Western Athletic
| Western Athletic Conference (WAC) |
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| Established | 1962 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I |
| Members | 8 |
| Sports fielded | 19 (men's: 9; women's: 10) |
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Western United States West South Central United States Midwestern United States |
| Headquarters | Englewood, Colorado |
| Commissioner | Jeff Hurd (since 2012) |
| Website | www |
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The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an American collegiate athletic conference formed on July 27, 1962 and affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States, with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington, along with the "non-western" states of Missouri and Illinois (traditionally associated with the Midwest), as well as Texas (traditionally associated with the Southwest).
Due to most of the conference's football-playing members leaving the WAC for other affiliations, the conference discontinued football as a sponsored sport after the 2012–13 season and left the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A). The WAC thus became the first Division I conference to drop football since the Big West in 2000. The WAC then added men's soccer and became one of the NCAA's eleven Division I non-football conferences.
The following institutions are the full members of the WAC for the 2016–17 academic year.
The following 11 schools field programs in the WAC for sports not sponsored by their primary conferences.
The WAC has 27 former full members.
Full members Full members (non-football) Other conference Other conference Associate Member
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