2008 DEWEY ALLGOOD INVITATIONAL / 2008 MINER INVITATIONAL
Cross Country Meet Courses: 5,000M / 6,000M / 8,000M
The Missouri University of Science and Technology is currently a member of Division II in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the 13-school Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC), which it joined in 2005 after a 70-year affiliation with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA).
The formation
of the GLVC can be traced as far back as 1972 when the athletic directors
of three member schools - Kentucky Wesleyan, Bellarmine and Indiana State
University at Evansville (now the University of Southern Indiana) - began
preliminary discussions about forming a basketball conference. Four years
later, the University of Indianapolis and Saint Joseph's College expressed
interest. On July 7, 1978, those schools - along with Ashland University -
united to become the GLVC.
Since formulation of the conference, seven schools have joined the league:
Lewis University (1980), Indiana-Purdue at Fort Wayne (1984), Northern Kentucky
University (1985), Kentucky State University (1989), Quincy University (1994),
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (1994), University of Wisconsin-Parkside
(1994) and UM-St. Louis (1995). Ashland and Kentucky State left the conference
after the 1994 season. IPFW left the GLVC following the 2000-01 academic year.
The 2005-06
expansion also included Drury University and Rockhurst University. SIU Edwardsville left the GLVC following the 2007-08 academic year as it reclassified its athletic program to NCAA Division I.
The GLVC can claim schools in all of the Midwest major media markets, with
schools in Milwaukee/Northern Illinois (Wisconsin-Parkside), Chicago (Lewis), Indianapolis
(Indianapolis), Cincinnati (Northern Kentucky), Louisville (Bellarmine), Evansville
(Southern Indiana), Owensboro (Kentucky Wesleyan), St. Louis (Missouri-St.
Louis), Springfield (Drury) and Kansas City (Rockhurst).
The Missouri S&T swimming team competes in the New South Intercollegiate Swimming Championships, while the football team will compete as an NCAA Division II independent in the upcoming season.
GLVC Member Institutions
|
School |
Location |
| Bellarmine University |
Louisville,
Kentucky |
| Drury University |
Springfield,
Missouri |
| University of Indianapolis |
Indianapolis,
Indiana |
| Kentucky Wesleyan College |
Owensboro,
Kentucky |
| Lewis University |
Romeoville,
Illinois |
| Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) |
Rolla,
Missouri |
| University of Missouri-St. Louis |
St.
Louis, Missouri |
| Northern Kentucky University |
Highland
Heights, Kentucky |
| Quincy University |
Quincy,
Illinois |
| Rockhurst University |
Kansas
City, Missouri |
| Saint Joseph's College |
Rensselaer,
Indiana |
| University of Southern Indiana |
Evansville,
Indiana |
| University of Wisconsin-Parkside |
Kenosha,
Wisconsin |
| GLVC office |
Indianapolis,
Indiana |
Missouri S&T'S
Conference Championships
Missouri S&T teams won several championships while serving as a member of the MIAA.
Listed below are the championship seasons for the various sports:
Baseball:
1968, 1972
Men's Basketball: 1976, 1996
Women's Basketball: 1996
Men's Cross Country: 1958
Football: 1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1956, 1977, 1980, 1983
Golf: 1938, 1939, 1942, 1947, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1966, 1969
Men's Soccer: 1997, 1998
Swimming: 1947, 1948, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980
Men's Track and Field: 1948 (indoor)
(Swimming and men's soccer are not currently conference sports in the MIAA)
Missouri S&T'S
NCAA Regional Affiliations
Missouri S&T is a member of NCAA Division II in all 15 of its varsity sports. It competes
as an independent in football and swimming, while competing in the GLVC in
the other 13 sports.
Missouri S&T teams are aligned in the Midwest region for all national competition with the exception of football, where it competes in the Southwest region. There is no regional affiliation for NCAA championship competition in men's and women's track and swimming.