The

United States Merchant Marine Academy The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA or Kings Point) is a United States service academies, United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipman, midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) to serv ...

's intercollegiate sports teams are called the Mariners and they compete in the Division III of the

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, generally as once a charter member of the Landmark Conference. In 2016, they returned to the

Skyline Conference The Skyline Conference is an List of NCAA conferences, intercollegiate athletic conference based in the New York City area that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA's NCAA Division III, Division III. The league was orig ...

in all sports. Men's sports include baseball, football, basketball, cross country, lacrosse, soccer, swimming & diving, tennis, wrestling and track and field. Women's sports include basketball, cross country, lacrosse, swimming and diving, track and field, and volleyball.

Sports sponsored

In football, the teams were an associate member of the

Liberty League The Liberty League is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III. Member schools are all located in the state of New York. History It was founded in 1995 as the ...

until 2017, when they joined the

New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut, Ma ...

as an associate member. In

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, they are a member of the

Centennial Conference The Centennial Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Chartered member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania; associate members are also located in New York and Virginia. Ele ...

. The USMMA was a member of the

until the 2006–07 season. The football teams also plays for an annual rivalry trophy in football, known as the Secretaries Cup, against the

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of the

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. In rugby, the USMMA competes in the MetNy Rugby Football Union where the team was the first division champion from 2005–2006. The men's swim & dive team has had a long history of success, winning 20 straight conference championships (2000–2020) and are the only team to win the Landmark Conference championship until their departure from the conference in 2016. The USMMA Varsity Intercollegiate

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, Windsurfing, windsurfer, or Kitesurfing, kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' (Land sa ...

Team competes at the

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(MAISA) of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) and has fifteen National Championships to its credit, as well as nearly two dozen district titles. The Mariners won their first ICSA National (now "North American") Championship in 1979. The Mariners have five dinghy championships in 1979, 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1996. Six sailors have received College Sailor of the Year recognition, Jonathan Wright 1971, Alex Smigelski 1979, Morgan Reeser, 1983 and 1984, Jay Renehan 1985, William Hardesty III, 1998. The school has had 32 All American Skippers, 11 Honorable mention skippers, and 10 All American crews. The USMMA Men's Basketball team was dominant in the Skyline Conference throughout for nearly a decade starting in 1994 and ending when the 2003 team. The four graduating seniors from 2003 compiled the most wins in USMMA Men's Basketball history which included 3 wins in the NCAA tournament, a mark that still stands as a record today. A member of that class also holds the USMMA record and is 3rd all-time in NCAA division III history for drawing the most offensive fouls over a 4 year span. Many have said that if he would have played in the NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen game against Clark University that special group may have gone on to win the National Championship.

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