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2023-2024 Catalog

Athletics Department

Dream Bigger. Achieve More

Bulldog Athletics embodies an academically centered, athletically enriched, high-impact experience and serves as a model for intercollegiate athletics in its truest sense.  We recruit, develop, and graduate student-athletes who represent the very best of our institution and relentlessly compete in everything we do.

Vision

Bulldogs dream bigger, learn more, do more, and become more.  We are Champions in Athletics and Leaders in Life.

Core Values

  • Servant-Leadership- We lead by example through serving others, developing meaningful relationships, and spearheading initiatives that benefit our campus and local communities;

  • Dedication- We dedicate the effort necessary for success in everything we do and will work hard to achieve at the highest levels of competition;

  • Excellence- We intentionally seek opportunities to grow beyond what others perceive as limitations because we are driven by a standard of excellence on and off the playing surface; and

  • Inclusion-We celebrate our differences in race, ethnicity, gender, experience, and worldview, and leverage those differences as a competitive advantage and opportunity to learn from one another.

History

UNC Asheville’s intercollegiate athletics has participated in NCAA Division I competition since 1986 and is a member of the Big South Conference.  UNC Asheville offers 16 sports including baseball, basketball, cross country, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, and tennis for men, and basketball, cross country, golf, indoor and outdoor track, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, and volleyball for women.

UNC Asheville student-athletes consistently perform well in the classroom.  In the past academic year, ten of our sixteen teams earned a perfect 1000 score in the national NCAA Academic performance Rate (APR) recognition for their work in the classroom.

UNC Asheville men’s basketball team has a long and storied history with the Bulldogs having won eight Big South regular season titles in 1997, 1998, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2017, 2018, and 2023, and six Big South Tournament championships in 1989, 2003, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2023. The Bulldogs have advanced to the NCAA Tournament five times in 2003, 2011, 2012, 2016, and 2023. The 2022-23 Bulldogs broke the program record for wins in a season with 27, Big South wins with 16, and captured both the Big South regular season and tournament championships on their way to appearing in the NCAA Tournament.

Over the last eight years, the women’s basketball program has won one Big South regular-season title, two Big South Tournament titles, advanced to the NCAA Tournament twice, and played in the WBI twice. The women’s teams had no shortage of accomplishments for 2022-23. The swimming & diving team went undefeated during their dual meet season for the second straight season. UNC Asheville had a swimmer to compete at the NCAA Division I Swimming & Diving Championships in mid-March, and another was named the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association Scholar Athlete of the Year.  Women’s golf had its first individual champion in 2022-23, and Women’s tennis earned the 2023 Big South Regular Season Championship.  Furthermore, the Bulldogs have earned 35 weekly honors for the Big South and CCSA this season. 

Facilities

The UNC Asheville Athletics Department utilizes various on-campus and community facilities for its 16 NCAA Division I programs.

  • Kimmel Arena seats 3,200 and is the home for both Men’s and Women’s Bulldog Basketball.
  • The Sherrill Center, which houses the Kimmel Arena, has classrooms, labs, fitness rooms, a wellness café, and a demonstration kitchen.
  • The Justice Center includes administrative offices, a 1,100-seat volleyball arena, locker rooms, sports medicine room, Olympic weight room, and an indoor swimming pool.
  • The Student Recreation Center located adjacent to the Justice Center has an elevated track and multi-purpose courts.
  • Outdoor athletic facilities on campus include Greenwood Fields for soccer and baseball and the Karl Straus Track.
  • The Asheville Racquet Club, located minutes from campus, is the home for Men’s and Women’s Tennis and includes both indoor and outdoor courts.
  • The Cliffs at Walnut Cove serves as the home facility for the UNC Asheville women’s golf team. The Jack Nicklaus Signature Design opened in 2005 and was recognized by the PGA Tour as the only championship golf course to debut in tournament-ready condition.

Students have free admission to all home regular season athletics events. More information about UNC Asheville athletics, including home competition dates, is available on the web at www.uncabulldogs.com/