The Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference that competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III since the 2008–09 season. Corey Borchardt is the current commissioner of the UMAC, and was appointed to the position in 2008. The UMAC was started in 1972 as the Twin Rivers Conference, and assumed its current name in 1983. Member institutions are located in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
1974 – Maranatha Baptist Bible College (now Maranatha Baptist University) joined the TWC as an associate member for football, effective in the 1974 fall season (1974–75 academic year).
1976 – Viterbo College (now Viterbo University) joined the TWC, effective in the 1976–77 academic year.
1983 – The TRC has been rebranded as the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, effective in the 1983–84 academic year.
1986 – Loras left the UMAC, effective after the 1985–86 academic year.
1988 – Pillsbury Baptist Bible and Viterbo left the UMAC, effective after the 1987–88 academic year.
1994 – Crown College joined the UMAC, effective in the 1994–95 academic year.
1995 – Dr. Martin Luther and Northwestern (Wisc.) merged to become Martin Luther College. Both institutions therefore left the UMAC as a result of the merger, effective after the 1994–95 academic year. And immediately Martin Luther joined the UMAC, effective beginning the 1995–96 academic year.
2002 – Mount Scenario disbanded its athletics program in December 2001 without completing the rest of the 2001–02 academic year. Later on, the school closed on 31 August 2002.
2008 – Blackburn, Principia, Maranatha Baptist, Rockford, Trinity Bible and Westminster (Mo.) left the UMAC as associate members for football, effective after the 2007 fall season (2007–08 academic year).
2008 – The UMAC became affiliated with the NCAA Division III ranks, effective in the 2008–09 academic year.
2008 – North Central University joined the UMAC as an associate member for certain sports, effective in the 2008–09 academic year.
2009 – Eureka College, Greenville College (now Greenville University) and MacMurray College joined the UMAC as associate members for football (with Westminster (Mo.) re-joining back), effective in the 2009 fall season (2009–10 academic year).
2012 – Presentation left the UMAC to join the NAIA and the North Star Athletic Association (NSAA), effective after the 2011–12 academic year.
2013 – North Central (Minn.) became a full member of the UMAC for all sports, effective in the 2013–14 academic year.
2013 – Iowa Wesleyan College (now Iowa Wesleyan University) joined the UMAC as an associate member for football, effective in the 2013 fall season (2013–14 academic year).
2018 – Eureka left the UMAC as an associate member for football, effective after the 2017 fall season (2017–18 academic year).
2020 – MacMurray left the UMAC as an associate member for football as the school would later drop its athletics program and be closed, effective after the 2019–20 academic year.
2021 – Iowa Wesleyan left the UMAC as an associate member for football, effective after the 2020 fall season (2020–21 academic year).
2021 – Finlandia University joined the UMAC as an associate member for football, effective in the 2021 fall season (2021–22 academic year).
2023 – Finlandia left the UMAC as an associate member for football as the school would later drop its athletics program and be closed, effective after the 2022–23 academic year.[1]
^ abDr. Martin Luther and Northwestern (Wis.) were merged to form Martin Luther College in 1995.
^Mount Scenario disbanded its athletics program in December 2001 without completing the rest of the 2001–02 school year, before closing the school on August 31, 2002.
The UMAC had eight former associate members, all were private schools. School names and nicknames reflect those in use during the final school year in which each competed in the UMAC.
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