aztec37,

You should post a link or at least give credit if you're going to lift something verbatim from another website.

http://www.theseniorreports.com/ncaad2.htm

Finlandia to Great South
http://www.d3sports.com/notables/2013/0 ... joins-gsac

My "news" is hardly news anymore (the conference announced this in January). In addition to Finlandia, the Great South added Mills College in California. They also added the women's athletic programs at Maine-Presque Isle. The Finlandia and M-PI men's sports will stay independent.
http://www.greatsouth.org/sports/wbkb/2 ... s/01142013

For those keeping score, in 2013-14, the GSAC will stretch from Georgia north to Maine, and west to Michigan and California. All that travel on Division 3 budgets. But, they will keep their automatic bids.

Pennlive article reporting that Elizabethtown College has announced that it will be joining D-3 Landmark Conference at http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ss ... lting.html

I've heard their will be no required conference play for schools so Finlandia won't be making trips to Maine, California, and Georgia. The only time they will be required to play conference foes is for the conference tournament to determine the automatic bid. Not an ideal set-up but for Finlandia it is a good move. It looked like they were never going to get in a conference. I think the closest D-III school to them is 150 miles away. No conference wanted them, especially with having to take road trips in the winter to the top of the U.P.

I believe Maine-Presque Isle has the same geographic limitations. Mills College in Oakland, CA is similarly geographically isolated from other D-III schools with the closest D-III opponent being over 300 miles away.

So do they only have womens conf. tournaments b/c only Finlandia, Covenant, Huntingdon have mens teams

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I think Huntington and Covenant moved to the USASAC (or are due to).

So I think it is correct that all GSAC sports are women's sports. (i.e between all-women's schools OR ONLY the women's sports for co-ed Finlandia / Maine-Presque Isle).

Finlandia men will be D-3 independent, and M-PI men are USCAA (they were in a NAIA conference with some other New England schools,
but the conference folded, and all the schools went USCAA, except Fisher (Mass.) which went NAIA independent).

Article out of Eastchester reporting that Sarah Lawrence College has announced that they will be joining the NCAA D-3 Skyline Conference at http://eastchester.dailyvoice.com/schoo ... conference

Linda Bruno.... wasn't she the conf. commissioner of the A-1o ?

Article out of Madison with report that new NAIA league to be called the North Star conference will consist of 6 Dakota schools at http://madisonet.com/site/news.cfm?BRD= ... d=20475043

Official name will be North Star Athletic Association


http://www.vcsu.edu/news/news.htm?id=9758

Article out of Ripon reporting that NCAA D-3 Midwest Conference has announced adding Macalester College for FB only at http://riponpress.com/main.asp?SectionI ... M=70656.13

Dalton St. (GA) accepted into the NAIA. Applying to SSAC and AAC. Senior Reports

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Article out of Dalton with comments from Dalton College AD with more on his school's NAIA and conference situation at http://daltondailycitizen.com/sports/x1 ... l-on-Aug-1

Article out of Butte reporting that Dickinson State officially submitted it's membership withdrawal papers to the NAIA Frontier Conference yesterday and as previously reported,is expected to join the new NAIA North Star league at http://mtstandard.com/sports/dickinson- ... 963f4.html