The Summit League
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| Established | June 18, 1982 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I non-football |
| Members | 9 Full (1 Associate) |
| Sports fielded | 19 (men's: 9; women's: 10) |
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| Former names | Association of Mid-Continent Universities (1982–1989) Mid-Continent Conference (1989–2007) |
| Headquarters | Elmhurst, Illinois |
| Commissioner | Tom Douple (since 2005) |
| Website | thesummitleague.org |
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The Summit League, or The Summit, is an NCAA Division I college athletic conference which operates in the Midwestern United States. On June 1, 2007, the conference changed its name from the Mid-Continent Conference.
* - Oral Roberts University was a previous member of the conference from 1997–98 to 2011–12, before re-joining in 2014.
# - "RNP" is an abbreviation for "Ranked Not Published" used by U.S. News & World Report in its rankings of colleges and universities.
† - The Mid-Con did not sponsor women's sports until 1992–93. Before that time, Western Illinois had been a member of the Gateway Collegiate Athletic Conference, which began as a women's-only conference and added football in 1985; WIU was a member of both sides of the conference. When the Gateway merged its women's side into the Missouri Valley Conference, WIU moved its women's sports into the Mid-Con, but has kept its football team in the Gateway (now known as the Missouri Valley Football Conference) to this day.
The Summit League has twenty-one former members.
The association was created on June 18, 1982 at the O'Hare Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Illinois as the Association of Mid-Continent Universities (or AMCU or AMCU-8, pronounced Am-cue), which it was known as until 1989. The conference sponsored football from 1982 until 1984 at the Division I-AA level (now Division I FCS), and current members North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, and Western Illinois have FCS football programs.
In the early 1990s, the conference saw its first changes. Southwest Missouri State departed for membership in the Missouri Valley Conference as the University of Akron and Northern Illinois University joined in 1990. Then Wright State University joined in 1991 as Northern Iowa followed Southwest Missouri State to the MVC.
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