The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) is a college athletic conference which competes in the NCAA

National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...

's Division III. Its member teams are located in Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

 and Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

. CCIW schools have won 35 Division III national championships since 1973. The conference was founded in 1946 as the College Conference of Illinois (CCI). The present name was adopted in 1967 in recognition of Carthage, which had moved to its Kenosha, Wisconsin campus in 1962, and Carroll, which had joined the conference in 1955.

Member teams

The league currently has 8 full members:

Institution	Location	Team Name	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Year Joined
Augustana College Augustana College (Illinois) Augustana College is a private liberal arts college located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The college enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Covering of hilly, wooded land, Augustana is adjacent to the Mississippi River...	Rock Island, Illinois Rock Island, Illinois Rock Island is the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 40,884 at the 2010 census. Located on the Mississippi River, it is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Moline, East Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf. The Quad Cities... (39,684)	Vikings	1860	Private/Lutheran (ELCA)	2,513	1946
Carthage College Carthage College Carthage College is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Situated in Kenosha, Wisconsin midway between Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the campus is on the shore of Lake Michigan and is home to 2,500 full-time and 900 part-time...	Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha is a city and the county seat of Kenosha County in the State of Wisconsin in United States. With a population of 99,218 as of May 2011, Kenosha is the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Kenosha is also the fourth-largest city on the western shore of Lake Michigan, following Chicago,... (96,950)	Red Men	1847	Private/Lutheran (ELCA)	2,374	1946
Elmhurst College Elmhurst College Elmhurst College is a comprehensive private liberal arts college in Elmhurst, Illinois with a tradition of service-oriented learning. It has a rich affiliation with the United Church of Christ.- History :‎...	Elmhurst, Illinois Elmhurst, Illinois Elmhurst is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage and Cook Counties, Illinois. The population is 46,013 as of the 2008 US Census population estimate.-History:... (43,298)	Bluejays	1871	Private/United Church of Christ	2,748	1946
Illinois Wesleyan University Illinois Wesleyan University Illinois Wesleyan University is an independent undergraduate university located in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was acquired in 1854 with the first building erected in 1856...	Bloomington, Illinois Bloomington, Illinois Bloomington is a city in McLean County, Illinois, United States and the county seat. It is adjacent to Normal, Illinois, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area... (74,975)	Titans	1850	Private/Methodist	2,113	1946
Millikin University Millikin University Millikin University is an American co-educational, comprehensive, private, four-year university with traditional undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, fine arts, and professional studies, as well as non-traditional, adult degree-completion programs and graduate programs in...	Decatur, Illinois Decatur, Illinois Decatur is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The city, sometimes called "the Soybean Capital of the World", was founded in 1823 and is located along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in Central Illinois. In 2000 the city population was 81,500,... (81,500)	Big Blue	1901	Private/Presbyterian	2,118	1946
North Central College North Central College North Central College is a leading liberal arts college providing students at different stages of life and from different ethnic, economic and religious backgrounds with comprehensive educational programs.-Academics:...	Naperville, Illinois Naperville, Illinois Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will Counties in Illinois in the United States, voted the second best place to live in the United States by Money Magazine in 2006. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 141,853. It is the fifth largest city in the state, behind Chicago,... (144,560)	Cardinals	1861	Private/Methodist	2,167	1946
North Park University North Park University North Park University is a four-year university located at 3225 W. Foster Avenue on the north side of Chicago, Illinois in the North Park neighborhood. It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church and shares its campus with the denomination's only seminary...	Chicago, Illinois (2,853,114)	Vikings	1891	Private/Evangelical Covenant	1,814	1962
Wheaton College Wheaton College (Illinois) Wheaton College is a private, evangelical Protestant liberal arts college in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb west of Chicago in the United States...	Wheaton, Illinois Wheaton, Illinois Wheaton is an affluent community located in DuPage County, Illinois, approximately west of Chicago and Lake Michigan. Wheaton is the county seat of DuPage County... (55,676)	Thunder	1860	Private/Evangelical Protestant	2,282	1946

Note: Carthage left the conference in 1952 but returned in 1961. Elmhurst and Wheaton left the conference in 1960 but returned in 1967.

Affiliate members

Institution	Location	Team Name	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Year Joined	Sports
Rose Hulman	Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute, Indiana Terre Haute is a city and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a population of 170,943. The city is the county seat of Vigo County and... (59,614)	Fightin' Engineers	1874	Private	1,840	2008	Swimming

Former members

Institution	Location	Team Name	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Year Joined	Year Left	Current Conference
Carroll University Carroll College (Wisconsin) Carroll University is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian church located in Waukesha in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Carroll opened in 1846, two years before Wisconsin became a state...	Waukesha, Wisconsin Waukesha, Wisconsin Waukesha is a city in and the county seat of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. The population was 70,718 at the 2010 census, making it the largest community in the county and 7th largest in the state. The city is located adjacent to the Town of Waukesha...	Pioneers	1846	Private/Presbyterian	2,493	1955	1992	Midwest Conference Midwest Conference The Midwest Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin...
Illinois College Illinois College Illinois College is a private, liberal arts college, affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church , and located in Jacksonville, Illinois. It was the second college founded in Illinois, but the first to grant a degree . It was founded in 1829 by the Illinois Band,...	Jacksonville, Illinois Jacksonville, Illinois Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 18,940 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County....	Blueboys	1829	Private	973	1946	1953	Midwest Conference Midwest Conference The Midwest Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin...
Lake Forest College Lake Forest College Lake Forest College, founded in 1857, is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. The college has 1,500 students representing 47 states and 78 countries....	Lake Forest, Illinois Lake Forest, Illinois Lake Forest is an affluent city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The city is south of Waukegan along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore. Lake Forest was founded around Lake Forest College and was laid out as a town in...	Foresters	1857	Private	1,441	1946	1963	Midwest Conference Midwest Conference The Midwest Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin...

Sports

The CCIW sponsors competition in men's baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

, men's and women's basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

, men's and women's cross country

Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...

, men's football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

, men's golf

Golf

Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

, men's and women's soccer, women's softball

Softball

Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...

, men's and women's swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

, men's and women's tennis

Tennis

Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

, men's and women's indoor track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, men's and women's outdoor track and field

Track and field

Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

, women's volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

, and men's wrestling

Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history of the United States...

.

National championships

Year	Sport	School
2010	Men's Outdoor Track and Field	North Central
2010	Men's Indoor Track and Field	North Central
2009	Men's Cross Country	North Central
2008	Women's Indoor Track and Field	Illinois Wesleyan
2008	Women's Outdoor Track and Field	Illinois Wesleyan
2007	Women's Soccer	Wheaton
2006	Women's Soccer	Wheaton
2005	Women's Basketball	Millikin
2004	Women's Soccer	Wheaton
2000	Men's Outdoor Track and Field	North Central
1999	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1998	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1998	Men's Outdoor Track and Field	North Central
1997	Men's Basketball	Illinois Wesleyan
1997	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1997	Men's Soccer	Wheaton
1994	Men's Outdoor Track and Field	North Central
1993	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1992	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1989	Men's Outdoor Track and Field	North Central
1989	Men's Indoor Track and Field	North Central
1987	Men's Basketball	North Park
1987	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1986	Football	Augustana
1985	Football	Augustana
1985	Men's Basketball	North Park
1985	Volleyball	Elmhurst
1984	Football	Augustana
1984	Men's Soccer	Wheaton
1983	Football	Augustana
1983	Women's Basketball	North Central
1983	Volleyball	Elmhurst
1982	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1981	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1980	Men's Basketball	North Park
1979	Men's Basketball	North Park
1979	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1978	Men's Basketball	North Park
1978	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1976	Men's Cross Country	North Central
1975	Men's Cross Country	North Central

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