Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, and track and field. Women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, and volleyball. The mascot is the badger. The Spring Hill football team played its first game in 1900, but was disbanded in 1941. Spring Hill College has maintained a baseball team since its first intercollegiate play in 1889. Currently, the Spring Hill College baseball team plays its home games at Stan Galle Field ("The Pit"), the oldest continually used college baseball field in the country. Notable baseball alumni include Blake Stein, former pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals, and Jim Hendry, former general manager of the Chicago Cubs. Spring Hill moved its college rugby program to varsity sport status under the athletic department to provide more resources and to help boost admissions to the college in 2012. In 2018, the college reassigned the men's and women's rugby teams to club sport status. Spring Hill rugby competes in the small college division. The school formerly competed in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) at the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) level. On July 12, 2013, Spring Hill was accepted by the NCAA to begin its process towards joining the NCAA Division II. Spring Hill joined the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference beginning in Fall 2014, becoming the first non-HBCU to join the conference. On August 11, 2014, the Gulf South Conference announced that Spring Hill would join the conference as an affiliate member competing in men's and women's soccer and women's golf. Spring Hill began to compete in full schedules starting in 2014, but it was not eligible for post-season play until the 2015-2016 school year.