College Athletic Conference (ECAC), Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA), and the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association (EIVA).
Nearly 800 students participate in the university's 33 athletic teams (18 female teams and 15 male teams) along with more than 500 students who participate in 23 Club Sports.
The football team plays at the Football Championship Subdivision level and claims an FCS title in 2001. Their biggest rivalry is with the oldest public university in Connecticut, Central Connecticut State University, in what has been dubbed the Constitution State Rivalry.
The men's fencing team won the Northeast Conference title five years in a row (2010–2014) and was ranked #9 in 2011.
On February 21, 2013, the Sacred Heart University athletics department hired Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine as the athletic director.
The women's ice hockey program had competed as in independent from 2003 to 2019 at the National Collegiate level, with "National Collegiate" being …
