Vanderbilt University

===Athletics restructuring===
[[File:Hawkins Field.JPG|right|thumb|Hawkins Field in June 2007]]
The university is unique in [[NCAA Division I]] in that for several years the athletics department was not administered separately from other aspects of campus life; Vice Chancellor David Williams, who was over intercollegiate athletics, also was university counsel and in charge of other aspects of undergraduate campus life such as intramural sports.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bechtel|first=Mark |title=A Process of Elimination: Vanderbilt has found greater sports success since losing its athletics department |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=June 6, 2007}}</ref> Despite fears that Vanderbilt would lose coaches and recruits or would be forced out of the SEC, the university experienced considerable success after the change; 2006–07 was one of the best in the school's athletic history. At one point, seven of Vanderbilt's 16 teams were concurrently ranked in the Top 25 of their respective sports.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Seven Vanderbilt teams ranked in Top 25 |publisher=Vanderbilt University |date=February 23, 2007 |url=http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2007/2/23/seven-vanderbilt-teams-ranked-in-top-25 |access-date=May 24, 2007  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327193634/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/news/releases/2007/2/23/seven-vanderbilt-teams-ranked-in-top-25 |archive-date=March 27, 2008 }}</ref>  Women's bowling won the NCAA championship, bringing the university its first team championship since the advent of the NCAA.<ref>{{cite web |title = Vanderbilt Bowlers Make History |publisher = Vanderbilt University |url = http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/w-bowl/recaps/041407aab.html |access-date = April 14, 2007 |archive-date = September 29, 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110929224549/http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/w-bowl/recaps/041407aab.html  }}</ref> The baseball team qualified for the NCAA Super Regionals in 2004, had the nation's top recruiting class in 2005 according to ''[[Baseball America]]'',<ref>{{cite web|last=Kimmey|first=Will|title=Vandy Recruits Stay For Top Recruiting Class |work=Baseball America|date=October 11, 2005|url=http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/051011vandy.html|access-date=January 10, 2007 }}</ref> made the NCAA field again in 2006, and won the 2007 SEC regular-season and tournament championships. Vanderbilt was ranked first in most polls for a large portion of the 2007 season, and the team secured the top seed in the [[2007 NCAA Division I baseball tournament|2007 NCAA tournament]].<ref>{{cite press release|title=Vanderbilt Awarded No. 1 National Seed|publisher=Vanderbilt University|date=May 28, 2007|url=http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/052807aae.html|access-date=May 29, 2007|archive-date=July 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727232956/http://vucommodores.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/052807aae.html}}</ref> In more recent years, the team has reached the pinnacle of college baseball winning the [[College World Series]] in both 2014 and 2019. The team's triumph in 2014 was the school's first national championship in a men's sport.