Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens

Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
University	University of Delaware
Conference	Coastal Athletic Association Conference USA (July 1, 2025) List AHA (women's ice hockey; starting 2025) ASUN (women's lacrosse + men's & women's swimming & diving; starting 2025) MAC (women's rowing; starting 2025) Summit (men's soccer; starting 2025) Atlantic 10 (men's lacrosse; starting 2025)
NCAA	Division I
Athletic director	Christine Rawak
Location	Newark, Delaware
Varsity teams	21 (22 in 2025)
Football stadium	Delaware Stadium
Basketball arena	Bob Carpenter Center
Baseball stadium	Bob Hannah Stadium
Soccer stadium	Stuart and Suzanne Grant Stadium
Other venues	Delaware Field House
Mascot	YoUDee
Nickname	The Blue Hens
Fight song	"The Delaware Fight Song"
Colors	Royal blue and gold[1]
Website	bluehens.com

The Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens are the athletic teams of the University of Delaware (UD) of Newark, Delaware, in the United States. The Blue Hens compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) of Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as members of the Coastal Athletic Association and its technically separate football league, CAA Football.

On November 28, 2023, UD and Conference USA (CUSA) jointly announced that UD would start a transition to the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) in 2024 and join CUSA in 2025. UD will continue to compete in both sides of the CAA in 2024–25; it will be ineligible for the FCS playoffs due to NCAA rules for transitioning programs, but will be eligible for all non-football CAA championships. Upon joining CUSA, UD will be eligible for all conference championship events except the football championship game; it will become eligible for that event upon completing the FBS transition in 2026. At the same time, UD also announced it would add one women's sport due to Title IX considerations, and would also be seeking conference homes for the seven sports that UD sponsors but CUSA does not. The new women's sport would later be announced as ice hockey; UD will join Atlantic Hockey America for its first season of varsity play in 2025–26.