The Campbell Fighting Camels are the athletic teams that represent Campbell University, located in Buies Creek, North Carolina, in intercollegiate sports at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Big South Conference since the 2011–12 academic year. The football program competes in the FCS, formerly known as I-AA. Campbell competes in 21 intercollegiate varsity sports. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), and volleyball. Conference affiliations The Fighting 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 does not 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. The Fighting Camels football team began play in 2008 and is a member of the Big South Conference. 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 at the 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 ASUN Conference, in 1994. Campbell returned to the Big South on July 1, 2011 and competes in all sports, except for wrestling and women's swimming and diving. Campbell will join the Colonial Athletic Association in all sports sponsored by the conference effective July 1, 2023. The wrestling team will remain in the Southern Conference. NCAA Big South Conference (1983–1994) Atlantic Sun Conference (1994–2011) Big South Conference (2011–present) Colonial Athletic Association (Beginning 2023) Varsity teams Notes Men's basketball Campbell's basketball teams play their home games in the 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