This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico.
Notes:
Team | School | City | Conference | Sport sponsorship | ||||||
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Foot- ball | Basketball | Soccer | ||||||||
M | W | M | W | |||||||
Puerto Rico–Bayamón Cowboys [lower-alpha 1] | University of Puerto Rico at Bayamón | Bayamón | Independent | |||||||
Puerto Rico–Mayagüez Tarzans [lower-alpha 1] | University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez | Mayagüez | Independent | |||||||
Puerto Rico–Río Piedras Gallitos [lower-alpha 1] | University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras | San Juan | Independent |
NCAA Division II independent schools are four-year institutions that compete in college athletics at the NCAA Division II level, but do not belong to an established athletic conference for a particular sport. These schools may however still compete as members of an athletic conference in other sports. A school may also be fully independent, and not belong to any athletic conference for any sport at all. The reason for independent status varies among institutions, but it is frequently because the school's primary athletic conference does not sponsor a particular sport.
The Ana G. Méndez University is a private university system with its main campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico that participates in the Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium.
NCAA Division I independent schools are four-year institutions that compete in college athletics at the NCAA Division I level, but do not belong to an established athletic conference for a particular sport. These schools may however still compete as members of an athletic conference in other sports. A school may also be fully independent, and not belong to any athletic conference for any sport at all. The reason for independent status varies among institutions, but it is frequently because the school's primary athletic conference does not sponsor a particular sport.
The Inter-university Athletic League, often abbreviated LAI, is a college athletics conference in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The LAI is a non-profit organization whose main purpose is to regulate sports amongst its member institutions. The league was founded in 1929 by Cosme Beitía of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, Charles Leker for the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, and Luis Izquierdo Galo y José D. Morales from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. The league is best known for its flagship inter-collegiate sports event locally called Las Justas which takes place yearly during the month of April, generally in the city of Ponce.
Carmelo Betancourt Carbonell is a Puerto Rican-American basketball player for the Cangrejeros de Santurce of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He has earlier played for the Gallitos de Rio Piedras of the Liga Atlética Interuniversitaria (LAI), and the Akron Zips during his college basketball career.