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NCAA Division IIIDivision III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States.-Membership:The division consists of colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletically related financial aid to their student-athletes...
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1946 |
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8 |
| Sports fielded |
21 (11 men's, 10 women's) |
| Region |
Upper Midwest The Upper Midwest is a perceived region of the United States with no universally agreed-upon boundary, but it almost always lies within the US Census Bureau's definition of the Midwest and includes the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana...
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2 - IllinoisIllinois , the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation...
, WisconsinWisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. states. Located in the north-central United States, Wisconsin is considered 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...
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Naperville, IllinoisNaperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. In 2006, Money magazine listed Naperville as #2 on its annual list of America's best small cities to live in...
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Chris Martin |
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The
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) is a college athletic conference which competes in the
NCAAThe National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada...
's Division III. Its member teams are located in
IllinoisIllinois , the 21st state admitted to the United States of America, is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern state and the fifth most populous state in the nation...
and
WisconsinWisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. states. Located in the north-central United States, Wisconsin is considered 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...
. CCIW schools have won 35 Division III national championships since 1973.
Member teams
The league currently has 8 full members:
| Institution |
Location |
Team Name |
Founded |
Affiliation |
Enrollment |
Year Joined |
Augustana CollegeAugustana College is a private liberal arts college located in Rock Island, Illinois. The college enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Covering 115 acres of hilly, wooded land, Augustana is adjacent to the Mississippi River...
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Rock Island, Illinois Rock Island is the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 39,684 at the 2000 census. It is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Moline, East Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf...
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Vikings |
1860 |
Private/Lutheran (ELCA) |
2,500 |
1946 |
Carthage CollegeCarthage 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 2,375 full-time and 720 part-time...
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Kenosha, WisconsinKenosha is a city in and the county seat of Kenosha County, United States. The city motto is "Great Town - Great People - Great Lake". With an estimated 2006 population of 96,240, Kenosha is the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. The city lies on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, south of...
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Red Men |
1847 |
Private/Lutheran (ELCA) |
2,930 |
1946 |
Elmhurst College- History :In 1871, Jennie and Thomas Bryan gave land in Elmhurst to the German Evangelical Synod of the Northwest. This land was given for the purpose of establishing a school to prepare young men for the theological seminary and to train teachers for parochial schools, called the Elmhurst...
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Elmhurst, Illinois Elmhurst is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. The population is 43,298 -History:Members of the Potawatomi Indian tribe, who settled along Salt Creek just south of where the city would develop, are the earliest known settlers of the Elmhurst area. Around 1836, European immigrants...
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Bluejays |
1871 |
Private/United Church of Christ |
2,900 |
1946 |
| 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...
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Bloomington, IllinoisBloomington 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 Statistical Area which is often referred to simply as "Bloomington-Normal." ...
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Titans |
1850 |
Private/Methodist |
2,137 |
1946 |
| Millikin University Millikin University is an American co-educational, comprehensive, independent, 4-year university, with traditional undergraduate programs in Arts & Sciences, Business, Fine Arts, and Professional Studies, as well as non-traditional, adult degree-completion programs and graduate programs in...
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Decatur, IllinoisDecatur 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...
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Big Blue |
1901 |
Private/Presbyterian |
2,400 |
1946 |
North Central CollegeNorth Central College is a private, 4-year comprehensive liberal arts college located in Naperville, Illinois. Founded in 1861, it is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Comprehensive fees for the 2007-8 academic year total $32,811.-Academics:...
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Naperville, IllinoisNaperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. In 2006, Money magazine listed Naperville as #2 on its annual list of America's best small cities to live in...
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Cardinals |
1861 |
Private/Methodist |
2,000 |
1946 |
North Park UniversityNorth 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...
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Chicago, Illinois |
Vikings |
1891 |
Private/Evangelical Covenant |
3,251 |
1962 |
| Wheaton College |
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. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 55,676...
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Thunder |
1860 |
Private/Evangelical Protestant |
2,890 |
1946 |
Note: Carhage College left the conference in 1952 but returned to 1961. Elmhurst College and Wheaton College 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, IndianaTerre Haute is a city in Vigo County, Indiana near the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 59,614 and its metropolitan area had a population of 170,943. The city is the county seat of Vigo County and the self-proclaimed capital of the...
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Fightin' Engineers |
1874 |
Private |
1,840 |
2008 |
Swimming |
Former members
| Institution |
Location |
Team Name |
Founded |
Affiliation |
Enrollment |
Year Joined |
Year Left |
Current Conference |
Carroll UniversityCarroll 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...
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Waukesha, Wisconsin Waukesha is a city in and the county seat of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. As of the 2008 population estimate, Waukesha had a total population of 68,008, and was the largest community in the county. The city is located adjacent to the Town of Waukesha...
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Pioneers |
1846 |
Private/Presbyterian |
2,448 |
1955 |
1992 |
Midwest ConferenceThe 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...
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Illinois CollegeIllinois College is a private, liberal arts college, affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Presbyterian Church , and located in Jacksonville, Illinois. It is the oldest college in Illinois, founded in 1829 by one of the famous Yale Bands — students from Yale University that traveled...
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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....
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Blueboys |
1829 |
Private |
1,023 |
1946 |
1953 |
Midwest ConferenceThe 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...
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Lake Forest CollegeLake Forest College, founded in 1857, is a liberal arts college located in Lake Forest, Illinois. The college has over 1,400 students, about 40% of whom come from the state of Illinois. The remainder of the student body represents 45 states and 69 countries...
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Lake Forest, Illinois Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States, and is one of the most affluent communities in the United States, and ranked within the top three communities of the Central United States along with Winnetka, Illinois. The population was 20,059 at the 2000 census...
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Foresters |
1857 |
Private |
1,417 |
1946 |
1963 |
Midwest ConferenceThe 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...
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Sports
The CCIW sponsors competition in men's
baseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal 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 square, or diamond...
, men's and women's
basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
, men's and women's
cross countryCross country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include grass, mud, woodlands, and water...
, men's
footballAmerican football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, and often as Gridiron or Tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the...
, men's
golfGolf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area...
, men's and women's soccer, women's
softballSoftball is a team sport popular especially in the United States. It is a direct descendant of baseball. Some key differences between softball and baseball are that softballs are larger than baseballs, and pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand. Softball was invented by George Hancock...
, men's and women's
swimmingThe aquatic sport of swimming involves competition amongst participants to be the fastest over a given distance under self propulsion.The different events include 25, 50, 100, 200, breaststroke, backstroke and butterfly, the 25, 50, 100, 200, 400, 500, 800, 1000, 1500, and 1650 free and the 100,...
, men's and women's
tennisTennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court....
, men's and women's indoor
track and fieldTrack and field athletics is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing, jumping and walking. Organised athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, and most modern events are conducted by the member clubs of the International Association of Athletics...
, men's and women's outdoor
track and fieldTrack and field athletics is a collection of sports events that involve running, throwing, jumping and walking. Organised athletics are traced back to the Ancient Olympic Games from 776 BC, and most modern events are conducted by the member clubs of the International Association of Athletics...
, women's
volleyball Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 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...
, and men's
wrestlingCollegiate wrestling is the style of amateur wrestling practiced at the college and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling is sometimes known as folkstyle wrestling because by and large, it is the style that emerged out of the folk wrestling styles practiced in the early...
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National championships
| Year |
Sport |
School |
| 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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