Royal Club
The Royal Club is the official giving club of Bethel athletics. Our mission is to fund, support, and advance athletic excellence for kingdom impact.
The club brings together thousands of donors and fans with the same goal: to promote the transformative experience of student-athletes at Bethel. To join the club, all you have to do is donate any amount to the general athletics fund, a specific sport, a project, or the athletics portion of the Called to More campaign. You’ll gain membership for the current and following academic years.
A transformative experience
As a top-tier Division III school, Bethel produces competitive teams whose athletes excel both on and off the field. Here, the influence of athletics reaches far beyond our nationally recognized programs. Athletics are a life-changing experience for our 500-plus student-athletes—about 25% of undergraduate students. While pursuing success on the court, field, and track, Bethel student-athletes transform as women and men.
$103K
2022 Royal Club spending to support spring break trips for six programs, facility upgrades, equipment replacement, postseason expenses, and more
$347K
fund balance of the Royal Club, the official giving club of Bethel athletics
Support Student-Athletes
Learn how your support of the Royal Club directly bolsters the transformative experiences of student-athletes at Bethel.
Cheer for Our Teams
Visit the athletics site for news, schedules, and stories about Bethel the student-athletes on our 18 varsity sports teams—nine men’s and nine women’s. Go Royals!
Bethel Golf Classic
As the largest one-day athletics fundraising event of the year, the Bethel Golf Classic is a chance to show your support for Royal athletics by spending the day with our amazing student-athletes! Join dozens of sponsors and hundreds of golfers at North Oaks Golf Club for a day of golf, food, and exclusive updates from Bethel’s Department of Athletics and university leadership.
Corporate Sponsorships
Join us in helping our student-athletes have transformational experiences through athletics. Sponsorships go toward supporting the Royal Club.$25K
raised through the Royal Club for Bethel Arena upgrades
$5.2M
raised for the Royal Stadium project to add turf to the football field, a new track, upgraded track and field areas, and more
In our program, it goes beyond football. In fact, more often than not, Bethel football has nothing to do with football at all. It's about becoming the best husband you can be. The best father you can be. The best sibling you can be. The best friend you can be. What happens on the field takes care of itself, but it happens because of the love we all share for each other and the Lord.
Jaran Roste ’21
One of our goals is championships, and we want other teams to hate playing us because we play so hard for so long, because we’re physical and all-out, all the time. But our bigger goal is to be great people who follow Christ with everything we’ve got.
Steve JohnsonHead football coach
The atmosphere of the team is so unique in the sense that we have a community of believers that are striving to glorify Christ and to make connections with one another that will last a lifetime. Bethel track and field is not just a sport but one that has allowed me to meet some of my best friends and mentors in my life.
Kelsie Sealock ‘23
I believe with my whole heart that what makes Bethel athletics special is the unabashed commitment to the mission of Bethel.
Greg Peterson ’92Bethel Director of Athletics
