What does it take to build an athletics program where winning, academic excellence and full engagement in college life aren't competing priorities — where student-athletes can pursue all three without compromise?

Emory has been answering that question for more than 40 years. 

Nineteen varsity sports. Thirty-five NCAA team national championships. Two hundred and fifty-four Academic All-Americans. One unifying goal: excellence in every arena.

Season after season, across pools, courts, tracks, fields and fairways, the Eagles keep winning. Emory has finished among the nation's top 10 Division III athletics programs almost every year since the Learfield Directors' Cup standings were introduced in 1995. In 2024-25, the Eagles soared all the way to No. 1 and they finished fourth this year.

This past year, the women's golf team won its third national championship and second in a row, the men's basketball team reached the NCAA title game for the first time, and both soccer programs made the Final Four, with the women's team also reaching the title game. In addition, Emory Athletics celebrated two national players of the year — Ben Pearce 26B in men's basketball and Zimo Li 28C in women's golf.

While the Eagles have become one of the most consistent success stories in Division III athletics, they're also winning in the classroom, across campus and in the lives they build beyond sports.

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