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Established
  
1913

Division
  
Division II

Association
  
NCAA

Members
  
14

Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Sports fielded
  
13 (men's: 7; women's: 6)

Region
  
Southeastern United States and Ohio

The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) is a collegiate athletic conference consisting mostly of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), with all but one member located in the southern United States. Formed in 1913, the SIAC is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and competes in Division II. Only two charter members are still part of the conference--Clark Atlanta University (formerly Clark College) and Tuskegee University (one other charter member, Morehouse, briefly left before returning). Before 2014, all members had been southern HBCUs, but the SIAC's two newest members include its only non-HBCU, Spring Hill College (joining in 2014), and its only member outside the South, Central State University of Ohio (joining in 2015).

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The U.S. Army's 24th Infantry Division teams competed as members of the SIAC from 1930 until 1935.

The SIAC leads all Division II conferences (nationwide) in football attendance.

Current members

  • Reclassifying member in yellow.
  • Morehouse College — men's institution, does not field women's sports.
  • Central State — football was an affiliate member from 2013–2015.
  • Membership timeline

     Full member (all sports)   Full member (non-football)   Associate member (football-only)   Associate member (sport) 

    Other sponsored sports by school

  • — D-I sport
  • Men's sports

  • Golf returned as a conference sport in 2008. The first SIAC Intercollegiate Golf Championship was held at Tuskegee in 1938. The SIAC stopped Golf as a sport due to World War II but restarted in 1947 as an official conference sport until 1980 when golf was discontinued.
  • References

    Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wikipedia