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NCAA ATHLETIC CONFERENCES
DIVISION I
THE NATIONAL
COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION IS DIVIDED INTO THREE DIVISIONS AND
EACH DIVISION IS DIVIDED INTO A NUMBER OF CONFERENCES WHICH ARE
EITHER GEOGRAPHICALLY BASED OR SINGLE SPORTS RELATED
Athletic scholarships are only offered in division I and division
II.
You will find a list of all the NCAA Division I conferences below
that link to information pages about that conference. Each
conference page links to information about member schools.
The
National Collegiate Athletic Association is the largest college
athletic association in the United states and offers a wide range of sports for
both women and men. Some of these sports include men's
baseball, men's football, basketball,& women's softball,
women's field hockey, cross country, fencing, golf,
women's bowling, gymnastics, lacrosse, ice hockey,
soccer, volleyball, women's rowing, tennis, rifle, water
polo, swimming & diving, men's wrestling, skiing, and track & field.
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America East Conference. The conference began in 1979 as a
men’s only basketball conference.
America East has now became one of
the most comprehensive National Collegiate Athletic Association
Division I conferences in the USA.
America Sky Men's Golf Conference The National Collegiate
Athletic Association's Division I Management Council Administrative
Committee announced that effective from September 1, 2007 the
America Sky Men's Golf Conference has been elected as an active
NCAA Division I conference.
The American Lacrosse Conference, also known as the ALC,
is a National collegiate Athletic association Division I women's
only lacrosse conference.
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The A-10 or Atlantic 10 Conference is a national
Collegiate Athletic association college athletic conference whose
member schools are mostly situated in the eastern seaboard.
The
Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) of the National
Collegiate Athletic Association, (NCAA), is based on the east coast
of the United States and was Founded in 1953 with seven charter
members.
Atlantic Hockey Association. At the present time the
Atlantic
Hockey Association covers a total of five states, reaching from
the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean.
Atlantic Soccer Conference
(ASC) is sport specific in that the
only intercollegiate sport is soccer. The ASC is a NCAA Division I
conference and its champion automatically becomes eligible for bid
to the annual NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Tournament.
Atlantic Sun Conference.
The Atlantic Sun Conference of the NCAA is a college
athletic conference which is situated mainly on the east coast of
the USA. Atlantic Sun is a Division I conference and one of the
few that does not sponsor football.
The Big 12 Conference of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association is one of the most successful conferences in
the NCAA. the league has been established for twelve years.
Big East Conference.
More than three hundred and fifty student-athletes have earned Academic
All-America honors. Over five hundred and fifty
BIG EAST athletes have taken out All
America status and many have won individual NCAA national championships.
Big Sky Conference. The
Big Sky Conference
was founded in 1963. It's member universities are located in the
western United states covering Arizona, California, Montana, Oregon,
Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Washington.
Big South Conference. Football became a conference sport in
2002 bringing the number of Division I championship sports programs
the Big South
sponsors to eighteen.
Big Ten Conference The
Big Ten was established in 1896 and its eleven member schools
share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and
undergraduate teaching and public service.
The Big West Conference was formed in the mid 1960's and is one
of the major National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I
conferences. It is the only conference with all it's member
institutions in one state.
Central Collegiate Hockey Assn
The
Central Collegiate Hockey Association, (CCHA), is a
division I hockey only conference of the National Collegiate Athletic
Association.
Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association
College Hockey America
Collegiate Water Polo Association
Colonial Athletic Association
Conference USA
Eastern College Athletic Conference
Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association
Eastern Wrestling League
Gateway Football Conference
Hockey East Association
Horizon League
Ivy Group
Lacrosse America
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
The
Mid-American Conference is
situated in Cleveland Ohio. It was originally formed as a 5 school
athletic league. It is the 4th largest Division I-A conference in
relation to undergraduate student population.
Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association
Missouri Valley Conference
Mountain Pacific Sports Association
The
Mountain West
Conference is committed to excellence in college athletics,
while at the same time promoting the academic ideals of its member
schools.
Northeast Conference
Northern Pacific Field Hockey Conference
Ohio Valley Conference
Pacific Coast Softball Conference
The Pacific-10 Conference is situated in the western United
States. The conference participates in Division I of the National Collegiate
Athletic Association. It's football teams compete in the Football Bowl
Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA
Division I football championships.
The Patriot League first started as a
distinguished Division I-AA (now known as the Football Championship
Subdivision) football conference in 1986.
Pioneer Football League
Southeastern Conference
The Southern Conference is renowned for its premier Football
Championship Subdivision conference.
Southern Conference
member institution, Appalachian State, has won the last two Football
Championship Subdivision titles.
Southland Conference
Southwestern Athletic Conference
The Summit League
Sun Belt Conference
United Soccer Conference
West Coast Conference
The
Western Athletic Conference or WAC
as it is commonly known is the sixth oldest among the country’s
eleven Football Bowl Subdivision NCAA conferences.
Western Collegiate Hockey Association
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sport where a team or
individual uses a gun that emits a highly amplified infrared beam on a very
distinct frequency to chase down or hit the other team members or individual
until he or she is able to "touch" one of them as many times as needed until
they are removed from the game.
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