The Big South Conference is a NCAA Division I Athletic Conference
situated in the Southeastern United States. Big South was
founded in 1983 and is now a competitive leader in intercollegiate
athletics. The conference is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The League is made up of eight member universities: Charleston
Southern University, High Point University, Liberty University,
Radford University, Coastal Carolina University, UNC Asheville,
Virginia Military Institute and Winthrop University. Two further
colleges will join the conference in 2008-09, Presbyterian College
and Gardner-Webb University.
Football became a conference sport in
2002 bringing the number of Division I championship sports
programs the Big South sponsors to eighteen. The others are: men’s
and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and
women’s indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, men’s and women’s
basketball, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis,
baseball and softball.
Big south also has an great academic
record and recognizes academic excellence with the Presidential
Honor Roll and the George A. Christenberry Award which honors
student-athletes that graduate with a 4.0 grade point average.