Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
MIAA
Data
Classification	NCAA Division II
Established	1912
Members	11
Sports fielded	14 (7 men?s, 7 women?s)
Region	Central United States
States	3 - Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
Headquarters	Kansas City, Missouri

The Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) is a college athletic conference which operates in the states of in the states of Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. The conference was formerly known as the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, but changed its name when it expanded into Kansas. It participates in the NCAA Division II.

The MIAA sponsors 16 conference championships (8 men's, 8 women's) in these sports: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf (men's), soccer (women's), softball, tennis, track and field (indoor and outdoor), and volleyball (women's). MIAA schools with additional sports (swimming and men's soccer) usually compete independently or as part of a nearby conference.

The MIAA is considered one of the top conferences in NCAA Division II, and has seen two member schools move up to NCAA Division I. Southwest Missouri State University (now called Missouri State University) made the jump in 1981, and Southeast Missouri State University moved up in 1991.

The University of Nebraska at Omaha joined the conference on July 1, 2008.^[1] On July 3, 2007, Southwest Baptist University was granted independent status for their football team, while all remaining teams will stay in the MIAA.^[2]

Member schools

Former members

• Between 1912 and 1924, several other private colleges were members of the conference: Central Wesleyan College, Missouri Wesleyan College, and Tarkio College -- all since closed -- as well as Central College, Culver-Stockton College, Drury College, Missouri Valley College, Westminster College, and William Jewell College. In 1924, the conference reorganized to include only the original five public teacher's colleges^[3], and conference records tend to begin with that date. The schools left behind in the reorganization went on to later form the Missouri College Athletic Union, which would in time become the current Heart of America Athletic Conference in the NAIA.
• Lincoln University was removed from the conference in 1999.
• The University of Missouri?St. Louis was a conference member from 1980-1996, before leaving to join the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
• The University of Missouri?Rolla left the conference in 2005, also to join the Great Lakes Valley Conference.

Conference stadia

External links

• MIAA Home Page

References