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56-590: UW–Parkside has been a member of the GLIAC since the 2018–19 school year, at which time it adopted its current athletic branding as "Parkside". The Rangers were previously members of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) from 1994–95 to 2017–18. UW–Parkside's nickname is the Rangers. The university's mascot, depicted by a brown bear in a Parkside jersey, is Ranger Bear. In January 2011 Ranger Bear qualified for

112-430: A green background were designated "core sports" and required of all full members from 2005 to 2023. Effective fall 2023, all full members are required to sponsor men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, four additional men's sports, and four additional women's sports. These sports are not yet sponsored by enough NCAA members nationwide to be added to the official list of championship sports. Triathlon has had

168-524: A meeting in Louisville hosted by Bellarmine, these six schools formed the GLVC, with the intention of competing in the 1978–79 season. Ashland, though considered a charter member, did not begin conference play until the league's second season, in 1979–80. From the time of its founding, the GLVC has been a member of NCAA Division II. While the origins of the conference's name are lost to history, its initial footprint

224-487: A weight-restricted variant of American football, sponsored by Quincy, and the men's and women's ice hockey teams of McKendree and Maryville, which compete at the club level in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA). While some GLVC members administer their club sports through their athletics departments, others operate their club sports as student organizations outside of athletics. Since

280-550: Is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Its fifteen member institutions are located in the U.S. states of Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , and Missouri . There are also four associate members who participate in sports not sponsored by their home conference. The GLVC grew out of discussions that started in 1972 between

336-598: Is a member of the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association . The newest Mastodons sports are men's indoor and outdoor track & field, reinstated in 2019–20 after having been dropped by IPFW in 2005. Before joining NCAA Division I athletics, Fort Wayne competed in the Great Lakes Valley Conference in some sports in the NCAA Division II , where in 1993, the men's basketball team led, by brothers Sean and Shane Gibson, achieved

392-527: Is incorporated as a secondary color to the university's official school colors of gold and black. Because NCAA rules bar players from two different schools from competing on the same team, IU Fort Wayne students became ineligible for Mastodons athletics. At the time the separation was announced, five of the roughly 240 Fort Wayne varsity athletes were in academic majors that became part of the new IU Fort Wayne campus, with three possibly requiring NCAA waivers to remain athletically eligible. The school moved from

448-503: The Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN), and one year later, Kentucky Wesleyan left to become a charter member of the newly formed Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC). Meanwhile, the GLVC welcomed Truman State University into the conference, to begin competition in 2013–14. The additions of McKendree (coinciding with the departure of Northern Kentucky) and Truman State (coinciding with the departure of Kentucky Wesleyan) kept

504-522: The Summit League . IPFW was reorganized in the mid-2010s, eventually splitting into Indiana University Fort Wayne and Purdue University Fort Wayne. One of the first results of this action was the discontinuation of the tennis teams at the end of the 2014–2015 academic year. The teams had won Summit League regular-season (men's: 2012; women's: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013) and tournament (women's 2010, 2011, 2013) championships. On August 8, 2016, shortly before

560-490: The University of Wisconsin–Parkside began competition that fall, followed by the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) one year later. These changes initiated a westward shift in the GLVC's geographical footprint that has continued to the present. The 1990s also featured an expansion in sports sponsorship. In 1995-96 the GLVC crowned its first champions in women's soccer and in men's and women's track and field. Women's golf

616-636: The intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). The school's athletic program includes 16 varsity sports teams. Their mascot is a Mastodon named Don, and the school colors are black and gold. The university participates in the NCAA's Division I as members of the Horizon League in all varsity sports except for men's volleyball, which competes in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association . Purdue Fort Wayne offers eight varsity sports for men and eight for women. At

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672-718: The 2000 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship matches at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, which is adjacent to the campus. Most athletic events are held in the Hilliard Gates Sports Center or the Athletics Center Fieldhouse on the PFW campus. The IPFW Club Men's Ice Hockey Team is in its sixth season as a program and competes in the ACHA's North Region. IPFW has had recent success finishing in

728-615: The ASUN, effective fall 2020. In 2019 the GLVC and G-MAC established the annual America's Crossroads Bowl in Hobart, Indiana, featuring their highest-ranking football teams not qualifying for the NCAA Division II playoffs. In the 2021 and 2022 seasons, members of the two conferences also played a two-game crossover in the third and fourth Saturdays of the football season. The GLVC added two women's sports for 2019–20, bowling and lacrosse, bringing

784-510: The GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN), which subsequently broadcast football and all other conference sports. Drury and Bellarmine started wrestling programs for the 2016–17 season, enabling the conference to add wrestling as its 21st championship sport. The initial seven-team GLVC wrestling lineup also included Indianapolis, Maryville, McKendree, Truman State, and Wisconsin–Parkside, all former Division II wrestling independents. In July 2017,

840-570: The GLVC and GSC-PBC each had enough lacrosse-playing members to offer separate championships in the sport. Charter member St. Joseph's College closed in May 2017 because of financial troubles. One year later, Wisconsin–Parkside left the GLVC to join the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). Their departures reduced the conference to fourteen members. In fall 2019 conference membership returned to 16 with

896-582: The GLVC announced the addition of men's lacrosse as its 22nd championship sport, in partnership with the Gulf South Conference (GSC) and Peach Belt Conference (PBC). The initial six-team lineup for spring 2018 included Indianapolis, Maryville, and four southern associate members ( Young Harris College , the University of Alabama in Huntsville , the University of Montevallo , and Shorter University ). The partnership lasted for three seasons, after which

952-508: The GLVC at sixteen members. In 2014, a unique interconference football partnership with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) allowed Lincoln University and Southwest Baptist University to join the GLVC in football while otherwise remaining MIAA members. That autumn, the GLVC became the first NCAA Division II conference to create an inclusive league-wide digital streaming network –

1008-434: The GLVC became the leading Division II conference in swimming and diving. During its first decade in the conference, Drury won ten men's national championships and four women's national championships in the sport. After men's and women's swimming and diving became conference sports in 2013–14, the annual GLVC swimming and diving meet grew to become the most financially lucrative of the conference's championship events, surpassing

1064-474: The GLVC came at the end of the 2021–22 academic year, when charter member Southern Indiana joined Lindenwood in moving to Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference , temporarily reducing the league to thirteen schools. They were replaced by associate member Upper Iowa, admitted to the GLVC as a full member effective fall 2023, and former football associate Lincoln, admitted effective fall 2024. With

1120-643: The GLVC include four public and five private institutions. Years listed in this table reflect calendar years. For fall sports, the calendar year of departure is the year after the last season of competition. For spring sports, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition. (NOTE: this list does not include the former associate members—Southwest Baptist, Upper Iowa, Lincoln—that eventually became full members).  Full member (all sports)   Full member (non-football)   Associate member (football-only)   Associate member (other sport)  The seven sports indicated with

1176-470: The GLVC, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition. The GLVC currently has two future associate members, both private institutions. Years listed in this table are calendar years. For schools that play only spring sports (such as men's volleyball) in the GLVC, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition. Former members of the GLVC include six public and five private institutions: Former associate members of

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1232-534: The Mastodons represented Purdue University Fort Wayne. With the name change, the school's colors changed from royal blue and White to the old gold and black used by the other three Purdue University campuses. On June 18, 2018, the school announced that beginning July 1, 2018 all NCAA sports teams will be known as the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastadons. In addition, a new logo was revealed in whuch the color blue

1288-621: The NCAA suspended play due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2020–21 academic year, the GLVC held its fall 2020 conference sport competitions in spring 2021. Of the sixteen Division II conferences sponsoring football at the time, the GLVC was one of just four (with the G-MAC, Mountain East Conference , and South Atlantic Conference ) to crown a football champion in spring 2021. The most recent departures from

1344-585: The Summit League to the Horizon League in July 2020. The official announcement of this move noted that PFW would be near the geographic center of its new league, with an average distance of 170 miles (274 km) from the other members. At that time, media also noted that PFW's longest road trip in the Horizon League — 344 miles (554 km) to Green Bay — would be shorter than its shortest Summit League trip, which

1400-800: The addition of new members, the GLVC amended the core sports requirement that had been in place since 2005. Starting in 2023–24, all full members must sponsor men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, four additional men's sports, and four additional women's sports. In July 2024, the GLVC formally announced that it would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2026 season (2025–26 academic year), with an initial lineup consisting of full members Maryville, Missouri S&T, Quincy, Rockhurst, and Southwest Baptist, plus associate members Roosevelt University and Thomas More University . The GLVC first adopted divisional play in 1996, for women's volleyball only. That sport competed in Blue and Green divisions (named for

1456-572: The addition of two schools from the MIAA, Southwest Baptist (elevated from football-only associate to full membership) and Lindenwood University . Their admission voided the MIAA-GLVC football partnership of the previous five seasons (2014 through 2018) and resulted in Lincoln rejoining MIAA football. After just one year the conference reverted to fifteen members, as charter member Bellarmine moved to Division I and

1512-465: The athletic directors of Kentucky Wesleyan College , Bellarmine College (today Bellarmine University ), and Indiana State University at Evansville (renamed University of Southern Indiana in 1985), with the goal of forming a men's basketball conference. The discussions eventually included Indiana Central University (renamed University of Indianapolis in 1986), Saint Joseph's College , and Ashland College (today Ashland University ). On July 7, 1978, at

1568-586: The athletics teams as well, such as "Volleydons" for the volleyball teams. In a related reference, the Mastodon STOMP pep band instills school spirit among the fans during home matches and games. By using the nickname "Mastodons," Purdue Fort Wayne is one of the few schools to use an extinct organism as a nickname, along with the Amherst Mammoths and the Maranatha Baptist Sabercats . When

1624-477: The basketball tournament. The admission of William Jewell, approved in October 2009, gave the conference six football-playing members (along with Indianapolis, Kentucky Wesleyan, St. Joseph's, Quincy, and Missouri S&T), the minimum number needed to sponsor the sport. This set in motion plans to crown a football champion, ultimately starting in fall 2012. The addition of football in the GLVC's 35th year of competition

1680-440: The conference continued to grow with the additions of Maryville University and the University of Illinois Springfield , which began GLVC competition in the fall of 2009. The GLVC reached sixteen members with the admission of William Jewell College , which began competing in fall 2011. As the conference continued to grow, basketball remained its strongest sport, and the conference tournament , usually including both genders at

1736-452: The conference nine teams for its initial football season. Though they competed in the GLVC for just one year, Central State and Urbana eventually were followed by a dozen other schools admitted to the league as associates in one or more sports while maintaining full membership elsewhere. Just as the GLVC was adding football, the conference lost two of its premier basketball programs. In the fall of 2012, Northern Kentucky moved to Division I and

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1792-446: The conference's colors) until 2004, when it returned to a single table. All other sports competed in a single table until the conference expanded to fourteen members in 2005, when two seven-team divisions were adopted for basketball and most other core sports. The organizational structure of the conference has varied dramatically since then, reflecting changes in membership and in the overall number of league members. As an added variable,

1848-571: The first three decades of its existence, expanding from six members to sixteen. The first addition was Lewis University in 1980, followed in 1984 by Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW; the athletic program is now Purdue Fort Wayne ), then Northern Kentucky University in 1985 and Kentucky State University in 1989. The conference lost its first members with the departure of Ashland and Kentucky State, effective summer 1995, but nonetheless increased in size when Quincy University , Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) and

1904-724: The first time for the Universal Cheer Association Mascot Nationals, where he took third place. Men's sports (7) Women's sports (6) Parkside teams have won GLVC championships in men's soccer (2000), women's cross country (2007) and women's soccer (2008). UWP teams have yet to win a national championship at the Division II level. However, Ranger athletes have won a total of 5 individual NCAA championships: one in women's indoor track and field and four in wrestling. Great Lakes Valley Conference The Great Lakes Valley Conference ( GLVC )

1960-545: The following year. Soccer became the sixth sport rather than track & field, with the first conference tournament held in 1980. In 1982, when the demise of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) brought women's college athletics under the NCAA, the GLVC began to sponsor women's sports. Within two years, the conference added women's championships in basketball, tennis, cross country, volleyball, and softball. The conference experienced steady growth through

2016-506: The founding of the conference, members of the GLVC have won 34 NCAA Division II national championships and two NCAA National Collegiate championships (indicated in green). "National Collegiate" is the NCAA's official term to describe championship events open to members of more than one NCAA division. Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons The Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons , formerly known as the IPFW Mastodons and Fort Wayne Mastodons , are

2072-409: The leg bone of a mastodon . Faculty and students from the geology department excavated the greater part of an adult mastodon, including the skull and tusks . The bones were cleaned, preserved, and placed on permanent display at IPFW. In 1970, members of the geology club, led by professors who oversaw the excavation, successfully lobbied the student government committee charged with choosing a name for

2128-599: The member institutions were responsible for operating the conference. The FARs (rather than the athletic directors) still cast the institutional votes at meetings where the presidents and chancellors are not present. This feature gives the GLVC a governance structure that is unique among Division I and Division II conferences. Though conceived as a men's basketball league, the GLVC from the start planned to sponsor championships in golf, tennis, baseball, cross country, and track & field. The conference crowned golf and tennis champions in 1978-79 and added cross country and baseball

2184-498: The ranking of No. 4 in the country in NCAA Division II competition. Dane Fife was named the IPFW men's basketball head coach during summer 2005. Fife, who left after the 2010–11 season, was the youngest NCAA Division I head coach at the time of his appointment, at the age of 26. Tony Jasick replaced Fife as the head coach. Jon Coffman is the current head coach of the program, announced on April 10, 2014. During its existence as IPFW, it hosted

2240-475: The same neutral site, became its signature event. A GLVC team played in the championship game of the NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament in eleven consecutive seasons (1993-94 through 2003–4). Kentucky Wesleyan, winner of four men's national championships prior to the creation of the GLVC, won four more as a conference member, while Southern Indiana, Bellarmine, and Drury won one apiece, and Northern Kentucky won two women's national championships. Meanwhile,

2296-427: The same structure has never been applied across all sports in any given year. For example, since 2005, men's and women's basketball has played in two divisions in ten seasons (from 2005–06 through 2008–09 and again from 2011–12 through 2016–17), three divisions in five seasons (2009–10, 2010–11, 2017–18, 2020–21, and 2021–22), and in a single table in four seasons (2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23, and 2023–24). Meanwhile, during

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2352-685: The same years, men's and women's soccer always played a single table. Two-division structures have been labeled East-West or Blue-Green, while three-division structures have been labeled East-West-North or East-West-Central. As of 2024–25, the GLVC has divisional play in men's and women's tennis, and plays a single table in all other sports with regular season competition. The GLVC currently has 15 full members, including ten private and five public institutions: The GLVC currently has four associate members, two private and two public institutions. Years listed in this table are calendar years. For schools that play only spring sports (such as women's lacrosse) in

2408-728: The school announced the athletic brand change, it noted, Some Mastodon teams have already been using Fort Wayne on uniforms since this recommendation, but the use has been limited and resulted in some confusion. Outside of northeast Indiana, there is also considerable confusion about the "IPFW" acronym, with misnomers being common—even among those involved in Division I athletics. Indiana University and Purdue University in Fort Wayne officially separated on July 1, 2018, with IU taking responsibility for IPFW's degree programs in health sciences and Purdue retaining all other academic programs. Thereafter,

2464-501: The school first fielded athletic teams, it competed as an NCAA Division III independent . In the summer of 1981, the Mastodons made a jump to NCAA Division II where they remained independent . Prior to the 1984–85 school year, the Mastodons joined the Great Lakes Valley Conference , their first-ever conference affiliation. At the start of the 2001–02 academic year, the Mastodons joined NCAA Division I as an independent . IPFW joined its first Division I conference in July 2007, joining

2520-470: The seven core sports, while continuing to award its All-Sports Trophy to the most successful program overall. In the fall of 2005, the GLVC welcomed three more members— Drury University , Rockhurst University , and the University of Missouri-Rolla (known as Missouri University of Science and Technology , or Missouri S&T, since 2008). SIUE left for Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference in 2008, but

2576-407: The start of athletics competition, the school was known as IPFW, the abbreviation for Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne . In 1968, a large bone was discovered during the installation of a farm pond near Angola , Indiana, about 40 miles (65 km) north of Fort Wayne. The farmer who owned the property contacted professors in the IPFW geology department, who identified his discovery as

2632-430: The start of the 2016–17 school year, IPFW athletic director Kelley Hartley Hutton announced that effective immediately, "Fort Wayne" would be the university's exclusive athletic brand. The school's "IPFW" academic branding was not affected. The Summit League has called the athletic program "Fort Wayne" since 2012, in line with a conference initiative to use geographic names to describe metropolitan campuses such as IPFW. When

2688-416: The status of an emerging sport since 2014, wrestling since 2020, and STUNT since 2023. The remaining current emerging sports (acrobatics & tumbling, equestrian, and rugby) are not sponsored by GLVC members. Some GLVC members give varsity status to teams in non-NCAA sports and to other club teams, such as men's bowling (because the NCAA governs only the women's sport). Other examples are sprint football ,

2744-466: The time all sponsored these sports, and subsequent new members would be required to sponsor them as well. Previously, the GLVC had no sports sponsorship requirement other than the NCAA Division II minimum (that every member must sponsor at least ten sports, including men's and women's basketball). The conference began awarding the Commissioner's Cup to the member institution with the greatest success across

2800-483: The top 20 in the nation the last three seasons . This past season the Mastodons won the Big Ten Club Tournament championship hosted by Northwestern University. This was a huge win for the program with bigger schools such as Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, Northern Illinois and No. 3 ranked University of Michigan-Flint also in the tournament. The Dons play their home games at Lutheran Health SportCenter and have for

2856-756: The total number of conference sports to 24. In women's bowling, the initial lineup included 2017 national champion McKendree, fellow full members Drury, Lewis, and Maryville, plus associate members Lincoln, the University of Central Missouri , and Upper Iowa University . In women's lacrosse, the initial lineup in spring 2020 consisted of seven full members—regional powers Lindenwood and Indianapolis, along with Lewis, Maryville, McKendree, Quincy, and Rockhurst. The two sports were an immediate success, with Lindenwood (2021) and Indianapolis (2022) winning national championships in women's lacrosse and McKendree (2022) winning its second national title in women's bowling. In March 2020, GLVC winter and spring sport competitions ended when

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2912-471: The university mascot to select the mastodon. And thus, the IPFW Mastodons were born. In addition to serving as a mascot, “Mastodon” is used as the athletic moniker for team members and school-spirited references to the student body. The selection of the mastodon as mascot, as well as a tongue-in-cheek borrowing of the term “Don” from its academic British English use, lends itself to use as a suffix to refer to

2968-555: Was 367 miles (591 km) to Western Illinois . PFW's Horizon League announcement took place several months before Robert Morris University , located in suburban Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , announced it would also join the Horizon League in 2020. The addition of Robert Morris increased PFW's average conference road trip to about 210 miles (338 km), but Green Bay remains PFW's longest Horizon League road trip. Purdue Fort Wayne has 16 NCAA Division I varsity teams: 8 varsity sports for men and 8 for women. The men's volleyball team

3024-412: Was a historic move, as no conference at any level of the NCAA (Division I, II, or III) founded without football had ever added it after existing for so long as a non-football conference. Before competition began, the original six football-playing members were joined by new full member McKendree University and the GLVC's first associate members, Central State University and Urbana University , to give

3080-524: Was added in 1998–99, followed by men's and women's indoor track and field in 1999–2000. These additions increased the total number of conference sports from eleven to seventeen. After IPFW left in 2001 to move to Division I , the GLVC considered further expansion, but not before redefining conference membership in 2005 to require the athletic program of each member to include seven core sports (men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, softball, and baseball). The eleven members at

3136-671: Was bordered by the Great Lakes in the north and the Ohio Valley in the south. Following Southern Indiana's departure in July 2022, Indianapolis is the only remaining charter member. The GLVC has been led by a full-time commissioner since 1996, first Carl McAloose (1996–2000), then Jim Naumovich (2000–present). The conference office is located in Indianapolis. From 1978 to 1996, the Faculty Athletics Representatives (FARs) of

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