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**The WIAC competes at the
NCAA Division III level.
**WIAC student-athletes compete without the benefit of athletic
aid or scholarships. They compete for the love of their game.
**Over 5,000 student-athletes compete in the WIAC each year.
**The nine institutions of the WIAC have a total student-enrollment
of approximately 70,000.
**Over 300,000 WIAC alumni currently reside within the state of
Wisconsin.
**In the last 12 years, 41 NCAA national championship team titles have been crowned in the WIAC.
**The WIAC has captured more NCAA national championships than any
other Division III conference in history. Championships have been
won in 15 different sports, including: baseball, men's basketball,
women's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country,
football, men's golf, men's ice hockey, men's indoor track, women's
indoor track, men's outdoor track, women's outdoor track, women's
softball, women's volleyball and women's gymnastics (NCGA). It is
no wonder the WIAC is commonly referred to as the "Conference
of Champions".
**Over 80 percent of all student-athletes competing in the WIAC
are products of Wisconsin high schools. The WIAC is truly the "Conference
of Wisconsin".
**Each year, the WIAC is selected to host a number of NCAA National
Championships. These championships bring nationwide recognition
to our institutions as well as thousands of competitors and spectators
to our State each year.
**WIAC student-athletes are students first and athletes second.
Each year, dozens of our student-athletes are named to regional
and national Academic All-America Teams. Nearly 50 percent of the
student-athletes competing in the WIAC achieve a 3.0 grade point
average or better.
**Year in and year out, WIAC institutions rank near the top of the
United States Sports Academy Directors' Cup final standings symbolizing
the finest all-around Division III collegiate programs in the country.
The 2007-08 final standings found five of the nine WIAC institutions
in the Top 21--UW-Whitewater (6th), UW-Eau Claire (10th), UW-Stevens Point (13th), UW-La Crosse (18th) and UW-Oshkosh (21st). These
rankings are even more remarkable when considering there are nearly
450 institutions in Division III.
**In 2006, the WIAC became the first and only conference in the history of Division III to enter into its own television broadcast agreement resulting in dozens of WIAC regular-season and championship events appearing on Fox Sports Net Wisconsin and Charter OnDemand during the academic year.
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