At my small D1 school (6,000 undergrads) we kept social activities pretty much in the track and XC family (guys & girls).
Now, my perception is that most teams men's at my school were the same way, not terribly social with the other teams -- except for like the hockey & basketball teams. Pretty much all the teams had their own off-campus houses.
Girls teams were all over the place. But, of course, girls track spent most of their time with us.
Curious to hear others' experiences.
At my school, the two teams shower together and have the occasional circle jerq.
My XC team is boring, wrestlers and lax are fun to party with.
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all the teams got on pretty well together. Most time was spent with your own teammates though. Guys and girls had the same coach, same meets, same practices. We were generally supportive of the other teams on campus, but its not like we'd go to every game or anything. Most of the guys lived with other members of the track team, some lived on campus all 4 years. A lot of the guys dated girls on the cheerleading team for some reason.
When I came here last year, we all thought we liked girls. Slowly though, as our minds (and a**holes) expanded, we began to realize that short shorts and showers weren't the only things we liked about cross country.
The girls are way too social. One likes to say, that when she walks into a room all eyes turn to look at her.
We have an Athletics Mixer in Sept. Why the school goes for this I don't know. Athletes would be better off with civilians.
I have to say too that Bb players hit on the track team pretty hard. Some give in, even though they have been encouraged not too.
I think we were very social with other groups. We spent so much time together that we wanted to party with others.
Also all our girls team was getting banged by the baseball team. So there was that.
I go to a D3 school, and let me tell you, our girls team TRAINS HARD and PARTIES HARD!!!
And the guys team just does marathons on the track.
yeah, my D3 girls team would blast elliptical miles in the student weight room (because there aren't TVs in the athlete weight room) while we were out on the trail. then at night they would still have the energy to drink us under the table at the townhouses, probably because they were sucking down cheeseburgers at the cafeteria before hand
Girls can do whatever they want. The guys basically stick together but there are a few guys that are cool and get in with the other athletes.