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Conferences: The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association will add the University of Nebraska at Omaha beginning in 2008-09. Nebraska-Omaha has competed in the North Central Conference since 1977. The move will be a reunion of sorts for Nebraska-Omaha, since current MIAA members Pittsburg State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Washburn University of Topeka competed with Nebraska-Omaha in the Central Intercollegiate Conference from 1959-68 and later in the Plains Division of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference from 1968-72 and the Great Plains Athletic Conference in 1972-73. The MIAA, currently made up of 10 Division II institutions in Missouri and Kansas, was first organized in 1912 as the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and reorganized in 1924. The conference changed its name to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 1992 after Emporia State became the third non-Missouri school to join the circuit ... The MIAA also announced that Southwest Baptist University will be allowed to play an independent schedule in football while continuing to play a conference slate in all other sports. The decision was made during league meetings at the NCAA Division II Presidents and Chancellors Summit in San Diego June 22. Beginning in the 2008 football season, Southwest Baptist will no longer be on the MIAA schedule, and will not be eligible for the championship or postseason awards. Nebraska-Omaha will take Southwest Baptist’s place in the schedule to allow the MIAA to continue its nine-game slate with two non-conference games. Southwest Baptist joined the MIAA in the 1987-88 academic year and was eligible for the conference football title the following season.
Sports sponsorship: C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University will eliminate its men’s and women’s track and field teams, effective with the upcoming 2007-08 academic year. Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will remain as varsity sports at C.W. Post and continue to compete in the East Coast Conference and Collegiate Track Conference. “The cost of maintaining a competitive track and field program has become prohibitive,” said Bryan Collins, C.W. Post director of athletics. “Additionally, there are few Division II schools in our area to compete against in track and field. Because of this, a large amount of financial resources were devoted to having our student-athletes travel to meets and compete against larger Division I programs.” Collins said C.W. Post is presently looking into providing its student-athletes with an opportunity to participate in a club-level track and field program. Forty student-athletes will be affected by the decision. The school said student-athletes who were receiving athletics scholarships will continue to receive those equal levels of aid for the remainder of their eligibility period.
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The NCAA News
Conferences: The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association will add the University of Nebraska at Omaha beginning in 2008-09. Nebraska-Omaha has competed in the North Central Conference since 1977. The move will be a reunion of sorts for Nebraska-Omaha, since current MIAA members Pittsburg State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Washburn University of Topeka competed with Nebraska-Omaha in the Central Intercollegiate Conference from 1959-68 and later in the Plains Division of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference from 1968-72 and the Great Plains Athletic Conference in 1972-73. The MIAA, currently made up of 10 Division II institutions in Missouri and Kansas, was first organized in 1912 as the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, and reorganized in 1924. The conference changed its name to the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association in 1992 after Emporia State became the third non-Missouri school to join the circuit ... The MIAA also announced that Southwest Baptist University will be allowed to play an independent schedule in football while continuing to play a conference slate in all other sports. The decision was made during league meetings at the NCAA Division II Presidents and Chancellors Summit in San Diego June 22. Beginning in the 2008 football season, Southwest Baptist will no longer be on the MIAA schedule, and will not be eligible for the championship or postseason awards. Nebraska-Omaha will take Southwest Baptist’s place in the schedule to allow the MIAA to continue its nine-game slate with two non-conference games. Southwest Baptist joined the MIAA in the 1987-88 academic year and was eligible for the conference football title the following season.Sports sponsorship: C.W. Post Campus/Long Island University will eliminate its men’s and women’s track and field teams, effective with the upcoming 2007-08 academic year. Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams will remain as varsity sports at C.W. Post and continue to compete in the East Coast Conference and Collegiate Track Conference. “The cost of maintaining a competitive track and field program has become prohibitive,” said Bryan Collins, C.W. Post director of athletics. “Additionally, there are few Division II schools in our area to compete against in track and field. Because of this, a large amount of financial resources were devoted to having our student-athletes travel to meets and compete against larger Division I programs.” Collins said C.W. Post is presently looking into providing its student-athletes with an opportunity to participate in a club-level track and field program. Forty student-athletes will be affected by the decision. The school said student-athletes who were receiving athletics scholarships will continue to receive those equal levels of aid for the remainder of their eligibility period.
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