![]() ![]() Georgetown's nickname is The Hoyas, but its mascot is " Jack the Bulldog." Various breeds of dogs have been used by the sports teams as mascots since the early 1900s. Jack the Bulldog is both a costumed mascot and a live dog. However, Georgetown Preparatory School, which separated from the university in 1927, uses the name "Little Hoyas" for its sports teams and shares the university's blue and gray color scheme. Georgetown's unique team name has caused opponents to mock Georgetown with chants including "What's a Hoya?" Harrison High School, located in Kennesaw, Georgia, is the only other institution in the country licensed to share this name. ![]() This was influenced by a popular half time show at football games, where the mascot, a dog nicknamed "Hoya," would entertain fans. By the fall of 1928, the newspaper had taken to referring to the sports teams as the Hoyas. "Hilltoppers" was also a name sometimes used for the sports teams. In 1920, students began publishing the campus's first sports newspaper under the name The Hoya, after successfully petitioning the Dean of the college to use it instead of the proposed name, The Hilltopper. The name "Hoyas" derives from Georgetown's college yell, Hoya Saxa.Īfter World War I, the term "Hoya" was increasingly used on campus, including for the newspaper and the school mascot. Lee Reed took over as the school's athletic director in April 2010. The men's basketball team plays most of their home games at the Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C., and the baseball team plays at Shirley Povich Field in Cabin John, Maryland. Most teams have their athletic facilities on the main campus of Georgetown University. The name "Hoyas" came into use in the 1920s. The team name is derived from the mixed Greek and Latin chant " Hoya Saxa" (meaning "What Rocks"), which gained popularity at the school in the late nineteenth century. The men's basketball team is the school's most famous and most successful program, but Hoyas have achieved success in a wide range of sports. The rowing and sailing teams also participate in east coast conferences. In late 2012, Georgetown and six other Catholic, non-FBS schools announced that they were departing the Big East for a new conference. ![]() Georgetown's athletics department fields 23 men's and women's varsity level teams and competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Big East Conference, with the exception of the Division I FCS Patriot League in football. The Georgetown Hoyas are the collegiate athletics teams that officially represent Georgetown University, located in Washington, D.C. Intercollegiate sports teams of Georgetown University Georgetown Hoyas ![]()
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