The Athletics Department seeks to be a community of scholar athletes, coaches and staff whose primary focus is to achieve academic excellence while also striving to produce teams and individuals who are committed to athletic competition and outstanding performance. Such efforts are made within the context of our core values: Excellence, Integrity, Sportsmanship, Community, Opportunity and Service. In striving to achieve these goals, we endeavor to attain the University's Strategic Goal which states that, ''Villanova will offer equitable athletic opportunities at the intercollegiate, intramural, club sport and recreational levels, and achieve national recognition in selected programs.''