Hampton Pirates and Lady Pirates

The Hampton Pirates and Lady Pirates refer to the sports teams representing Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in intercollegiate athletics. The Pirates and Lady Pirates compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Coastal Athletic Association.

Hampton Pirates
Logo
UniversityHampton University
ConferenceCoastal Athletic Association
NCAADivision I (FCS)
Athletic directorEugene Marshall, Jr.
LocationHampton, Virginia
Varsity teams19
Football stadiumArmstrong Stadium
Basketball arenaHampton Convocation Center
MascotPetey the Pirate
NicknamePirates
ColorsReflex blue and white
   
Websitewww.hamptonpirates.com

The Pirates were previously members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference between 1995 and 2018 [1] and the Big South Conference from 2018 to 2022.

Teams
Men's sports Women's sports
BasketballBasketball
Cross countryCross country
FootballGolf
GolfSoccer
LacrosseSoftball
TennisTennis
Track and field†Track and field†
Volleyball
-Triathlon
Co-ed sports
Sailing‡
† – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor
‡ – Sailing is not sanctioned by the NCAA.

National championships

Team
Association Division Sport Year Opponent/Runner-up Score/Points
NCAA (3) Division II (3) Women's Basketball (1) 1988 West Texas State 65–48
Men's Tennis (2) 1976 UC Irvine 23–18
1989 Cal Poly–SLO 5–1

Rivalries

Hampton has two main rivals:

Howard University, also known as The Real HU (Howard-Hampton) Rivalry

Norfolk State University, also known as the Battle of the Bay (Hampton–Norfolk State)

During Hampton's switch from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to the Big South Conference, both rivalries were put on hold. In September 2019, Hampton will revive their rivalry with Howard during the Chicago Football Classic. The rivalry with Norfolk will resume on October 2, 2021.

Conference Switch

A member of the Coastal Athletic Association, Hampton sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The school also sponsors a co-ed varsity sailing team, but sailing is not an NCAA sanctioned sport. The lacrosse team competes as an independent.

On November 16, 2017, Hampton announced they would be leaving the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to join the Big South Conference. Hampton is one of three Division I HBCU (after Tennessee State University of the Ohio Valley Conference and North Carolina A&T State of the Coastal Athletic Association) to be a member of a conference other than the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference or Southwestern Athletic Conference.[2]'

In 2022, Hampton joined the Coastal Athletic Association.

References
  1. "Member Institutions - MEACsports.com - the Official Site of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference". Archived from the original on 2013-03-26. Retrieved 2013-03-02.
  2. "Hampton is leaving MEAC to join the Big South". USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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