West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats

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| name = West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats

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| university = West Virginia Wesleyan College

| association = NCAA

| conference = Mountain East

| division = Division II

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| location = Buckhannon, West Virginia

| teams = 21

| stadium = Cebe Ross Field

| basketballarena = Rockefeller Center

| baseballfield = Hank Ellis Field

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| nickname = Bobcats

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| pageurl = https://wesleyanbobcats.com/

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The West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats and Lady Bobcats are the athletic teams that represent West Virginia Wesleyan College, located in Buckhannon, West Virginia, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Bobcats compete as members of the Mountain East Conference for all twenty-one varsity sports.{{Cite web |title=West Virginia Wesleyan College {{!}} NCAA.com |url=https://www.ncaa.com/schools/west-va-wesleyan |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=www.ncaa.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats Scores, Stats and Highlights |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/team/_/id/455/west-virginia-wesleyan-bobcats |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=ESPN |language=en}}

Varsity teams

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Baseball	Acrobatics and tumbling
Basketball	Basketball
Cross country	Competitive Dance
Football	Cross country
Golf	Golf
Soccer	Lacrosse
Swimming	Soccer
Tennis	Softball
Track and field	Swimming
	Tennis
	Track and field
	Volleyball

Individual sports

=Football=

One of the earliest sporting traditions at Wesleyan was football, which was introduced in the pre-college seminary in 1898. The school colors of orange and black go back to that very first game, when fullback and team captain Frank Thompson wore a turtleneck sweater in Princeton University's orange and black to honor two football greats of that university whom he especially admired. A more comprehensive athletic program was formally organized at the collegiate level in 1902. Early sports included football, baseball, basketball, and gymnastics, all for men only.

Many WVWC alumni have gone on to play professional sports. Among them, two alumni have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame - Earl "Greasy" Neale '15 of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1969 and Cliff Battles '33 of the Washington Redskins in 1968.{{Cite web |title=Cliff Battles (1955) - Hall of Fame |url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1595 |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=National Football Foundation |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Greasy Neale (1967) - Hall of Fame |url=https://footballfoundation.org/hof_search.aspx?hof=1362 |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=National Football Foundation |language=en}}

National championships

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|rowspan="5"| Men's soccer (5){{cite web|title=NAIA Men's Soccer Championship History|url=https://www.naia.org/sports/msoc/History/MSOC_Championship_Records.pdf|work=NAIA|accessdate=6 March 2022}}

|rowspan="5"| NAIA

|rowspan="5"| Single

| 1984

| Fresno Pacific

| 3–2 (OT)

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| 1985

| Fresno Pacific

| 4–3 (OT)

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| 1989

| Boca Raton