Campbell Fighting Camels
| Campbell Fighting Camels Lady Camels |
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| University | Campbell University |
| Conference |
Big South Conference Coastal Collegiate Sports Association Colonial Athletic Association Pioneer Football League Southern Conference (wrestling) |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Bob Roller |
| Location | Buies Creek, North Carolina |
| Varsity teams | 18 |
| Football stadium | Barker-Lane Stadium |
| Basketball arena | John W. Pope, Jr. Convocation Center |
| Baseball stadium | Jim Perry Stadium |
| Soccer stadium | Eakes Athletics Complex |
| Mascot | Gaylord the Camel |
| Nickname | Fighting Camels and Lady Camels |
| Fight song | Campbell University Fight Song |
| Colors | Black and Orange |
| Website | www |
The Campbell University Fighting Camels and Lady Camels are the nicknames of the school's 18 teams that compete at the Division I level of the NCAA.
A member of the Big South Conference, Campbell sponsors teams in ten men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports:
The Fighting Camels and Lady Camels are full members of the Big South Conference. The University, however, fields teams as associate members of other conferences for sports the Big South doesn't sponsor. Campbell is an associate member of the Southern Conference for wrestling. The women's swimming team was formerly an associate member of the Northeast Conference until 2007 when Campbell became a charter member of the Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association along with 11 other women's swimming programs as well as six men's swimming teams. Campbell does not currently field a men's swimming team. The Fighting Camels football team began play in 2008 and is a member of the Pioneer Football League. Campbell launched a varsity women's lacrosse team in 2012-13.
Campbell University became a four-year college in 1961 and began competing athletically in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). In 1977, the Fighting Camels program joined the NCAA Division I level. Campbell was a charter member of the Big South Conference in 1983, before leaving to join the Trans-America Athletic Conference, which is now the Atlantic Sun Conference, in 1994. Campbell returned to the Big South on July 1, 2011 and competes in all sports, except for football, wrestling, and women's swimming. The school will join Big South football in 2018.
Campbell's basketball teams play their home games in the newly constructed, 3,100-seat John W. Pope, Jr. Convocation Center which opened in 2008 and replaced Carter Gymnasium. Campbell's only conference championship at the Division I level occurred in 1992 when the Fighting Camels won the Big South Conference tournament held that year at the Civic Center of Anderson in Anderson, South Carolina. This win placed Campbell in the 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and 1992 is still the school's only NCAA appearance. The 16th seeded Fighting Camels were defeated by the top-seeded Duke Blue Devils in Greensboro, North Carolina 82-56.
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