13 Schools•Division III•Est. 1962
The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference began operating on September 1, 1962, as the College Athletic Conference. Centre, Southwestern at Memphis, Sewanee and Washington and Lee were the charter members, joined later that year by Washington University in St. Louis. In 1991 the league took its current name, hired its first full time commissioner in Stephen P. Argo, opened a permanent office and adopted blue and gold. The change that mattered most that year was the addition of women's athletics to the sponsorship package.
The founding idea has not moved. SCAC schools compete because students want to. No financial aid at any member institution is conditional on athletic ability or participation, and the league exists so member colleges can field teams that represent their student bodies.
Schools keep coming home. Hendrix began its Division III journey in the SCAC and later rejoined. Millsaps returns to its original home, and Southwestern, among the league's longest standing members, was approved unanimously to come back.
The rivalry that defines the year runs through every sport at once. The Presidents' Trophy race has produced margins under 10 points a dozen times, including a finish decided by 7.5 points on the final weekend of championship play, with the top three separated by 15. Because points come from finishes in every sponsored sport, a strong volleyball weekend or a runner up finish in golf can swing the bell.
The national stage has been kind. Trinity won both tennis titles in 2000 for the league's first team championships and later delivered the first Division III baseball title won by any program from Texas. Oglethorpe took men's golf twice, Schreiner once, and Texas Lutheran swept Emory for the softball crown. Chrys Jones of Centre collected four career national titles in the triple jump.
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The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference began operating on September 1, 1962, as the College Athletic Conference. Centre, Southwestern at Memphis, Sewanee and Washington and Lee were the charter members, joined later that year by Washington University in St. Louis. In 1991 the league took its current name, hired its first full time commissioner in Stephen P. Argo, opened a permanent office and adopted blue and gold. The change that mattered most that year was the addition of women's athletics to the sponsorship package.
The founding idea has not moved. SCAC schools compete because students want to. No financial aid at any member institution is conditional on athletic ability or participation, and the league exists so member colleges can field teams that represent their student bodies.
Schools keep coming home. Hendrix began its Division III journey in the SCAC and later rejoined. Millsaps returns to its original home, and Southwestern, among the league's longest standing members, was approved unanimously to come back.
The rivalry that defines the year runs through every sport at once. The Presidents' Trophy race has produced margins under 10 points a dozen times, including a finish decided by 7.5 points on the final weekend of championship play, with the top three separated by 15. Because points come from finishes in every sponsored sport, a strong volleyball weekend or a runner up finish in golf can swing the bell.
The national stage has been kind. Trinity won both tennis titles in 2000 for the league's first team championships and later delivered the first Division III baseball title won by any program from Texas. Oglethorpe took men's golf twice, Schreiner once, and Texas Lutheran swept Emory for the softball crown. Chrys Jones of Centre collected four career national titles in the triple jump.
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