Bates Bobcats

Men's football The men's football team competes in NCAA Division III as a member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The football team is led by head coach Matt Coyne. Men's basketball The men's basketball team is led by head coach Jon Furbush, and in 2015 he led the team to the semi-finals of the NCAA Division III Basketball Championships. He is the youngest head coach in the history of the team and was named the 2014–15 Maine Coach of the Year by the Maine Men's Basketball Coaches and Writers Association. Men's baseball Men's golf Men's lacrosse The men's lacrosse team is led by head coach, Dan Annino. Peter Lasagna was head for the past 22 seasons. In 2015, Lasagna won a third NESCAC Coach of the Year and led the Bobcats to five appearances in the NESCAC Championship. In 2015, the team reported 156 points scored, ranking them 6th in-conference, and 5th overall. Men's rowing The Men's rowing team is headed by Peter Steenstra, who was awarded the 2015 Division III Coach of the Year Award by the College Rowing Coaches Association, after also receiving Men's and Women's Coach of the Year honors from both the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Alumni, Andrew Byrnes (class of 2005), won the Olympic Gold Medal while rowing for the Canadian National Team, in 2008 in the Beijing Olympics. Men's tennis Men's rugby Men's nordic skiing Men's cross country Men's track & field Men's squash == Women's sports ==

Women's rowing The Women's Rowing team is headed by Peter Steenstra, who was awarded the 2015 Division III Coach of the Year Award by the College Rowing Coaches Association, after also receiving Men's and Women's Coach of the Year honors from both the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Women's track & field Women's squash Women's soccer Women's basketball The 2004 women's basketball team was ranked first in the United States for most of February 2005 and finished the year ranked number six by the USA Today/ESPN Today 25 National Coaches' Poll. The women's basketball team earned the top seed in the NESCAC in 2005, and competed in the finals with Bowdoin for three consecutive years until 2008. Women's cross country == Club sports ==

Volleyball Ice hockey As of 2016, the men's club ice hockey team is ranked #5 in the Northeast, and #25 overall in the NESCHA rankings. Sailing team The college's sailing team is based at the Taylor Pond Yacht Club, in Auburn, Maine. The team sails in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA) conference with its main competitors being Bowdoin, Tufts, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among the other 40 schools in the conference. == Olympians ==

As of 2026, the college has graduated a total of 12 Olympians, one of whom won the Olympic Gold Medal rowing for Canada. == Athletic facilities ==