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The Butler Bulldogs are a Division I swimming program in the Big East. The program is identified by its mascot, Butler Blue. The Bulldogs bring 13 swimmers into the Big East competition this season. As the season advances, the Bulldogs' meet calendar continues to fill in. Butler enters 2026 with 13 athletes on the roster. The Bulldogs host home meets on the Butler campus. The Bulldogs' meet schedule will be updated as results are posted. Butler Blue anchors Butler swimming identity, with "The Butler War Song" as the program's fight song. When fans fuel a Bulldog athlete on RallyFuel, 90% lands directly with the athlete — funding training, recovery, and the realities of college sports.
Butler University competes in NCAA Division I from Indianapolis, Indiana, as a member of the Big East Conference. The Bulldogs sponsor 20 varsity teams, and all of them except football compete in the Big East. Football plays in the Pioneer Football League at the FCS level. Butler was a founding member of the Horizon League in 1979 and stayed for about three decades, spent the 2012-13 season in the Atlantic 10, and joined the Big East in 2013.
Men's basketball reached the NCAA national championship game in both 2010 and 2011, losing to Duke and then UConn. Beyond basketball, Butler teams have made NCAA tournament appearances in women's basketball, men's soccer, volleyball, cross country, lacrosse and baseball.
Hinkle Fieldhouse was completed in 1928 with 15,000 seats, the largest fieldhouse of its kind at the time. It was known as Butler Fieldhouse until 1966, when it was renamed for longtime coach Tony Hinkle. Today it is home to men's and women's basketball and volleyball. Football and both soccer teams play next door at the Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl, the former Butler Bowl, which was renamed after a gift of about $9.4 million from the Sellick estate. Baseball plays at Bulldog Park on campus.
Before 1919, Butler teams were known as the Christians. After a losing 1919 football season, the staff of The Collegian student newspaper began calling the teams the Bulldogs, inspired by a fraternity's bulldog mascot named Shimmy, and the name stuck. The live bulldog tradition continues today with Butler Blue. Big East play brings regular meetings with programs such as Xavier, Creighton, Villanova and Marquette.