Trans America Athletic Conference
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| Established | 1978 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I non-football |
| Members | 8 (9 in 2018) |
| Sports fielded | 19 (men's: 8; women's: 11) |
| Region | Southeastern United States and New Jersey |
| Former names | Trans America Athletic Conference (1978–2001) |
| Headquarters | Macon, Georgia |
| Commissioner | Ted Gumbart (since 2007) |
| Website | www |
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The Atlantic Sun Conference, branded since the 2016–17 school year as the ASUN Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and does not sponsor football. Originally established as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) in 1978, its headquarters are located in Macon, Georgia.
The most recent change in the ASUN membership came in 2015–16, when Northern Kentucky University (transitioning from NCAA Division II sports to Division I) left the conference to join the Horizon League and was replaced by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), previously the only Division I basketball independent. Northern Kentucky had replaced Belmont University, which moved to the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC); this maintained the membership roster at 10 schools. The 2014 departure of East Tennessee State University and Mercer University to the Southern Conference left the ASUN with its current membership number of eight.
The ASUN will add a ninth member in 2018 with the arrival of the University of North Alabama from the Division II Gulf South Conference.
School names and nicknames listed here reflect those used during the schools' time in the TAAC/ASUN. One school has changed both its name and nickname, and three others have changed only their nicknames:
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