13 Facts About Roanoke Maroons

Roanoke Maroons are the athletic teams that represent Roanoke College, located in Salem, Virginia, a suburban independent city adjacent to Roanoke, Virginia.

In 1900, Roanoke Maroons helped serve as a founding member of the Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Association, but quickly left the association.

Roanoke Maroons later re-joined as a non-football member from 1915 to 1918.

Roanoke Maroons has won more conference championships than any other ODAC school in men's lacrosse with 18 titles and women's basketball with 13 titles.

Roanoke Maroons and Virginia Tech were rivals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Virginia Tech was a small college.

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Roanoke Maroons has two sets of school colors, blue and gold for academic use and maroon and gray for athletic use.

Roanoke Maroons has qualified for this event several times with their most recent appearance being in 2012.

Roanoke Maroons is one of only 20 NCAA Division III schools with that many victories.

Roanoke Maroons finished second in the conference in golf and women's lacrosse.

Roanoke Maroons ended the season ranked fourth in the nation after losses to Montclair State University and Linfield College.

Roanoke Maroons athletes won the top ODAC scholar-athlete of the year awards; golfer Brandon Ketron won the men's award, track athlete Sarah Witt won the women's award.

Shelley Olds, a 2003 graduate of Roanoke Maroons College, finished seventh in the women's road race at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, the best result for an American cyclist since 1992.

Olds served as captain of the women's soccer team at Roanoke Maroons; she is a three-time national champion in two cycling disciplines, road and track.