Northern Athletics Conference
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| Northern Athletics Conference | |
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| Classification | NCAA Division III |
| Established | 2006 |
| Members | 13 |
| Sports fielded | 18 (9 men's, 9 women's) |
| Region | Upper Midwest |
| States | 2 - Illinois, Wisconsin |
| Headquarters | Waukesha, Wisconsin |
| Commissioner | G. Steven Larson |
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The Northern Athletics Conference is a College Athletic Conference. It participates in the NCAA's Division III and began its first season in fall, 2006.
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The newly-formed Northern Athletics Conference began its first season of competition in the fall of 2006. The NAC consists of 13 colleges and universities from the shared-border states of Illinois and Wisconsin. Many have shared traditional rivalries dating back to the NAC's predecessor conferences, the Lake Michigan Conference and the Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference. Charter members include: Alverno College, Aurora University, Benedictine University, Concordia University Chicago, Concordia University Wisconsin, Dominican University, Edgewood College, Lakeland College, Maranatha Baptist Bible College, Marian College, Rockford College and Wisconsin Lutheran College. Milwaukee School of Engineering joined the NAC in the fall of 2007.
The Northern Athletics Conference sponsors 18 sports. Men's teams include baseball, basketball, cross country, football (starting in 2008), golf, soccer, tennis, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. Women's squads are fielded in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field and volleyball.
The Northern Athletics Conference, an NCAA Division III member conference, will be eligible for automatic NCAA postseason berths in 2008-09. For the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons the NAC will gain access to the NCAA postseason through both independent (Pool B) and at-large (Pool C) berths.
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