Athletics

The Commodores’ bid for their first ever national championship fell one match short on Monday afternoon, dropping a 3-2 decision to defending national champion Oregon in the NCAA Semifinals at the Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill.  The dramatic match came down to the fifth and final match… Read More

The Commodores’ men’s golf team advanced to their first ever Final Four after knocking off UNLV, 3-2, in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Championship Tuesday morning at Rich Harvest Farms Club in Sugar Grove, Ill. Read More

The Vanderbilt men’s golf team captured the NCAA Championship stroke play title and advanced to their third straight appearance in match play competition Monday at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Illinois, while also placing three players in the top eight on the individual leader board. Read More

Through her planned gift to Vanderbilt athletics, Hollis is helping to ensure that the student-athletes who come after her will continue to excel. Read More

An historic season for Vanderbilt women's tennis came to a close on Monday as the third-ranked/fourth-seeded Commodores fell 4-2 to top-ranked/seeded Florida in the Final Four of the 2017 NCAA Women's Tennis Tournament. Read More

For the third season in a row, Vanderbilt women's tennis is Final Four-bound. Their Sunday victory sets up a Final Four match-up between the Commodores (24-5) and the top-ranked Florida Gators for the third time this season and sixth in NCAA tournament history. Read More

Vanderbilt student-athletes are in Jamaica this week for a service trip In partnership with Soles4Souls. The students and Vanderbilt staffers are visiting schools and distributing shoes and other items to local children. Read More

On Tuesday, Vanderbilt hosted an "alternative graduation" for a dozen student-athletes who missed last week's Commencement ceremonies due to athletic obligations. Read More

In partnership with Soles4Souls, Vanderbilt Athletics is spending the upcoming week on a service trip to Jamaica. Student-athletes and Vanderbilt staffers are slated to visit local schools and distribute shoes and other items to children. Read More

Ro Coleman would be wise to bring a box of Kleenex with him to Commencement. “When I walk across that stage and see that piece of paper,” Coleman said, “that’s when I might break down.” Read More

During her pre-med studies as a student-athlete at Vanderbilt, Georgina Sellyn spent hours shadowing doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. That experience helped the fifth-year senior on the Commodore tennis team develop an affinity for surgery. Read More

When Jacob Schultz learned the U.S. Navy had awarded him a prestigious Health Professions Scholarship to medical school, he didn’t tell his family—at least not immediately. Four days later, Schultz, a senior snapper on Vanderbilt’s football team, also learned he’d been accepted into Vanderbilt’s School of Medicine. Read More

Vanderbilt senior Kate Sborov has claimed the SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year award for women’s golf, and freshman Abbey Carlson was named to the All-Freshman Team. Sborov becomes the Commodores’ first-ever Scholar Athlete of the Year selection, while Carlson is Vanderbilt’s seventh All-Freshman Team member. Read More

Last month, Vanderbilt Athletics announced plans to send 11 student-athletes on study abroad trips that will be funded solely by the department. For David Williams II, Vanderbilt’s vice chancellor for athletics and university affairs and athletics director, the opportunity is part of what makes Vanderbilt a unique destination for student-athletes. Read More

The Vanderbilt women's tennis program made history in head coach Geoff Macdonald's 23rd season at the helm. For the first time, the Dores won both the SEC regular-season championship and conference tournament title. Now, No. 4 overall seed Vanderbilt hopes to turn that momentum into another national championship run in the NCAA tournament. Read More

Vanderbilt will co-host the 2021 NCAA Regional Championship for Division I men’s golf—the latest in a string of NCAA and SEC events the university has helped bring to Middle Tennessee. Read More

Oren Burks is not afraid to step up when called upon, even when stepping up requires stepping out of his comfort zone. Read More

The Vanderbilt men’s golf team claimed its first-ever SEC Championship on Monday, winning their final match-play match, 3-2, over Texas A&M in Sea Island, Georgia. Read More

Vanderbilt University is launching a survey of its athletics fans to determine interest in holding some future athletics events in a new stadium that has been proposed for a potential Major League Soccer franchise in Nashville. Read More

Two seasons ago, the Vanderbilt women's tennis team won its first Southeastern Conference Tournament championship. On Sunday the Commodores returned to the pinnacle of SEC tennis in dramatic fashion. Read More