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This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Notes: This list is in a tabular format, with columns arranged in the following order, from left to right: Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists.
There are currently 431 American colleges and universities classified as Division III for NCAA competition, making it the largest division in the NCAA by school count. Schools from 34 of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are represented. All schools do not provide athletic scholarships to students.
The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III.Of its 11 member schools, all private, liberal arts institutions of higher learning, nine are located in Western Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania: Eastern Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Eastern States Athletic Conference Carlow University: Celtics Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania: Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (NCAA Division III) California Miramar University (provisional member) Fighting Falcons La Puente: California: Central Maine Community College: Mustangs Auburn: Maine
The main reason for Division II and Division III schools to compete in Division I is that certain sports have either only a single division or only Divisions I and III. As a result of this, there are some D-II and III conferences with a conference championship in a sport that has only one or two NCAA divisions (e.g. bowling , men's volleyball ).
In a runoff election to decide who will represent Division III schools, Adam Shaw of Madison defeated Jeff Sheehan of Hamlin on a vote of 80 to 45. Shaw will serve a five-year term.
The MAC Commonwealth, in full Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth, [1] is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III.It is one of the three conferences that operate under the umbrella of the Middle Atlantic Conferences; the others being the MAC Freedom and the Middle Atlantic Conference, a grouping used for some sports that consists of MAC Commonwealth ...
The College Division split again in 1973 when the NCAA went to its current naming convention: Division I, Division II, and Division III. D-III schools are not allowed to offer athletic scholarships, while D-II schools can. D-III is the NCAA's largest division with around 450 member institutions, which are 80% private and 20% public.