UAB Blazers

The UAB Blazers are the varsity intercollegiate athletic programs of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The school is one of the fourteen member institutions of Conference USA (C-USA) and participates in Division I of the NCAA. The school's men's basketball team plays in 8,508-seat Bartow Arena. The Blazers' colors are forest green and old gold. The men's basketball program has a long history of success spanning several decades. In addition to basketball, UAB also has programs in men's sports for baseball, golf, soccer, and tennis. Women's sports programs include softball, basketball, golf, soccer, bowling, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), cross country, volleyball and sand volleyball.

Sports teams

A member of Conference USA, the University of Alabama at Birmingham sponsors teams in six men's and twelve women's NCAA sanctioned sports:

2014–15

UAB's president announced on December 2, 2014 that the school's football, bowling, and rifle teams would be terminated for economic reasons. However, the school announced on June 1, 2015 that pledges of additional revenue had been made, allowing the terminated programs to be re-instated. Bowling and rifle were reinstated immediately. The intent was for the football program to return for the 2016-2017 school year, although due to massive transfers from the program and the NCAA's recruiting rules, the program will be rebuilt largely with junior college transfers. With the termination of the football program, UAB had announced the addition men's cross country in order to remain in the NCAA's Division I, but with the return of football, the sport was then dropped.