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North Star Athletic Association

The North Star Athletic Association (NSAA) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) that began play in the 2013–14 school year.[1] The conference currently has six full member institutions in Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. On December 28, 2023, the conference announced it will disband following the 2024–25 school year.[2]

History

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Location of NSAA members: current

Chronological timeline

Member schools

Current members

The NSAA currently has six full members, two of which are private schools:

Notes
  1. ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. ^ a b c d e Bellevue, Dakota State, Dickinson State, Mayville State, and Valley City State will join the Frontier Conference upon dissolution of the NSAA after the 2024–25 academic year.[9][10]
  3. ^ Jamestown will transition to the NCAA Division II ranks and join the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) upon the dissolution of the NSAA after the 2024-25 academic year.[8]
  4. ^ Jamestown competed as a full member of the NSAA from 2013–14 to 2017–18.


Former members

The NSAA had three former full members, all of which were private schools:

Notes
  1. ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. ^ Represents the calendar year when spring sports competition end.
  3. ^ Formerly affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) until 2010.
  4. ^ Waldorf competed in the NSAA as an affiliate member for football only during the 2014 fall season (2014–15 school year); before becoming a full member, effective the 2015–16 school year.

Former affiliate members

The NSAA had three former affiliate members, one was a public school and the other two were private:

Notes
  1. ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. ^ Represents the calendar year when spring sports competition end.
  3. ^ Currently an U Sports (formerly the Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS)) athletic conference.
  4. ^ Waldorf became a full member of the NSAA from 2015–16 to 2023–24.

Membership timeline

Iowa Wesleyan UniversityUniversity of WinnipegChicagoland Collegiate Athletic ConferenceViterbo UniversityFrontier ConferenceBellevue UniversityGreat Plains Athletic ConferenceWaldorf UniversityFrontier ConferenceDickinson State UniversityFrontier ConferenceValley City State UniversityPresentation College, South DakotaFrontier ConferenceMayville State UniversityNorthern Sun Intercollegiate ConferenceGreat Plains Athletic ConferenceUniversity of JamestownFrontier ConferenceDakota State University

 Full member (all sports)  Full member (non-football)  Associate member (football-only)  Associate member (other) 

Conference sports

The North Star Athletic Association currently fields 18 sports (9 men's and 9 women's):

Men's sports

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the North Star Athletic Association which are played by NSAA schools

Women's sports

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the North Star Athletic Association which are played by NSAA schools

Conference Championships

Football

NSAA champions by year

Volleyball

NSAA regular season and tournament champions by year
  1. ^ Viterbo was stripped of the 2018 volleyball regular season and tournament championships after a player was found to be ineligible.[12]

Men's basketball

NSAA regular season and tournament champions by year

Women's basketball

NSAA regular season and tournament champions by year

Baseball

NSAA regular season and tournament champions by year
  1. ^ Dickinson State was a member of the Frontier Conference, which does not sponsor baseball, in 2014. The 2014 NSAA tournament, known that year as the NSAA/Frontier Tournament, included Dickinson State. Regular-season games against Dickinson State in 2014, are not counted as conference games and are excluded from the teams' regular-season records, since Dickinson State was not an NSAA member. However, 2014 conference tournament games involving Dickinson State are counted as tournament wins and losses, since Dickinson State was a tournament participant that year.
  2. ^ Dickinson State dropped their baseball program after the 2017-18 season, and then reinstated it for the 2020-21 season.
  3. ^ The 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Softball

NSAA regular season and tournament champions by year
  1. ^ Total does not include 2014 NSAA/Frontier Tournament Championship when they were a member of the Frontier Conference.
  2. ^ Dickinson State and Great Falls were members of the Frontier Conference, which does not sponsor softball, in 2014. The NSAA tournament, known that year as the NSAA/Frontier Tournament, included Dickinson State and Great Falls. Regular-season games against those two clubs in 2014, are not counted as conference games and are excluded from the teams' regular-season records, since they were not NSAA members. However, 2014 conference tournament games involving either Dickinson State or Great Falls are included as tournament wins and losses, since both teams were tournament participants that year.
  3. ^ Great Falls was never a member of the NSAA, but played in the 2014 NSAA/Frontier Tournament, since the Frontier does not sponsor softball. Their record in that tournament is included here.
  4. ^ University of Great Falls was renamed University of Providence in 2017-18.
  5. ^ Dickinson State won the 2014 NSAA/Frontier Tournament as a member of the Frontier Conference. Dakota State finished the best out of all NSAA teams in the 2014 tournament as they finished third.
  6. ^ The 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

  1. ^ "North Star Athletic Association Announces Formation". Valley City State University. April 22, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
  2. ^ a b "NSAA, which held post season tournaments in Watertown, announces it will be disbanding". KWAT. December 28, 2023. Retrieved December 28, 2023.
  3. ^ Sand, Elisa (January 17, 2023). "Presentation College closing Aberdeen campus". Aberdeen News. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Iowa Wesleyan University Announces Closure". Iowa Wesleyan University. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
  5. ^ "Waldorf University to join Great Plains Athletic Conference". Great Plains Athletic Conference. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Viterbo University To Become Full CCAC Member Beginning In 2024-25". Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
  7. ^ "University of Jamestown (N.D.) returns to North Star Athletic Association". North Star Athletic Association. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  8. ^ a b "NSIC Extends Invitation to the University of Jamestown". Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (Press release). November 21, 2023. Retrieved November 21, 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Frontier Adding Dickinson State as Newest Conference Member". Frontier Conference (Press release). December 12, 2023. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
  10. ^ a b "Frontier Conference Expands to 11 Full-time Members". Frontier Conference (Press release). May 21, 2024. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  11. ^ "University of Winnipeg announces cuts, eliminates wrestling and men's baseball". MetroNews. The Canadian Press. May 3, 2017. Archived from the original on May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  12. ^ Sommerfeldt, Tod (September 12, 2019). "College volleyball: Viterbo forced to forfeit games from 2018". Retrieved October 19, 2020.

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