CIAA brings back baseball as sponsored sport

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The GLVC is on a tear with adding new sports recently. Women's wrestling will become their 27th sport beginning this year: full members McKendree, Quincy,...

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I watched the video, and while it was admittedly a nice insight into what the former program was like and how it impacted the community, it seemed like...

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Men's volleyball is still a growing sport, so this is still the best case scenario for their program. Next closest sponsoring conferences would've been...

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https://glvcsports.com/news/2025/7/8...olleyball.aspx

This was posted on the...

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For the record, I don't think this was a power play or anything between the Texas university systems. Victoria is 2 hours outside of Houston, and their...

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On the flip side, the USCAA now has them listed as a member. Seems like a good place for them, given their current trajectory...

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UC Merced men's volleyball got accepted to the MPSF a couple days ago along with Jessup. Other than that, fantastic job as always!

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WVU Tech had announced official plans to start a football program back in 2022, and there were talks about converting one of their soccer stadiums on...

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The MEC has had every opportunity to add Salem the past couple years given their recent departures, and yet they haven't. From the outside looking in,...

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Looks like they're starting up a football program too?? Fantastic move by the MEC to get them!

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Guess that feasibility study from a few months back was the real deal. Where there's smoke, there's fire!

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NAIA. Their athletic department is still relatively new, and they only sponsor 6 sports across both genders...

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I see. Calling those sports "D1" was definitely improper terminology on my part, but I really believed men's volleyball at least was D1, as...

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It happens more often than you think. There are a handful of D2 conferences that sponsor bowling and/or men's volleyball and whose membership for those...

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The University of Houston system has a campus in Victoria, Texas, and a bill was recently passed by the Texas legislature transferring the campus from...

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I'm assuming this is for 2026? Seems like it would be, but it doesn't look like Lackawanna or the PSAC put any kind of timeline in the press release,...

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Women's soccer would be a no-brainer to sponsor. The SIAC also has 4 schools sponsoring a team, and I've long wondered why there hasn't been a CIAA-SIAC...

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https://theciaa.com/news/2025/6/20/a...approvals.aspx

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Sorry, didn't realize the tweets wording was ambiguous at first. This would be a hockey only move, the original poster writes for College Hockey Network....

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