held scoreless during that appearance and were quickly eliminated in two games.

[32] Virginia Tech Softball upset the USA national team in a 1–0 no hitter in 2008[33] and advanced to the Women's College World Series for the first time ever.

[38] During the 2014–15 season, a few select matches were held for the first time at the Moss Performing Arts Center on the Virginia Tech campus.

In 2019, redshirt freshman Mekhi Lewis became the first Hokie wrestler to win a national championship for Virginia Tech.

In 2024, true sophomore Caleb Henson defeated 6th seed Austin Gomez of Michigan in the finals by a 15-7 major decision in the 149 pound weight division to become Virginia Tech's 2nd ever wrestling national champion.

The Hokies play out of the Berglund Center in Roanoke and drew the biggest crowd in team history of 5,200+ to the VT vs. UVA game on January 19, 2007.

During the 2010–11 season, the Hokies turned towards a more competitive conference, the Mid-Atlantic Collegiate Hockey Association (MACHA), where they play in the same division against Liberty, East Carolina, Maryland, and UMBC.

[45] The Hokies also defeated other ACC teams to win the 2012 Virginia Tech 7s, beating NC State 22–5 in the final.

The Hokies claimed the 2021 D1-AA National Championship with a dominant tournament run featuring wins over Salisbury (91–0), Boise State (27–11), and West Chester (37–15).

[49] Virginia Tech, along with Kansas State and UCF, is one of only three Power Five conference schools that have not won an NCAA-recognized national championship in any varsity team sport.