members since 2016–17, and before that competed in the defunct Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) from 2003–04 to 2015–16. Wesleyan competes in intercollegiate varsity sports: Women's sports include basketball, cheerleading, cross country, dance, equestrian, soccer, softball, track, and volleyball. Their equestrian team competes in the Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) and Intercollegiate Dressage Association (IDA). Facilities In addition to Porter Gym on the main campus, other athletic facilities on the campus include: Mathews Athletic Center was donated to the College by Trustee George Mathews in memory of his sister, Mary Ann Mathews Pease '44 AND includes soccer and softball fields and tennis courts. The center provides weekly yoga, and other strength training classes, and more. Nancy Ellis Knox Equestrian Center is located north of Foster Lake and hosts the College's IHSA (Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association) and IDA (Intercollegiate Dressage) teams. The center includes two riding arenas, turnout paddocks, a 24-stall barn, and classroom. Instruction is also offered to the Macon community through the Community Horsemanship Program. The center's academic program is the Equine-Assisted Therapy minor. Colors The school color is deep purple (PMS 268). Notable alumnae Mary Ross Banks (1846–1910), litterateur and author Catherine Brewer Benson, the first woman to earn a college degree at Wesleyan (1840) Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet and teacher; 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature and North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2005–09 Rebecca Caudill, children's literature author Phaedra Parks, well-known lawyer and TV personality Eugenia Tucker Fitzgerald, founder of the first woman's secret society at a women's college Toni Jennings, first female Lieutenant Governor of Florida Ruth Austin Knox, lawyer and Wesleyan College's first alumna president Neva Jane Langley, Miss America (1953) Ellamae Ellis League, architect from Macon, first woman FAIA from Georgia Sara Branham Matthews, microbiologist Viola Ross Napier, one of the first two women to be elected into the House of Representatives in Georgia Hazel Jane Raines, the first woman in Georgia to receive a pilot's license (1936) Eugenia Rawls, stage actress Margaret Zattau Roan, music therapist, clubwoman Soong Ai-ling, Chinese businesswoman, wife of H. H. Kung Soong Ching-ling, Chinese political figure, Honorary Chairperson of the People's Republic of China, wife of Sun Yat-sen Soong Mei-ling, Chinese political figure, First Lady of the Republic of China An-Ming Wang, composer Clare de Graffenried, labor researcher and writer See also Women's Colleges in the Southern United States References External links Official website Official athletics website Wesleyan College