Does a club sport team count as intercollegiate athletics?

[ACal]

So I've played club ultimate for our school for the past two years. We travel a lot and compete with other club teams in and out of state. Does it count as intercollegiate athletics or if not would it just be extracurricular activities?

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[Nymphicus]

So I've played club ultimate for our school for the past two years. We travel a lot and compete with other club teams in and out of state. Does it count as intercollegiate athletics or if not would it just be extracurricular activities?

Well it sounds pretty intercollegiate to me, but it still wouldn't be varsity and so you will probably get some points knocked off by some adcoms here and there compared to if you played varsity.

Make sure to describe your involvement as much as possible. Just listing that you "participated in club sports" is not going to be all that impressive.

 

[ACal]

Right it's not varsity, I was just wondering what category I should choose for it. I'm planning to explain the level of involvement in the description, but I wasn't sure what to label it as.

 

[Narmerguy]

I would consider this intercollegiate athletics. So long as it is made clear that it is club, I think that should be enough. However, I don't know about ultimate, but I played a club sport which easily ate up 20+ hours a week of my time.

 

[aker321]

I listed my club sport as intercollegiate athletics even though I only played club. I'm a non-trad so it was the closest fit for me.

 

[Frazier]

I concur.

 

[HipChick]

Intercollegiate usually mean NCAA, NAIA, etc where there is a national governing body.

 

[hockey10]

I don't think it counts because ultimate isn't a sport.....

 

[LizzyM]

Who cares? You played against people from other colleges so that's "intercollegiate". You aren't applying for a job on a farm team, you are applying for medical school. What does it matter if it was varsity, junior varsity or club? You played with players as talented as yourself, you trained, practiced, learned teamwork, experienced the agony of defeat and all the rest.

Call it intercollegiate and call it a day.

 

[MedPR]

As long as you played teams from other schools (intercollegiate) it counts 🙂.