Field (now S.B. Ballard Stadium) was formerly the field hockey and women's lacrosse teams' home venue before renovating to accommodate the new football program in 2009. Field Hockey and women's lacrosse teams were relocated to L.R. Hill Sports Complex. As of the 2015 season, Foreman Field at S.B. Ballard Stadium sold out 48 consecutive home games. Rowing The ODU Rowing Club (ODURC) has been under the Recreational Sports department since 1985. The club is fully student-run and is funded largely by the student members of the club. The men's rowing club won the ACRA national championship in May 2008. In 2008, rowing also became a varsity sport for female students, and a full-time coach was hired for the new women's team. Within their first year at varsity level, the women's team placed at a national competition. The decision to elevate only the women's team to varsity status was made to keep ODU compliant with Title IX regulations, providing balance to the increased spending on men's athletics that a football program brought. Conference affiliation Post-CAA realignment history The football team played their 2013 season as an independent as part of the transition to FBS. Following, ODU competed as a full football-playing member of C-USA from 2014 to 2021-22 school year before joining the Sun Belt Conference in 2022. Old Dominion's field hockey team competes in the Big East Conference. The field hockey program had previously announced that it would join the original Big East for the 2013–14 school year. However, following the split of the original Big East, the two successor conferences, the new Big East and the American Athletic Conference, agreed that The American would not sponsor field hockey and the new Big East would take in all of The American's programs in those sports as associate members. The women's lacrosse team spent their 2013–14 season as an independent before joining the Atlantic Sun Conference as an associate member effective July 1, 2014. Old Dominion women's lacrosse team joined the American Athletic Conference in 2020. In 2014, the women's rowing team became an associate member of the Big 12 Conference, which effectively took over sponsorship of that sport from C-USA. Later, the university announced that the rowing team would change its conference affiliation and compete in the American Athletic Conference beginning in the 2018–19 school year. Following the move to Conference USA, the men's swimming and diving team competed for