List of college athletic programs in Colorado
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The main article is College sports.
Notes:
- This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right:
- Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use the same nickname for men's and women's teams even when the nickname is distinctly masculine.) When two nicknames are given, the first is used for men's teams and the other is used for women's teams. Different nicknames for a specific sport within a school are noted separately below the table.
- Full name of school.
- Location of school.
- Conference of the school (if conference column is left blank, the school is either independent or the conference is unknown).
- Apart from the ongoing conversions, the following notes apply:
- Following the normal standard of U.S. sports media, the terms "University" and "College" are ignored in alphabetization, unless necessary to distinguish schools (such as Boston College and Boston University) or are actually used by the media in normally describing the school (formerly the case for the College of Charleston, but media now use "Charleston" for that school's athletic program).
- Schools are also alphabetized by the names they are most commonly referred to by sports media, with non-intuitive examples included in parentheses next to the school name. This means, for example, that campuses bearing the name "University of North Carolina" may variously be found at "C" (Charlotte), "N" (North Carolina, referring to the Chapel Hill campus), and "U" (the Asheville, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington campuses, all normally referred to as UNC-{campus name}).
- The prefix "St.", as in "Saint", is alphabetized as if it were spelled out.
NCAA
NCAA Division 1
- ↑ The Air Force men's ice hockey team plays in Atlantic Hockey. The men's lacrosse team plays in the Southern Conference.
- ↑ Two high-profile DU teams compete as members of other conferences in sports that are not sponsored by The Summit League. The men's ice hockey team plays in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference and the men's lacrosse team plays in the Big East Conference.
Division II
Division III
| Team | School | City | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado College Tigers | Colorado College | Colorado Springs | Southern Collegiate |
- Colorado College fields Division I teams in men's ice hockey, competing in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, and women's soccer, competing in the Mountain West Conference. It is a "grandfathered" institution that is allowed to award athletic scholarships in its Division I sports.
NAIA
| Team | School | City | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Wales Wildcats | Johnson & Wales University | Denver | Independent |
NJCAA
| Team | School | City | Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Mountain Eagles | Colorado Mountain College | Glenwood Springs | Scenic West |
| Colorado Northwestern Spartans | Colorado Northwestern Community College | Rangely | Scenic West |
| Lamar Runnin' Lopes | Lamar Community College | Lamar | Colorado CC |
| Northeastern (Colorado) Plainsmen | Northeastern Junior College | Sterling | Colorado CC |
| Otero Rattlers | Otero Junior College | La Junta | Colorado CC |
| Trinidad State Trojans | Trinidad State Junior College | Trinidad | Colorado CC |
