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1925 – The NWC was founded as the Pacific Northwest Conference (PNWC). Charter members include the College of Idaho, Linfield College (now Linfield University), Pacific University, the College of Puget Sound (now the University of Puget Sound), Whitman College and Willamette University, beginning the 1926–27 academic year.
The Northwest Conference, known formally as the Northwest Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NIAA) and also as the Northwest Intercollegiate Association, the Northwest Intercollegiate Conference, the Pacific Northwest Conference, and the Pacific Northwest Intercollegiate Conference, was a collegiate athletic conference with member schools located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
Some schools have opted to compete in a sport at a higher level and are allowed to do so by the NCAA under certain circumstances. First, when the NCAA placed severe restrictions on the fielding of Division I teams by Division II institutions in 2011, it grandfathered in all then-current D-I teams at D-II schools.
School City Conference Sport sponsorship Foot-ball Basketball Base-ball Soft-ball Soccer M W M W Pacific Lutheran Lutes: Pacific Lutheran University: Parkland: Northwest: Puget Sound Loggers: University of Puget Sound: Tacoma: Northwest: Whitman Blues: Whitman College: Walla Walla: Northwest: Whitworth Pirates: Whitworth University: Spokane ...
In 1917, the organization was formed as the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools. [9] [10] [11] In 1974, the association changed its name to the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, which included two divisions, one being the Northwest Association of Colleges and Universities. [9] [10] [11]
The board’s action comes at a moment of immense change throughout college athletics, with major conference realignment and consolidation at the forefront of those changes, and with the future of ...
Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is a public university with two campuses in Northwest Indiana; its main campus is in Hammond with a branch campus [2] in Westville.It is part of the Purdue University system and offers more than 70 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to approximately 6,200 students with more than 64,000 alumni.
Map of the FCS football programs, 2024. This is a list of schools in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) that play football in the United States as a varsity sport and are members of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), known as Division I-AA from 1978 through 2005.