The Bellarmine Knights are the athletic teams that represent Bellarmine University, located in Louisville, Kentucky, in NCAA intercollegiate sporting competitions.
Bellarmine's 22 athletic teams compete at the Division I level. The Knights are members of the ASUN Conference for most sports. The Knights had been members of the Division II Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) from its formation in 1978 until joining the ASUN in 2020. Sprint football, a weight-restricted form of American football, will become Bellarmine's 23rd varsity sport in 2022.
On June 18, 2019, it was officially announced that the Knights would join the ASUN beginning in the 2020–21 school year, starting a four-year transition to NCAA Division I. Four Bellarmine teams in sports that are not sponsored by the ASUN...