UConn's football team participates in the Football Bowl Subdivision. UConn's teams participate in the NCAA's Division I and in the Big East Conference for all sports except football and men's and women's ice hockey. UConn's women's teams are not known as the "Lady Huskies", but simply as "UConn Huskies", the same as the men's teams. The university and its athletics officially rebranded to UConn in the spring of 2013. Although there is a homophonic relationship between "UConn" and the Yukon, where Huskies are native, the "Huskies" nickname predates the school's 1939 name change to the University of Connecticut the first recorded use of "UConn" (as "U-Conn", both separately and with "Huskies") was later in 1939. The university's teams are nicknamed " Huskies", a name adopted following a student poll in The Connecticut Campus in 1934 after the school's name changed from Connecticut Agricultural College to Connecticut State College in 1933 before then, the teams were referred to as the Aggies. 2.16 Men's and women's swimming & diving.2.6 Women's cross country/track and field.2.5 Men's cross country/track and field.Gampel Pavilion and off-campus at the XL Center. The university's football team plays at Rentschler Field, and the men's and women's basketball teams play on-campus at Harry A.
The school is a member of the NCAA's Division I and the Big East Conference. The UConn Huskies (or Connecticut Huskies) are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Connecticut, located in Storrs. Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field College athletic program of the University of Connecticut, USÄ¢4 (11 men's and 13 women's, 8 men's and 12 women's in 2021)