IWC joins SLIAC

ST. LOUIS, MO. ? The St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC) announced today that Iowa Wesleyan College has been approved for membership in the Conference upon the institution?s successful completion of the NCAA exploratory year and acceptance as a provisional member of the NCAA.

Iowa Wesleyan, currently a member of the NAIA?s Midwest Collegiate Conference and Mid-States Football Conference, will begin competition in the SLIAC during the 2013-14 academic year. Iowa Wesleyan announced in October that its Board of Trustees voted to make application to the NCAA by January 15, 2012.

More than one-third of the student body at Iowa Wesleyan competes in intercollegiate athletics.

Ten of Iowa Wesleyan?s 14 sports align with sports in which the SLIAC sponsors a championship including baseball, basketball (men and women), cross country (men and women), men?s golf, soccer (men and women), softball and volleyball. It also sponsors women?s golf, football, and men?s and women?s track and field, the latter of which is an invitational sport within the Conference.

For more details, see tomorrow?s Mt. Pleasant News.