The Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference (MCAC) was an intercollegiate athletic conference that competed in

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. Members of the conference were located in the Midwest United States and were located in

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, and

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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 (2006–08) # Maryanne Stevens, College of Saint Mary (2008–10) # Steve Eckman, York College (2010–12) # Hal Hoxie Central Christian College (2012–15)

Chronological timeline

* 1994 - The Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference (MCAC) was founded. Charter members included

Avila College , motto_translation = Daughters of the Church , established = 1965 , type = Independent, single-sex, day school , denomination = Roman Catholic , slogan = , principal = Michelle Cotter , city = Mount Waverley , st ...

(now Avila University),

Bellevue College Bellevue College (BC) is a public college in Bellevue, Washington, United States. It is the largest of the 34 institutions that make up the Washington Community and Technical Colleges system and the third-largest institution of higher educati ...

(now Bellevue University), Bartlesville Wesleyan College (now Oklahoma Wesleyan University), the School of the Ozarks (now the College of the Ozarks), Park College (now Park University), the Saint Mary College of Kansas (now the University of Saint Mary of Kansas), the College of Saint Mary of Nebraska and York College, effective beginning the 1994–95 academic year. * 1999 - Saint Mary (Ks.) left the MCAC to join the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference (KCAC), effective after the 1998–99 academic year. * 1999 - Newman University of Kansas joined the MCAC, effective in the 1999–2000 academic year. * 2000 - Avila left the MCAC to join the

Heart of America Athletic Conference The Heart of America Athletic Conference (HAAC or The Heart) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Member institutions are located in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska in ...

(HAAC), effective after the 1999–2000 academic year. * 2000 - Peru State College joined the MCAC, effective in the 2000–01 academic year. * 2001 -

Haskell Indian Nations University Haskell Indian Nations University is a public tribal land-grant university in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Founded in 1884 as a residential boarding school for American Indian children, the school has developed into a university operated by t ...

joined the MCAC, effective in the 2001–02 academic year. * 2002 -

Central Christian College of Kansas Central Christian College of Kansas is a private evangelical Christian college in McPherson, Kansas, United States. Central Christian is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church. Athletics The Central Christian athletic teams are called the ...

joined the MCAC, effective in the 2002–03 academic year. * 2006 - Newman left the MCAC to join the Division II ranks of the

National Collegiate Athletic Association 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 ...

(NCAA), primarily to compete in the

Heartland Conference The Heartland Conference was a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Division II level, which was founded in 1999. The majority of members were in Texas, with additional members in ...

, effective after the 2005–06 academic year. * 2009 - Park U. left the MCAC to join the

American Midwest Conference The American Midwest Conference (AMC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) with 10 member institutions located in Arkansas and Missouri in the United States. History The c ...

, effective after the 2008–09 academic year. * 2010 -

Southwestern Christian University Southwestern Christian University is a private Pentecostal university in Bethany, Oklahoma. It was founded in 1946 as Southwestern Bible College in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and was the first Pentecostal educational institution in the state. Whi ...

joined the MCAC, effective in the 2010–11 academic year. * 2011 - Peru State left the MCAC to join the HAAC, effective after the 2010–11 academic year. * 2011 - Central Baptist College joined the MCAC, effective in the 2011–12 academic year. * 2012 -

Waldorf College Waldorf University is a private for-profit university in Forest City, Iowa. It was founded in 1903 and associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its predecessors. In 2010, it was sold to Columbia Southern University and beca ...

joined the MCAC, effective in the 2012–13 academic year. * 2013 - Southwestern Christian left the MCAC to join the

Sooner Athletic Conference The Sooner Athletic Conference (SAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Originally developed as a five-team conference of Oklahoma-based schools, the SAC now boasts 12 s ...

(SAC), effective after the 2012–13 academic year. * 2015 - The MCAC ceased operations as an athletic conference, effective after the 2014–15 academic year; as many schools left to find new conference homes, effective beginning the 2015–16 academic year: Central Baptist to the American Midwest, Saint Mary (Neb.) to 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 co ...

(GPAC), Central Christian (who would later join the SAC in the 2017–18 school year) and the College of the Ozarks to the

Association of Independent Institutions NAIA independent schools are four-year institutional members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) that do not have formal conference affiliations. NAIA schools that are not members of any other athletic conference are ...

(AII; basically an NAIA independent school), and Oklahoma Wesleyan and York (Neb.) to the KCAC (York joined later in the 2016–17 school year after spending a season as an independent school), and Bellevue and Waldorf to the

North Star Athletic Association The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) that began play in the 2013–14 school year. The conference currently has eight full member ...

(NSAA).

Member schools

Final members

The MCAC had nine full members in the conference's final season, most were private schools: ;Notes:

Former members

The MCAC had six other full members during the conference's tenure, most were private schools: ;Notes:

Membership timeline

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Conference sports

The Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference fielded 11 sports (5 men's and 6 women's), which includes:

References

External links

* {{NAIA conference navbox