NCAA ATHLETIC CONFERENCES DIV III
UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
The University Athletic Association (UAA) is a member athletic conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Div. III. Member colleges are situated in Georgia, Missouri, Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, Pennsylvania Ohio and New York.
The Conference is the only D III conference to have all of its member universities also affiliated with the Association of American Universities, which is an organization with sixty member schools that are all research based. Because of this the conference is sometimes referred to as the “Nerdy Nine” or “cerebral league”. There are only 8 member institutions so I don’t really know where “nine” came from.
Members institutions of the UAA share in the belief that athletic excellence and academic excellence are not mutually exclusive.
The University Athletic Association sponsors competition in 22 sports – twelve sports for men and ten sports for women – including football, soccer, cross country, volleyball, basketball, fencing, wrestling, swimming and diving, indoor track and field, baseball, softball, outdoor track and field, tennis, and golf.
Member Colleges:
Brandeis University
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Emory University
New York University
University of Chicago
University of Rochester
Washington University in St. Louis