By Kevin Held

St. Louis, MO as well as Lebanon, IL (KSDK) — Lindenwood as well as McKendree universities will shortly be withdrawal their NAIA homes for a greener pastures of a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) during a Division II level.

However, for a subsequent dual years, both a Lindenwood Lions as well as McKendree Bearcats will sojourn in a National Association Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) as partial of their particular candidacy periods. Each propagandize will afterwards come in a “provisional” year in a NCAA, a examination duration in which they experience in NCAA entertainment though cannot take experience in postseason competition.

If they met all NCAA regulations in which timeframe, Lindenwood as well as McKendree will turn full members of a NCAA in 2013-2014. Division II requires a university suggest during slightest 10 intercollegiate sports to validate for membership.

Lindenwood will have twenty-six sports programs when it competes during a NCAA Div. II level. At present, twenty-one sports have been played during Lindenwood. The university will supplement margin hockey, women’s ice hockey, men’s as well as women’s lacrosse, as well as men’s volleyball. Women’s ice hockey as well as men’s volleyball will contest during a National Collegiate Level, which includes NCAA Div. we schools. All alternative sports will contest during a bar level.

Lindenwood has won 10 NAIA inhabitant championships given 1998. McKendree has claimed 6 inhabitant championships in a 44 year NAIA affiliation, all of them in lane as well as field.

McKendree is right away seeking for a brand brand new conference. The jaunty dialect wants all of a teams to fool around in a single conference, with a goal of editing a complaint now plaguing a program. McKendree is a part of of a American Midwest Conference for many of a intercollegiate programs, though a Bearcats football group plays in a Mid-States Football Association.

Meanwhile, Lindenwood is quick during work to find a brand brand new jaunty conference. They’ve filed for membership with a Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association. That discussion not long ago voted to try a probability of expanding from twelve to sixteen schools. Seven Missouri schools as well as 5 Kansas schools now have up which conference.

 
 
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