Quick Facts


**The WIAC competes at the NCAA Division III level.


**The WIAC is the ninth-oldest conference in the NCAA and celebrated its 100th year during the 2012-13 academic year.  1,400 individuals packed the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, Wis., on August 4, 2012 to celebrate the WIAC Centennial Banquet.


**WIAC student-athletes compete without the benefit of athletic aid or scholarships. They compete for the "love of the game".


**Over 5,000 student-athletes compete in the WIAC each year.


**The eight institutions of the WIAC have a total student-enrollment of approximately 70,000.


**Over 400,000 WIAC alumni currently reside within the state of Wisconsin.


**In the last 10 years, 30 national championship team titles have been crowned by 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, women's ice hockey, men's indoor track, women's indoor track, men's outdoor track, women's outdoor track, softball and women's volleyball.


**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 Learfield Directors' Cup final standings symbolizing the finest all-around Division III collegiate programs in the country. The 2024-25 final standings found all eight WIAC institutions in the standings, including four in the Top 29--UW-La Crosse (10th), UW-Whitewater (14th), UW-Eau Claire (21st) and UW-Oshkosh (28th). 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 North, Fox Sports Wisconsin and Charter OnDemand.