Bates Bobcats
Year Competition Record Result
2018 New England Dinghy Tournament ( NEISA Club Team Championship ) 1st Place
2004 NCAA National Sailing Championship Second to Hamilton College 2nd Place
2003 NCAA National Sailing Championship Second to Bowdoin College 2nd Place
2002 NCAA National Sailing Championship Second to Amherst College 2nd Place
2001 NCAA National Sailing Championship Second to Williams College 2nd Place
2000 NCAA National Sailing Championship Second to Amherst College 2nd Place
Club sports -- Sailing team
The entrance placard of the Bates College Sailing Club 's boathouse , 2016 . The college 's sailing team is based at the Taylor Pond Yacht Club , in Auburn , Maine . The team sails in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association ( NEISA ) conference with its main competitors being Bowdoin , Tufts , and Massachusetts Institute of Technology , among the other 40+ schools in the conference . [ 95 ] The team regularly competes at the largest collegeiate keelboat regatta in the Western Hemisphere , the Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta ( IOR ) held at Larchmont Yacht Club by the Storm Trysail Foundation ) . The team regularly updates their website and their social media platforms .
The Bates Bobcats are the athletic teams of Bates College largely based in Lewiston, Maine and the surrounding areas. The college's official mascot has been the bobcat since 1924, and maintains garnet as its official color. The school sponsors 32 varsity sports (16 men's, 16 women's), most of which compete in the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The school's men's and women's ski teams and men's and women's squash teams compete in Division I. Bates has rivalries with Princeton in Squash and Dartmouth in Skiing and selected hockey bouts. The college also competes with its Maine rivals Bowdoin and Colby in the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium (CBB). This is one of the oldest football rivalries in the United States. This consortium is a series of historically highly competitive football games ending in the championship game between the three schools. Bates has won this championship at total of twelve times including 2014, 2015, and in 2016 beat Bowdoin 24-7 after their 21-19 abroad victory over Colby. Bates is currently the holder of the winning streak, and has the record for biggest victory in the athletic conference with a 51-0 shutout of Colby College. The three colleges also contest the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Chase Regatta. The college is the all-time leader of the Chase Regatta with a total of 14 composite wins, followed by Colby's 5 wins, concluded with Bowdoin's 2 wins. Bates maintains 31 varsity teams, and 9 club teams, including sailing, cycling, ice hockey, rugby, and water polo.