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Longwood Lancers
University	Longwood University
Conference	Big South (primary) MAC (field hockey)
NCAA	Division I
Athletic director	Tim Hall
Location	Farmville, Virginia
Varsity teams	16
Basketball arena	Joan Perry Brock Center
Baseball stadium	Charles Buddy Bolding Stadium
Softball stadium	Lancer Field
Soccer stadium	Longwood University Athletics Complex
Mascot	Elwood
Nickname	Lancers (official) Blue and White (unofficial)
Colors	Blue and white
Website	longwoodlancers.com

The Longwood Lancers are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent Longwood University, located in Farmville, Virginia. The University's 14 men’s and women’s teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level. Since 2012, the Lancers have been a member of the Big South Conference.

In March 2022, the Longwood Lancers men's basketball and women's basketball teams won Big South Tournament titles, punching the first tickets to the NCAA basketball tournament in the school’s Division I history. Only three times in Big South Conference history has the same institution claimed the men's and women's basketball titles in the same year. Both teams also won regular-season titles in the 2021-2022 season, with the men's team in sole possession of first place and the women's team tied for first. In 2024, the Lancers won the Big South men's basketball tournament for the second time in three years and earned a berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament.

Since joining the Big South, the Longwood softball team has won five Big South tournament crowns and three regular-season titles. The Lancers have appeared in the NCAA Division I softball tournament four times.

The Lancer mascot is Elwood, a horse, and the official logo features a horse’s head atop a lance. The Lancers' fight song is "Hail to Longwood U."

Sports sponsored

Conference affiliations

• 1972–73 to 1981–82: Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
• 1976–77 to 1980–81: NCAA Division III Independent
• 1981–82 to 1982–83: NCAA Division II Independent
• 1983–84 to 1987–88: Mason–Dixon Conference
• 1988–89 to 1994–95: NCAA Division II Independent
• 1995–96 to 2002–03: Carolinas–Virginia Athletic Conference
• 2003–04: NCAA Division II Independent
• 2004–05 to 2011–12: NCAA Division I Independent
• 2012–13 to present: Big South Conference

Notes

1. Women's sports only
2. Men's sports only
3. Its women's sports joined the NCAA during the 1982–83 school year.
4. Now currently known as the Conference Carolinas since the 2007–08 school year.

Championships

Men's Basketball

• Big South Tournament Championships (2): 2022, 2024
• Big South Regular Season Championships (1): 2022

Women's Basketball

• Big South Tournament Championships (1): 2022
• Big South Regular Season Championships (1): 2022 (tied for first place)

Softball

• Big South Tournament Championships (5): 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
• Big South Regular Season Championships (5): 2015, 2016, 2019, 2022, 2023

Baseball

• Division II South Atlantic Regional Championship (1): 1991

Men's Soccer

• Atlantic Soccer Conference Tournament Championship (2): 2008, 2011

Women's Lacrosse

• National Lacrosse Conference Championship (2): 2009, 2010

Women's Golf

• Division II National Golf Coaches Association National Championships (4): 1987-88, 1990, 1993, 1995

Men's Golf

• Big South Tournament Championship (1): 2023

Longwood in the NCAA Tournament

Men's Basketball

Women's Basketball

Softball

References

1. "Tim Hall" (Press release). Longwood Lancers. Retrieved October 25, 2022.
2. Longwood University Visual Brand Guide (PDF). Retrieved November 10, 2022.
3. "Member Institutions". Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
4. "#1 Longwood Wins 2022 Hercules Tires Big South Men's Basketball Championship".
5. "#2 Longwood Wins 2022 Hercules Tires Big South Women's Basketball Championship".
6. "Softball Record Book" (PDF). Longwood University Athletics.
7. "Longwood University and the Big South" (PDF). p. 2. Retrieved September 22, 2015.

External links

• Official website

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