How do sports like fencing or archery work in colleges?

Im going to graduate high school, would like to do either of these sports, if these sports are available at a college can I participate in them even if I have never practiced the sport. The colleges on which im planning to attend do not specify anything and apparently they are not intramural.

 

Basically, the underlying premise in these sports is to pick a target, and hit it. Pretty simple.

 

I suggest you start with a course in physics.