

The new center will include a larger recreational fitness area, with additional space for cardio workouts, and studio space available for fitness classes will be doubled. The Rains Center has been home to Pomona-Pitzer Athletics and served as the campus recreation and fitness center since it was built in 1989. The rebuilt and expanded facility will replace the Rains Center for Sport and Recreation, creating an up-to-date center that serves the Pomona-Pitzer athletics program while boosting health and wellness for the community. By providing excellent educational, recreational, and competitive opportunities, CMS strives to build community, promotes lifelong health, fosters personal leadership and team growth, and upholds standards of responsibility, perseverance, character, integrity, and inclusion.Ĭonstruction of the new athletics, recreation and wellness center began in February 2021, with completion expected in time for the fall 2022 semester. CMS is home of the Athena and Stags and sponsors 10 men’s and 11 women’s intercollegiate athletic teams. The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps or CMS Department of Athletics and Physical Education endeavors to enhance the liberal arts missions of Claremont McKenna, Harvey Mudd, and Scripps Colleges. Students are encouraged to consider sports and physical activity participation at all levels as a significant and vital part of the college experience. Pomona-Pitzer Athletics offers intercollegiate, club and intramural sports programs. Pomona-Pitzer Athletics offers 21 varsity NCAA Division III athletics teams, 10 for men and 11 for women, and is a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The student-athlete graduation rates are based on those provided by the NCAA.Ī comprehensive list of the rankings, both overall and by division, is available online.Pitzer College and Pomona College join to form the Pomona-Pitzer Intercollegiate Athletic Program and compete together as the Sagehens. The collegiate power rankings based off of the Directors’ Cup rating evaluates the strength of NCAA athletic departments, while the U.S News & WR rating recognizes institutions of academic excellence. The collegiate power Rankings from NCSA are calculated for each college/university at the NCAA Division I, II, and III levels by averaging the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup ranking, the NCAA student-athlete graduation rate of each institution, and the U.S. Scripps College joins Claremont McKenna (18) and Harvey Mudd (20) in the top 30 overall the top five in this category are Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, MIT, and Stanford. Scripps College has earned national recognition for its combination of outstanding academics and athletics, beating out such renowned scholastic-athletic powerhouses as University of North Carolina, Boston University, University of Michigan, and UCLA.įewer than 6% of colleges and universities earn a spot in NCSA Athletic Recruiting’s Top 1, and Scripps College is in this elite class.įor the 8th year, NCSA Athletic Recruiting assessed the academic and athletics standards of all NCAA athletic programs across the country-and Scripps College earned 13th place among all NCAA Division III colleges, and 23rd overall for all three NCAA divisions.
