The Tribe football team nearly earned its third NCAA Playoff berth in the last five years after posting a successful campaign last fall. En route to ranking as high as No. 16 nationally, W&M defeated three top-20 teams in successive weeks (No. 19 James Madison on Oct. 26, No. 16 New Hampshire on Nov. 2 and No. 15 Delaware on Nov. 9). The College achieved that success with one of the nation's top defensive units, as it ranked second in the country in scoring defense (14.0), eighth in total defense (305.5), 11th in pass efficiency defense (107.4), 13th in rushing defense (118.1) and 15th in third down conversion defense (33.0). Additionally, W&M recorded a pair of shutouts during the 2013 campaign en route to posting the third-best scoring defense average in school history (since playing full 11-game schedules).

Junior Alex Hicks (Cape May Court House, N.J.) had one of the best seasons in Tribe men's golf history in 2013-14, culminating in his second-straight pick to the CAA all-conference first team.  Hicks was also named to the VaSID All-State second team, and over the summer made it to sectional qualifying for the U.S. Open.

During the school year, Hicks started off white-hot, tying for second with a then-best tournament of 5-under at Marshall.  He followed that up at the end of September with three sublime rounds at The Williamsburg Club, winning the Joe Agee Invitational for his first collegiate medal.  He shot 66-66-67 over the two-day event, totaling 14-under for the tournament.  Both his 36-hole total of 10-under and his tournament of 14-under set or tied the school record, and he was the first man to finish with a score of 199 strokes.  Hicks' final round also featured his first ace, the fourth hole-in-one in school history.

He continued his strong play throughout the year, including a sixth-place showing to open the spring at the Wexford Plantation Intercollegiate, and shot 1-over at the Snowman Getaway outside of Phoenix.  For the year, his 72.81 stroke average was the second-best ever for a Tribe golfer, and he helped lead the team to setting the program-record with an average of 294.35.

A quartet of Tribe freshman took home Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Year honors in 2013-14. The group of Trevor Sleight (men's cross country), Jaimie Miller (women's swimming), Omar Prewitt (men's basketball) and Marlena Tremba (women's basketball) were each recognized as the top CAA freshmen in their respective sports.

Sleight turned in strong performances during the regular season at the Panorama Farms Invitational (34th) and Pre-Nationals (138th), before finishing third overall at the CAA Championships to help the Tribe defend its conference title. The third-place effort was the best for a true freshman since 2004. Sleight finished his year at the Southeast Regional, taking 44th overall as the third Tribe finisher and helping W&M upset three more highly-ranked teams. 

Miller was the only rookie to win an event at the conference championship meet and racked up 42 points in her three individual events to become just the third W&M rookie of the year in women's swimming. She won the 100 free in 50.14 seconds, while also finishing fourth in the 50 free (23.09 seconds) and 10th in the 200 free (1:49.89).  Miller reached the podium in all three of her relay events as well, helping W&M set school records in the 200 free relay (1:31.02, 2nd), 400 free relay (3:21.03, 2nd), and the 400 medley relay (3:42.57, 3rd). 

Prewitt became the third W&M player to be named the league's rookie of the year in men's basketball after leading CAA rookies in a number of categories, including scoring (11.4), 3-pointers made (51), assists (63), 3-point percentage (37.0), free throw percentage (75.8) and steals (29), while ranking second in rebounding (4.6 per game). On seven occasions during the season, he was named the CAA Rookie of the Week. He turned in a number of memorable performances, including 10 of his career-high 24 points in an overtime win over Howard. In the CAA title game vs. Delaware, Prewitt had an ESPN Top 10 player moment with a steal and dunk on the way to scoring 14 points, all in the second half.

Tremba made it is sweep of basketball rookies of the year for W&M, becoming the third women's hoops players to receive the distinction. She led the Tribe in scoring as a freshman, pouring in 13.2 points per game, which ranked 10th in the CAA. Her scoring average also topped league rookies. She rewrote the William and Mary freshman record book, ranking in the top-10 in nearly all statistically categories, including the 3-pointers made (67). Her 384 points ranked third among all freshman in program history.

After turning in an impressive regular season résumé, the William and Mary men's soccer team received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and hosted a first round match against George Mason at Martin Family Stadium at Albert-Daly Field in November.

The College returned to the tournament for the first time since the 2010 season. It was the 15th overall appearance in the tournament for the men's soccer program and the third time it hosted an NCAA game in the last six years.

In front of a packed of house of 1,109 fans, the Tribe dropped a hard fought match to George Mason in the First Round of the 2013 NCAA Men's Soccer College Cup. After 110 minutes and a 2-2 draw, the contest went into penalty kicks from which the Patriots prevailed in, for the win. Senior Roshan Patel and sophomore Jackson Eskay scored W&M's goals.

The men's track and field team broke several school records, some of them very long-standing, and came close on a number of other occasions during the winter and the spring.  Indoors, sophomores Brian Waterfield (Chesapeake, Va.) and Bob Smutsky (Dillsburg, Pa.) both set new marks, and freshman Alex Hedrick (Falls Church, Va.) reset the freshman record at 60m several times.  For Waterfield, his first school record came on the final week of the season, when he placed 10th at the IC4A weight throw with a toss of 18.53m (60-9.5) and became the first Tribe thrower ever over 60 feet.  Smutsky ran four of the eight-fastest 60m dashes in school history, including tying the record of 7.14 seconds at CNU in December.  Several other indoor marks were also notable, including for Taylor Frenia (Virginia Beach, Va.), Derek O'Connell (Virginia Beach, Va.), and Trevor Sleight (Asheville, N.C.), and for the 4x800m relay. Frenia became just the second man to surpass 57 feet in the shot put with a put of 17.38m (57-0.25), and also had two more efforts over 56 feet in a four-week span (the Nos. 2,3, and 4 puts all time).  He also threw the weight over 59 feet twice, the only man in school history to do so.  In the pole vault, O'Connell came within an inch of the school record with his first-ever 16-foot vault, clearing the bar at 5.07m (16-7.5) at CNU in late January.  He would go on to top 16-feet three more times in the next five weeks, including at the IC4A Championships where he took fifth overall.  Also at the IC4A meet, Sleight ran the 5,000m in 14:22.06 for eighth place, and the second-fastest time ever for a Tribe freshman in the event.  Rounding out the notables was the W&M 4x800m relay team at the IC4A Championships, that finished 10th in 7:38.66.  That was the 10th-fastest time in school history, and the fastest since the 1998 season.  The team included seniors David Gunnerson (Yorktown, Va.) and Mark Moran (McLean, Va.), as well as freshmen Michael Wilkens (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Troy Sevachko (Centreville, Va.).

Outdoors, many of the same characters continued to perform in an outstanding fashion.  Chief among them was O'Connell, who broke the 42-year-old school record in the pole vault by jumping 5.10m (16-8.75) at Richmond in late March. He had two more 16-foot jumps in the regular season and won the CAA title, before finishing 19th at the NCAA Semifinals and smashing his own record with a vault of 5.17m (16-11.5).  Frenia put the shot 16.81m (55-2) at the Colonial Relays, coming within five inches of the school record and becoming just the third man ever over 55 feet (first since 1983).  At the CAA Championships, he won both the shot put and the discus, and threw a lifetime-best 52.05m (170-9) in the hammer to take second overall.

The W&M Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2014 consisted of 10 former Tribe legends, including Ashleigh Akens Rabe '94 (Women's Basketball), David Corley, Jr. '03 (Football), Ann Ekberg Saunders '03 (Field Hockey), Debbie Hill (Head Volleyball Coach), Tracey Leinbach '81 (Women's Golf), Carrie Moore '99 (Women's Soccer), Billy Owens '95 (Men's Soccer), Lisa Rayner '96 (Women's Track and Field), Trevor Spracklin '01 (Men's Tennis), and Dan Stimson (Director of Track and Field/Cross Country).

After two very successful seasons, the Tribe swim teams earned their best-ever year-end rankings from CollegeSwimming.com. W&M was undefeated at home in 2013-14, the first time ever that both teams have recorded a perfect mark in Williamsburg in the same year. The CollegeSwimming.com rankings compare team's times against not only national standards, but also against their own season-best marks.

On the women's side, W&M ranks 23rd in the mid-major cohort and 64th nationally.  The Tribe was third at the CAA Championships behind only Towson (37th) and James Madison (63rd), and returns champions Megan Howard (McLean, Va.) and Jaimie Miller (Houston, Texas).  On the men's side, the CAA runner-up Tribe finished the year 57th in the nation and ranked 18th in the mid-major polls.  Thanks to its strong performances at the CAA Championships, which included 14 school records and 12 championship titles, W&M actually finished ahead of team champion UNCW (63rd nationally) and also ahead of East Carolina (58th).  In fact, the Tribe was third among state schools, behind only ACC powers Virginia Tech and Virginia.

Prior to tip-off, W&M honored its senior pair of Kaitlyn Mathieu and Victoria Willems for their contributions to the Tribe program. The duo started and set the tone for the Green and Gold. Mathieu just missed her 10th career double-double with 16 points on 8-of-12 shooting to go with nine rebounds. Willems chipped in four points, three rebounds, two blocked shots and a steal.

As a team, the Tribe set school records for assists (27) and field goals made (41), while shooting the second-best field goal percentage in program annals at 61.2 percent. Junior forward Jazmen Boone set an individual school record, knocking down a perfect 8-of-8 from the field, including 2-of-2 from 3-point range, to finish with a game-high 18 points. The Tribe's 97 points and nine blocked shots were the fifth-best marks in school history. The Green and Gold also registered the 15th-most steals in school history (17), led by freshman Alexis Hofstaedter's six. Hofstaedter and Boone each had a major hand in the assist total, dishing out eight and seven, respectively.