Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) |
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Established | 2006 |
Association | NCAA |
Division | Division III |
Members | 12 (13 in 2018) |
Sports fielded | 19 (men's: 10; women's: 9) |
Region | Upper Midwest |
Former names | Northern Athletics Conference |
Headquarters | Waukesha, Wisconsin |
Commissioner | G. Steven Larson (since 2006) |
Website | naccsports.org/ |
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The Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC), formerly the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC), is a college athletic conference. It participates in the NCAA's Division III and began its first season in the fall of 2006.
The NACC sponsors 19 sports. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field, and volleyball. Women's squads are fielded in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, indoor track & field, outdoor track & field and volleyball. The newest NACC sport is men's volleyball, added in the 2017–18 school year.
The NACC became eligible for automatic NCAA postseason berths in 2008–09.
The newly formed Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference began its first season of competition in the fall of 2006 as the Northern Athletics Conference. The name change took place at the beginning of the 2013-14 academic year. The NACC consists of 12 colleges and universities from the shared-border states of Illinois and Wisconsin. Many have shared traditional rivalries dating back to the NACC'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 University, Marian University, Rockford College and Wisconsin Lutheran College.