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The AMCC is an NCAA Division III athletic conference that does not currently have membership status. For more information see http://www.ncaa.org/conferences/conferences.html.
The American Southwest Conference was formed in 1995. The NCAA Division III-affiliated ASC is comprised of 15 institutions throughout Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. ASC institutions provide student-athletes throughout the region with the opportunity to compete at the highest level of Division III athletics while also giving these students the opportunity to earn an education in a challenging academic setting.The ASC sponsors eight men's and eight women's sports, with competition for both men and women in cross country, soccer, basketball, track and field, tennis and golf. Additionally, the conference sponsors football, women's volleyball, baseball and softball.
On June 4, 1981, Keith Spalding, then-president of Franklin & Marshall College, made the announcement that "eight private colleges found it timely and appropriate to form a round-robin football schedule among institutions with similar attitudes and practices in intercollegiate football competition." With that statement, the Centennial Conference was born.On April 29, 1992, Gordon A. Haaland, president of Gettysburg College and acting chairman of the committee of the original eight presidents, announced the expansion of the Conference to an all-sports conference. He also announced that Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Washington had accepted the invitations to become charter members.
CUNYAC covers athletics for the City University of New York with ten institutions in its senior college division and four institutions in its community college division.
An athletic conference of schools in New York created in 1996. Original members of the E8 were Alfred, Elmira, Hartwick, Ithaca, Nazareth, RIT, St. John Fisher, and Utica.
Western New England College competes in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) in 13 sports with the goal of winning the GNAC Post-Season Tournament and advancing to NCAA Division III Championship.Western New England College was one of the founding members of the GNAC when it began as a women's athletic conference in 1994.
The GNAC has 13 member schools from five states in New England: Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, Conn.), Daniel Webster College (Nashua, N.H.), Emerson College (Boston, Mass.), Emmanuel College (Boston, Mass.), Johnson & Wales University (Providence, R.I.), Norwich University (Northfield, Vt.), Pine Manor College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.), Rivier College (Nashua, N.H.), Simmons College (Boston, Mass.), Saint Joseph College (West Hartford, Conn.), Southern Vermont University (Bennington, Vt.), Suffolk University (Boston, Mass.), and Western New England College (Springfield, Mass.).
The GSAC is an athletic conference whose members include Fisk University, LaGrange College, Maryville College, Piedmont College and Stillman College.
Sites devoted to the independent teams of the NCAA Division III.
The Iowa Conference dates back to December 8, 1922, when representatives from 12 colleges got together and formed the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Charter members were Buena Vista, Central, Ellsworth, Iowa Wesleyan, Luther, Morningside, Parsons, St. Ambrose, Simpson, Upper Iowa, Western Union and William Penn. Des Moines University was voted into the conference at that meeting as well.The first Conference constitution was published in January 1923. Also that year, Judge Hubert Utterback of Des Moines, Iowa was named the first conference commissioner and Iowa Teachers was accepted as a member.
Began play for 2007-2008 academic year. Charter members are: Drew University, Goucher College, Juniata College, Moravian College, Susquehanna University, The Catholic University, The University of Scranton, and the United States Merchant Marine Academy.
An NCAA Division III athletic conference drawing its members from private institutions in upstate New York and New England.
The Little East Conference officially began on April 28, 1986 as a playing conference for men's and women's basketball among six New England institutions: Eastern Connecticut State University, Plymouth State College, Rhode Island College, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (formerly Southeastern Massachusetts University), the University of Massachusetts Boston and the University of Southern Maine. From the beginning the conference was officially recognized by the NCAA.The number of sports contested in the conference has grown to include men's and women's soccer, baseball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's indoor track, men's and women's outdoor track, men's lacrosse, softball, men's and women's tennis and volleyball, as well as the original men's and women's basketball. The number of participating institutions rose to seven with the addition of Western Connecticut State University in 1993-94 and then to eight for the 1997-98 year as Keene State College joined.
The Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (MASCAC) was formed in 1971 for the primary purpose to provide a uniform program of intercollegiate athletics for all eight State Colleges.The objective underlying this purpose was to create a healthy atmosphere of competition and rivalry between the colleges and their student bodies while fostering the values of cooperation, leadership, courage, self-discipline and self-reliance among the participating athletes.
The Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference is the oldest Division 3 men's and women's intercollegiate league in the nation.
Men's championships have taken place since 1972. Women's championships started in 1976. The MASCAC has evolved into a highly competitive league which annually has many of its men's and women's teams selected to regional and national postseason tournaments.
The MIAA was founded March 24, 1888. From the very beginning, the MIAA has conducted full-season championships in multiple sports. There have been changes in some of the sports (bicycle racing and Indian club juggling have long since disappeared, and basketball did not even exist in 1888), but these changes have served to develop the MIAA into one of America's finest NCAA Division III conferences, today offering 18 sports for men and women.The MIAA's continuity is noteworthy. Of the 12 schools that have belonged, eight are still members -- Adrian, Albion, Alma, Calvin, Hope, Kalamazoo Olivet, and Saint Mary's. Significantly, not one of these eight colleges has ever belonged to any other formal league. Albion and Olivet were charter members although Albion is the only member to hold continuous membership. Ex-members were Michigan State University (1888-1907), Eastern Michigan University (1892-1926), Hillsdale College (1888- 1960), and Defiance College (1997-2000).
NCAA Division III athletic conference of eleven highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities located in the northeastern United States.
Founded as the New England Women's 6 Conference in 1985, NEWMAC has sponsored conference play and championships for men's teams and continued to sponsor conference play and championships for the women's teams since 1999 in the following sports: baseball, basketball, crew, cross country, golf, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, tennis, swimming and diving, softball, track and field, and volleyball.The conference criterion for membership is emphasis on academics, and similarity in athletic philosophy and competition in sponsored sports.
The New Jersey Athletic Conference was founded in 1985 when the New Jersey State Athletic Conference, a men's sports conference, merged with their corresponding institutions in the Jersey Athletic Conference, a women's sports conference. The 10 founding member institutions were Kean College (now University), Montclair State College (now University), Jersey City State College (now New Jersey City University), Glassboro State College (now Rowan University), Ramapo College, Rutgers University-Camden, Rutgers University-Newark, Stockton State College (now The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey), Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey), and William Paterson College (now University).
A Division III conference that started in the Fall of 1999.
Formed in 1926, the conference is one of the oldest athletic alliances in the western United States. The NWC's current Oregon-based membership includes Linfield, Lewis and Clark, Willamette, Pacific and George Fox. The members from the state of Washington are Puget Sound, Pacific Lutheran, Whitman and Whitworth.
Founded in 1902, the Ohio Athletic Conference is the third oldest organization of its kind in the United States. Largely through the initiative of Professor C.E. St. John of Oberlin College, invitations proposing an informal meeting for the purpose of considering the organization of an athletic conference were issued early in 1902 to six Ohio colleges. The stated purpose of this conference was to formalize, stabilize, and coordinate athletic relations among the schools.
The league was formed on May 18, 1975 as the Virginia College Conference and began operations in September of 1976. (The name change to ODAC became effective January 1, 1976). Charter members were eight colleges located in the state of Virginia: Bridgewater College, Eastern Mennonite College, Emory & Henry College, Hampden-Sydney College, Lynchburg College, Randolph-Macon College, Roanoke College and Washington & Lee University.The conference expanded in the late 1980s, early 1990s and most recently in 1999. Virginia Wesleyan became the 13th member of the conference in 1988 and began full-scale competition in the league in the 1989-90 academic year. Guilford College, voted into the conference in the spring of 1990, began competing for conference championships in the 1991-92 season. Catholic University was accepted for football-only membership by the conference in January 1999 and will compete for the conference championship in 2001.
The 2005-06 year marks the Skyline Athletic Conference's 16th year of operation. Formed on May 16, 1989 as a men's basketball conference, the Skyline Conference now conducts championships in 16 sports – eight for men and eight for women.
The University Athletic Association sponsors competition in 22 sports including 12 sports for men and 10 sports for women. The UAA Bylaws require member institutions to participate in at least one round-robin sport each for men and women, and three festival sports each for men and women. This has allowed members of the UAA to maintain many of their long-standing and highly-valued local and regional rivalries while enjoying the benefits of competition among members of the Association. Most members participate in UAA competition in the full complement of sports for which they sponsor teams.Championship tournaments or meets are conducted in nine sports including men's and women's cross country, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's indoor track and field, men's and women's outdoor track and field, and golf. Men's and women's championships are held simultaneously alternating men's and women's events at the same site.
Association team champions are determined in all sports. All-Association teams are also selected in all sports, and most sports also determine a player of the year or most outstanding performer and a rookie of the year. The Association also selects UAA male and female Athletes of the Week in all sports.
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