Hampton Pirates and Lady Pirates

The Hampton Pirates and Lady Pirates refer to the sports teams representing Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia in intercollegiate athletics. The Pirates and Lady Pirates compete in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Coastal Athletic Association.

Hampton Pirates
University	Hampton University
Conference	Coastal Athletic Association
NCAA	Division I (FCS)
Athletic director	Anthony D. Henderson, Sr.
Location	Hampton, Virginia
Varsity teams	15 (6 men's, 8 women's, 1 co-ed)
Football stadium	Armstrong Stadium
Basketball arena	Convocation Center
Softball stadium	Pirates Softball Stadium
Lacrosse stadium	Armstrong Stadium
Tennis venue	Neilson-Screen Stadium
Volleyball arena	Holland Hall
Mascot	Petey the Pirate
Nickname	Pirates
Colors	Reflex blue and white
Website	hamptonpirates.com

The Pirates were previously members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference between 1995 and 2018 ^[1] and the Big South Conference from 2018 to 2022.

Conference history

A member of the Coastal Athletic Association, Hampton sponsors teams in eight men's and nine women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The school also sponsors a co-ed varsity sailing team, but sailing is not an NCAA sanctioned sport. The lacrosse team competes as an independent.

On November 16, 2017, Hampton announced they would be leaving the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to join the Big South Conference. Hampton is one of three Division I HBCU (after Tennessee State University of the Ohio Valley Conference and North Carolina A&T State of the Coastal Athletic Association) to be a member of a conference other than the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference or Southwestern Athletic Conference.^[2]'

In 2022, Hampton joined the Coastal Athletic Association.

Teams

Men's sports	Women's sports
Basketball	Basketball
Cross country	Cross country
Football	Soccer
Lacrosse	Softball
Tennis	Tennis
Track and field1	Track and field1
	Volleyball
-	Triathlon
Co-ed sports
Sailing2
1 – includes both indoor and outdoor 2 – not sanctioned by the NCAA.

Facilities

Armstrong Stadium

Convocation Center

Venue	Sport(s)	Opened	Capacity	Ref.
Armstrong Stadium	Football Lacrosse	1928	12,000	[3]
Hampton Convocation Center	Basketball	1993	7,200	[4]
Lady Pirates Softball Complex	Softball	n/a	n/a	[5]
Holland Hall	Volleyball	n/a	n/a	[6]
Neilson-Screen Stadium	Tennis	n/a	n/a

National championships

Team

Assoc.	Div.	Total titles	Sport	Competition	Titles	Year	Rival	Score/ points
NCAA	Division II	3	Basketball (women's)	National championship	1	1988	West Texas State	65–48
			Tennis (men's)	National championship	2	1976	UC Irvine	23–18
						1989	Cal Poly–SLO	5–1

Rivalries

Hampton has two main rivals: Howard University, also known as The Real HU rivalry, and Norfolk State University, also known as the Battle of the Bay.

During Hampton's switch from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to the Big South Conference, both rivalries were put on hold. In September 2019, Hampton revived their rivalry with Howard during the Chicago Football Classic. The rivalry with Norfolk State resumed on October 2, 2021.