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The following is a list of the 78 schools who field men's lacrosse teams and the 133 schools who field women's lacrosse teams in NCAA Division I competition, plus two schools that have planned to begin fielding Division I women's lacrosse teams in 2026. Conference affiliations are current for the next 2025 NCAA lacrosse season.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County was founded in 1966, and athletic director and men's lacrosse coach Dick Watts started the first team in 1968 at the NCAA Division II level. [2] The Retrievers advanced to the NCAA Division II championship finals in 1979 and 1980, winning the national title in 1980. [3]
The Lower Division Initiative was a program that began in 2005 to extend the University of Baltimore's position to once again offer the first two years of the baccalaureate degree. In April 2005, the University System of Maryland 's board of regents approved plans that would allow UBalt to start accepting freshmen and sophomores.
The UMBC Retrievers are the athletic teams that represent the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, located in Catonsville, Maryland, in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the America East Conference since the 2003–04 academic year. [2]
There are currently 55 colleges and universities, defined as accredited, degree-granting, postsecondary institutions, in the state of Maryland.. The state's public universities are part of the University System of Maryland, with the exception of United States Naval Academy, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Morgan State University and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which ...
There are also university lacrosse programs in the United Kingdom sponsored by British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) and programs in Japan. [ 1 ] In the U.S., as of the 2021–22 academic year , there were 74 NCAA-sanctioned Division I men's lacrosse teams, 75 Division II men's lacrosse teams, and 247 Division III men's lacrosse teams.
Lacrosse was the preeminent spring sport at the public Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and Baltimore City College, as well as the city's private high schools. [8] The importance of lacrosse was magnified by the lack of any major professional teams in Baltimore until the creation of the Colts in 1947 and the return of the Orioles in 1954. [8]