The Central States Intercollegiate Conference (CSIC) was an American intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the
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 st ...
(NAIA) from 1976 to 1989. It was known to be one of the toughest NAIA conferences in the nation.
History
In 1976, four members from the
Great Plains Athletic Conference
The Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Member institutions are located in Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The con ...
decided to move away from that conference, which was affiliated with the
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) from approximately 1910 through the late 1960s, is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (N ...
and form the Central States Intercollegiate Conference (CSIC). Those were
Fort Hays State College (now Fort Hays State University),
Kansas State College of Emporia (now Emporia State University),
Kansas State College of Pittsburg (now Pittsburg State University) and
Washburn University
Washburn University (WU) is a public university in Topeka, Kansas, United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs, as well as professional programs in law and business. Washburn has 550 faculty members, who teach more than 6,100 ...
. Other institutions who joined the CSIC were
Kearney State College
The University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is a campus of the public University of Nebraska system and located in Kearney, Nebraska. It was founded in 1905 as the Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney.
History
In March 1903 the Nebraska Stat ...
(now the University of Nebraska at Kearney) and
Wayne State College
Wayne State College is a public college in Wayne, Nebraska. It is part of the Nebraska State College System and enrolls 4,202 students. The college opened as a public normal school in 1910 after the state purchased the private Nebraska Normal Co ...
, who competed in the
Nebraska College Conference The Nebraska College Conference (NCC), known as the Nebraska Intercollegiate Conference from 1916 to 1926 and later as the Nebraska College Athletic Conference (NCAC), was an intercollegiate athletic conference that existed from 1916 to 1976. The l ...
; and
Missouri Southern State College
Missouri Southern State University (Missouri Southern, MSSU, or MoSo) is a public university in Joplin, Missouri. It was established in 1937 as Joplin Junior College. The university enrolled 4,346 students in Fall 2021.
History
Missouri Southern ...
(now Missouri Southern State University) and
Missouri Western State College
Missouri Western State University is a public university in Saint Joseph, Missouri. As of 2019, it enrolled 5,413 students.
History
Missouri Western State University was founded in 1915 as a two-year institution called St. Joseph Junior College ...
(now Missouri Southern State University), who competed as
NAIA independents.
In 1987, all institutions in the CSIC applied for
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
membership, with the announcement of four schools Missouri Southern, Missouri Western, Pittsburg State and Washburn already becoming a member of the
Missouri Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA, now the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association), effective beginning in the 1989–90 school year.
Member schools
Final members
The CSIC consisted of eight members:
;Notes:
Membership timeline
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bar:7 color:Full from:1976 till:1989 text:Washburn
Washburn (alternatively Wasseburne, Wasseborne, Wasshebourne, Wassheborne, Washbourne, Washburne, Washborne, Washborn, Wasborn, Washbon) is a toponymic surname, probably of Old English origin, with likely Anglo-Norman and Norman-French influen ...
(1976–1989)
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Sports
References
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Sports organizations established in 1976
Organizations disestablished in 1989
Sports leagues disestablished in 1989
1976 establishments in the United States
1989 disestablishments in the United States
Sports in the Midwestern United States