Known as the UMW Eagles, 308 of these student-athletes have been named to All-American teams. The university's women's rugby team won the 2014 USA Rugby Division II National Championship. UMW's men's rugby team won the USA Rugby's D1AA Fall Championship in 2017. The UMW ultimate frisbee teams have both made names for themselves as national contenders. The men's team, Mother of George, competed for the USAU Division III College National Championship in the spring of 2018 and fall of 2021, while the women's team, Mary Massacre, qualified for the Championship in the spring seasons of 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019, and 2022.
== Rankings ==
In 2018, Peace Corps named UMW was a Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities for the tenth year in a row, ranking it fourth among small schools. A total of 261 UMW alumni have served in the Peace Corps since the agency's founding in 1961. UMW became a Peace Corps Prep Program partner in 2017.
UMW was ranked among the top 382 colleges in the nation by The Princeton Review, …