Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops
University	Ohio Wesleyan University
Conference	North Coast Athletic Mid-Atlantic (rowing)
NCAA	Division III
Athletic director	Doug Zipp
Location	Delaware, Ohio
Varsity teams	25 (12 men, 13 women)
Football stadium	Selby Field
Basketball arena	Branch Rickey Arena
Baseball stadium	Littick Field
Fight song	Oh we're from dear old Wesleyan
Colors	Crimson and black[1]
Website	battlingbishops.com

TheOhio Wesleyan Battling Bishops are the sports and other competitive teams atOhio Wesleyan University. The men's and women's Bishops teams areNCAADivision III teams that compete in theNorth Coast Athletic Conference and theMid-Atlantic Rowing Conference. The university sponsors 25varsity sports, as well as severalintramural and club teams.

The first athletic teams of the college date back to 1875, the year of the first organizedfootball team, although fifteen years passed before official colors were selected and the football team started playing its intercollegiate contest. That year the team played three games withOhio State University, losing all three.

In 1902, the Ohio Wesleyan team joinedCase Tech,Kenyon,Oberlin,Ohio State, andWestern Reserve in forming theOhio Athletic Conference (OAC). The first gym of the college, Edwards Gymnasium, was dedicated in February 1906. Ohio Wesleyan's first varsity men's basketball team played its games in the facility the same year.

The Ohio Wesleyan teams adopted their official nickname in 1925. During the same year, Ohio Wesleyan's official mascot became a grumpy-lookingbishop dressed in a red robe.

Ohio Wesleyan's colors, crimson red and black, date back to 1875, the year when the university organized its first official football game.

Ohio Wesleyan'slacrosse team has a historicrivalry withDenison University.

In 2011,Jay Martin became theall-time college soccer coaching wins leader en route to winning the national championship.^[2]

Women's basketball

Men's lacrosse

Selby Stadium

Roy Rike Field

Littick Field

Branch Rickey Aren

Notes

• Men's Lacrosse
  • 4 Time NCAA Runner Up
  • 9 Time NCAA Final Four Participant
  • NCAC Champions: '87, '88, '89, '90, '91, '92, '93, '95, '96, '98 '00, '01, '03, '04, '05, '07, '10, '11, '13
  • NCAA Tournament Appearances: '75, '76, '77, '78, '79, '80, '81, '83, '85, '86 '87, '88, '89, '90, '91, '93, '95, '96, '97, '98 '99, '00, '03, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09, '10, '11 12, '13
• Men's Basketball
  • NCAA Division III 1988
• Men's Soccer
  • NCAA Division III 1998, 2011
• Women's Soccer
  • NCAA Division III 2001, 2002

• List of Ohio Wesleyan University people

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