Established in 1938, the 12-member league is home to some of the nation's finest Division II athletic programs: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Bakersfield, Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State L.A., Cal State, San Bernardino, Cal State Stanislaus, Chico State, UC Davis, UC San Diego, Grand Canyon, San Francisco State and Sonoma State. The CCAA sponsors seven women's and six men's sports. Fall sports include men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer and women's volleyball. Men's and women's basketball are the CCAA's winter offerings, and women's tennis, men's golf, men's and women's track & field, softball and baseball complete the spring season. CCAA members added four national championships to the league's Division II national-best NCAA Championships count in 2000-01. The CCAA has now claimed 137 NCAA Championships (95 men, 42 women), far and away the most of any Division II conference. On the men's side, CCAA members have brought home at least 10 titles in swimming & diving (23), wrestling (16), track & field (13), tennis (11) and baseball (10). CCAA institutions have been very successful in the 20-year history of NCAA women's athletics, having won 10 cross country, seven softball, six track & field and five volleyball national championships as well as 14 more in four other sports.

The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) is an athletic conference consisting of twelve historically African-American institutions of higher education: Bowie State University, Elizabeth City State University, Fayetteville State University, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone, North Carolina Central University, St. Augustine's College, St. Paul's College, Shaw University, Virginia State University, Virginia Union University, Winston-Salem State University, all working together to set an overall standard of excellence. Established in 1912, the CIAA is the nation's oldest black athletic conference, rich in history and heritage. The CIAA is entering its eighty-fifth year of athletic competition in which they will continue to reap success and recognition on the field and on the court. The presence of the CIAA as a premiere member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II, continues to expand throughout the country. Expansion of television broadcasts has resulted in nationwide coverage of football and basketball contests, as well as the annual CIAA Basketball Tournament. Increasing competitiveness in other sports is also leading to recognition of CIAA member schools as athletic powerhouses. The reputation, in conjunction with the academic success of our athletes, is a proud legacy for the CIAA. The conference is divided into Eastern and Western Divisions in all sports except football and baseball. The CIAA annually sponsors 13 men's and women's championships. The seven men's championships include cross country, indoor track, basketball, golf, tennis, baseball, and track & field. The six women's champions are cross country, volleyball, indoor track, basketball, softball, and track & field. The football champion is determined by standings as determined by regular season record.

The Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference is a NCAA Division II athletic conference made up of 12 teams from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. These teams consist of: Anderson College, Barton College, Belmont Abbey College, Coker College, Erskine College, Lees-McRae College, Limestone College, Longwood College, Mount Olive College, Pfeiffer University, Queens College, and St. Andrews College. The CVAC has roots in the Old North State Conference formed in 1938. The name changed to the Carolinas Conference with the first inclusion of South Carolina members, and in 1994 became the CVAC as Virginia membership was included and championship play was shifted to NCAA Division II.

Founded in June, 1972, the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) is the Midwest's premier Division II conference. It currently has 13 members spanning the states of Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These institutions compete in 20 sports that the GLIAC sponsors -- nine for men, eleven for women. Women's Golf and Football are the newest sports in which a champion is crowned, competition started in the fall of 2000 for women's golf and fall of 1999 for football. The University of Indianapolis became a GLIAC associate member for football and men's and women's swimming only.

The formation of the GLVC can be traced as far back as 1972 when the athletic directors of three member schools -- Kentucky Wesleyan, Bellarmine and Indiana State University at Evansville (now the University of Southern Indiana) -- began preliminary discussions about forming a basketball conference. Four years later, the University of Indianapolis and Saint Joseph's College expressed interest. On July 7, 1978, those schools along with Ashland University united to become the GLVC. The conference expanded to include women's basketball in 1983-84 and immediately established a women's-men's doubleheader format in league play to ensure maximum exposure for both squads. The GLVC plays its games on Thursday and Saturday nights in November, December, January and February. The conference sponsors 15 championships in baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, track and field, and tennis for men and basketball, cross country, golf, softball, soccer, tennis, track and field, and volleyball for women.

Sites about sports in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.

Originally known as the Mid-South Conference, the GSC was formed by six universities in the summer of 1970: Delta State, Florence State (now North Alabama), Jacksonville State, Livingston (now West Alabama), Tennessee-Martin and Troy State. Due to scheduling problems during the 1970-71 academic year, the only league sport was football. Jacksonville State won the league's first championship. In 1971, the league changed its name to the GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE, added Southeastern Louisiana (SELA) and Nicholls State (increasing the membership to eight), and opened an office in Hammond, LA. The following year, Mississippi College and Northwestern Louisiana (NWLA, now Northwestern State) were admitted. NELA withdrew to go Division I two years later, followed by SELA and Nicholls State in 1979. The conference continued with seven teams until 1981, when the presidents admitted Valdosta State. West Georgia joined in 1983. Eight years of stability ended in 1991 when Tennessee-Martin and Troy State went Division I, briefly dropping the GSC back to seven members, before the beginning of an expansion resulting in ten new members: Lincoln Memorial (1992-93); Alabama-Huntsville, Henderson State, Central Arkansas and Mississippi University for Women (1993-94); West Florida (1994-95); and Arkansas-Monticello, Arkansas Tech, Montevallo and Southern Arkansas (1995-96). Jacksonville State went Division I at the end of 1992-93. Mississippi College dropped to Division III at the end of 1995-96, and was replaced by Christian Brothers to keep the Conference at 16 schools. In July 2000, the GSC welcomed Harding University and Ouachita Baptist University, making it the largest NCAA conference at any level with 18 schools.

The Heartland Conference is an NCAA Division II conference, founded in 1999, that currently consists of seven schools, four from Texas and three from Missouri. The schools comprising the Heartland Conference stretch from San Antonio in Texas to Kansas City in Missouri, a distance of over 800 miles. The schools that are the Heartland Conference include St. Edwards University (Austin, Texas), University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio, Texas), St. Mary's University (San Antonio, Texas), Rockhurst University (Kansas City, Missouri), Lincoln University (Jefferson City, Missouri), Drury University (Springfield, Missouri), and Dallas Baptist University (Dallas, Texas).

Since its beginning in 1932, the Lone Star Conference (LSC) has occupied a place among the most respected athletic conferences in America. The LSC has grown from an original five-team conference of Texas-based schools to a 15-member league that is now spread over three states (Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico). The LSC currently conducts conference championships in 16 sports (eight men and eight women). Men's championships include football, cross country, soccer, basketball, baseball, track and field, tennis and golf. Women's titles are determined in volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, softball, track and field, tennis and golf.

In 1912 the original Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association was formed - Cape Girardeau State Teachers, Kirksville State Teachers, Maryville State Teachers, Springfield State Teachers, Warrensburg State Teachers, Central Coll., Central Wesleyan, Culver-Stockton, Drury, Missouri Valley, Missouri Wesleyan, Tarkio, Westminster, and William Jewell. The MIAA currently conducts conference championships in eight men's and eight women's sports. Men's champions are crowned in football, cross country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, tennis, and golf. Women's champions are determined in volleyball, cross country, soccer, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, softball and tennis.

The Mountain East Conference covers sports for institutions in West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio.

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) was founded in 1913, and today, 88 years later, the conference still flies high as one of the most viable forces in intercollegiate athletics among the nation's collegiate systems. On December 30, 1913, representatives of the following institutions met at Morehouse College to consider the regulations of intercollegiate athletics among the Black colleges in the southeast: Alabama State University, Atlanta University, Clark College, Morehouse College, Morris Brown College, Talladega College and Tuskegee Institute. The representatives formed a permanent organization (The Southeastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) which has had a continuous history to the present. In 1929, the name of the organization was changed to The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The South Atlantic Conference began in 1974. The Conference has enjoyed tremendous success due to dedicated people building a premier athletic conference throughout its history. Today the Conference is a group of eight church-affiliated colleges and universities, similar in size and athletic philosophy. Since becoming eligible for NCAA Division II postseason play in 1993, the league has sent representatives from all of its sponsored sports to NCAA postseason play. The league membership now includes Carson-Newman in Jefferson City, TN, Catawba College in Salisbury, NC, Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC, Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, NC, Newberry College in Newberry, SC, Presbyterian College in Clinton, SC, Tusculum College in Greeneville, TN, and Wingate University in Wingate, NC.

The Sunshine State Conference was founded in 1975 and presently offers league championships in 14 intercollegiate sports. SSC schools captured three national championships in 2001 and have earned 50 national championships in baseball, men's basketball, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's tennis and volleyball.