Longwood Lancers
The Longwood Lancers are the intercollegiate athletics teams that represent Longwood University, located in Farmville, Virginia. The University's 14 men’s and women’s teams compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I level. Since 2012, the Lancers have been a member of the Big South Conference.
In March 2022, the Longwood Lancers men's basketball and women's basketball teams won Big South Tournament titles, punching the first tickets to the NCAA basketball tournament in the school’s Division I history. Only three times in Big South Conference history has the same institution claimed the men's and women's basketball titles in the same year. Both teams also won regular-season titles in the 2021-2022 season, with the men's team in sole possession of first place and the women's team tied for first. In 2024, the Lancers won the Big South men's basketball tournament for the second time in three years and earned a berth in the NCAA Division I Tournament.
Since joining the Big South, the Longwood softball team has won five Big South tournament crowns and three regular-season titles. The Lancers have appeared in the NCAA Division I softball tournament four times.
The Lancer mascot is Elwood, a horse, and the official logo features a horse’s head atop a lance. The Lancers' fight song is "Hail to Longwood U."
Conference affiliations
- 1972–73 to 1981–82: Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
- 1976–77 to 1980–81: NCAA Division III Independent
- 1981–82 to 1982–83: NCAA Division II Independent
- 1983–84 to 1987–88: Mason–Dixon Conference
- 1988–89 to 1994–95: NCAA Division II Independent
- 1995–96 to 2002–03: Carolinas–Virginia Athletic Conference
- 2003–04: NCAA Division II Independent
- 2004–05 to 2011–12: NCAA Division I Independent
- 2012–13 to present: Big South Conference
Championships
Men's Basketball">Longwood Lancers men's basketball">Men's Basketball
- Big South Tournament Championships : 2022, 2024Big South Regular Season Championships : 2022
Women's Basketball">Longwood Lancers women's basketball">Women's Basketball
- Big South Tournament Championships : 2022Big South Regular Season Championships : 2022