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15 Schools•Division II•Est. 1909
The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference traces its origins to March 6, 1909, when leaders from Colorado College, the University of Colorado and Colorado Agricultural College agreed on eligibility rules and scheduling procedures, forming the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference. The Colorado School of Mines joined that November, in time for the conference's first basketball season. The league became the Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference in 1910 and took its present name in 1967, when the presidents assumed control from the faculty. Founded before nearly every league in the country, it stands among the most historic in American college athletics. Women's sports were added for the 1978 season, and the conference Hall of Fame was established in 2002, honoring longtime commissioners Paul and Wanda Brechler as its first class.
National championships have come across the sports. Fort Hays State finished 34 and 0 in 1996 to win the Division II men's basketball title, becoming one of the rare unbeaten champions in the tournament's history. Adams State and Western Colorado built dynasties in distance running, sweeping cross country titles across decades, with Western Colorado's women winning the program's first national title in 1990. Metropolitan State won men's basketball championships and two women's soccer titles, and Fort Lewis went 22 and 0 and 1 to claim the men's soccer crown in 2005.
The Olympic tradition reaches back decades. Derrick White of Colorado Springs won gold with Team USA at the Paris Games and an NBA championship in the same season. Martin Johns of Adams State ran the 1500 meters for New Zealand in Atlanta. Jon Lufkin of Fort Lewis skied at the Grenoble Winter Games.
Rivalries give the calendar its shape. South Dakota Mines and Black Hills State have met in the Black Hills Brawl since the nineteenth century, one of the oldest football series in Division II. Fort Lewis and Adams State have contested the Route 160 rivalry across southern Colorado, and Colorado Mines and Colorado Mesa have played for the Nyikos Cup.
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The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference traces its origins to March 6, 1909, when leaders from Colorado College, the University of Colorado and Colorado Agricultural College agreed on eligibility rules and scheduling procedures, forming the Colorado Faculty Athletic Conference. The Colorado School of Mines joined that November, in time for the conference's first basketball season. The league became the Rocky Mountain Faculty Athletic Conference in 1910 and took its present name in 1967, when the presidents assumed control from the faculty. Founded before nearly every league in the country, it stands among the most historic in American college athletics. Women's sports were added for the 1978 season, and the conference Hall of Fame was established in 2002, honoring longtime commissioners Paul and Wanda Brechler as its first class.
National championships have come across the sports. Fort Hays State finished 34 and 0 in 1996 to win the Division II men's basketball title, becoming one of the rare unbeaten champions in the tournament's history. Adams State and Western Colorado built dynasties in distance running, sweeping cross country titles across decades, with Western Colorado's women winning the program's first national title in 1990. Metropolitan State won men's basketball championships and two women's soccer titles, and Fort Lewis went 22 and 0 and 1 to claim the men's soccer crown in 2005.
The Olympic tradition reaches back decades. Derrick White of Colorado Springs won gold with Team USA at the Paris Games and an NBA championship in the same season. Martin Johns of Adams State ran the 1500 meters for New Zealand in Atlanta. Jon Lufkin of Fort Lewis skied at the Grenoble Winter Games.
Rivalries give the calendar its shape. South Dakota Mines and Black Hills State have met in the Black Hills Brawl since the nineteenth century, one of the oldest football series in Division II. Fort Lewis and Adams State have contested the Route 160 rivalry across southern Colorado, and Colorado Mines and Colorado Mesa have played for the Nyikos Cup.
Official Website