Baseball The Bulldogs play in the 3,291-seat
Foley Field stadium. The Georgia Baseball team has seen most of its success in recent years, including winning the
1990 College World Series, as well as making the trip to
Omaha in
1987,
1990,
2001,
2004,
2006, and
2008. The
Diamond Dawgs, as they are called, are coached by
Wes Johnson. In its history, the team has claimed five
Southeastern Conference tournament titles, in 1933, 1954, 1955, 2001, and 2004, and five regular season conference titles, in 1933, 1953, 1954, 2004, and 2008. The program dates back to 1886 and, according to former Sports Information Director
Dan Magill, was once the most popular sport on campus. However, from the mid-1950s to the late-1980s, and then through most of the 1990s, there were only scattered bright spots as the team managed only a modicum of success. Since 2001, however, the program has enjoyed a resurgence, winning three championships in the
Southeastern Conference, and participating in the
College World Series four times in those seven seasons. The Georgia-Georgia Tech baseball rivalry is one of the South's most fierce. The teams' annual Spring Baseball Classic at
Turner Field draws some of the largest crowds in college baseball (the 2004 game was seen by 28,836 spectators, the second-largest crowd in college baseball history).
Basketball Women's basketball Coach
Andy Landers, a pioneer in the sport, coached the Lady Bulldogs from 1979 to 2015, leading them to seven regular-season SEC titles, four SEC tournament championships, twenty 21-win seasons (an average of 24.4 wins per season), 23
NCAA tournaments, and five Final Fours. Landers currently stands as the winningest women's college basketball coach not to have won the national championship. The Lady Dogs' all-time AP ranking stands at 4th .
Men's basketball Georgia's men's basketball program has enjoyed several impressive seasons, including a run to the
2008 SEC Championship and berth in the
NCAA tournament under former head coach
Dennis Felton. While
Dominique Wilkins is considered the greatest player in school history, the team's most successful season came one year after his graduation. The Bulldogs made their first NCAA appearance in
1983 – which would have been Wilkins' senior year had he not opted for the NBA. That team advanced to the Final Four before falling to eventual national champion
NC State. Under the
Tom Crean regime, the Bulldogs landed the number one recruit in the country in
Anthony Edwards in 2018, the highest rated recruit in school history. Edwards would go on to be selected first in the
2020 NBA draft by the
Minnesota Timberwolves, the first Georgia basketball player to do so. Since making its first postseason tournament in 1980, Georgia has received 21 postseason invitations under coaches
Hugh Durham,
Tubby Smith,
Ron Jirsa,
Jim Harrick, and
Dennis Felton, including 10 trips to the
NCAA tournament.
Equestrian Equestrian was added as UGA's 21st intercollegiate varsity sport in 2001. UGA's newest varsity team first competed in the 2002–2003 season. Head coach
Meghan Boenig guided the team to a national championship in the Varsity
Equestrian National Championships (
NCEA) that year as well as a repeat national championship the following year (2003–2004). After a series of runner-up finishes, the team reclaimed the top spot in 2007–2008 and repeated as champions in 2008–2009 and 2009–2010. They also earned national championship titles in 2014, 2021, and 2025 (its eighth). The University of Georgia consistently ranks number 1 in the nation for recruits per National Collegiate Equestrian Association's Coaches' poll. In January 2009, Georgia riders moved into their spacious new home, the UGA Equestrian Complex, located in
Bishop, Georgia. The site is approximately 12 miles south of the
Athens, Georgia campus. The 109-acre farm was formerly used in the
1996 Summer Olympics as a training site for the
U.S. Dressage Team. The Bulldogs play in the tradition-rich
Southeastern Conference. The Bulldogs claim four football national championships: one for the 1942 seasons based on the determinations of several selecting organizations, and three consensus national championships for the 1980, 2021, and 2022 seasons based on the votes of the
AP and
Coaches Polls (several selectors have recognized the Bulldogs as national champions for the 1927, 1946, and 1968 seasons as well). Georgia has won 15 Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships (the most recent coming in 2024). Georgia owns the nations longest active bowl streak at 26, surpassing the previous leader Virginia Tech, who reeled off 27 in a row. The bulldogs are 20–6 in that stretch, excluding the three CFP National Championship games in 2018, 2022, and 2023. In that time period; Georgia has accumulated 3 Peach Bowl victories, 3 Sugar Bowl victories, and a CFP Semi-Final Rose Bowl win to send them to the 2018 CFP National Championship game. Georgia's brand has grown exponentially under coach Kirby Smart, who's pieced together three #1 recruiting classes in his five seasons as Head Coach and led the Bulldogs to the 2021 National Championship victory over Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide team 33–18. The next year, the Bulldogs also won the National Champion over Sonny Dykes' TCU Horned Frogs team 65–7.
Rivalries The Bulldogs' most historic rivalry is with the
Auburn Tigers, referred to as the
Deep South's Oldest Rivalry and dating back to 1892. The other rivalries are between the Bulldogs and the
Atlantic Coast Conference's
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets ("
Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate") and the
Florida Gators ("
World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party"). In addition, UGA enjoyed a strong rivalry with the nearby
Clemson Tigers for many years in football, especially in the 1980s. The Bulldogs and the
Tennessee Volunteers annual showdown on the second Saturday of October has become a rivalry as a result of the 1992 division of the Southeastern Conference into Eastern and Western divisions. Before 1992, the two teams had only met 21 times since 1899. Beginning in 1992, the two teams have played annually as members of the same division. Georgia also enjoys a healthy
rivalry with the
South Carolina Gamecocks, meeting on the football field 70 times since 1894. The Georgia-Florida game is held annually in late October/early November in
Jacksonville, Florida, a site intended to be neutral. However, the game's location is a point of contention for many Georgia fans; many of whom argue that Jacksonville's location relative to the two universities favors Florida. The city lies 342 miles from Athens, Georgia, home of the Bulldogs, but only 73 miles from Gainesville, Florida, home of the Gators. The game is considered a must-do for many UGA students and alumni. The game was traditionally referred to as the "World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party" due to the tailgating and celebration by fans, but in recent years the city and universities have dropped the usage to discourage drunkenness among fans. However, fans and former players on both sides of the rivalry still refer to it by that name, or a shortened "Cocktail Party," choosing not to ever use the sanitized "official" name. Georgia holds the all-time advantage in the series, posting a win–loss record of 56–44–2 (55–44–2 according to the University of Florida, which does not include the 1904 game in Macon, Georgia, played before officially sanctioning its football program). The University of Florida closed what was a substantial gap in the series by posting a better overall record in the 1990s and 2000s. Georgia turned the tables in the 2010s, winning 6 of 10, and Georgia leads the series since 2020, winning the last two games. The most recent game in the rivalry was a 24-20 Bulldogs win.
Golf Men's golf From 1946 to 1970,
Howell Hollis built the Georgia men's golf team into a conference power, claiming 13 SEC titles. George Hamer won the
individual national title in 1946. Current coach Chris Haack has led the team to two
golf national titles (1999, 2005). Overall, the men's golf team leads all Georgia sports with 29 conference championships, including seven since 2000 (1941, 1950–52, 1957–59, 1961–65, 1969–72, 1977–78, 1982–83, 1988, 1998, 2000–01, 2004, 2006, 2009–10, 2016). Notable alumni include two-time Masters' champion Bubba Watson, as well as the winner of the 2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Kevin Kisner.
Women's golf First organized by Liz Murphey, the Georgia women's golf team is a fixture among the nation's top finishers. In 1981
Terri Moody won the
AIAW individual national
intercollegiate golf championship on her home course. Todd McCorkle coached the Georgia women's golf team from 2001 to 2007, when he abruptly resigned before the NCAA Women's Golf Championship under a cloud of sexual harassment allegations. His inaugural UGA team won the
national championship. UGA's sixth place tie at the 2006 national event marks the seventh top-10 final ranking in the last nine years. The program has won eleven SEC titles. Former players include
Vicki Goetze, now on the
LPGA Tour.
Women's gymnastics Since 1986, the Gymdogs have brought home 10
gymnastics national championships (1987, '89, 1993, '98, '99, 2005, '06, '07, '08, '09), the most of any team in NCAA history. (while
Utah has also won ten national titles, their first was an
AIAW Championship in 1981). Georgia is also only the second team (Utah, 1982–86) to win the national title in five consecutive years, winning in 2005–2009. The Gymdogs have won 16 Southeastern Conference titles. The Gymdogs consistently draw upwards of 10,000 fans to their meets, ranking them second only to football in average attendance among Georgia sports. No Bulldog team has dominated its sport as much in the past 20 years as the
Georgia Gymdogs, under the direction of
Suzanne Yoculan. On October 18, 2007, Yoculan announced her retirement after the 2009 season. Longtime assistant
Jay Clark succeeded Yoculan as head coach from 2009 to 2012.
Danna Durante served as head coach from 2012 to 2017. In 2017 former Gymdog
Courtney Kupets-Carter became the head coach and Suzanne Yoculan became a volunteer assistant coach for the transition period.
Women's soccer •
Turner Soccer Complex Women's swimming and diving UGA Alum and Coach
Jack Bauerle has placed the women's program among the nation's elite. As of the 2016 season the women's team is tied with the
University of Texas for the second highest number of
national championships at seven (1999, 2000, '01, '05, '13, '14, '16) and posted eight national runner-up finishes (2002, '03, '04, '06, '09, '11, '12, '15). The women's swimming and diving team has also won twelve SEC team championships (1997, '98, '99, 2000, '01, '06, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15). Bauerle has coached 11 female Olympians and 88 SEC individual champions. Graduates of the Georgia Swimming and Diving program include three individual recipients of the
NCAA Woman of the Year Award:
Lisa Coole in 1997,
Kristy Kowal in 2000 and
Kim Black in 2001.
Women's volleyball The volleyball team participates in the
Southeastern Conference and is currently coached by Tom Black. They play home games at the
Stegeman Coliseum.
Softball The Bulldog softball team began play in 1997. The team has won two
SEC regular season championships in 2003 and 2005. The Team won the
SEC tournament in 2014. The team has made eighteen NCAA tournament appearances. The team has made four
Women's College World Series appearances in 2009, 2010, 2016, 2018, and 2021. The current head coach is
Lu Harris-Champer.
Tennis Men's tennis Under the direction of
Dan Magill from 1954 to 1988 and his successor (and current head coach) Manuel Diaz, the Georgia Men's Tennis program ranks among the nation's best. The team has won a total of eight
tennis national championships in 1985, 1987, 1999, 2001, 2006 (indoor), 2007 (indoor and NCAA Division I), and 2008. The Bulldogs' six NCAA team championships rank fourth all-time. The 2007 indoor championship made Georgia only the sixth team in history to successfully defend the ITA Indoor title. Coach Manuel Diaz is the only NCAA Division I active coach with more than one NCAA team Championships, with four. The squad has won 32 Southeastern Conference championships, 25 regular season championships and seven SEC tournament championships. The NCAA Men's Tennis Championship has been held in Athens 24 times in the past 35 years, including consecutively from 1977 to 1989 and in 2007. All but one (2008) of UGA's NCAA team championships have been won in Athens.
Women's tennis UGA alumnus Jeff Wallace coached the Georgia Women's Tennis program from 1985 through 2023 and was then the winningest NCAA women's tennis coach with six National Championships (2 NCAA, 4 USTA/ITA Indoor) and an 814-198 record. Former Georgia men's tennis national champion Drake Bernstein became head coach in 2024. He earned SEC Coach of the Year and his team won the
NCAA team championship and SEC Championship in his second year coaching. Recently the woman's teams have won three NCAA team championships (1994, 2000, and 2025), five ITA Indoor Championships (1994, 1995, 2002, 2019, and 2025) and ten SEC titles, while individual players have won several individual NCAA titles, and Dasha Vidmanova was named the 2025 SEC Female Athlete of the Year, the first women’s tennis player in SEC history to receive the award. The NCAA Women's Tennis Championship has been held in Athens three times.
Track & field and cross country Men's track & field Notable UGA men's track and field athletes include Olympic gold medalist
Forrest Towns, silver medalist
Norman Edwards, and bronze medalists
Elija Godwin and
Reese Hoffa. Former UGA coach
Petros Kyprianou guided the UGA men's track and field team to the
2018 NCAA men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championship title.
Men's cross country Notable UGA men's cross country athletes include World Marathon Champion
Mark Plaatjes.
Women's track & field The UGA women's track and field teams have won three national championships.
Caryl Smith-Gilbert coached the Georgia team to the 2025
NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championship, which included
Stephanie Ratcliffe who won the
hammer throw as her second title after transferring from Harvard and became the first NCAA competitor to accomplish the feat at two different schools and in the non-consecutive years of 2023 and 2025. Coach Smith–Gilbert thereafter led the team to the 2026
NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championship and she was honored as the 2026 National Women's Coach of the Year by the
U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Then UGA coach
Petros Kyprianou guided the UGA women's track and field team to the 2018
NCAA Women's Division I Indoor Track and Field Championship. Notable recent UGA women's track and field athletes include Olympic gold medalists
Gwen Torrence,
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie,
Shaunae Miller-Uibo,
Lynna Irby, and
Aaliyah Butler, silver medalist
Hyleas Fountain, and bronze medalist
Debbie Ferguson.
Other sports Other notable sports teams include the perennial power men's
swimming team. ==Club sports==