The Midwest Lacrosse Conference ( MLC ) is a men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III lacrosse-only college athletic conference composed of schools located in the Midwestern United States . All schools are members of conferences that do not sponsor lacrosse.
8-570: Founding members Adrian College, Albion College, Carthage College, Fontbonne University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, College of Mount St. Joseph and Trine University ratified bylaws on June 2, 2009. The NCAA recognition of the new conference went into effect September 1, 2009 and conference play began on February 13, 2010. Many of the MLC members also field women's lacrosse as part of the Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference , which began in 2011. Because
16-650: The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association added lacrosse beginning with the 2013 season, their members played their last season in the MLC during 2012. Likewise, the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin added lacrosse beginning with the 2015 season, so their teams played their last season in the MLC during 2014. The three schools in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference starting playing in
24-536: The Midwestern United States . All schools are members of other conferences in other sports and formed the MWLC until such time as their existing conferences add lacrosse. The Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference (MWLC) was founded in 2010 and began play during the spring of 2011. The conference enters its 14th season in the spring of 2024. The conference comprises NCAA Division III institutions located throughout
32-756: The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference for other sports and had been independent programs for men's lacrosse. Further change came before the 2020 season when the conference added Illinois Tech and Fontbonne announced that the men's lacrosse program would be suspended indefinitely due to low participation numbers for the program. In 2021, the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference brought its lacrosse-sponsoring institutions - Aurora, Benedictine, Concordia Chicago, Concordia Wisconsin, Illinois Tech, Marian, Milwaukee School of Engineering and affiliate member Beloit - directly under
40-416: The MWLC after the 2014 season along with Dubuque and Fontbonne. Cornell, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Wartburg began conference play in the spring of 2015, joining members Aurora, Beloit, Benedictine, Concordia Wisconsin, and Loras. Augsburg and Concordia Chicago joined the spring of 2016, while Hamline and Monmouth joined the MWLC ranks in the spring of 2017. Marian and Northwestern became members in
48-635: The Midwest including Augsburg (Minneapolis, Minn.), Cornell (Mt. Vernon, Iowa), Hamline (Saint Paul, Minn.), Lake Forest (Lake Forest, Ill.), Northwestern (St. Paul, Minn.), and Saint Benedict (St. Joseph, Minn.). Adrian, Albion and Trine left the Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference after the 2012 season when the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) began sponsoring women's lacrosse. The CCIW and HCAC institutions left
56-554: The NACC umbrella. This continues the pattern of the Midwest Lacrosse Conference providing league opportunities for schools until such time that their conference sponsors the sport. Midwest Women%27s Lacrosse Conference The Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference ( MWLC ) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III women's lacrosse-only college athletic conference composed of schools located in
64-437: The new lacrosse-only Ohio River Lacrosse Conference in 2015 as well. Beloit College and Cornell College joined the MLC in the spring of 2015. Concordia University Chicago joined in 2016 and Monmouth College joined in 2017. Marian University continued to expand the conference in 2018. In 2019, the conference added North Central University and University of Northwestern – St. Paul . Both universities are members of
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