Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association
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| Established | 1912 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division II |
| Members | 14 |
| Sports fielded | 20 (men's: 10; women's: 10) |
| Region | Central United States |
| Former names | Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association (1912–1992) |
| Headquarters | Kansas City, Missouri |
| Commissioner | Mike Racy (since 2017) |
| Website | www |
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The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a fourteen-school collegiate athletic conference headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a member of the NCAA's Division II for all sports. Its fourteen members, located in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, include eleven public and three private schools. The MIAA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in Missouri.
Originally named the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the conference was established in 1912 with 14 members, two of which are still current members. Six members (Central Methodist, Central Wesleyan, , Missouri Valley, Missouri Wesleyan, Tarkio College, Westminster, and William Jewell) were later removed from the conference in 1924 when it decided to only include the public schools. A majority of the charter members that left in 1924 have shut down their operations, or merged with another school. Over the next century, nearly twenty schools have joined and left the conference, with a few affiliate members, and some nearly half of those schools reclassifying to the NCAA Division I.
The conference's current 14-campus makeup resulted when Lincoln (MO) rejoined from the Heartland Conference after eleven years when the school left due to not fielding a football team. In 2011, Omaha movied up to the NCAA Division I joining the Summit League, and in 2013, charter member Truman left for the Great Lakes Valley Conference. In 2012, Lindenwood, Central Oklahoma, Northeastern State, and Nebraska–Kearney joined the conference. Lindenwood was the only school to move from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in 2012.
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