Which Schools Are in the Ivy League and What Sports Does the Conference Sponsor?

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The Ivy League is an eight-school NCAA Division I conference in the northeastern United States, and ivyleague.com is its official athletics website. The eight members are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, and Yale. The conference sponsors a broad slate of men's and women's sports, and you can follow every school's schedules, results, and stories through the site's navigation.

The Eight Member Schools

All eight are private research universities, and all compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Ivy League. They are often grouped by geography and history, but for athletics purposes they form a single conference.

School Common Name Location
Brown University Brown Providence, Rhode Island
Columbia University Columbia New York, New York
Cornell University Cornell Ithaca, New York
Dartmouth College Dartmouth Hanover, New Hampshire
Harvard University Harvard Cambridge, Massachusetts
Princeton University Princeton Princeton, New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania Penn Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yale University Yale New Haven, Connecticut

A useful way to remember the group is that all eight share the same conference affiliation across their varsity programs — when you see a team labeled "Ivy League," it is one of these eight schools competing against the other seven.

Sports the Conference Sponsors

The Ivy League sponsors both men's and women's sports, and the site organizes coverage around them. Based on the conference's athletics structure, sponsored sports typically include:

Men's sports

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Fencing
  • Football
  • Golf
  • Ice Hockey
  • Lacrosse
  • Rowing (Heavyweight and Lightweight)
  • Soccer
  • Squash
  • Swimming and Diving
  • Tennis
  • Track and Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
  • Wrestling

Women's sports

  • Basketball
  • Cross Country
  • Fencing
  • Field Hockey
  • Golf
  • Gymnastics
  • Ice Hockey
  • Lacrosse
  • Rowing
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Squash
  • Swimming and Diving
  • Tennis
  • Track and Field (Indoor and Outdoor)
  • Volleyball

Not every school fields a team in every sport, and some sports are sponsored at the conference level while others are contested among a subset of members. If you need to confirm whether a specific school competes in a specific sport, check that school's page or the conference sport page rather than assuming all eight participate.

How Each School Relates to the Conference

Each member school runs its own athletics department and its own team pages, but the conference sets the competitive framework — scheduling, championships, and awards — that ties them together. In practice this means:

  • Conference competition: Schools play each other during the regular season to determine conference standings and seeds.
  • Conference championships: The league crowns Ivy League champions in its sponsored sports, often through a championship event or through regular-season results.
  • Shared identity: The "Ivy League" label applies to all eight schools collectively, which is why the conference site covers news, awards, and moments across the whole group rather than a single campus.

Following Schools and Sports on ivyleague.com

The official site is built around a few main areas that make it easy to track the conference:

  • Schedule — conference and school schedules, useful for finding upcoming games and events.
  • Stories — news and features covering teams, athletes, and conference-wide storylines.
  • Around the League Headlines — a roundup of current coverage across the eight schools.
  • Championships and Awards — sections highlighting conference champions and award recipients.
  • Video and Gallery sections — visual coverage, including the conference's "#moments" features.

To find a specific school's activity, start from the conference site and navigate to the school or sport you care about, then check its schedule and results pages. If you only need the big picture, the headlines and stories sections give you a conference-wide view without visiting each school individually.

Quick Answers

How many schools are in the Ivy League? Eight.

Is ivyleague.com an official site? Yes — it is the official athletics website for the Ivy League conference.

Does every Ivy League school compete in every sponsored sport? No. The conference sponsors a range of men's and women's sports, but individual schools may not field teams in all of them.

Where do I find schedules and results? Use the Schedule section on ivyleague.com, or navigate to a specific school or sport for its own schedule and results.