{"id":372213,"date":"2026-07-14T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372213\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T06:59:26","slug":"ut-dallas-to-compete-in-ncaa-division-ii-for-intercollegiate-sports-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372213\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Dallas to compete in NCAA Division II for intercollegiate sports | Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UT Dallas has competed as a Division III university since its athletic department was established. Scholarships are not offered under Division III, so as a Division II school, UT Dallas will be able to offer athletic scholarships to its student-athletes for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>With almost 300 member colleges and universities, Division II offers a balance between academics and athletics, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/about\/d2\/D2_FactsFigures.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NCAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a defining milestone for UT Dallas\u2014one that reflects not only the steady evolution of our athletics program, but the continued strength of our university as a whole,\u201d UT Dallas President Prabhas Moghe said in the release. \u201cOur transition to Division II positions us to compete at a higher level while staying true to our commitment to academic excellence and the success of our student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How we got here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UT Dallas has competed as a Division III university since its athletic department was established. Scholarships are not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[301,37812,10540,316,102,104,103,131831,131832,66644,1771,4496,154,131833,7183,6050,131830],"class_list":["post-372213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-athletics","tag-championships","tag-competition","tag-conference","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-division-ii","tag-division-iii","tag-lone-star-conference","tag-ncaa","tag-scholarships","tag-sports","tag-student-athletics","tag-university-of-texas-at-dallas","tag-ut-dallas","tag-utd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}