North Coast Athletic Conference
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| Established | 1983 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division III |
| Members | 10 |
| Sports fielded | 22 (men's: 11; women's: 11) |
| Region | Great Lakes |
| Headquarters | Westlake, Ohio |
| Commissioner | Keri Alexander Luchowski |
| Website | http://www.northcoast.org |
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The North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) is an NCAA Division III athletic conference composed of schools located in the Midwestern United States. When founded in 1984, the NCAC was a pioneer in gender equality, offering competition in a then-unprecedented ten women's sports. Today, the conference remains true to that legacy, sponsoring 22 sports, 11 each for men and women.
The NCAC is respected for the academic strength of its member institutions—all member institutions have Phi Beta Kappa chapters. In its most recent college rankings, U.S. News & World Report recognized all ten members as top-tier liberal arts colleges, and ranked five NCAC institutions among the nation's top 70 such colleges.
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[edit] Member schools
The league currently has ten full members:
| Institution | Location | Team Name | Colors | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | US News ranking [1] | Forbes Top Colleges [2] |
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| Allegheny College | Meadville, Pennsylvania | Gators | 1815 | Private/Methodist | 2,100 | #86 | #153 | |
| Denison University | Granville, Ohio | Big Red | 1831 | Private/Non-sectarian | 2,100 | #49 | #109 | |
| DePauw University | Greencastle, Indiana | Tigers | 1837 | Private/Methodist | 2,350 | #53 | #50 | |
| Hiram College | Hiram, Ohio | Terriers | 1850 | Private/Disciples of Christ | 1,395 | #156 | #168 | |
| Kenyon College | Gambier, Ohio | Lords, Ladies | 1824 | Private/Episcopal | 1,640 | #33 | #43 | |
| Oberlin College | Oberlin, Ohio | Yeomen, Yeowomen | 1833 | Private/Non-sectarian | 2,850 | #24 | #72 | |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, Ohio | Battling Bishops | 1842 | Private/Methodist | 1,850 | #102 | #226 | |
| Wabash College* | Crawfordsville, Indiana | Little Giants | 1832 | Private/Non-sectarian | 850 | #53 | #86 | |
| Wittenberg University | Springfield, Ohio | Tigers | 1845 | Private/Lutheran | 2,050 | #121 | #189 | |
| The College of Wooster | Wooster, Ohio | Fighting Scots | 1866 | Private/Presbyterian | 1,827 | #71 | #99 |
* Wabash is an all-male institution, so the NCAC has at most nine teams competing in women's sports.
Former members include Earlham College, which left the conference in 2010 for the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference.
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