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national association of intercollegiate athletics
great plains athletic conference
region III
The Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) is an
affiliated conference of the National Association of
Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and consists of Thirteen private,
faith-based universities and colleges in Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota.
First founded in 1969 as the Nebraska
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (NIAC), the conference
still retains
all 6 of its charter members – Concordia,
Hastings,
Dana, Doane,
Midland Lutheran and Nebraska Wesleyan.
In 1992, the Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Conference added Northwestern and became the
Nebraska-Iowa Athletic Conference. 8 years later, Dakota
Wesleyan,
Mount Marty,
Dordt and Sioux Falls became members of the
conference which was renamed again to the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC)
in 2000-2001.
Briar Cliff University joined the league in 2002-2003 and Morningside
College
became the Thirteenth member school starting with the 2003-2004 school
year. Both institutions are based in Sioux City, Iowa.
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The Great Plains Athletic conference has many individual
NCAA Div. III and NAIA national champions in Track & Field
with Nebraska Wesleyan being a member of both organizations.
The following intercollegiate sports are offered:
Women's Cross Country, Soccer,
Volleyball, Basketball, Softball, Golf, Tennis, and Track &
Field. Men's Football, Cross Country, Soccer, Basketball, Baseball,
Golf, Tennis, and Track & field.
Member Colleges:
Briar
Cliff University
Concordia
University
Dakota Wesleyan
University
Dana College
Doane College
Dordt College
Hastings
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College
Morningside College
Mount Marty
College
Nebraska
Wesleyan University
Northwestern
College
University of Sioux Falls
The National Collegiate Athletic Association, ( NCAA ), and the
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The NCAA took over the control of the intercollegiate
tennis championship in 1941. Only doubles and singles championships were held and the
team championship was incorporated in 1946.
Boat clubs were introduced in America in the 1800's.
Philadelphia's Schuylkill Navy, began in 1858, was the first
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