Sports and the Outdoors
About 20 percent of our students play on varsity teams, with hundreds more participating in intramural and club sports. Our coaches are faculty members, our facilities are among the best, and our weather is ideal for year-round outdoor play.
Two members of the women's tennis team We have 21 varsity teams, including women’s tennis.
Students hiking on there orientation adventure trip Our SoCal location is a perfect launching point for outdoor exploration, starting with Orientation Adventure.
Pomona combines forces with Pitzer College to field 21 varsity teams – The Sagehens – that compete in Division III NCAA athletics and as members of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC).
We often have D1-level athletes who choose to attend Pomona College because of the academic/athletic balance they can find here. Water polo player Sarah Westcott ’15 double majored in biology and politics with a minor in chemistry. “I just don’t think I could have been able to do all that at Division I,” says Sarah.
While our games with cross-campus rivals Claremont McKenna-Harvey Mudd-Scripps (CMS) are not to be missed, the same players who go head-to-head during soccer season might play side-by-side on a 5C club team, like cycling, fencing, field hockey, men’s lacrosse, racquetball, roller hockey, rugby, Ultimate Frisbee, or volleyball.
We also have intramural sports. You can try your hand at inner tube water polo, beach and indoor volleyball, tennis, soccer, squash, pool/billiards, chess, dodgeball, flag football, basketball, softball, racquetball, foosball and table tennis.
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