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Coast Guard Bears
The United States Coast Guard Academy's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Bears. They compete in NCAA Division III as members of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Through the 2016 season, the Bears played football in the New England Football Conference, but after that season moved their football program into the NEWMAC, which started sponsoring the sport in 2017.
The school fields 26 varsity teams.
The academy nickname is the Bears, after the USRC Bear, which made a dramatic rescue in Alaska in 1897, shortly after the opening of the academy.
In 1926, then-Cadet Stephen Evans (a future superintendent of the academy) brought a live bear to the academy and named it Objee for "Objectionable Presence." The tradition of keeping a live bear as the mascot was continued until the City of New London petitioned for its removal in 1984.
The athletic facilities have been undergoing major upgrades since 2004, when the state-of-the-art FieldTurf synthetic surface was installed at Cadet Memorial Field (home of the football and lacrosse teams).
In 2019, a new field design and scoreboard were installed on Cadet Memorial Field.
The Bears play annually for the Secretaries Cup, a football rivalry game against the Mariners of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Since 2017, the game has been broadcast on ESPN streaming platforms in conjunction with the company's salute to service over Veteran's Day Weekend.
The Bears' longest-standing football rivalry is with the Norwich University Cadets, a private military college in Northfield, Vermont. Since 1930, the schools have played for "The Mug," with a brief break in the series having taken place between 2005 and 2017, when the schools were in different conferences and were not able to schedule annual out of conference matchups.
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Coast Guard Bears
The United States Coast Guard Academy's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Bears. They compete in NCAA Division III as members of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Through the 2016 season, the Bears played football in the New England Football Conference, but after that season moved their football program into the NEWMAC, which started sponsoring the sport in 2017.
The school fields 26 varsity teams.
The academy nickname is the Bears, after the USRC Bear, which made a dramatic rescue in Alaska in 1897, shortly after the opening of the academy.
In 1926, then-Cadet Stephen Evans (a future superintendent of the academy) brought a live bear to the academy and named it Objee for "Objectionable Presence." The tradition of keeping a live bear as the mascot was continued until the City of New London petitioned for its removal in 1984.
The athletic facilities have been undergoing major upgrades since 2004, when the state-of-the-art FieldTurf synthetic surface was installed at Cadet Memorial Field (home of the football and lacrosse teams).
In 2019, a new field design and scoreboard were installed on Cadet Memorial Field.
The Bears play annually for the Secretaries Cup, a football rivalry game against the Mariners of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Since 2017, the game has been broadcast on ESPN streaming platforms in conjunction with the company's salute to service over Veteran's Day Weekend.
The Bears' longest-standing football rivalry is with the Norwich University Cadets, a private military college in Northfield, Vermont. Since 1930, the schools have played for "The Mug," with a brief break in the series having taken place between 2005 and 2017, when the schools were in different conferences and were not able to schedule annual out of conference matchups.