Editing Spring Hill College

{{For|the Nonconformist seminary in England |Spring Hill College, Birmingham}}
{{Short description|Jesuit college in Mobile, Alabama, US}}
{{Infobox university
| name                   = Spring Hill College
| image                  = SHC_logo-stack-2627c+k-1.png
| image_size             = 
| motto                  = In Colle Exaltatus Fons Sapientiae ([[Latin]])
| mottoeng               = A Spring of Wisdom Lifted Up on the Hill<ref>{{cite book |title=2019-2020 Bulletin of Information |publisher=Spring Hill College |location=Mobile, Alabama |page=11 |url=https://www.shc.edu/media2/medialibrary/2019/11/2019-2020_Bulletin_-General_Information.pdf |access-date=January 10, 2020 }}</ref>
| type                   = [[Private college]]
| established            = {{start date and age|1830}}
| religious_affiliation  = [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] ([[Society of Jesus|Jesuit]])
| academic_affiliations  = [[Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities|AJCU]]
| endowment              = $24.8&nbsp;million (2019)<ref>As of June 30, 2019. {{cite web |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2019-Endowment-Market-Values--Final-Feb-10.ashx? |title=U.S. and Canadian 2019 NTSE Participating Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2019 Endowment Market Value, and Percentage Change in Market Value from FY18 to FY19 (Revised) |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and TIAA |access-date=September 20, 2020 |archive-date=September 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923170518/https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Nacubo/Documents/EndowmentFiles/2019-Endowment-Market-Values--Final-Feb-10.ashx |url-status=live }}</ref>
| president              = [[Mary H. Van Brunt]]
| faculty                = 79 full-time
| staff                  = 
| students               = 1,046
| undergrad              = 933
| postgrad               = 113
| city                   = [[Mobile, Alabama]]
| country                = U.S.
| coordinates            = {{Wikidatacoord|Q5591503|region:US-AL_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| campus                 = Urban - <br />32 buildings 18-hole golf course
| campus_size            = {{cvt|381|acre}}
| colors                 = {{Color box|#52307c|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|white|border=darkgray}} <br> Purple & white
| athletics_affiliations = 
| sports_nickname        = Badgers
| sporting_affiliations  = [[NCAA Division II|NCAA DII]] [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference|SIAC]]
| mascot                 = Beaumont
| website                = {{URL|https://www.shc.edu/|shc.edu}}
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'''Spring Hill College''' is a private [[Jesuit]] college in [[Mobile, Alabama]]. It was founded in 1830 by Bishop [[Michael Portier]] of Mobile. Along with being the oldest college or university in the state of [[Alabama]], it was the first [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] college in the South, is the fifth-oldest Catholic college in the United States, and is the third-oldest member of the [[Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities]].

==History==
[[File:Cardinal Joseph Fesch.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Cardinal [[Joseph Fesch]], an early benefactor of the college]]
Spring Hill College was founded by the first [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mobile|bishop of Mobile]], [[Michael Portier]], who was from France. After purchasing a site for the college on a hill near Mobile, Bishop Portier went to France to recruit teachers and raise funds for the new college. Portier recruited two priests and four seminarians from France to staff the school. A friend of Portier, Cardinal [[Joseph Fesch]], [[Archbishop of Lyons]], was a major benefactor to the fledgling College, donating his philosophical and theological library and various works of art. [[Pauline Jaricot]], founder of the [[Society of the Propagation of the Faith]], donated 38,000 francs, an enormous sum in those days.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

The bishop himself taught theology to the ecclesiastical students, who numbered six the first year. Upon his return from France, Portier rented a hotel next to the college grounds and started the first semester on May 1, 1830, with an enrollment of thirty students. On July 4 of the same year, the bishop laid the cornerstone of the first permanent building. It stood on the site of the present Administration Building and opened for classes in November 1831. Spring Hill is the oldest institution of higher education in Alabama and among the oldest colleges in the South. It is the third-oldest Jesuit college in the United States.<ref name="Boyle">{{cite book |title=Gleanings from the Spring Hill College Archives |last=Boyle |first=Charles J. |year=2004 |publisher=Friends of the Spring Hill College Library |location=Mobile |isbn=1-887650-24-5 }}</ref><ref name="mission">{{cite web |url=http://www.shc.edu/about-shc/employment/hiring/the-mission-statement-of-spring-hill-college/ |title=The Mission Statement of Spring Hill College |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=April 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723213128/http://www.shc.edu/about-shc/employment/hiring/the-mission-statement-of-spring-hill-college/ |archive-date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref>

[[File:Spring Hill College 02.jpg|thumb|left|The original main building, built in 1831. From a 1905 picture]]
In 1836 the governor of Alabama, [[Clement Comer Clay]], signed a legislative act that chartered the college; the following year, four graduates received their degrees.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

The first two presidents of the college were called away to be bishops, one to [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque|Dubuque, Iowa]] ([[Mathias Loras]]), the other to [[Vincennes, Indiana]] ([[John Stephen Bazin]]). The third president, Mauvernay, died after a brief term of office. Portier transferred the college, first to the French [[Fathers of Mercy]], and next to the [[Congregation of Jesus and Mary]], but both groups lacked teaching and administrative experience.<ref name="encyala"/>

He persuaded the Fathers of the [[Lyon]]nais Province of the [[Society of Jesus]] (Jesuits) to take possession of the college.<ref name="encyala">{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1029 |title=Spring Hill College |author=Charles Stephen Padgett |date=February 22, 2007 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Alabama |access-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-date=September 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912091728/http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1029 |url-status=live }}</ref> The new regime was inaugurated with [[Francis Gautrelet]] as president in September 1847. Since that time the institution has continued under Jesuit direction.<ref name="Boyle"/>

Many boys were sent to Spring Hill during the [[American Civil War]] as they neared the [[Conscription in the United States|draft]] age. But numerous students wanted to be part of the war effort. The college eventually formed two military companies. Some of Spring Hill's Jesuit fathers became chaplains for the Confederacy. A recruiter tried to conscript all forty of the Jesuit brothers at the college into the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate Army]]. The college president, Gautrelet, dispatched an urgent message to the assistant secretary of war in [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]], who granted a temporary reprieve of the brothers' conscription.<ref name="encyala"/>

[[File:Spring Hill College Quad 01.JPG|thumb|The second main building, now the Rev. Gregory F. Lucey, S.J. Administration Center, built in 1869]]
During the [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction era]], the college recruited students from among the sons of Central American and Cuban leaders. Following student complaints that Spanish was challenging the dominance of English on the campus, the Jesuits organized a Spanish–American league.<ref name="encyala"/> In 1869 a fire destroyed the main building. Students and faculty had to relocate for a time to [[St. Charles College (Grand Coteau)|St. Charles College]] in [[Grand Coteau, Louisiana]]. [[John Quinlan (bishop)|John Quinlan]] and other benefactors assisted in rebuilding the college, which reopened at Spring Hill before the year's end.<ref name="Boyle"/>

As the enrollment increased, Quinlan Hall, St. Joseph's Chapel, the Thomas Byrne Memorial Library, and Mobile Hall were erected. In 1935, the high school, which had been a unit distinct from the college since 1923, was discontinued. In the space vacated by the high school, the Jesuit House of Studies was opened in 1937, and the Scholasticate of the Sacred Heart opened on a site adjoining the college a few years later.<ref name="Boyle"/>

After [[World War II]], a great influx of veterans taxed the facilities of the college, which erected numerous temporary buildings on the campus to handle the new students. At the request of Archbishop [[Thomas Joseph Toolen]] of Mobile, the college became [[coeducation|co-educational]] in 1952.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

As a Southern college, Spring Hill did not admit black students for the first 124 years of its existence. It played a significant role in educating the region's plantation owners and slave holders, especially in Louisiana, where many wealthy whites were Catholic. It eventually admitted its first black students in September 1954, a few months after the Supreme Court ruling in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' (1954) that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional<ref name="Encyclopedia of Alabama 1956">{{cite web |title=Spring Hill College |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |date=February 22, 2007 |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1029 |access-date=July 7, 2020 |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813031507/http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1029 |url-status=live }}</ref> Mrs. [[Fannie E. Motley]] was the first black graduate from the institution in 1956.<ref name="Boyle" />

Even that late start made Spring Hill College comparatively early in educational civil rights for Alabama's African Americans. In his 1963 "[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]," Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] said he "commend[s] the Catholic leaders of this state for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago."<ref name="Boyle"/>

On the night of January 21, 1957, a dozen or more darkened cars entered the main avenue of the college. [[Ku Klux Klan]] members tried to set up a kerosene-soaked cross outside Mobile Hall, a dormitory. They were unaware that they were there during finals week. Most of the white, male residents were still awake, studying for exams, and several heard the hammering. Once alerted, students streamed from both ends of the building carrying whatever items were handy as weapons – golf clubs, tennis rackets, bricks, a softball bat – and put the panicked Klansmen to flight. A KKK contingent returned the next night, burning a cross at the gate of the college before students reacted. The following day, a group of students – male and female – hanged a Klansman in effigy at the college gate, with a sign reading, "KKKers ARE CHICKEN."<ref name="McDermott2007">{{Cite news |last=McDermott |first=Jim S.J. |title=A Professor, a President and the Klan |newspaper=America, The National Catholic Weekly |location=New York |date=April 16, 2007 |url=http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=5414 |access-date=July 24, 2009 |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011014753/https://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=5414 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On July 27, 1963, [[Lee Harvey Oswald]] spoke at Spring Hill about life in the Soviet Union, at the invitation of his cousin, a student at the college.  His speech was considered controversial because of strong opposition in the United States to communism during the Cold War. <ref>[https://mobilebaymag.com/flashback-lee-harvey-oswald-visits-spring-hill/ "Flashback: Lee Harvey Oswald Visits Spring Hill"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808131743/https://mobilebaymag.com/flashback-lee-harvey-oswald-visits-spring-hill/ |date=2022-08-08 }}, by Chris McFadyen, ''Mobile Bay'' magazine, January 23, 2014</ref><ref>[https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth337292/ "Letter to Lee Harvey Oswald from E. J. Murret, August 22, 1963"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220808131800/https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth337292/ |date=August 8, 2022 }}, The Portal to Texas History</ref>  His lecture took place months before he assassinated President [[John F. Kennedy]] on November 22, 1963.<ref name="Summaryof">{{Cite web |title=Summary of a Speech by Lee Harvey Oswald, Jesuit House of Studies, Spring Hill College Mobile, Alabama, July 27, 1963 |url=http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/parnell/ce2649.htm |access-date=July 27, 2008 |archive-date=January 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106195058/http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/parnell/ce2649.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Following Hurricane [[Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]]'s widespread destruction along the central [[Gulf Coast of the United States|Gulf Coast]] in 2005, Spring Hill accepted 117 students, the majority of them from [[Loyola University New Orleans|Loyola University]] in [[New Orleans]], a sister Jesuit institution, for the remainder of the year.<ref name="loyola">{{cite journal |url=http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Conversations/No29_2006/29_lorenz.pdf |last1=Lorenz |first1=Alfred Lawrence |issue=Spring 2006 |title=Katrina Strikes and Southern Jesuit Colleges Survive |journal=Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education |publisher=National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education |volume=29 |access-date=April 7, 2010 |archive-date=November 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103112645/http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Conversations/No29_2006/29_lorenz.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

On January 1, 2023, [[Mary H. Van Brunt]] became president of Spring Hill College, serving as the college's first female president.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Sharp |first=John |date=2022-10-12 |title=Alabama college announces first woman to serve as president in its 200-year history |url=https://www.al.com/news/2022/10/alabama-college-announces-first-woman-to-serve-as-president-in-its-200-year-history.html |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=[[AL.com]] |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=President's Office |url=https://www.shc.edu/about-spring-hill-jesuit-college/spring-hill-college-administration/presidents-office/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Spring Hill College |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Student body==
More than 1,000 students study at Spring Hill College each year, of which more than 56% are from outside [[Alabama]]. The student body is 43% male and 57% female; 90% of the freshman class and 70% of the total student body live on campus. The student-faculty ratio is 12:1, and the average class size is 12. Of faculty members, 91% hold doctorates or the highest degrees in their fields. More than one-third of graduating students continue their education at graduate or professional school.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

==Academics==
Spring Hill College offers [[undergraduate]] students bachelor's degrees through a variety of [[Academic major|majors]]. The available departments include the Division of Business, the Communications/Arts Division, International Studies, Interdivisional Studies, Language and Literature Division, Nursing, Philosophy and Theology, Sciences Division, Social Sciences Division, Teacher Education Division, and lastly, the Pre-Professional Programs. Each of these divisions offers a variety of concentrations from which students can choose majors and minors.<ref name="undergrad">{{cite web |url=http://www.shc.edu/academics/undergrad-programs/ |title=Undergraduate Divisions and Programs |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=April 4, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011103538/http://shc.edu/academics/undergrad-programs/ |archive-date=October 11, 2007 }}</ref>

Spring Hill has an academic center in [[Bologna, Italy]]; it also accepts study abroad students from other colleges and universities.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SHC Italy Center |url=https://italycenterbologna.com/ |access-date=November 28, 2023 |website=SHC Italy Center |language=en-US }}</ref>

Areas of concentration in [[Graduate Student|graduate]] programs include Master of Business Administration, Teacher Education, Master of Liberal Arts, Master of Science in Nursing, Master of Theological Studies, Master of Pastoral Studies, and Master of Arts in Theology.  Certificate programs are offered in theology and ministry. An online master's degree program for a Master of Science in Nursing is offered that combines online and offline nursing experience.<ref name="offcamp">{{cite web |url=http://www.shc.edu/off-campus-programs |title=Off Campus Programs |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-date=May 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527132540/http://www.shc.edu/off-campus-programs/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Through the Cooperative Center for Study Abroad consortium, students may arrange for [[study abroad]] programs and internships in England, France, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Mexico.<ref name="undergrad"/><ref name="abroad">{{cite web |url=http://adminblogs.shc.edu/careerservices/study-abroad-programs/ |title=Study Abroad Programs |work=Career Services at Spring Hill College |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-date=July 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720044636/http://adminblogs.shc.edu/careerservices/study-abroad-programs/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Campus==
The Spring Hill College campus is located in the Spring Hill neighborhood of [[Mobile, Alabama]]. The college has remained on the same campus that Bishop Portier purchased in 1830. A number of its structures are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].  They include the [[Sodality Chapel]] (built 1850); the [[Spring Hill College Quadrangle]], comprising the Administration Building (1869), St. Joseph's Chapel (1910), and four other structures; and [[Stewartfield (Mobile, Alabama)|Stewartfield]] (1849).<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a }}</ref>

Other notable feature of the campus is the Avenue of the Oaks, where graduation traditionally occurs. An 18-hole [[golf course]] is used by the team and other students.  The historic Administration Building renovation was completed in 2008. It was renamed as "The Gregory F. Lucey, S.J. Administration Center", after the college's 38th president.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shc.edu/news-and-events/news/2009/february-2009/lucey-center-blessed-and-dedicated-on-feb-13/?searchterm=hurricane |title=News and Events |access-date=September 25, 2014 |archive-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415070139/http://www.shc.edu/news-and-events/news/2009/february-2009/lucey-center-blessed-and-dedicated-on-feb-13?searchterm=hurricane |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Gallery===
<gallery mode=packed heights=100>
File:4307 Old Shell Road Stewartfield 02.JPG|Stewartfield and the Avenue of the Oaks 
File:Sodality Chapel.JPG|[[Sodality Chapel]], built in 1850 
File:Spring Hill College 1.jpg|Marnie & John Burke Memorial Library 
File:Azalea Trail Maids.jpg|[[Azalea Trail Maids]], formerly the Thomas Byrne Memorial Library
File:Spring Hill College Quad 04.JPG|St. Joseph Chapel, built in 1910 
</gallery>

==Student life==

===Clubs and organizations===
There are over sixty student-run clubs and organizations at Spring Hill College. They include community service clubs, ministry organizations, athletic and academic clubs.

===Greek life===
Several Greek organizations are represented on campus. 

==Athletics==
[[file:Spring hill athletics logo.svg|thumb|130px|Logo of the Spring Hill Badgers, the athletics teams of the college]]
The Spring Hill athletic teams are called the Badgers. The college is a member of the [[NCAA Division II|Division II]] level of the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA), primarily competing in the [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] (SIAC) for most of its sports since the 2014–15 academic year; while its men's & women's soccer and women's golf teams competes in the [[Gulf South Conference]] (GSC). The Badgers previously competed in the [[Southern States Athletic Conference]] (SSAC; formerly known as Georgia–Alabama–Carolina Conference (GACC) until after the 2003–04 school year) of the [[National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics]] (NAIA) from 2010–11 to 2013–14; and in the NAIA [[Gulf Coast Athletic Conference]] (GCAC) from 1981–82 to 2009–10.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

Spring Hill competes in 18 NCAA sponsored intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis and track & field; while women's sports include basketball, beach volleyball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading and dance.<ref name="athletics">{{cite web |title=Spring Hills College Athletics |url=http://www.shcbadgers.com/ |access-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326135151/https://shcbadgers.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Move to NCAA Division II===
The school formerly competed in the GCAC at the NAIA level. On July 12, 2013, Spring Hill was accepted by the NCAA to begin its process towards joining the NCAA Division II.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2013/july/division+ii+adds+new+conference+members |title=Division II adds new conference, members - NCAA.org |access-date=July 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130718102645/http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/ncaa/resources/latest+news/2013/july/division+ii+adds+new+conference+members |archive-date=July 18, 2013 }}</ref> Spring Hill joined the [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] beginning in Fall 2014, becoming the first non-[[Historically black colleges and universities|HBCU]] to join the conference.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/spring_hill_accepted_into_ncaa.html |title=Spring Hill accepted into NCAA Division II; plans move from NAIA's SSAC to SIAC |work=AL.com |date=July 13, 2013 |access-date=September 25, 2014 |archive-date=December 10, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210161022/http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/spring_hill_accepted_into_ncaa.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On August 11, 2014, the GSC 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.<ref name="GSC">{{cite web |url=http://www.shcbadgers.com/news/2014/8/11/GEN_0811140414.aspx |title=Badgers Join Gulf South Conference in Soccers and Women's Golf |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-date=August 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812205817/http://www.shcbadgers.com/news/2014/8/11/GEN_0811140414.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Club sports===
The college offers club sports in men's and women's bowling as well as eSports.

===Intramural sports===
Spring Hill College has a student-run intramural program. The following sports are offered:

* [[Beach volleyball]] (4-on-4 Co-Rec, up to 8 on team)
* [[Basketball]] (5-on-5)
* [[association football|Soccer]] (6-on-6, including the goalie, up to 10 on team)
* [[Flag football]]

===Mascot===
The mascot is the [[badger]].

===Baseball===
Spring Hill College has maintained a baseball team since its first intercollegiate play in 1889.<ref name="badgers">{{cite web |url=http://www.shcbadgers.com/index.php |title=Badger Athletics |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=April 4, 2010 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="stangalle">{{cite web |url=http://www.shcbadgers.com/f/Athletic_Facilities.php |title=Athletic Facilities |publisher=Spring Hill College |access-date=April 4, 2010 |archive-date=April 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426161913/http://www.shcbadgers.com/f/Athletic_Facilities.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>  Notable baseball alumni include [[Blake Stein]], former pitcher for the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals, Frank Bolling who won a Gold Glove in 1958 as a 2nd baseman with the Detroit Tigers and went on to be a two time All Star selection with the Milwaukee(Atlanta) Braves. Frank's brother Milt Bolling who was an infielder for the Boston Red Sox and [[Jim Hendry]], former general manager of the Chicago Cubs.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}}

===Rugby===
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.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=rugbymag.com |title=Scholarship, Varsity Options Increase |date=December 19, 2012 |url=http://www.rugbymag.com/college-news/6691-scholarship-varsity-options-increase.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128101534/http://www.rugbymag.com/college-news/6691-scholarship-varsity-options-increase.html |archive-date=January 28, 2013 }}</ref> In 2018, the college reassigned the men's and women's rugby teams to club sport status.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Goff |first1=Alex |title=Spring Hill Dismisses Obstacles, Keeps Winning |url=https://www.goffrugbyreport.com/news/spring-hill-dismisses-obstacles-keeps-winning |publisher=Rugby Report |date=November 6, 2019 |access-date=May 9, 2020 |archive-date=August 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808174034/https://www.goffrugbyreport.com/news/spring-hill-dismisses-obstacles-keeps-winning |url-status=live }}</ref> Spring Hill rugby competes in the [[National Small College Rugby Organization|small college division]].

===Sailing===
Spring Hill College won a national championship in [[Sailing (sport)|sailing]] in 1986, the [[ICSA Match Racing National Championship|North American Intercollegiate Sloop Championship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.collegesailing.org/hall-of-fame/regattas/cornelius-shields-trophy |title=CORNELIUS SHIELDS SR. TROPHY |publisher=Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association }}</ref>

==Notable people==
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==See also==
* [[List of Jesuit sites]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://shcbadgers.com/ Athletics website]

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