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{{Infobox college athletics
| name = New York University Violets
| logo = NYU Violets wordmark.svg
| logo_width  = 200
| university = [[New York University]]
| conference = [[University Athletic Association|UAA]]
| association = NCAA
| division = [[NCAA Division III|Division III]]
| location = [[Manhattan|New York]], [[New York (state)|New York]]
| teams = 23<ref name=baseball/>
| soccerstadium = Home games usually played at [[Gaelic Park]]
| basketballarena = [[John A. Paulson Center]]
| mascot = Bobcat<ref name= FAQ>{{cite web |title=NYU Athletics FAQ |publisher=gonyuathletics.com |url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/sports/2008/8/21/FAQ.aspx?id=1039 |access-date=November 27, 2012}}</ref>
| nickname = Violets<ref name= FAQ/>
| baseballfield=[[Maimonides Park]]
| pageurl = https://gonyuathletics.com/
| altlogo = [[File:Nyu violets wordmark.png|170px]]
}}

'''NYU Violets''' is the [[Athletic nickname|nickname]] of the sports teams and other competitive teams at [[New York University]].<ref name= FAQ/> The [[school colors]] are purple and white.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/documents/2015/10/26/2015_16_Quick_Facts.pdf |title=NYU Athletics Quick Facts 2015–16 |date=October 26, 2015 |access-date=September 1, 2016}}</ref> Although officially known as the Violets, the school [[mascot]] is a [[bobcat]].<ref name= FAQ/> The Violets compete as a member of [[NCAA Division III]] in the [[University Athletic Association]] conference. The university sponsors 23 varsity sports, as well as club teams and [[intramural sports]].

== Sports sponsored ==
{| class="wikitable"
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{{CollegePrimaryHeader|team=NYU Violets|Men's sports|Women's sports}}
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| Baseball || Basketball
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| [[NYU Violets men's basketball|Basketball]] || Cross Country 
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| Cross Country || Fencing
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| Fencing || Golf
|-
| Golf || Soccer
|-
| Soccer || Softball
|-
| Swimming & Diving || Swimming & Diving
|-
| Tennis || Tennis
|-
| Track & Field† || Track & Field†
|-
| Volleyball || Volleyball
|-
| Wrestling  ||
|-
| colspan="2" style="{{NCAA secondary color cell|NYU Violets}}" | {{small|† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor}}
|}

== Nickname and mascot ==
For more than a century, NYU athletes have worn [[Violet (color)|violet]] and white colors in competition, which is the root of the nickname Violets.<ref name= FAQ/> In the 1980s, after briefly using a student dressed as a [[Viola (plant)|violet]] for a mascot, the school instead adopted the [[bobcat]] as its mascot, from the abbreviation then being used by NYU's [[Elmer Holmes Bobst Library|Bobst Library]] computerized catalog.<ref name= FAQ/>

== History ==
NYU long offered a full athletic program, and was in fact a pioneer in the area of intercollegiate sports. When NYU began playing [[college football]] in 1873 it was one of the [[History of American football|first football teams]] established in the United States (following [[Princeton Tigers football|Princeton]], [[Rutgers Scarlet Knights football|Rutgers]], [[Columbia Lions football|Columbia]] and [[Yale Bulldogs football|Yale]]).<ref name=Archivist>{{Cite web|title=The Story of NYU Football|publisher=NYU Alumni Connect |url=http://alumni.nyu.edu/s/1068/2col.aspx?sid=1068&gid=1&pgid=1855|access-date=November 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=1873-1874 Association Foot Ball Summary|url=http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/1873-74.html|access-date=November 29, 2012}}</ref> Additionally, the current governing body for collegiate sports, the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]], was formed as the direct result of a meeting convened in New York City by NYU Chancellor [[Henry MacCracken]] in December 1905 to improve the safety of football.<ref name=Archivist/>

However, in a process somewhat similar to what occurred with NYU's current conference rival [[Chicago Maroons]], athletics were gradually deemphasized at NYU over the passing decades. The school terminated its intercollegiate football program in 1953.<ref name=Football>{{Cite web|title=New York University's Football Legacy|publisher=NYU Alumni Connect |url=http://alumni.nyu.edu/s/1068/2col.aspx?sid=1068&gid=1&pgid=4314 |access-date=November 27, 2012}}</ref> In 1971 the basketball program was abruptly dropped.<ref name=WSJ>{{Cite news|title=NYU Holds Out On Sports|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=May 1, 2010 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703871904575216363243298780}}</ref> In 1981, at the urging of then president [[John Brademas]], NYU removed its remaining sports from [[NCAA Division I]] to Division III. Still, NYU maintains a significant history of athletic success.

Intercollegiate sports at NYU also had moments of importance beyond anything shown by a scoreboard. In the [[1940 college football season|1940 season]], before a football game between NYU and [[Missouri Tigers football|Missouri]] in [[Columbia, Missouri]], 2,000 NYU students protested against the "[[gentlemen's agreement]]" to exclude [[African-American]] athletes (at the [[University of Missouri]]'s request).<ref name=protest>{{Cite news|title=N.Y.U. Honors Protestors It Punished in '41|newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 4, 2001|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/04/sports/college-football-nyu-honors-protesters-it-punished-in-41.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm}}</ref> At the time, it was the largest protest ever against this practice.<ref name=protest/>

=== Division I ===

Since beginning play in 1873, NYU football has had many football players earn recognition for their achievements, most notably 1928 [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] and future Hall-of-Famer [[Ken Strong]].<ref name=Football/> The Violets played their games at Ohio Field, which still exists on NYU's former [[New York University-University Heights|University Heights campus]] at [[Bronx Community College]].<ref name=Archivist/> The most successful football coach in NYU history was [[Chick Meehan]], who coached the team to seven successful seasons from 1925 to 1931. In 1939, head coach [[Mal Stevens]] led NYU to a 5–1 start and the program's only appearance in the [[AP Poll]], before fading to a 5–4 final record. Additionally, the model for the [[Heisman Trophy]] is based on 1930s NYU football star [[Ed Smith (running back)|Ed Smith]].<ref name=Archivist/> Despite some shining moments, however, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine characterized NYU's overall football history as mostly "lean" in 1942,<ref name= Time>{{cite web |publisher=[[Time Magazine]]|title=N. Y. U. Drops Football|date=March 9, 1942|access-date=October 2, 2007 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885939,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131185229/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,885939,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 31, 2008}}</ref> and NYU permanently dropped the sport as a varsity program after the 1952 season.<ref name=Archivist/><ref name=Football/>

[[File:Dolph Schayes 1955 (2).jpeg|thumb|180px|[[Dolph Schayes]]]]
While a member of Division I, the [[NYU Violets men's basketball|Violets' men's basketball program]] achieved far greater success than the school's football team. Its best [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA tournament]] result was finishing as national runner-up to Oklahoma State (coached by the legendary [[Henry Iba]]) in the [[1945 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1945 NCAA tournament]], with future NBA Hall of Famer [[Dolph Schayes]] playing for NYU. NYU returned to the Final Four in [[1960 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament|1960]], losing to Ohio State, whose roster featured legends [[Jerry Lucas]] and [[John Havlicek]]. NYU was even more successful in the years before the advent of the [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT tournament]] (in 1938) or the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA tournament]] (in 1939). In [[1919–20 NCAA men's basketball season|1920]] NYU won the [[Amateur Athletic Union]] [[List of College Championship Game Outcomes|national championship tournament]], led by the [[Helms Athletic Foundation]] [[Helms Foundation Player of the Year|Player of the Year]], [[Howard Cann]], and the 19–1 [[1934–35 NYU Violets men's basketball team|NYU team of 1935]] was named (retrospectively) by the Helms Foundation and the [[Premo-Porretta Power Poll]] as the best team in the nation.<ref name=RecordBook>{{Citation | last = NYU Athletics | title = NYU Men's Basketball Record Book | url = http://www.gonyuathletics.com/documents/2010/11/4/MBasketball.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game|editor-last=ESPN|publisher=ESPN Books|location=New York, NY|year=2009|pages=544|isbn=978-0-345-51392-2}}</ref> The Violets' most recent post-season accomplishment as a Division I school was finishing as the runner-up to [[BYU Cougars men's basketball|BYU]] in the [[1966 National Invitation Tournament]].  Their six appearances in the NCAA basketball tournament are the second-most among teams no longer in Division I (after [[Oklahoma City Stars men's basketball|Oklahoma City University]]'s 11), and their nine wins are the most among those teams. 

NYU maintained a nationally ranked basketball team through the sixties with such stars as [[Barry Kramer]] and [[Satch Sanders]] going to the NBA. The Violets played most of their games in [[Madison Square Garden]], most notably their duels with UCLA led by [[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]], but games against less exalted local opponents like Fordham were played in the field house on the NYU campus in [[University Heights, Bronx|University Heights]].

====Fencing====
NYU continues to compete at the Division I level in fencing, and the program boasts 30 national championships. The university's men's fencing team won the most [[NCAA]] Division I championships or co-championships prior to the NCAA's establishment of coed team competition in 1990. NYU men won 12 NCAA titles between 1947 and 1976, plus an additional eight titles [[List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships|prior to NCAA sponsorship]].

[[Gilbert Eisner]], a future national champion, went undefeated in the three years of 1959, 1960, and 1961, and won the NCAA épée championship in 1960 while fencing for NYU.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofje00post |url-access=registration |quote=Gilbert Eisner epee. |title=Encyclopedia of Jews in Sports |publisher=Bloch Publishing Company |author1=Bernard Postal |author2=Jesse Silver |author3=Roy Silver|access-date=October 28, 2013|year=1965}}</ref><ref name="gonyuathletics1">{{cite web |url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=92&path=&kiosk=|title=NYU Athletics - Hall of Fame |publisher=Gonyuathletics.com |access-date=October 28, 2013}}</ref> Also in 1960, future Olympian [[Eugene Glazer (fencer)|Eugene Glazer]] won the NCAA National Championship in foil.<ref>[https://www.si.com/vault/1960/04/18/588669/faces-in-the-crowd "Faces in the Crowd,"] ''Sports Illustrated''.</ref> Singer [[Neil Diamond]] was a member of the 1960 [[NCAA Fencing team championship#Men's|NCAA men's championship]] team.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://alumni.nyu.edu/s/1068/social.aspx?sid=1068&gid=1&pgid=2859|title=The Archivist's Angle: Formidable Fencers at NYU |website=nyu.edu|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref> [[Herbert Cohen (fencer)|Herb Cohen]] (class of 1962), a future Olympian, went undefeated in 1961 and won both the NCAA foil championship and the NCAA saber championship, and then in 1962 won his second straight NCAA Championship in foil, while being named national Fencer of the Year.<ref name=autogenerated5>Bob Wechsler. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&dq=herbert+cohen+jewish+fencer&pg=PA86 ''Day by Day in Jewish Sports History'']</ref><ref>[http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/New_York_University_Violet_Yearbook/1961/Page_174.html New York University - Violet Yearbook (New York, NY), Class of 1961], Page 174.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usfencingresults.org/history/Collegiate/NCAA/NCAA%20History%20and%20Records/NCAA%20Championships%20combined.pdf|title="Fencing"|website=usfencingresults.org|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref> In 1965, Howard Goodman was the NCAA saber champion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=9&path=&kiosk=|title=NYU Athletics Official Site - Hall of Fame |website=www.gonyuathletics.com|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref> In 1967, future Olympian [[George Masin]] won the NCAA épée championship. [[Martin Lang (fencer)|Martin Lang]], a future Olympic fencer, was 55-5 for the team, graduating in 1972.<ref name=autogenerated1a>{{cite web|url=http://www.darrellwaltripnews.com/classic/Articles/DWAutomotivesMartyLangInductedintoNYUHallofFame/|title=DW Automotive's Marty Lang Inducted into NYU Hall of Fame|website=www.darrellwaltripnews.com|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210120956/http://www.darrellwaltripnews.com/classic/Articles/DWAutomotivesMartyLangInductedintoNYUHallofFame/|archive-date=February 10, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Risto Hurme]], a future Olympian, won the NCAA épée championship in 1973, 1974, and 1975.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=31 |title=NYU Athletics Official Site - Hall of Fame|website=www.gonyuathletics.com|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref> In 1977, Olympian [[Hans Wieselgren]] won the NCAA épée championship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gonyuathletics.com/hof.aspx?hof=16 |title=NYU Athletics Official Site - Hall of Fame |website=www.gonyuathletics.com|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref>

The women's fencing team has been national champions ten times, winning the [[National Intercollegiate Women's Fencing Association]] (NIWFA) Mildred Stuyvesant-Fish Trophy from 1929 to 1933, in 1938, from 1949 to 1951, and in 1971 when coached by future Olympic coach [[Michel Sebastiani]].<ref>[https://goprincetontigers.com/sports/2016/6/16/womens-fencing-coaching-records-program-facts "Women's Fencing,"] Princeton Tigers.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/04/archives/n-y-u-captures-womens-fencing-ruth-white-takes-all-27-of-her-bouts.html "N.Y.U. Captures Women's Fencing,"] ''The New York Times'', April 4, 1971.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.niwfa.com/|title=National Intercollegiate Womens Fencing Association|website=www.niwfa.com|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref> NIWFA was co-founded by NYU freshmen [[Julia Jones Pugliese|Julia Jones]] and Dorothy Hafner in 1928.<ref>[http://www.niwfa.com/founder.html Julia Jones Pugliese], NIWFA web site (retrieved February 6, 2016)</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gfml9vmXsjwC&q=julia+jones+&pg=PA37 ''The Woman Fencer'' – Nick Evangelista, Anita Evangelista<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

=== Division III ===
[[File:NYU volleyball.jpg|thumb|upright|Men's volleyball match in the [[Coles Sports and Recreation Center|Coles Center]]]]
NYU, in its relatively short history in NCAA Division III, has won two national team championships (and many league championships). The basketball program has enjoyed a good deal of success since being reinstated on the Division III level in 1983.<ref name=WSJ/> In 1997, the women's basketball team, led by head coach [[Janice Quinn]], won a championship title over the [[University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire]] and in 2007 returned to the Final Four. NYU men's basketball and head coach [[Joe Nesci]] appeared in the Division III National Championship game in 1994.

In 2007, the men's cross country team, led by head coach Nick McDonough, captured the NCAA Division III team championship at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

====Baseball and softball====
NYU added varsity baseball and softball teams for the 2014–2015 school year.<ref name=baseball>{{cite web | title = NYU Adding Varsity Baseball and Softball | date = December 11, 2013 | publisher = gonyuathletics.com | url = http://www.gonyuathletics.com/news/2013/12/11/BASEBALL_1211130314.aspx | access-date = June 20, 2014}}</ref> NYU had not sponsored varsity baseball since 1974, but it previously produced several major-league players, including [[Ralph Branca]] and [[Eddie Yost]].<ref name=baseball/> Home games were played at [[Maimonides Park]], home of the Minor League [[Brooklyn Cyclones]], and are now played at SIUH Community Park, the home of the Staten Island FerryHawks professional baseball team of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. Softball was an entirely new varsity sport for NYU.<ref name=baseball/>

=== National championships ===
NYU has won five team [[NCAA Division III|Division III]] NCAA national championships:
* [[NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament|Women's basketball]] ([[1997 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament|1997]], [[2024 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament|2024]], [[2025 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament|2025]])
* Men's cross country (2007)
* [[NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championships|Women's golf]] (2019)

NYU athletes have won four individual NCAA Division III national championship:
* [[Nathan Pike]] Wrestling 133-Pound Class (2017)<ref>{{cite web|title=Division III Wrestling Championships Records Book |url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/wrestling_champs_records/2017-18/D3.pdf|website=NCAA.org|access-date=March 22, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Honore Collins]] 200-yard IM (2017), 200-yard individual medley (2019), 400-yard individual medley (2019), and 200-yard butterfly (2019) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://gonyuathletics.com/sports/womens-swimming-diving/roster/honore-collins/11958|title=Honore Collins - 2019-20 - Women's Swimming & Diving|website=NYU Athletics}}</ref>

NYU had won 37 [[List of NCAA schools with the most Division I national championships|Division I national championships]], prior to its move to Division III:
* [[NYU Violets men's basketball|Men's basketball]] (AAU, 1920)
* Men's fencing (1933, 1935–1938, 1940–942, 1947, 1954, 1957, 1960–1961, 1966–1967, 1970–1971, 1973–1974, 1976)
* Women's fencing (1929–1933, 1938, 1949–1951, 1971)
* Men's indoor track (1929, 1932, 1940, 1943, 1947–1948)

== Facilities ==
[[File:Cole Sports.jpg|thumb|right|[[Coles Sports and Recreation Center|The Coles Center]]]]
The [[Coles Sports and Recreation Center]] served as the home base of several of NYU's intercollegiate athletic teams, including [[basketball]], [[wrestling]], and [[volleyball]] for over three decades starting in 1981. Coles was closed in February 2016 to make way for NYU's new $1 Billion mixed use development: the John A. Paulson Center, located at 181 Mercer.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Communications |first=NYU Web |title=John A. Paulson Center |url=http://www.nyu.edu/content/nyu/en/life/campus-resources/paulson-center |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.nyu.edu |language=en}}</ref> Unlike Coles, Mercer Street will host a combination of expanded athletic facilities, classroom and residential space.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ny.curbed.com/2016/12/8/13887252/nyu-expansion-181-mercer-street|title=NYU unveils massive Mercer Street student hub|work=Curbed NY|access-date=November 13, 2017}}</ref> 

Many of NYU's varsity teams sometimes play their games at various facilities and fields throughout Manhattan because of the scarcity of space for playing fields in that borough. The soccer teams play their home games at [[Van Cortlandt Park]], and the track and field teams have their home meets at the New Balance Track and Field Center. The golf team does not have a home golf course in Manhattan, but they often practice at the [[Chelsea Piers]] Athletic Facility and at various country club courses that have a relationship with the team and university in New York City. The rowing team travels on a daily basis to their boathouse in New Jersey, roughly 10 miles from Washington Square. The tennis team practices and plays home matches at the [https://www.stadiumtennisnyc.com/ Stadium Tennis Center], located in the Bronx.

In 2002, NYU opened the Palladium Athletic Facility as the second on-campus recreational facility. This facility's amenities include a rock-climbing wall, a [[natatorium]] with a 25-yard by 25-meter swimming pool, basketball courts, weight training, cardiovascular rooms, and a spinning room. Palladium, erected on the site of the famous New York nightclub bearing the same name, is home to the university's [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] and [[Diving (sport)|diving]] teams and [[water polo]] teams.

The Baseball team plays its home games at [[SIUH Community Park]], home of the [[Staten Island FerryHawks]].{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} The Tennis team plays at the Stadium Tennis Center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennis Visiting Team Guide |url=https://gonyuathletics.com/sports/2017/12/18/tennis-visiting-team-guide.aspx?id=1673 |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=NYU Athletics |language=en}}</ref>

== Rivalries ==
NYU's rival, dictated by history and geography, has been [[Columbia University]], though it also had a rivalry with [[Rutgers University]], as shown by older [[fight song]] lyrics. Rutgers and NYU played 43 times in football from 1890 to 1952, with Rutgers having a 23-18-2 record against the Violets. Eleven of the final 14 NYU home games were played at either [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]] or the [[Polo Grounds]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigeast/rutgers/opponents_records.php?teamid=2226|title=College Football Data Warehouse - Rutgers vs New York (NY)|website=cfbdatawarehouse.com|access-date=April 11, 2018|archive-date=October 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028063017/http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/div_ia/bigeast/rutgers/opponents_records.php?teamid=2226|url-status=dead}}</ref> Rutgers also played NYU 46 times in basketball between 1906 and 1971, though unlike the football rivalry, NYU had a decided edge on Rutgers, winning all but ten of the contests, including 18 straight between 1928 and 1966.<ref>2011-12 Rutgers Men's Basketball Media Guide. Peoria, IL: Multi-Ad, pg. 175.</ref> NYU's annual football game against [[Fordham University]] was known as the Manhattan Subway classic.<ref name= Time/>
Currently, NYU's biggest rivals are in the UAA(University Athletic Association), including teams such as Emory University in Atlanta and Washington University in St.Louis.

== Club teams ==
NYU students also compete in several "club" teams (which may or may not compete on an intercollegiate basis) including [[lacrosse]], [[soccer]],  [[water polo]], [[Rowing (sport)|crew]], [[Squash (sport)|squash]], [[rugby union]], [[table tennis|table tennis]], [[Quidditch (real-life sport)|Quidditch]], [[ice hockey]], [[Equestrianism|equestrian]], [[TaeKwonDo]], [[Kendo|Kendo]], [[ultimate (sport)|ultimate]], [[flag football|flag football]], [[climbing|climbing]], [[badminton|badminton]], and [[Esports|Esports]]. NYU also offers intramural sport teams.

===Ice hockey===
NYU's ice hockey team has been one of its most successful athletic programs, winning 2 National Championships at the [[American Collegiate Hockey Association|ACHA]] Division II level before making the move up to Division I ACHA in 2017. They currently compete in the [[Eastern States Collegiate Hockey League]], a conference which includes opponents such as [[Syracuse University|Syracuse]], [[Rutgers]], and the [[University of Delaware]]. Their head coach is Dustin Good. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nyuhockey.com/2023-24-coaching-staff | title=Coaches }}</ref>

===Taekwondo===
NYU's Taekwondo (TKD) team competes in the [[Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference]] (ECTC) and in the [[National Collegiate TaeKwonDo Association|National Collegiate Taekwondo Association]] (NCTA). Founded in 1987 by Master Lesly, the team has been a large presence in the Club Sports community at NYU.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kirpalani |first1=Bela |last2=Choi |first2=Rebecca |date=2019-11-04 |title=Taekwondo at NYU Welcomes All |url=https://nyunews.com/sports/2019/11/04/nyu-taekwondo-club-sport/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=Washington Square News}}</ref> As of 2020, NYU Sport TKD placed first in the ECTC Division II. The coaches for the team include Grandmaster Mark Lesly, Master [https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/erica-linthorst-1046154 Erica Linthorst], and Master [https://eaglestkd.com/ Andrew Park]. The team has been part of the ECTC since 1990 and were represented in the first iteration of the now ECTC All-Star team.<ref>{{Cite web |title=History |url=https://www.ectc-online.org/history |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=ectc |language=en}}</ref> 

===Lacrosse===
The first intercollegiate lacrosse game in the United States was played on November 22, 1877 between New York University and [[Manhattan College]]. On May 7, 1924, NYU overwhelmed and shutout Harvard at Soldier's Field by a score of 7-0.  Men's lacrosse at NYU was discontinued sometime after 1931 but was revived nearly 60 years later in 1990.  Under head coach Chris Schreiber (Hopkins '86), the team went undefeated in its inaugural season and won its first four games to start the 1991 season, including wins against Rider, Iona and Columbia.  The team currently competes in the NY Metro Conference of the National College Lacrosse League.  In 2010, NYU defeated Columbia twice in the span of 24 hours at the Beltway Bash Tournament at the University of Maryland. In 2015 NYU made an NCLL sweet 16 appearance before falling to Quinnipiac.

=== Crew (rowing) ===
NYU has hosted a crew team for over a century, tracing its beginnings back to 1902.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://nyuclubcrew.wordpress.com/history/|title=History|date=March 3, 2017|access-date=November 13, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> While initially the team was exclusively male, the sport would eventually expand to be coed decades later. Today, the team performs water practices on the Passaic River in Lyndhurst, New Jersey; while using NYU's three athletic facilities for its dry land workouts. They travel to multiple regattas in the fall and spring, including the [[Head of the Charles Regatta|Head of the Charles]] and [[Dad Vail Regatta|Dad Vails]] where NYU takes on varsity crews like [[Yale University]], [[Columbia University]], and the [[University of Pennsylvania]].

===Water polo===
NYU Men's and Women's Water Polo Team compete in the New York Division of the Collegiate Water Polo Association, National Collegiate Club/Division III.

===Reviving football at NYU===
Unsuccessful attempts have been made at reviving NYU football at club level, both as an intramural activity and as an intercollegiate sport. From 1964 to 1966, NYU participated with Georgetown and Fordham in NYU's first attempt to play non-Division I football, reviving Georgetown football but not doing the same for NYU.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hoyasaxa.com/sports/hist08.htm |title=HoyaSaxa.com: Georgetown Football History|website=www.hoyasaxa.com|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/175/pages/footb.htm|title=my 175 Facts About NYU |website=nyu.edu|access-date=April 11, 2018}}</ref>

The sale of NYU's University Heights campus in 1973 hampered further attempts to create a football team, due to scant recreational space downtown. Nevertheless, as recently as 2003 several students created a football club but struggled to find extra funding to defray expenses, find supporters, or reliable participants for practices and games (held at the [[East River Park]] football fields at 6th and FDR).

As of 2025, club football has been revived as a sport at NYU and currently competes in competitions against other east coast college’s flag football teams.

== See also ==
* [[List of NYU Violets head football coaches]]

== References ==
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