The Great Midwest Athletic Conference ( G-MAC ) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. It was named the 24th (at the time) NCAA Division II conference and operates in the Great Lakes and East South Central States regions of the United States. The G-MAC began conference play in the 2012–13 academic year hosting 12 championships and continued to work through the educational assessment program. The conference received approval and became an active Division II conference in 2013–14, hosting 17 championships.
30-398: G-MAC or G-Mac may refer to: G-MAC: Great Midwest Athletic Conference , United States G-Mac: Graham McDowell , golfer Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title G-MAC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
60-723: A new D-II league that eventually became the Mountain East Conference (MEC). On October 16, 2012, the G-MAC announced that Salem International University , since renamed Salem University, would join the conference on July 1, 2013. Salem would leave the G-MAC in 2016 to become a Division II independent. On July 12, 2013, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference received official approval from the NCAA Division II Membership Committee, recognizing
90-790: A transition to potential NCAA Division II membership. The G-MAC Presidents Council unanimously admitted Cumberland as a provisional member effective immediately and would have sponsored the institution as it worked through the NCAA Division II membership application process. In July 2014, Cumberland was denied acceptance into the NCAA by the Membership Council. As in the case of Georgetown, Cumberland has made no further attempt to join Division II. On August 30, 2018, Davis & Elkins announced that it would reunite with most of its former WVIAC rivals in
120-470: A varsity sport by the NCAA). Each conference will organize its regular season independently but the postseason will be called Conference Carolinas/Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Bowling Championships. The most recently added sport is stunt, a women-only cheerleading discipline that emphasizes the acrobatic and technical aspects of cheerleading. It was added as an officially sanctioned sport for
150-993: Is an offshoot of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC), another Division II conference that had operated primarily in West Virginia since 1924. In June 2012, the nine football -playing schools in that conference announced plans to break away and form a new all-sports conference. The schools that made the initial announcement were the University of Charleston , Concord University , Fairmont State University , Glenville State College , Seton Hill University , Shepherd University , West Liberty University , West Virginia State University , and West Virginia Wesleyan College . All of these schools were in West Virginia, except for Seton Hill, located in Pennsylvania . According to regional media,
180-538: The Great Lakes Valley Conference . In November 2011, Trevecca Nazarene University was accepted as another charter member of the conference. Trevecca had begun the process of transitioning from NAIA to NCAA Division II membership in July, 2011 and entered a provisional NCAA membership year during the conference's initially planned start for the 2013–14 academic year. In late November, the conference announced
210-716: The University of Virginia's College at Wise (UVA Wise), located in Southwest Virginia . Wheeling Jesuit was a WVIAC member that had been left out of the original WVIAC split. Urbana and UVA Wise were members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) in 2012–13, while Notre Dame was a Division II independent that had housed five of its 22 sports in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference . UVA Wise, which had previously been turned down for WVIAC membership,
240-482: The 17th conference sport for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season). Men's and women's swimming and diving were added as the 18th and 19th conference sports for 2017–18, with the MEC and Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) forming a swimming and diving alliance that conducts a joint conference championship meet. The following school year saw the MEC add acrobatics & tumbling as an official sport, two years before it
270-1008: The 2022–23 school year, a year before it was added to the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program in August 2023. The first season of conference competition featured four full G-MAC members and one affiliate. The G-MAC currently has 13 full members, all are private schools. Reclassifying members listed in yellow. The G-MAC has five affiliate members, all are private schools: The G-MAC had eight former full members. All but two were private schools. School names and nicknames reflect those used during G-MAC membership: The G-MAC had two former affiliate members, which were both private schools. School names and nicknames reflect those used during G-MAC membership: Full member (all sports) Full member (non-football) Associate member (football-only) Associate member (sport) In swimming and diving for both sexes,
300-578: The Conference as an active NCAA Division II conference. On the same day, it was announced that Ursuline College had been approved as an active NCAA DII member and Trevecca Nazarene University successfully completed its Year Two candidacy and was moved into the Provisional Year of the membership process by the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. On August 7, 2013, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference partnered with Cumberland University as it embarked on
330-464: The G-MAC and Mountain East Conference operate as a single league, conducting a combined conference championship meet. In bowling, Great Midwest Athletic Conference and Conference Carolinas made a partnership to make a men's and women's bowling championship (even though men's bowling is not considered a varsity sport by the NCAA). Each conference will organize its regular season independently but
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#1732856092073360-447: The G-MAC. At the same time, the G-MAC announced that three West Virginia schools had accepted invitations to join the conference, starting in July 2013— Alderson Broaddus University , Davis & Elkins College , and Ohio Valley University . All three schools were previously members of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC), which disbanded after most of its football-sponsoring schools announced their departure for
390-477: The Great Midwest Athletic Conference from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for the 2021–22 school year. On June 5, 2020, another former WVIAC member, Alderson Broaddus, announced that it was leaving the G-MAC to join most of its old rivals in the Mountain East Conference for the 2020–21 school year. On February 11, 2021, Ohio Valley announced that it would return to NAIA and join
420-994: The MEC was short-lived, as on July 31, 2023, Alderson Broaddus' authorization to grant degrees was revoked, resulting in the immediate suspension of all athletics. In 2024, charter member Notre Dame College announced it would shut down. That same year, it was announced that Point Park University would join the conference from the NAIA River States Conference . This marked the MEC’s first member in Pennsylvania. The Mountain East currently has 11 full members, with five being private and six being public schools. Reclassifying members listed in yellow. The Mountain East currently has three associate members, one public school and two private schools: The Mountain East had five former full members; three are private schools which left
450-503: The MEC when the schools closed, while two are public schools that remain in operation. Current Mountain East football associate UNC Pembroke had housed four sports in the MEC before it joined a conference that sponsored all of those sports. Full members (all sports) Full members (non-football) Associate members (football-only) Associate members (other) The MEC sponsored 16 sports in all, eight each for men and women, at its formation. Women's lacrosse became
480-478: The Mountain East Conference after the 2018–19 school year. The school remains a G-MAC affiliate in men's lacrosse, a sport that the MEC does not sponsor. On February 1, 2019, Malone announced that it had eliminated football and "remains committed to athletic competition in the NCAA Div. II and as members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC)." On May 19, 2020, Ashland University announced they would join
510-502: The NCAA and was officially accepted as a provisional D-II member on July 14, 2022. The school accordingly became a provisional G-MAC member, but continued to compete in the NAIA and in the Mid-South until July 2023. Also for the 2021–22 season, G-MAC announced a partnership with Conference Carolinas to create a men's and women's bowling championship (even though men's bowling is not considered
540-460: The PSAC in 2019, becoming that league's first full member outside of Pennsylvania. The MEC would replace both members in the ensuing months. On July 5, the Mountain East Conference announced that Frostburg State University had accepted an offer of membership beginning with the 2019–20 academic year, contingent upon Frostburg State achieving active membership status in NCAA Division II (which would occur on
570-647: The River States Conference that July, and on April 29, Northwood University announced that it would also join the G-MAC from the GLIAC for the 2022–23 school year. The G-MAC would gain a member later in 2021; on August 18, the conference and Thomas More University announced that the school, currently a member of the NAIA Mid-South Conference , would become a provisional G-MAC member in 2022. With G-MAC acceptance in hand, Thomas More applied to rejoin
600-711: The announced schedule). Finally, on August 30, the MEC announced two additional new members effective in 2019–20. Davis & Elkins College would become a full member, and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNC Pembroke) would join in five sports. UNC Pembroke began MEC competition in men's and women's indoor track & field, women's swimming & diving, and wrestling in 2019, with football following in 2020. Multiple MEC membership changes were announced in 2020. On April 16, multi-sport associate member UNC Pembroke announced it would join Conference Carolinas (CC) effective in 2021–22. Because CC sponsors all of
630-448: The conference pending their approval by the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. Georgetown College was rejected for Division II membership, but applied to join Division II in 2014. However, they were denied acceptance once again by the Membership Council. As of 2021, Georgetown has made no further attempt to join Division II. In the fall of 2012, it was announced that Urbana and UVA Wise would spend only one season as active members of
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#1732856092073660-510: The hiring of Tom Daeger as Conference Commissioner, with offices in Indianapolis . On February 21, 2012, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference announced the NCAA had accepted the G-MAC as the 24th NCAA Division ll conference. The conference then added two more members when it was announced on April 23 and May 1, 2012, that the University of Virginia's College at Wise (UVA Wise) and Georgetown College had been granted provisional membership in
690-479: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=G-MAC&oldid=1109704767 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Great Midwest Athletic Conference The initial announcement of a potential new conference surfaced in June 2011 when
720-456: The non-football sports that UNCP housed in the MEC, UNCP is now an MEC member only in football. Five days later, charter member Urbana announced it would close at the end of the 2019–20 school year. Finally, on June 5, Alderson Broaddus University , a West Virginia school left out of the WVIAC split, announced that it would leave the G-MAC to join the MEC the following month. However, their tenure in
750-573: The official launch of the conference on August 20, 2012, the MEC sought to add the WVIAC's other Pennsylvania member, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown ; however, both Seton Hill and Pittsburgh–Johnstown chose to join the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC). The MEC filled out its charter membership with another West Virginia school, Wheeling Jesuit University, today known as Wheeling University ; two Ohio schools, Notre Dame College and Urbana University ; and
780-865: The postseason will be called Conference Carolinas/Great Midwest Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Bowling Championships. In addition to the above: Mountain East Conference The Mountain East Conference ( MEC ) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level and officially began competition on September 1, 2013. It consists of 11 schools, mostly in West Virginia with other members in Maryland and Pennsylvania . The conference
810-415: The presidents and athletic directors of Cedarville University , Notre Dame College , Urbana University , and Ursuline College met to discuss plans for a new Division II conference. Soon after the initial meeting, Central State University joined and became a fifth member. In October 2011, Kentucky Wesleyan College announced that the school will join the G-MAC, withdrawing from its current conference,
840-458: The split was "supposedly rooted in different philosophies of progressivism", and also was partially driven by a desire to expand the new conference's footprint outside West Virginia. The divisions in the WVIAC were also rooted in the split between public and private schools, although the departing schools included institutions of both types. At the time of the original announcement, the nine schools planned to expand to at least 12 members. Before
870-518: Was the first in which MEC teams were eligible for automatic bids to NCAA Division II championships; before then, they were eligible only for at-large bids. In 2018, UVA Wise and the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) jointly announced on April 13 that UVA Wise would leave the MEC to join the SAC for 2019–20 and beyond. Next, Shepherd and the PSAC jointly announced on June 7 that Shepherd would join
900-445: Was transitioning from the NAIA and did not officially become an active D-II member until 2015-16; all of the other charter members were already full D-II members. At its launch, the MEC had 11 football members, with Wheeling (then known as Wheeling Jesuit) being the only non-football school. On February 15, 2013, the NCAA accepted the MEC as its 25th D2 conference. The 2015–16 school year
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