How to Use intercollegiate in a Sentence

intercollegiate

adjective
  • So the choice was to have or not to have intercollegiate athletics?
    — Scott Dochterman, The Athletic, 2 July 2024
  • Men’s crew wallows as a club sport at the intercollegiate level.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
  • Players must have played their last year of intercollegiate football within the last 50 years.
    — Matt Murschel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 June 2018
  • To say this is a stretch is an understatement, but stranger things have happened in intercollegiate coaching searches.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • For students who wanted to play intercollegiate basketball, the Chinese even had their own league.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The school is known for its intercollegiate athletic programs and instrumental and choral groups.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 3 Oct. 2023
  • His mother, Kay, played on the Sooners’ first intercollegiate women’s golf team.
    — Jay Cohen, The Seattle Times, 15 June 2017
  • The next thing to understand is that women’s sports, with few exceptions, lose money at the intercollegiate level.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2022
  • Stanford students and staff also used the course for lessons, recreation, intercollegiate matches and training for cross-country meets.
    — Kathleen Pender, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Mu, a potential Olympian, is supposed to enter college in the summer, but no one knows when intercollegiate sports might return.
    — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • While only with us for a short time, Avery positively impacted her unit, her intercollegiate team, and her class.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Davis sees this as just the start of what DBGI can build in intercollegiate athletics.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 12 May 2026
  • Another forces transgender athletes in scholastic and intercollegiate sports to compete as the gender assigned to them at birth.
    — Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The schools in Oregon and across the country are expecting to resume intercollegiate athletics this fall.
    — oregonlive, 4 June 2020
  • Incarnate Word hired him in 2014 to turn a club sport into an intercollegiate program.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In his prepared testimony, Beamer warned of intercollegiate end times if Congress failed to act soon.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The idea is that if 45 percent of your enrollment is male, then roughly 45 percent of your intercollegiate athletes should be, too.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Amherst defeats Williams 73-32 in the first intercollegiate baseball game.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • Oregon now joins a host of schools around the country that have abandoned many of the ideals of intercollegiate athletics for security and financial bounty.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The Ivy League scrubs all intercollegiate athletics for the remainder of the academic year.
    — oregonlive, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The decision to abandon football is a logical one and is the result of the Army’s refusal to permit its cadets to engage in intercollegiate sports.
    — Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Garvey took a winding route to Mount Ida, one of few colleges to offer the combination of intercollegiate lacrosse and her major, game art.
    — Katherine Dunn, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • All after-school activities, with the exception of the high school playoff and championship games, as well as intercollegiate sports, will be also postponed for the next two weeks.
    — Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Like most intercollegiate sports teams around the country, nearly all of the Big Ten’s varsity teams are forced to rely on that football revenue to survive.
    — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Loyola had dropped intercollegiate baseball in 1978, and reviving the sport, even on a club level, met resistance.
    — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Nevertheless, Elevate presents its purchase of Bowlsby as a strategic move to vie for the biggest projects in the intercollegiate space.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In 1869, the very first intercollegiate football game was played between Rutgers and Princeton.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Those digits must surface on the football field in an era when the College Football Playoff has become the prism through which success in intercollegiate sports is judged.
    — Jimmy Burch, star-telegram.com, 2 June 2017
  • America’s highest court ruled in favor of Coats' clients and said that the governing body of intercollegiate athletics couldn’t restrain the trade rights of schools and their conferences.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The exact nature of what this uncommon partnership means for Cal and Stanford remains murky, as does the entire intercollegiate landscape.
    — Ron Kroichick, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2021

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