Editing Wellesley College (section)

===Athletics===
[[File:Wellesley logo from NCAA.svg|thumb|left|120px|Wellesley athletics logo]]
Wellesley fields 13 [[varsity sports]] teams – basketball, crew, cross country, fencing, field hockey, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field, and volleyball.  Wellesley does not have a mascot in the traditional sense – its sports teams are referred to both individually and collectively as "the Blue" (the school colors are [[royal blue]] and white). Wellesley is a member of the [[NCAA]] [[Division III (NCAA)|NCAA Division III]] and the Eastern Conference Athletic Conference (ECAC) and competes primarily as a member of the [[New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference]] (NEWMAC).

[[File:Setting up for Quidditch, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA.jpg|thumb|Preparations for a spring game of [[quidditch (real-life sport)|quidditch]]]]
The Wellesley College Crew Team, affectionately known as "Blue Crew", was founded in 1970 and was the first women's intercollegiate rowing team in the country. In 2016, Blue Crew won the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship]] as a team for the first time in Wellesley history, with its first Varsity 8+ boat placing first and second Varsity 8+ boat placing second. This historic win marked the first time a team from Wellesley College won a national championship and the first time a women's college won the NCAA Rowing Championships. In 2022, Blue Crew won the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship]] as a team for a second time, with both its first Varsity 8+ and second Varsity 8+ boats placing second.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2022-05-28 |title=Wellesley Crew Wins the 2022 NCAA DIII Rowing National Championship |url=https://www.wellesleyblue.com/sports/wcrew/2021-22/releases/20220528nhpzbk |language=en}}</ref>

In 2023, Blue Crew again won the [[NCAA Division III Rowing Championship]] as a team, with its first Varsity 8+ boat placing first and second Varsity 8+ boat placing second.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |archive-date=Jul 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718004947/https://www.ncaa.com/news/rowing/article/2023-05-27/wellesley-wins-2023-ncaa-diii-rowing-national-championship |location=[[Pennsauken Township, New Jersey|Pennsauken, New Jersey]] |date=May 27, 2023 |website=[[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] |language=en |access-date=6 August 2023 |title=Wellesley wins 2023 NCAA DIII rowing national championship |url=https://www.ncaa.com/news/rowing/article/2023-05-27/wellesley-wins-2023-ncaa-diii-rowing-national-championship}}</ref>

Wellesley also fields club teams in archery, alpine & Nordic skiing, equestrian, ice hockey, rugby, sailing, squash, Ultimate Frisbee, and water polo. Squash was originally a varsity sport but was downgraded to a club sport status in 2017 when the college left the proper division.<ref>{{cite journal|date=2017-03-22|title=Wellesley College Squash To Compete As A Club Sport Beginning In 2017-18|url=https://www.wellesleyblue.com/sports/wsquash/2016-17/releases/20170320nev8r0|access-date=2020-11-16|website=Wellesley|language=en}}</ref>Recently, ultimate frisbee competed at nationals and ranked 2nd (2022) and 7th (2024). 

From 1943 to 1946, [[Judy Atterbury]] won multiple national [[NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championship#Singles and Doubles Championships (1922–1982)|intercollegiate women's tennis championships]] in both singles (1943, 1946) and doubles (1943, 1944).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tennisforum.com/threads/pre-ncaa-womens-collegiate-tennis.1378268/|title=Pre-NCAA women's collegiate tennis|website=Tennis Forum|access-date=25 May 2021|via=Newspapers.com}} (''Boston Globe'', 1929-1953. ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', 1954-1963.)</ref> [[Nadine Netter]] won the Eastern Women's College Tournament in 1962, and was the Eastern Intercollegiate Champion and New England Intercollegiate women's Tennis Championship winner in 1965.

====Crew====
In both 2016 and 2023, Wellesley College's first Varsity 8+ boat became a national champion in its event at the NCAA Rowing Championships. Wellesley College Crew Team's head coach, Tessa Spillane, was voted the NCAA Division III Rowing Coach of the Year in 2010–11, 2015–16, and 2021–22.  Additionally, Wellesley College Crew Team's coaching staff received the 2015–16 and 2021–22 CRCA NCAA Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year awards.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2022-07-08 |title=Blue Crew's Spillane, Muller, Ball Named CRCA Division III National Coach and Staff of the Year |url=https://www.wellesleyblue.com/sports/wcrew/2021-22/releases/20220708ofvu32 |language=en}}</ref>