The Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the Great Lakes

Great Lakes region (North America)

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 and East South Central States

East South Central States

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 regions of the United States

United States

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. It participates in the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

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's Division II, and is scheduled to begin play in the 2013-14 academic year pending NCAA approval and lifting of Division II's moratorium on new conference membership.

History

The initial announcement of a potential new conference surfaced in June 2011 when the presidents and athletic directors of Cedarville, Notre Dame College

Notre Dame College

Notre Dame College, also known as Notre Dame College of Ohio or simply NDC, is a Catholic, coeducational, liberal arts college in South Euclid, Ohio, USA. Established in 1922 as a women's college it has been coeducational since January 2001...

, Urbana, and Ursuline met to discuss plans for a new Division II conference. Urbana became a active Division II member in 2010, with the other three schools in the process of transitioning to the NCAA from the NAIA

National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics

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. Soon after, Central State joined the initial members; and in October 2011, Kentucky Wesleyan announced the school will join leave their current conference, the Great Lakes Valley Conference

Great Lakes Valley Conference

The Great Lakes Valley Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference which competes at the NCAA's Division II level. Member institutions are located in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin....

 (GLVC) to join the G-MAC. In November of 2011, Trevecca Nazarene University was accepted as a charter member of the conference. Trevecca began the process of transitioning from NAIA to NCAA Division II membership in July 2011 and the will enter provisional membership year during the conferences planned start for the 2013-14 academic year. November 2011 also saw Notre Dame College exit the G-MAC to persue membership in other conferences.

Members

The conference contains seven charter members, five from Ohio

Ohio

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 and one from Kentucky

Kentucky

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, and one from Tennessee

Tennessee

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.

Institution	Location	Founded	Type	Enrollment	Nickname	Joined
Cedarville University Cedarville University Cedarville University is a private, co-educational liberal arts university located in Cedarville, Ohio.At its founding, the school was affiliated with the conservative General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America. Today, Cedarville is a Southern Baptist school known for its...	Cedarville, Ohio Cedarville, Ohio Cedarville is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,828 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Cedarville University and Cedarville High School.Cedarville is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area...	1887	Private Private college Private college may refer to:*Private school*Private university... /Baptist Baptist Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...	3,205	Yellow Jackets	2013
Central State University Central State University Central State University, commonly referred to as "C-State", is a historically black university located in Wilberforce, Ohio, United States. It is the only public HBCU in Ohio.-History:...	Wilberforce, Ohio Wilberforce, Ohio Wilberforce is a census-designated place in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,579 at the 2000 census. The community was named for the English statesman William Wilberforce, who worked for abolition of slavery and achieved the end of the slave trade in the United Kingdom and...	1887	Public	2,288	Marauders & Lady Marauders	2013
Kentucky Wesleyan College Kentucky Wesleyan College Kentucky Wesleyan College is a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky, a city on the Ohio River. KWC is just 40 minutes east of Evansville, Indiana, 2 hours north of Nashville, Tennessee, 2 hours west of Louisville, Kentucky, and 4 hours east of St. Louis, Missouri...	Owensboro, Kentucky Owensboro, Kentucky Owensboro is the fourth largest city by population in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the county seat of Daviess County. It is located on U.S. Route 60 about southeast of Evansville, Indiana, and is the principal city of the Owensboro, Kentucky, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's...	1858	Private/Methodist	802	Panthers Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and Great Lakes Valley Conference....	2013
Trevecca Nazarene University Trevecca Nazarene University Trevecca Nazarene University is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nashville, Tennessee.-History:TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the "Pentecostal Literary and Bible Training School"...	Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...	1901	Private/Nazarene Nazarene Nazarene may refer to:* Nazarene , a title applied to Jesus of Nazareth* Nazarene , a sect of 4th century Christianity described by Epiphanius* Church of the Nazarene, modern Christian Pentecostal denomination...	2,345	Trojans	2013
Urbana University Urbana University Urbana University is a private university specializing in liberal arts education. Urbana is located in Urbana, Ohio, approximately one hour west of Columbus and one hour northeast of Dayton.-History:...	Urbana, Ohio Urbana, Ohio Urbana is a city in and the county seat of Champaign County, Ohio, United States, west of Columbus. Urbana was laid out in 1805, and for a time in 1812 was the headquarters of the Northwestern army. Urbana was named after the town of Urbanna, Virginia. It is the burial-place of the Indian fighter...	1897	Private/Nonsectarian Nonsectarian Nonsectarian, in its most literal sense, refers to a lack of sectarianism. The term is also more narrowly used to describe secular private educational institutions or other organizations either not affiliated with or not restricted to a particular religious denomination though the organization...	1,359	Blue Knights	2013
Ursuline College Ursuline College For the English Catholic Sports College, based in Westgate, see Ursuline College .Ursuline College is a small, Roman Catholic liberal arts women's college in Pepper Pike, Ohio. It was founded in 1871 by the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education for...	Pepper Pike, Ohio	1871	Private/Catholic Catholic The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"... (women's)	1,485	Arrows	2013

Note: Because Ursuline is a women's college, it does not field men's sports.