Some sports not sponsored by the G-MAC have separate affiliations; notably, the men's volleyball team competes as a de facto Division I member due to the NCAA sponsoring a single national championship for Divisions I and II. That team is competing as an independent in the 2025 season (2024–25 school year) before becoming a single-sport member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference for that conference's first season of men's volleyball in spring 2026.
History
Thomas More announced its transition to NCAA Division II athletics in July 2022. The Saints had been in the NAIA for the past two academic years and will retain NAIA membership until completion of the 2022–23 academic year. The Saints previously competed as a member of the Division III ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the short-lived American Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) during only the 2018–19 school year; as well as a member of the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) from 2005–06 to 2017–18.
Thomas More had previously been members of the NAIA from 1947–48 to 1989–90.[2]
Varsity teams
List of teams
Men's sports (12)
Baseball
Basketball
Bowling
Cross Country
Football
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Tennis
Track and field
Volleyball
Wrestling
Women's sports (10)
Basketball
Bowling
Cross Country
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Tennis
Track and field
Volleyball
Facilities
Thomas More University and the Florence Y’alls Baseball Club partnered in March 2022 to rename the home of the Florence Y’alls “Thomas More Stadium.” As part of the agreement, the stadium will also become the home of the Thomas More Saints’ baseball team starting in spring 2023. Thomas More announced a major comprehensive fundraising campaign in Fall 2021 in support of a five-year strategic plan that includes enhanced athletic facilities for many of the Saints 29 sports teams. Additional plans are in place for other facility upgrades at the university that will affect additional Saints sports teams positively; renovations at Republic Bank Field and its track were completed in 2021.