Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
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| Established | 1962 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division III |
| Members | 8 (9 from 2018-19) |
| Sports fielded | 19 (men's: 10; women's: 9) |
| Former names | College Athletic Conference |
| Headquarters | Lawrenceville, Georgia |
| Commissioner | D. Dwayne Hanberry |
| Website | www |
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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 commissioner of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is Dwayne Hanberry. The chair of the Executive Committee of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is Dr. Jill Tiefenthaler, Colorado College president.
Note that JWU's endowment and rankings are for the entire four-school campus, which is spread across the country. Only the Denver campus will participate in the SCAC.
McMurry University and the University of the Ozarks are affiliate members for men's and women's swimming and diving only. McMurry was accepted in June, 2014 as an affiliate member starting in the 2014-15 school year. The University of the Ozarks was approved as an affiliate member in February, 2016 to begin competition in the 2016-17 school year.
The University of California, Santa Cruz was an affiliate member in men's swimming and diving only during the 2013-14 school year.
Prior to the 2012 conference split, the SCAC fielded competition in baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, outdoor track and field and volleyball. With membership greatly reduced and in flux, some of these sports (field hockey, women's lacrosse) no longer have enough participants (zero and two, respectively) to allow the conference to sponsor them. In addition, after struggling with only four football playing schools for several seasons, the conference in November 2015 announced football would be discontinued as a conference sport effective the 2017-18 school year, with football playing institutions affiliating with either the American Southwest Conference or the Southern Athletic Association.
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