Mar 09, 2025  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog - Phase I 
    
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog - Phase I [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Sports, Recreation and Fitness


Hunter Athletics
B317 Hunter West; (212) 772-4783
Hunter Athletics


The Hunter College Athletic program is the premier benchmark intercollegiate program in the New York Metropolitan region and City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC). With 18 sponsored men’s and women’s teams, the Hawks compete on the NCAA Division III level with a commitment to athletic and academic progress and development each year. Student-athletes benefit from an outstanding and supportive academic environment, highly qualified coaches and superior facilities for competition and practice. Hunter College has won 10 CUNY Athletic Conference Commissioner’s Cups, an award presented to the best athletic program in the conference, to lead all other CUNYAC member schools. Since 2000, Hunter Athletics has also won 129 CUNYAC Championships, joining a dozen other athletic programs to reach the 100 championship pinnacle. The athletic program also maintains an impressive average GPA of higher than a 3.0 among student athletes each year. Furthermore, 65% of student-athletes boast a 3.0 GPA or better.

Hunter College offers a multi-million dollar athletics facility which is equipped with “state of the art” renovated competition and practice gymnasiums, wrestling room, fencing/yoga room, men’s and women’s locker rooms, swimming pool, athletic training room, state-of-the-art weight room, racquetball courts and the smart classroom for student use. The Brookdale campus also houses a swimming pool, weight room, gymnasium, and tennis courts for official athletic and recreation use. For more information on the Hunter Athletic program, log onto www.huntercollegeathletics.com or call 212-772-4783.

Women’s sports include basketball, cross country, fencing, indoor track, outdoor track, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball. Men’s sports include basketball, cross country, fencing, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, tennis, volleyball and wrestling.