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30-468: PSAC is an acronym that can represent: Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference , a college sports conference in the United States President's Science Advisory Committee , an advising body to the U.S. President from Truman to Nixon Public Service Alliance of Canada , a Canadian labour union Pugets Sound Agricultural Company , a subsidiary of

60-622: A qualifying league have 14 members and play a round-robin schedule within each division; only the PSAC then qualified. Before Yoder formally introduced the proposal, he was approached by the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association , which was interested in co-sponsoring the legislation because it was also split into football divisions and wanted the option of a championship game. Since the CIAA then had 12 members, Yoder changed

90-470: A schedule spot open, with only the two division winners getting to play all of their allowed regular-season games. Then-conference commissioner Tod Eberle asked Dick Yoder, then athletic director at West Chester and member of the Division II council, to draft NCAA legislation that would allow the PSAC to play a conference title game that would be exempt from regular-season limits. The initial draft required that

120-881: 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 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,

150-579: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference The conference's 17 full-time members include 16 based in Pennsylvania and one in West Virginia . The conference's headquarters are in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and staffed by a commissioner, two assistant commissioners, and a director of media relations. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education organized

180-684: The NCAA . Membership remained unchanged until the conference announced on June 18, 2007, that it had invited three private universities— Gannon University and Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania and C.W. Post of Brookville, New York —to join the conference. Gannon and Mercyhurst left the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to join the PSAC, effective July 1, 2008. C.W. Post became an associate member for football and field hockey. In 2010, Seton Hill University

210-679: 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

270-609: The 2013–14 school year. This announcement was fallout from a split in the WVIAC that ultimately led to the formation of the Mountain East Conference (MEC). Although Seton Hill was one of the schools that initially broke away from the WVIAC, it chose not to join the MEC. The arrival of these two schools brought the PSAC to 18 full members, making it the largest NCAA all-sports conference in terms of membership at that time. While two other conferences briefly expanded to more members,

300-599: The D-II Lone Star Conference to 19 in 2019–20 and the D-III USA South Athletic Conference to the same number in 2021–22, both have since reduced their memberships to less than 18, once again giving the PSAC the largest membership of any NCAA all-sports conference. In March 2018, charter member Cheyney University of Pennsylvania , facing crises in enrollment, graduation rates, and finances, announced that it would leave NCAA Division II and

330-534: The D-II playoffs expanded from 8 to 16 teams that season, and it feared that the result of a title game could cost the league a playoff berth. The new NCAA rule would not see its first use until the Southeastern Conference took advantage of it by expanding to 12 members in 1991 and launching a title game the following year. In 2014, then- Sports Illustrated writer Andy Staples said that the rule "helped dictate

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360-502: The Hudson's Bay Company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title PSAC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PSAC&oldid=784346495 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

390-994: 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

420-503: 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

450-535: The PSAC at the end of the 2017–18 school year. The school had dropped football in December 2017. Later that year, the conference announced that it would expand into West Virginia , bringing in Shepherd University from the MEC as a full member effective with the 2019–20 school year. Shepherd is the first full PSAC member outside of Pennsylvania. The PSAC played a little-known but nonetheless significant role in

480-539: 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

510-711: 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

540-468: The conference in 1951 to promote competition in men's sports amongst the system's 14 universities. In 1977, following growing interest, the conference was expanded to offer competition in women's sports. From its inception, each conference member selected its own competitive division within the NCAA (I, II, or III). In 1980, however, the presidents voted to reclassify the entire conference to Division II within

570-448: The history of NCAA Division I conference realignment . In 1986, the conference was seeking a way out of a football scheduling conundrum. The PSAC had 14 members at the time, and had been split into divisions for decades. One of the methods it historically used to determine a football champion involved a championship game between the winners of its two divisions. However, due to NCAA limits on regular-season games, every PSAC team had to leave

600-471: The legislation to require 12 members instead of 14. Although at the time all NCAA legislation had to be approved by the entire membership, regardless of divisional alignment, the proposal passed with little notice. It was generally seen as a non-issue by Division I-A (now FBS) schools since no conference in that group then had more than 10 members. While the PSAC planned to stage its first exempt title game in 1988, it decided against doing so at that time because

630-555: 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,

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660-456: 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

690-573: 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

720-458: 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

750-504: The terms of conference realignment for more than 20 years." The PSAC currently has 17 full members, all but two being public schools. Also, only three of the 15 public members are outside of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education . The PSAC had two former full members, a public school and a private school : The PSAC has one affiliate member, a public school. The PSAC had one former affiliate member, which

780-774: The transition of all of the former members of the Eastern Wrestling League into the MAC starting in 2019 the Division I level PSAC programs will focus on Division I level competition. The PSAC offers championships in the following sports. In addition to the above: The following is a list of alumni of the respective universities, including before the formation of the Conference in 1951. Mountain East Conference The Mountain East Conference ( MEC )

810-468: Was accepted to join the conference as an associate member for field hockey. With the transition of West Chester from Division I to Division II, the number of teams competing in field hockey increased from 10 to 12 for the 2011 season. On August 19, 2012, the PSAC announced that Seton Hill and the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown , formerly members of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC), would become full members beginning with

840-410: Was also a private school:  Full member (all sports)   Full member (non-football)   Associate member (football)   Associate member (sport)  In wrestling; Bloomsburg, Clarion, Edinboro, and Lock Haven compete as members of the Division I Mid-American Conference . The PSAC held an annual championship open to all Division I and Division II teams, however with

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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