william & mary's traditional rivals have included in-state opponents old dominion university, james madison university, the university of richmond, virginia commonwealth university, and george mason university. however, of these teams, only the james madison dukes are still members of the colonial athletic association. the richmond spiders, vcu rams, and george mason patriots have all moved on to the atlantic 10 conference while the old dominion monarchs left for conference usa in 2013. some of these teams are maintained as part of william & mary's out of conference schedule each year along with other virginia schools like virginia, virginia tech, hampton, radford, vmi, and liberty.