Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference


The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference which competes in NCAA Division III. All 13 of the member schools are located in Minnesota and are private institutions, with only two being non-sectarian.

History

On March 15, 1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with founding members Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hamline University, Macalester College, Saint John's University, St. Olaf College, and the College of St. Thomas.
Concordia College joined the MIAC in 1921, Augsburg University in 1924, and Saint Mary's University in 1926. Carleton dropped membership in 1925, rejoining in 1983. St. Olaf left in 1950, returning in 1975. The University of Minnesota Duluth was a member of the MIAC from 1950 to 1975. Bethel University joined in 1978. The MIAC initiated women's competition in the 1981–82 season. Two all-women's schools subsequently joined the conference, St. Catherine University in 1983 and the College of St. Benedict in 1985.
The conference did not play sports from the fall 1943 to the spring of 1945 due to World War II. Saint Mary's discontinued its football program in 1955. Macalester football left the conference in 2002, but still retains its MIAC membership in other sports. St. Catherine and St. Benedict, being both women's colleges, also do not sponsor football. Together with Saint John's, one of only a handful of men's colleges, St. Benedict forms a joint academic institution, known commonly by the initialism CSB/SJU.
From 1947 to 2003 the MIAC had a strong men's wrestling program, which was discontinued following the 2002–03 season. The strongest teams over the history of the conference were Augsburg with 31 team championships, and Saint John's with 14 team championships. The MIAC teams and individual wrestlers demonstrated a strong national and Olympic presence in the 1970s and beyond.
On May 22, 2019, the University of St. Thomas was involuntarily removed from the MIAC effective at the end of spring 2021, and on May 28, 2020, the conference announced the addition of the College of St. Scholastica after leaving the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference also in 2021.

Member schools

Current members

  1. Carleton left the MIAC after the 1924–25 season, and re-joined in the 1983–84 season.
  2. Macalester will rejoin the conference in football beginning in 2021. They became an independent in football in 2002 and then a football-only member of the Midwest Conference starting with the 2014 season.
  3. Women's college
  4. Men's college
  5. St. Olaf left the MIAC after the 1949–50 season, and re-joined in the 1975–76 season.

    Future member

Former member

Membership timeline


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Sports

Member teams compete in 22 sports, 11 men's and 11 women's.
;Men's sports
;Women's sports
The conference no longer sponsors wrestling or men's and women's Nordic skiing.

Rivalry trophies

;Football
;Other sports
;Defunct
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All-Sports Trophy

The All-Sports Trophy is given to the school with the best overall record for all MIAC sports in each gender. The men's trophy was first awarded in 1962 to Macalester College. St. Olaf College received the first women's trophy in 1984. The University of St. Thomas won both the men's and women's trophies from 2008 to 2017. The men's is named the George Durenberger Trophy and the women's is named the Pat Wiesner Trophy
Men'sTitlesLastWomen'sTitlesLast
St. Thomas 332019St. Thomas 282019
Saint John's 142007Gustavus Adolphus 52007
Gustavus Adolphus 52004St. Benedict 21999
Macalester 51968St. Olaf 21985
St. Olaf 11979

Football

Conference titles

c = Co-champions

* No longer a MIAC member

** No longer competes in MIAC football

*** No longer competes in football

No 1943 and 1944 seasons due to World War II

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Basketball

Men's basketball regular season conference titles

c = Co-champions

* No longer a MIAC member

No 1943–44 and 1944–45 seasons due to World War II

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Women's basketball regular season conference titles

c = Co-champions

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Soccer

Men's soccer regular season conference titles

c = Co-champions

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Women's soccer regular season conference titles

c = Co-champions

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Ice hockey

Men's ice hockey regular season conference titles

c = Co-champions

* No longer a member of the MIAC

** No longer has a men's hockey team

No seasons from 1942–43 to 1945–46

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Men's ice hockey conference tournament

Women's ice hockey regular season conference titles

TeamTitlesYears won
Gustavus Adolphus151999c, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018c
St. Thomas62003, 2004, 2014, 2016c, 2018c, 2019
Augsburg21999c, 2000c
Saint Mary's21999c, 2000c
Bethel12016c

c = Co-champions

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Facilities

Commissioner

The executive director, a position that was created in 1994, serves as the conference commissioner.