The university announced in July 2014 that it had been accepted into the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II membership process. Embry–Riddle began intercollegiate athletics competition on its Daytona Beach Campus in 1988 and has since transformed into a highly successful program that sponsors 19 intercollegiate sports teams, as well as coed cheerleading. Embry–Riddle fields teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's rowing, men's and women's soccer, softball, ice hockey, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's track and field, and women's volleyball.