The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), founded in 1962, is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas. Difficulties related to travel distances led seven former members to announce the formation of a new Southeastern US-based conference, the Southern Athletic Association, starting with the 2012–13 academic year.
Prior to 1991, the conference was known as the College Athletic Conference. The current commissioner of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is Dwayne Hanberry. The current chair of the Executive Committee of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is Dr. Jill Tiefenthaler, current Colorado College president.
Member schools
Current members
Future members
The University of California, Santa Cruz will join as an affiliate member for swimming and diving only in the 2013-14 school year. No other future members are known at this time.
An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams, playing competitively against each other at the professional, collegiate, or high school level. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller divisions, with the best teams competing at successively higher levels. Conferences often, but not always, include teams from a common geographic region.
United States and Canada
In the United States and Canada, the National Hockey League (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) are divided into the western (NHL, NBA) and eastern (NHL, NBA) conferences, with multiple divisions within each conference (three in each NBA conference, two in each NHL conference). In both leagues, a total of sixteen teams (eight from each conference) qualify for the leagues' postseason playoffs. In the NHL, division winners are guaranteed to qualify and are awarded the highest seeds, meaning they will have home-ice advantage in a given round against a non-division-winner. Starting with the 2015–16 season, NBA division winners are not guaranteed to qualify for the playoffs. The playoff spots instead go to the eight top teams in each conference by overall record, with home-court advantage in each playoff series based solely on record. Major League Soccer also divides itself into an Eastern and Western Conference, though it does not have divisions within them; it too allocates an equal number of teams from each conference to play for its MLS Cup Playoffs (since 2015, this has been six teams each).
List of college athletic conferences in the United States
In college athletics in the United States, institutions typically join together in conferences for regular play under different governing bodies.
Varsity sports
There are several national and regional associations governing the varsity teams of colleges and universities. Varsity teams are typically funded by an institution's athletic department, and under some governing bodies players are eligible for athletic scholarships.
Oct. 12, 2018 - SCAC Fastest Goal scored (18 sec.) - Lauren Lee
Venue: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
vs: Johnson & Wales University (JWU) of Denver, Colorado
Lauren Lee of Southwestern University Pirates women's soccer team scored a goal in the first 15 seconds of the match and never looked back, defeating the Johnson & Wales University (JWU) Wildcats 6-0.
Southwestern took the opening kick and immediately put JWU on its heels, tearing down the field with Lauren Lee emerging from a crowd in front of the net to find the back of it for the Pirates' quickest goal of the season.
It was the first goal of Lee's career but far from the last. The freshman from Sugar land, Texas finished with the hat trick, scoring three goals on five shots, scoring two of the Pirates' four first...
published: 08 Nov 2018
230226 NCAA Men's Basketball - SCAC Championship Final
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No. 4 Colorado College vs. No. 5 Schreiner University
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Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference DEMO
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Two-run RBI in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship on 2021 Mother’s Day
Mason Meredith hits a two-run RBI for Trinity University Tigers Baseball in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) 2021 Championship Game on Mother’s Day - May 9, 2021
Oct. 12, 2018 - SCAC Fastest Goal scored (18 sec.) - Lauren Lee
Venue: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
vs: Johnson & Wales University (JWU) of Den...
Oct. 12, 2018 - SCAC Fastest Goal scored (18 sec.) - Lauren Lee
Venue: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
vs: Johnson & Wales University (JWU) of Denver, Colorado
Lauren Lee of Southwestern University Pirates women's soccer team scored a goal in the first 15 seconds of the match and never looked back, defeating the Johnson & Wales University (JWU) Wildcats 6-0.
Southwestern took the opening kick and immediately put JWU on its heels, tearing down the field with Lauren Lee emerging from a crowd in front of the net to find the back of it for the Pirates' quickest goal of the season.
It was the first goal of Lee's career but far from the last. The freshman from Sugar land, Texas finished with the hat trick, scoring three goals on five shots, scoring two of the Pirates' four first-half goals.
Oct. 12, 2018 - SCAC Fastest Goal scored (18 sec.) - Lauren Lee
Venue: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
vs: Johnson & Wales University (JWU) of Denver, Colorado
Lauren Lee of Southwestern University Pirates women's soccer team scored a goal in the first 15 seconds of the match and never looked back, defeating the Johnson & Wales University (JWU) Wildcats 6-0.
Southwestern took the opening kick and immediately put JWU on its heels, tearing down the field with Lauren Lee emerging from a crowd in front of the net to find the back of it for the Pirates' quickest goal of the season.
It was the first goal of Lee's career but far from the last. The freshman from Sugar land, Texas finished with the hat trick, scoring three goals on five shots, scoring two of the Pirates' four first-half goals.
Mason Meredith hits a two-run RBI for Trinity University Tigers Baseball in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) 2021 Championship Game on Mother’s Da...
Mason Meredith hits a two-run RBI for Trinity University Tigers Baseball in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) 2021 Championship Game on Mother’s Day - May 9, 2021
Mason Meredith hits a two-run RBI for Trinity University Tigers Baseball in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) 2021 Championship Game on Mother’s Day - May 9, 2021
Oct. 12, 2018 - SCAC Fastest Goal scored (18 sec.) - Lauren Lee
Venue: Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
vs: Johnson & Wales University (JWU) of Denver, Colorado
Lauren Lee of Southwestern University Pirates women's soccer team scored a goal in the first 15 seconds of the match and never looked back, defeating the Johnson & Wales University (JWU) Wildcats 6-0.
Southwestern took the opening kick and immediately put JWU on its heels, tearing down the field with Lauren Lee emerging from a crowd in front of the net to find the back of it for the Pirates' quickest goal of the season.
It was the first goal of Lee's career but far from the last. The freshman from Sugar land, Texas finished with the hat trick, scoring three goals on five shots, scoring two of the Pirates' four first-half goals.
Mason Meredith hits a two-run RBI for Trinity University Tigers Baseball in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) 2021 Championship Game on Mother’s Day - May 9, 2021
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC), founded in 1962, is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in Colorado, Louisiana, and Texas. Difficulties related to travel distances led seven former members to announce the formation of a new Southeastern US-based conference, the Southern Athletic Association, starting with the 2012–13 academic year.
Prior to 1991, the conference was known as the College Athletic Conference. The current commissioner of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is Dwayne Hanberry. The current chair of the Executive Committee of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is Dr. Jill Tiefenthaler, current Colorado College president.
Member schools
Current members
Future members
The University of California, Santa Cruz will join as an affiliate member for swimming and diving only in the 2013-14 school year. No other future members are known at this time.
“People are still interested in seeing it,” he said ... From Jan ... The featured conferences of schools include the Southwestern Athletic Conference, the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the CentralCollegiate Athletic Association.
The 1989Harrison graduate led the Warriors to two city and Southern Indiana Athletic Conference titles, finished his collegiate career at Indiana as the Big Ten's all-time leading scorer and was the sixth overall pick by Washington in 1993.
The Tigers won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship in double OT over Texas Lutheran, 1-0, then outlasted Pomona-Pitzer in the NCAA second round last weekend in penalty kicks, 1-1 (3-2).
Champions of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, the Tigers are unbeaten in their last 15 games (14-0-1) since suffering their lone defeat Sept.
RECORDS Lyon 1-8, 0-7 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference; Austin 1-8, 1-6... Both numbers are last in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference ... RECORDS Arkansas Baptist 1-9, 0-8 Sooner Athletic Conference; North American 1-9, 0-7.
Jess Hoel finished with 111 yards on 14 carries and scored 2 touchdowns during a shutout victory for McMurry (6-3, 6-1 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference) at Pioneer Stadium in Batesville.
RECORDS McMurry 5-3, 5-1 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference; Lyon1-7, 0-6 ... 2 against Austin (Texas) and was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference's defensive player of the week.