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The Spiders represent Richmond in the Atlantic 10. The program is anchored by Spider. The program record reflects 0 national championships and 7 Atlantic 10 titles. Richmond has played 11 games this season, finishing 10-1. Richmond fields a 46-athlete roster this season, with 0 verified on RallyFuel. Home games for the Spiders are played at E. Claiborne Robins Stadium, a 7,220-seat venue in , . Richmond most recently played UMass Minutemen on April 30, 2026, with the result a win 11-7. Spider anchors Richmond lacrosse's identity, with "Spider Born" as the program's fight song. When fans fuel a Spider athlete on RallyFuel, 90% lands directly with the athlete — funding training, recovery, and the realities of college sports.
The University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Football plays in the Patriot League, which it joined in 2025 after competing in the CAA from 2007 through 2024. The Spiders field 17 varsity teams.
Football won the 2008 NCAA FCS national title, beating Montana 24-7, the university's first NCAA team championship in any sport. Men's basketball has won conference tournament titles in the CAA (1984, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1998) and the Atlantic 10 (2011, 2022).
In the A-10 era, through 2026, swimming and diving won 17 of 25 conference titles, and women's tennis won nine of 11 titles from 2002 through 2012. Field hockey won five straight titles from 2002 through 2006 and a 2025 regular-season title. Men's lacrosse won both regular-season and tournament titles in 2026, the same year it reached its first No. 1 national ranking. Men's golf won in 2017 and 2026, and men's tennis won in 2026 after a 20-year wait.
Two Spiders ran for Kenya at the 1984 Los Angeles Games. Sosthenes Bitok finished sixth in the men's 10,000 meters in 28:09.01, and Edwin Koech, who won the 1983 NCAA indoor title at 1,000 yards, ran the men's 800 meters.
The Robins Center, which seats 7,201, is home to basketball and includes the natatorium used by swimming and diving. E. Claiborne Robins Stadium, with 8,217 seats, hosts football, lacrosse and track and field. Baseball plays at Malcolm U. Pitt Field, field hockey at Crenshaw Field, women's soccer at Presidents Field and tennis at the Westhampton Tennis Complex.
Richmond's teams were the Colts until the Spiders name appeared around 1892 to 1894. Crosstown rival VCU, a little under six miles away, meets the Spiders in basketball's Capital City Classic, which reached its 93rd meeting in 2024. In football, Richmond and William & Mary have played 136 times since 1898, with the winner taking the Capital Cup, formerly the I-64 Trophy.