Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts. The school’s athletics teams are known as the Amherst Mammoths. Amherst fields teams in a number of sports, including basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, squash, swimming and diving, tennis, and track and field. The Mammoths compete in the NCAA Division III and are members of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). Amherst has a strong tradition of athletics, with a number of successful programs and a number of alumni who have gone on to compete at the professional level.