How to Use intercollegiate in a Sentence

intercollegiate

adjective

• Men’s crew wallows as a club sport at the intercollegiate level.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• Players must have played their last year of intercollegiate football within the last 50 years.
  — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 June 2018
• The idea is that if 45 percent of your enrollment is male, then roughly 45 percent of your intercollegiate athletes should be, too.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• The decision to abandon football is a logical one and is the result of the Army’s refusal to permit its cadets to engage in intercollegiate sports.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 15 Mar. 2020
• Those digits must surface on the football field in an era when the College Football Playoff has become the prism through which success in intercollegiate sports is judged.
  — Jimmy Burch, star-telegram.com, 2 June 2017
• Like most intercollegiate sports teams around the country, nearly all of the Big Ten’s varsity teams are forced to rely on that football revenue to survive.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• The 170-year-old prize awarded in the first U.S. intercollegiate sports competition is going up for auction next month.
  — Holly Ramer, Hartford Courant, 21 Apr. 2022
• His mother, Kay, played on the Sooners’ first intercollegiate women’s golf team.
  — Jay Cohen, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
• The Ivy League scrubs all intercollegiate athletics for the remainder of the academic year.
  — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2020
• Amherst defeats Williams 73-32 in the first intercollegiate baseball game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• Garvey took a winding route to Mount Ida, one of few colleges to offer the combination of intercollegiate lacrosse and her major, game art.
  — Katherine Dunn, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Incarnate Word hired him in 2014 to turn a club sport into an intercollegiate program.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2018
• At Navy, Bill lettered in lacrosse and soccer, played on 3 intercollegiate championship teams, and was named All-American in lacrosse.
  — courant.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Mu, a potential Olympian, is supposed to enter college in the summer, but no one knows when intercollegiate sports might return.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• For students who wanted to play intercollegiate basketball, the Chinese even had their own league.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The next thing to understand is that women’s sports, with few exceptions, lose money at the intercollegiate level.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022
• The schools in Oregon and across the country are expecting to resume intercollegiate athletics this fall.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2020
• To say this is a stretch is an understatement, but stranger things have happened in intercollegiate coaching searches.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• One of the core beliefs of the Ivy League is that students who participate in intercollegiate athletics should do so for the love of the game and for the personal growth and development that comes with being part of a team.
  — Aron Solomon, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
• The University of Fort Lauderdale, which is located in Lauderhill, will compete in 14 intercollegiate sports with plans to expand to 22 sports in the coming years.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• San Jose State has signed a six-year deal with Adidas, with the apparel giant outfitting all the Spartans’ intercollegiate teams with footwear, uniforms and practice gear.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2017
• Stanford students and staff also used the course for lessons, recreation, intercollegiate matches and training for cross-country meets.
  — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• America’s highest court ruled in favor of Coats' clients and said that the governing body of intercollegiate athletics couldn’t restrain the trade rights of schools and their conferences.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
• All after-school activities, with the exception of the high school playoff and championship games, as well as intercollegiate sports, will be also postponed for the next two weeks.
  — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
• While no one’s idea of an intercollegiate athletics powerhouse today, or even then, the school was a founding member of the conference 50 years earlier, and the Maroons for a time were force.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• Loyola had dropped intercollegiate baseball in 1978, and reviving the sport, even on a club level, met resistance.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Oregon now joins a host of schools around the country that have abandoned many of the ideals of intercollegiate athletics for security and financial bounty.
  — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
• The bill applies to girls sports teams in grades six through 12, as well as to both intercollegiate and intramural women's teams at Kentucky colleges and universities.
  — Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2022
• The school is known for its intercollegiate athletic programs and instrumental and choral groups.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
• There are thousands of other athletes across the state and around the country who have been transformed into Olympians (and received an education in the process) because of intercollegiate athletics.
  — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024