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Saint Mary Spires
The Saint Mary Spires are the athletic teams that represent the University of Saint Mary, located in Leavenworth, Kansas, in intercollegiate sports as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) since the 1999–2000 academic year. The Spires previously competed in the defunct Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference (MCAC) from 1994–95 to 1998–99. Their team colors are navy and gold. Varsity teams USM competes in 26 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, lacrosse, soccer, swimming, tennis, track & field and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, flag football, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball and wrestling; and co-ed sports include cheerleading, dance and eSports. Facilities Head Coaches Conference Championships Football ...
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University Of Saint Mary
The University of Saint Mary (USM) is a private Catholic university in Leavenworth, Kansas, United States. It is sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth, who established it in 1923 as Saint Mary College. Though it was originally a school for women, the school is now coeducational. The mother house of the order is also on the premises. At one time the nuns' property had its own post office, Xavier, Kansas, the name honoring St. Francis Xavier. The university offers 26 bachelor's degree programs and six master's degree programs. Traditional, evening, degree completion, and online classes are available. History The Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul came to Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1858 and began teaching boys and girls. One year later, they created St. Mary's Institute, a small educational institute for women, in downtown Leavenworth. In 1870, Saint Mary's was moved to its current location south of the City, and was renamed St. Mary's Academy. In 1923, the ...
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National Association Of Intercollegiate Athletics
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) established in 1940, is a college athletics association for colleges and universities in North America. Most colleges and universities in the NAIA offer athletic scholarships to its student athletes. For the 2021–22 season, it has 252 member institutions, of which two are in British Columbia, one in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the rest in the conterminous United States, with over 77,000 student-athletes participating. The NAIA, whose headquarters is in Kansas City, Missouri, sponsors 27 national championships. The CBS Sports Network, formerly called CSTV, serves as the national media outlet for the NAIA. In 2014, ESPNU began carrying the NAIA Football National Championship. History In 1937, James Naismith and local leaders, including George Goldman and Emil Liston, staged the first National College Basketball Tournament at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri, of which Goldman was director, one year befor ...
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List Of NAIA Regions
NAIA regions no longer exist. The following is a list of former National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics regions. Region I of the NAIA *Cascade Collegiate Conference *Frontier Conference *Independents: **University of Alberta **University of British Columbia **University of Victoria Region II of the NAIA *California Pacific Conference *Golden State Athletic Conference *Independents: Region III of the NAIA *Great Plains Athletic Conference *North Star Athletic Association *Independents: **University of Regina Region IV of the NAIA *Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference *Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference Region V of the NAIA *American Midwest Conference *Heart of America Athletic Conference *Independents: Region VI of the NAIA * Red River Athletic Conference *Sooner Athletic Conference **Independents: Region VII of the NAIA *Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference *Midwest Collegiate Conference Region VIII of the NAIA *Crossroads League * Wolverine-Hoosier ...
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Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference
The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The KCAC is the oldest conference in the NAIA and the second oldest in the United States, tracing its history to 1890. History On February 15, 1890, the Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association was formed; it was the first successful attempt to organize Kansas colleges for the purposes of promoting and regulating amateur intercollegiate athletics. In addition to the private universities and colleges, the conference also included Kansas State Agriculture College (now Kansas State University), the University of Kansas, and Washburn University. In November of that year, the first college football game in Kansas was played between the Kansas Jayhawks and Baker University. About 1902 the association allied with the Kansas College Athletic Conference, the first group to adopt a definite set of rules and regulations. By the 1 ...
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Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth () is the county seat and largest city of Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 37,351. It is located on the west bank of the Missouri River. The site of Fort Leavenworth, built in 1827, the city became known in American history for its role as a key supply base in the settlement of the American West. During the American Civil War, many volunteers joined the Union Army from Leavenworth. The city has been notable as the location of several prisons, particularly the United States Disciplinary Barracks and United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth. History Leavenworth, founded in 1854, was the first city incorporated in the territory of Kansas. The city developed south of Fort Leavenworth, which was established as Cantonment Leavenworth in 1827 by Colonel Henry Leavenworth. Its location on the Missouri River attracted refugee African-American slaves in the an ...
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Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. The tribe's name (natively ') is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery debate. Wh ...
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Charles J
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depr ...
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Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference
The Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference (MCAC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference that competed in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Members of the conference were located in the Midwest United States and were located in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. History Commissioners Since 1994 when MCAC was established, to the time it dissolved in 2015, the conference only had two commissioners. # Carl R. Clapp (1994–1995) # Al Waller (1996–2015) Conference presidents The conference has board made up of representatives from the member institutions, and one person from a school is selected as the board's president for two years. # Larry Kramer, Avila College (1994–96) # Paul Mills, Wesleyan College (1996–98) # Sr. Tarcisia Roths, Newman University (1998–2000) # Wayne Baker, York College (2000–02) # Aidan Dunleavy, Newman University (2002–04) # Ben Johnson, Peru State College (2004–06) # Wayne Baker, York College (2006 ...
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Kevin Haslam (American Football Coach)
Kevin R. Haslam is an American university administrator and former college football coach. He is the vice president of advancement and the executive director of the UNA Foundation at the University of North Alabama in Florence, Alabama, a position he has held since 2019. Haslam also served as the interim athletic director at North Alabama from June to August 2021. Haslam served as the head football coach at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska from 1997 to 1999 and the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas from 2000 to 2001. He was also the athletic director at Saint Mary during the same time period and at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois from 2005 to 2007. Coaching career Assistant coaching Haslam got started in collegiate coaching as the offensive coordinator at Nebraska Wesleyan University from 1994 to 1996. Wayne State College Haslam's first head coaching position was at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska. Haslam took over for the 1997 season and r ...
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Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes
The Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes are the athletic teams that represent Kansas Wesleyan University, located in Salina, Kansas, in intercollegiate athletics as a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC) since the 1902–03 academic year. Varsity teams Kansas Wesleyan competes in 25 intercollegiate varsity sports: Men's sports include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, flag football, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball; and co-ed sports include competitive cheer, competitive dance and eSports. Football The Coyotes football program made its first appearance in 1893 with a record of four wins and one loss.
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Scott Frear
Scott Frear is a former American football coach. He served as the head football coach at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas from 2002 to 2004, compiling a record of 10–18. Coaching career Assistant collegiate coaching Frear worked at Avila University as an offensive coordinator and was a part of bringing the program into existence. He also spent two seasons at Lindenwood University as the defensive line coach. Frear started his coaching career in 1989 at Wayne State College where he spent four seasons as the defensive line coach.Northern State University
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Frear also spent eight years coaching football overseas, including six years with the Finnish national team. Whil ...
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Lance Hinson
Lance Hinson is an American football coach. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas from 2005 to 2013, and has again taken over duties starting with the 2020 season. Between his two tenures at Saint Mary, he was head coach at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas from 2014 through 2018. Coaching career Assistant coaching Hinson worked at several schools as an undergraduate/graduate coaching assistant and later as an assistant coach. While an assistant coach at Baker University his team completed a 9–2 season, recorded a victory in the KWTO Bowl and finished ranked #15 in the nation among NAIA schools. Saint Mary Hinson was the head football coach for the Saint Mary Spires located in Leavenworth, Kansas and has held that position since 2005. Hinson is the third person to take the post, and his overall coaching record at Saint Mary's is 36 wins, 56 losses, and 0 ties. Hinson was named to the post after the sudden resi ...
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