Fred Batchelor - head coach University of Maryland Eastern Shore women's basketball
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks (commonly UMES and also known as the Eastern Shore Hawks) are the fifteen sports teams representing the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Maryland in intercollegiate athletics. These include men and women's basketball, cross country, indoor track, outdoor track, and tennis; women's sports include bowling, softball, and volleyball; men's sports include baseball and golf. The Hawks are members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) in most sports,[2] with other memberships in the Eastern College Athletic Conference[3] and Southland Conference.[4]
The Hawks compete in the MEAC for all sports except women's golf, in which they compete as Southland Conference members, and additionally in the ECAC for cross country, track and field and bowling. Eastern Shore will add beach volleyball, a women-only NCAA sport, in 2022–23; the Hawks' conference affiliation in that sport has yet to be determined, given that the MEAC does not sponsor the sport. It will become the first historically black institution to sponsor NCAA-sanctioned beach volleyball.[5]
