<p>In looking at various schools at the college board website I have seen that under certain sports there are lists that look like this:</p>
<p>Soccer:</p>
<p>Men's NCAA Division II
Women's NCAA Division II
Men's Intercollegiate
Women's Intercollegiate
Men's Intramural
Women's Intramural
Men's Scholarship
Women's Scholarship </p>
<p>I get the whole list except for #3 and #4 does that mean club? Thanks!</p>
<p>if you mean #3 & #4 are Men's & Women's Intercollegiate, then I suspect its other "official" varsity intercollegiate beside NCAA D2, like the more popular NCAA D1, D3, or non-NCAA grouping...have no idea why they'd specify NCAA D2 on its own, seems odd.....not familiar with the college board web site listings though.</p>
<p>Look at the schools actual website for your details. Pewrhaps the format for a school reporting to the college board website does not adequately describe all of the sports and their affiliations. It is not uncommon for schools to compete in, for example, Division 1 for BBall, and perhaps Championship Bowl Subdivision (Formerly D1 AA) for football. </p>
<p>A school may also compete in one athletic conference in one or several sports and in another conference for another sport.</p>
<p>Either way, the colleges specific website is the best way to assess that. If you are looking at a particular school, you can post it here....chances are that there are some on the message board here are familiar with the programs, coaches....</p>
<p>Championship Bowl Subdivision is Division I and all other intercollegiate sports at such schools are Division I as well.</p>
<p>some schools do indeed have club teams that compete with other colleges. Go to the school's athletic site to find out if they are talking club or not.</p>
<p>If a school has club, then it says Mens Club, Womens Club</p>
<p>Intercollegiate means varsity.</p>
<p>Line 1 means division NCAA 1,2,3 JUCO or NAIA
Line 5 means obviously intramurals within the school
Line 7 means that they do in fact give scholarships in this sport</p>
<p>Not all D1 and D2 give scholarships in all sports.</p>
<p>OK father, so does that mean they are being redundant and stating that they have varsity, DII teams for both men and women? or is Varsity another level different from the competitive NCAA DII teams stated in lines one and two? Sorry, I attended a University with no competive sports program beyond DIII tennis with which I was not involved. I am a numbnutts in this dept.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ncaastudent.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.ncaastudent.org/</a></p>
<p>Hi historymom,
This website is a primer on college athletics. It might help you sort out the levels of competition available, scholarships, recruiting practices, and so on.</p>
<p>Brief synopsis, to the best of my ability:</p>
<p>With few exceptions, varsity means that a sport competes in sanctioned competition at the NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA level. Within NCAA there are 3 divisions. D1 and D2 both can offer athletic scholarships. D3 cannot. The seasons and time commitments are longest in D1, then D2 and finally D3. NAIA competes as one level, but has 2 classifications I believe. I am 90% sure both there can give scholarships. NJCAA, or JUCO, has 2 divisions as well. The higher can give scholarships, not the lower.</p>
<p>My son is a wrestler in NCAA Division 3. Many schools have dropped wrestling as a varsity sport, usually blamed on Title 9. There has been an explosion of schools with club programs in wrestling belonging to the NCWA. There are now more schools in the NCWA than in any one other collegiate division. They have a national championship, go to meets against NCAA and NAIA schools, etc. Levels of coaching and schedules, etc, can vary widely from school to school at the club level since all funding comes from the club members. Generally a school that has a sport as a varsity sport will not have a very strong club commitment.</p>
<p>Father is right, because I just looked at my school, and intercollegiate is the same as varsity. The D(1,2,3) just says what division they play in (football is usually the one that's different).</p>
<p>I'm on a club team at my school, and we do play other schools...we just joined the national association for our club sport and now we have a schedule through the association for other schools to play in our league.</p>
<p>It depends what sport you're in and what school as to what level of commitment your club team has. We've gotten a lot more committed and are traveling more now that we joined this association. I know men's club rugby and lax at my school are huge (rugby plays a lot of D3 varsity teams).</p>
<p>I would agree that schools that have varsity and club won't have as strong of a club commitment if it's a smaller school. We've played big state schools that have varsity programs and their club teams are still really good. It's just because there's so many girls that go to school there - some are bound to be plenty good at their sport but not good enough to get a scholarship/play varsity.</p>