(NCAA). Eastern University joined the Middle Atlantic Conferences (commonly referred to as the MAC) in 2008.
Sports include men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's volleyball, men's and women's lacrosse, men's baseball, women's field hockey, women's flag football, men's football, women's softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's golf, and cross country. Eastern began fielding a football team in 2022 as an NCAA Division III independent and began playing in the MAC in 2023. Women's flag football was added in the 2024–25 school year, competing in the Division III Atlantic East Conference.
In 2002, senior Andrea Collesidis broke an NCAA scoring record for women's lacrosse.
== Notable people ==
=== Alumni ===
Morgan Hikaru Aiken, professional basketball player
Imani Barbarin, writer and disability rights activist
Tony Campolo, sociologist and pastor
Shane Claiborne, author, prominent figure in New Monasticism movement, founder of The Simple Way
Carolivia Herron, scholar …
