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51-526: The GLVC grew out of discussions that started in 1972 between the athletic directors of Kentucky Wesleyan College , Bellarmine College (today Bellarmine University ), and Indiana State University at Evansville (renamed University of Southern Indiana in 1985), with the goal of forming a men's basketball conference. The discussions eventually included Indiana Central University (renamed University of Indianapolis in 1986), Saint Joseph's College , and Ashland College (today Ashland University ). On July 7, 1978, at

102-430: A green background were designated "core sports" and required of all full members from 2005 to 2023. Effective fall 2023, all full members are required to sponsor men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, four additional men's sports, and four additional women's sports. These sports are not yet sponsored by enough NCAA members nationwide to be added to the official list of championship sports. Triathlon has had

153-533: A meeting in Louisville hosted by Bellarmine, these six schools formed the GLVC, with the intention of competing in the 1978–79 season. Ashland, though considered a charter member, did not begin conference play until the league's second season, in 1979–80. From the time of its founding, the GLVC has been a member of NCAA Division II. While the origins of the conference's name are lost to history, its initial footprint

204-617: A satellite campus in Aegina , Greece. The center closed in May 2021. Drury's NCAA Division II intercollegiate athletic teams compete in men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's Track and Field, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's tennis, men's baseball, men's wrestling, women's softball, women's volleyball, men's bowling, and women's bowling, women's triathlon and soon to be men's triathlon. The school

255-432: A seasonal basis. Several student organizations provide leadership for other students and organizations, including: Kentucky Wesleyan has three national fraternities and two national sororities. Kentucky Wesleyan, as a private Christian college, has partnerships with twelve churches of various denominations as well as on-campus services and religious organizations. The Kentucky Wesleyan (KWU) athletic teams are called

306-555: A student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1. Academics are divided into four divisions: Fine Arts & Humanities, Natural Sciences & Mathematics, Professional Studies, and Social Sciences. Kentucky Wesleyan College was ranked #24 (tie) in the Regional Colleges South category by U.S. News & World Report in 2022–23. The college was also named #33 in Top Performers on Social mobility. Kentucky Wesleyan

357-502: A weight-restricted variant of American football, sponsored by Quincy, and the men's and women's ice hockey teams of McKendree and Maryville, which compete at the club level in the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA). While some GLVC members administer their club sports through their athletics departments, others operate their club sports as student organizations outside of athletics. Since

408-787: Is a private university in Springfield, Missouri . The university's mission statement describes itself as "church-related". It enrolls about 1,590 undergraduate and graduate students in six master's programs and 716 students in the College of Continuing Professional Studies. In 2013, the Drury Panthers men's basketball team won the NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship . The Drury men's and women's Panthers have accumulated 22 NCAA Division II National Championships between them, in addition to numerous NAIA titles before moving to

459-409: Is a residential university. Full-time students live on campus until they reach the age of 21, unless they meet specific criteria to be exempt from the housing policy. Almost half of the student body studies overseas at some point in short-term, semester, or year-long programs. Foreign learning is a requirement for most students with majors in the schools of Business and Architecture. Drury maintained

510-438: Is located on 55 acres of land. Their campus includes buildings for academics, administration, student residence halls, and athletic facilities. The campus includes both student athletic facilities and athlete spaces. Kentucky Wesleyan offers over 40 student organizations on campus. These range from campus ministry, student government, Greek life, academic, and other special interest clubs. Intramural sports are offered on

561-511: The Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN), and one year later, Kentucky Wesleyan left to become a charter member of the newly formed Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC). Meanwhile, the GLVC welcomed Truman State University into the conference, to begin competition in 2013–14. The additions of McKendree (coinciding with the departure of Northern Kentucky) and Truman State (coinciding with the departure of Kentucky Wesleyan) kept

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612-551: The NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Championship Game six consecutive years (1998–2003), winning in 1999 and 2001 under the direction of Ray Harper . In addition to these successes, they won six other championships (1966, 1968, 1969, 1973, 1987, and 1990) and were runners-up in 1957. Overall, Kentucky Wesleyan has won eight NCAA Division II National Men's Basketball Championships, which is the most by any NCAA Division II School. Drury University Drury University , formerly Drury College and originally Springfield College ,

663-495: The University of Wisconsin–Parkside began competition that fall, followed by the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) one year later. These changes initiated a westward shift in the GLVC's geographical footprint that has continued to the present. The 1990s also featured an expansion in sports sponsorship. In 1995-96 the GLVC crowned its first champions in women's soccer and in men's and women's track and field. Women's golf

714-630: The ASUN, effective fall 2020. In 2019 the GLVC and G-MAC established the annual America's Crossroads Bowl in Hobart, Indiana, featuring their highest-ranking football teams not qualifying for the NCAA Division II playoffs. In the 2021 and 2022 seasons, members of the two conferences also played a two-game crossover in the third and fourth Saturdays of the football season. The GLVC added two women's sports for 2019–20, bowling and lacrosse, bringing

765-518: The GLVC Sports Network (GLVCSN), which subsequently broadcast football and all other conference sports. Drury and Bellarmine started wrestling programs for the 2016–17 season, enabling the conference to add wrestling as its 21st championship sport. The initial seven-team GLVC wrestling lineup also included Indianapolis, Maryville, McKendree, Truman State, and Wisconsin–Parkside, all former Division II wrestling independents. In July 2017,

816-540: The GLVC and GSC-PBC each had enough lacrosse-playing members to offer separate championships in the sport. Charter member St. Joseph's College closed in May 2017 because of financial troubles. One year later, Wisconsin–Parkside left the GLVC to join the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). Their departures reduced the conference to fourteen members. In fall 2019 conference membership returned to 16 with

867-596: The GLVC announced the addition of men's lacrosse as its 22nd championship sport, in partnership with the Gulf South Conference (GSC) and Peach Belt Conference (PBC). The initial six-team lineup for spring 2018 included Indianapolis, Maryville, and four southern associate members ( Young Harris College , the University of Alabama in Huntsville , the University of Montevallo , and Shorter University ). The partnership lasted for three seasons, after which

918-526: The GLVC at sixteen members. In 2014, a unique interconference football partnership with the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) allowed Lincoln University and Southwest Baptist University to join the GLVC in football while otherwise remaining MIAA members. That autumn, the GLVC became the first NCAA Division II conference to create an inclusive league-wide digital streaming network –

969-434: The GLVC became the leading Division II conference in swimming and diving. During its first decade in the conference, Drury won ten men's national championships and four women's national championships in the sport. After men's and women's swimming and diving became conference sports in 2013–14, the annual GLVC swimming and diving meet grew to become the most financially lucrative of the conference's championship events, surpassing

1020-480: The GLVC came at the end of the 2021–22 academic year, when charter member Southern Indiana joined Lindenwood in moving to Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference , temporarily reducing the league to thirteen schools. They were replaced by associate member Upper Iowa, admitted to the GLVC as a full member effective fall 2023, and former football associate Lincoln, admitted effective fall 2024. With

1071-643: The GLVC include four public and five private institutions. Years listed in this table reflect calendar years. For fall sports, the calendar year of departure is the year after the last season of competition. For spring sports, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition. (NOTE: this list does not include the former associate members—Southwest Baptist, Upper Iowa, Lincoln—that eventually became full members).  Full member (all sports)   Full member (non-football)   Associate member (football-only)   Associate member (other sport)  The seven sports indicated with

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1122-470: The GLVC, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition. The GLVC currently has two future associate members, both private institutions. Years listed in this table are calendar years. For schools that play only spring sports (such as men's volleyball) in the GLVC, the calendar year of arrival precedes the first season of competition. Former members of the GLVC include six public and five private institutions: Former associate members of

1173-641: The NCAA suspended play due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the 2020–21 academic year, the GLVC held its fall 2020 conference sport competitions in spring 2021. Of the sixteen Division II conferences sponsoring football at the time, the GLVC was one of just four (with the G-MAC, Mountain East Conference , and South Atlantic Conference ) to crown a football champion in spring 2021. The most recent departures from

1224-586: The NCAA. Drury was founded as Springfield College in 1873 by Congregationalist church missionaries in the mold of other Congregationalist universities such as Dartmouth College and Yale University . Nathan Morrison, Samuel Drury, and James and Charles Harwood provided the school's initial endowment and organization; Samuel Drury's gift was the largest of the group and the school was soon renamed as Drury College in honor of Drury's recently deceased son on December 10, 1874. The early curriculum emphasized educational, religious, and musical strengths. Students came to

1275-793: The Panthers. The college is a member of the Division II level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), primarily competing in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) as a founding member since the 2013–14 academic year. The Panthers previously competed as a charter member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) from 1978–79 to 2011–12 (but was fulfilling its commitments to

1326-803: The addition of new members, the GLVC amended the core sports requirement that had been in place since 2005. Starting in 2023–24, all full members must sponsor men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, four additional men's sports, and four additional women's sports. In July 2024, the GLVC formally announced that it would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2026 season (2025–26 academic year), with an initial lineup consisting of full members Maryville, Missouri S&T, Quincy, Rockhurst, and Southwest Baptist, plus associate members Roosevelt University and Thomas More University . The GLVC first adopted divisional play in 1996, for women's volleyball only. That sport competed in Blue and Green divisions (named for

1377-584: The addition of two schools from the MIAA, Southwest Baptist (elevated from football-only associate to full membership) and Lindenwood University . Their admission voided the MIAA-GLVC football partnership of the previous five seasons (2014 through 2018) and resulted in Lincoln rejoining MIAA football. After just one year the conference reverted to fifteen members, as charter member Bellarmine moved to Division I and

1428-482: The basketball tournament. The admission of William Jewell, approved in October 2009, gave the conference six football-playing members (along with Indianapolis, Kentucky Wesleyan, St. Joseph's, Quincy, and Missouri S&T), the minimum number needed to sponsor the sport. This set in motion plans to crown a football champion, ultimately starting in fall 2012. The addition of football in the GLVC's 35th year of competition

1479-439: The conference continued to grow with the additions of Maryville University and the University of Illinois Springfield , which began GLVC competition in the fall of 2009. The GLVC reached sixteen members with the admission of William Jewell College , which began competing in fall 2011. As the conference continued to grow, basketball remained its strongest sport, and the conference tournament , usually including both genders at

1530-452: The conference nine teams for its initial football season. Though they competed in the GLVC for just one year, Central State and Urbana eventually were followed by a dozen other schools admitted to the league as associates in one or more sports while maintaining full membership elsewhere. Just as the GLVC was adding football, the conference lost two of its premier basketball programs. In the fall of 2012, Northern Kentucky moved to Division I and

1581-446: The conference's colors) until 2004, when it returned to a single table. All other sports competed in a single table until the conference expanded to fourteen members in 2005, when two seven-team divisions were adopted for basketball and most other core sports. The organizational structure of the conference has varied dramatically since then, reflecting changes in membership and in the overall number of league members. As an added variable,

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1632-1108: The final year of competition for its other sports in the GLVC as a full member for the 2012–13 school year; before beginning competition as a full G-MAC member). They also competed in the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (KIAC; now currently known as the River States Conference (RSC) since the 2016–17 school year) of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) from 1916–17 to 1954–55. KWU competes in 22 intercollegiate varsity sports: men's teams include baseball, basketball, bowling, cross country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and wrestling; while women's sports include basketball, bowling, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor) and volleyball; and co-ed sports include cheerleading. The men's basketball team advanced to

1683-571: The first three decades of its existence, expanding from six members to sixteen. The first addition was Lewis University in 1980, followed in 1984 by Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW; the athletic program is now Purdue Fort Wayne ), then Northern Kentucky University in 1985 and Kentucky State University in 1989. The conference lost its first members with the departure of Ashland and Kentucky State, effective summer 1995, but nonetheless increased in size when Quincy University , Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) and

1734-550: The following year. Soccer became the sixth sport rather than track & field, with the first conference tournament held in 1980. In 1982, when the demise of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) brought women's college athletics under the NCAA, the GLVC began to sponsor women's sports. Within two years, the conference added women's championships in basketball, tennis, cross country, volleyball, and softball. The conference experienced steady growth through

1785-514: The founding of the conference, members of the GLVC have won 34 NCAA Division II national championships and two NCAA National Collegiate championships (indicated in green). "National Collegiate" is the NCAA's official term to describe championship events open to members of more than one NCAA division. Kentucky Wesleyan College Kentucky Wesleyan College ( KWC ) is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky . Fall 2018 enrollment

1836-597: The member institutions were responsible for operating the conference. The FARs (rather than the athletic directors) still cast the institutional votes at meetings where the presidents and chancellors are not present. This feature gives the GLVC a governance structure that is unique among Division I and Division II conferences. Though conceived as a men's basketball league, the GLVC from the start planned to sponsor championships in golf, tennis, baseball, cross country, and track & field. The conference crowned golf and tennis champions in 1978-79 and added cross country and baseball

1887-534: The new college from a wide area including the Indian Territories of Oklahoma . The first graduating class included four women. When classes began in 1873, they were held in a single building on a campus occupying less than 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 acres (0.61 ha). Twenty-five years later the 40-acre (16.2 ha) campus included Stone Chapel, the President's House and three academic buildings. Today,

1938-541: The same neutral site, became its signature event. A GLVC team played in the championship game of the NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament in eleven consecutive seasons (1993-94 through 2003–4). Kentucky Wesleyan, winner of four men's national championships prior to the creation of the GLVC, won four more as a conference member, while Southern Indiana, Bellarmine, and Drury won one apiece, and Northern Kentucky won two women's national championships. Meanwhile,

1989-427: The same structure has never been applied across all sports in any given year. For example, since 2005, men's and women's basketball has played in two divisions in ten seasons (from 2005–06 through 2008–09 and again from 2011–12 through 2016–17), three divisions in five seasons (2009–10, 2010–11, 2017–18, 2020–21, and 2021–22), and in a single table in four seasons (2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23, and 2023–24). Meanwhile, during

2040-685: The same years, men's and women's soccer always played a single table. Two-division structures have been labeled East-West or Blue-Green, while three-division structures have been labeled East-West-North or East-West-Central. As of 2024–25, the GLVC has divisional play in men's and women's tennis, and plays a single table in all other sports with regular season competition. The GLVC currently has 15 full members, including ten private and five public institutions: The GLVC currently has four associate members, two private and two public institutions. Years listed in this table are calendar years. For schools that play only spring sports (such as women's lacrosse) in

2091-474: The seven core sports, while continuing to award its All-Sports Trophy to the most successful program overall. In the fall of 2005, the GLVC welcomed three more members— Drury University , Rockhurst University , and the University of Missouri-Rolla (known as Missouri University of Science and Technology , or Missouri S&T, since 2008). SIUE left for Division I and the Ohio Valley Conference in 2008, but

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2142-415: The status of an emerging sport since 2014, wrestling since 2020, and STUNT since 2023. The remaining current emerging sports (acrobatics & tumbling, equestrian, and rugby) are not sponsored by GLVC members. Some GLVC members give varsity status to teams in non-NCAA sports and to other club teams, such as men's bowling (because the NCAA governs only the women's sport). Other examples are sprint football ,

2193-472: The time all sponsored these sports, and subsequent new members would be required to sponsor them as well. Previously, the GLVC had no sports sponsorship requirement other than the NCAA Division II minimum (that every member must sponsor at least ten sports, including men's and women's basketball). The conference began awarding the Commissioner's Cup to the member institution with the greatest success across

2244-754: The total number of conference sports to 24. In women's bowling, the initial lineup included 2017 national champion McKendree, fellow full members Drury, Lewis, and Maryville, plus associate members Lincoln, the University of Central Missouri , and Upper Iowa University . In women's lacrosse, the initial lineup in spring 2020 consisted of seven full members—regional powers Lindenwood and Indianapolis, along with Lewis, Maryville, McKendree, Quincy, and Rockhurst. The two sports were an immediate success, with Lindenwood (2021) and Indianapolis (2022) winning national championships in women's lacrosse and McKendree (2022) winning its second national title in women's bowling. In March 2020, GLVC winter and spring sport competitions ended when

2295-400: The university occupies a 115-acre (46.5 ha) campus, including the original historic buildings. On April 28, 1960, Drury College was the setting for an episode of NBC 's The Ford Show, Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford . Tennessee Ernie Ford sang his trademark " Sixteen Tons " and the hymn " Take My Hand, Precious Lord ". Drury College became Drury University on January 1, 2000. Drury

2346-558: Was 830 students. Kentucky Wesleyan College was founded in 1858 by the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . It was originally located in rural Millersburg , Kentucky. Classes began in 1866 and the first commencement took place in 1868. At first, it was a training school for preachers, but soon business and liberal arts classes were added to the curriculum . In 1890, the school

2397-409: Was a historic move, as no conference at any level of the NCAA (Division I, II, or III) founded without football had ever added it after existing for so long as a non-football conference. Before competition began, the original six football-playing members were joined by new full member McKendree University and the GLVC's first associate members, Central State University and Urbana University , to give

2448-524: Was added in 1998–99, followed by men's and women's indoor track and field in 1999–2000. These additions increased the total number of conference sports from eleven to seventeen. After IPFW left in 2001 to move to Division I , the GLVC considered further expansion, but not before redefining conference membership in 2005 to require the athletic program of each member to include seven core sports (men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, men's and women's soccer, softball, and baseball). The eleven members at

2499-752: Was bordered by the Great Lakes in the north and the Ohio Valley in the south. Following Southern Indiana's departure in July 2022, Indianapolis is the only remaining charter member. The GLVC has been led by a full-time commissioner since 1996, first Carl McAloose (1996–2000), then Jim Naumovich (2000–present). The conference office is located in Indianapolis. From 1978 to 1996, the Faculty Athletics Representatives (FARs) of

2550-859: Was founded by Congregationalist missionaries and remains affiliated with the United Church of Christ . It has also been affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) since the founding of the Drury School of Religion in 1909. Drury is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission . The university offers 54 undergraduate majors and several professional degrees through the Hammons School of Architecture, Breech School of Business Administration, and School of Education & Child Development. Drury

2601-1801: Was moved to Winchester and soon after, women began to be admitted for the first time. In 1951, Lawrence W. Hager raised over US$ 1,000,000 to move the school moved to its present location in Kentucky's fourth largest city, Owensboro . College presidents include: 1. Charles Taylor (1866–1870) Interim A.G. Murphy (1869–1870) 2. Benjamin Arbogast (1870–1873) 3. John Darby (1873–1875) 4. Thomas J. Dodd (1875–1876) 5. William H. Anderson (1876–1879) 6. David W. Batson (1879–1883) 7. Alexander Redd (1883–1884) 8. David W. Batson (1884–1893) 9. Benjamin T. Spencer (1893–1895) 10. Eugene H. Pearce (1895–1900) 11. John L. Weber (1901–1906) 12. Henry K. Taylor (1906–1909) 13. John J. Tigert (1909–1911) 14. James L. Clark (1911–1919) 15. William B. Campbell (1919–1924) 16. U. V. W. Darlington (1924–1925) 17. David C. Hull (1925–1928) Interim Walter V. Cropper (1928–1929) 18. Clarence M. Dannelly (1929–1932) 19. Reginald V. Bennett (1932–1937) 20. Paul S. Powell (1937–1950) 21. John F. Baggett (1950–1951) 22. Oscar W. Lever (1951–1959) 23. Dr. Harold P. Hamilton (1959–1970) 24. William E. James (1971–1979) 25. Luther W. White (1979–1988) 26. Paul W. Hartman (1988–1993) Interim Ray C. Purdom (1993–1994) 27. Wesley H. Poling (1994–2004) 28. Anne C. Federlein (2004–2008) Interim Dr. M. Michael Fagan (2008) 29. Cheryl D. King (2008–2011) 30. W. Craig Turner (2011–2014) 31. Barton D. Darrell (2014–2019) Interim Gene Tice (2019) 32. Thomas Mitzel (2020–2024) 33. James Cousins (2025-) Kentucky Wesleyan offers 30 majors and 13 pre-professional programs and has

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