Mountain West Conference
The Mountain West Conference ( MWC) is a regional scale in high school sports in the United States. It is historically the most recent season in Division I, the top division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA), and is in the area of College Football one of currently eleven seasons until 2006 as Division IA designated Bowl Subdivision. The MWC was founded in July 1999 and comprises mainly universities in central and southern West as well as in the southern United States (California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming). The headquarters of the Conference is located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Among the sports in which the Western Athletic Conference organized competitions, baseball, basketball, American football, golf, tennis, skiing and athletics are for men and basketball, football (soccer ), volleyball, softball, golf, tennis, swimming and diving among women.
History
The Mountain West Conference was founded in 1999 by eight universities, who had previously left the Western Athletic Conference ( WAC). The number of universities in the WAC was three years ago rose by the inclusion of former members of the disbanded in May 1996 Southwest Conference (SWC ) to 16, which had led to the organization of the WAC in the form of two divisions. With this condition, however, some of the participating universities for sporting and financial reasons were dissatisfied, so they were eliminated from the WAC and the MWC founded.
In 2005, in addition to the eight founding members of the Texas Christian University has been included, which had previously been a member of Conference USA. The Boise State University joined with the beginning of season 2011/2012 from the WAC to the Mountain West Conference after they had received an offer in June 2010. In contrast, left the University of Utah joined the MWC starting with the 2011/2012 season of the Pacific -12 Conference in. In August 2010, the California State University, Fresno and the University of Nevada, Reno announced to move from the WAC to the Mountain West Conference. The Brigham Young University, said in the same month to retire at the start of the 2011 season from the MWC and let start as an Independent without conference binding in future the football team, while the other teams of the University of the West Coast Conference will join.
Members
The Mountain West Conference currently belong to eleven universities as full members and another university as a pure football member:
- United States Air Force Academy, Colorado (since 1999)
- Boise State University, Idaho ( since 2011 )
- California State University, Fresno, California (since 2012)
- Colorado State University, Colorado ( since 1999)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii ( since 2012, only football)
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV ( since 1999)
- University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada ( since 2012 )
- University of New Mexico, New Mexico ( since 1999)
- San Diego State University, California (since 1999)
- San Jose State University, California (since 2013)
- University of Wyoming, Wyoming ( since 1999)
- Utah State University, Utah (since 2013)
Former members
- Brigham Young University, Utah (1999-2011)
- Texas Christian University, Texas (2005-2012)
- University of Utah, Utah (1999-2011)
Mountain West Sports Network
The Mountain West Conference has been operating on 1 September 2006 under the name Mountain West Sports Network ( abbreviation " mtn. " ) Own 24 -hour TV channel for reporting on games and competitions in the MWC leagues. Negotiations for the renewal of existing contracts with the network ESPN had failed due to the terms offered by ESPN. Half of the shares in the Mountain West Sports Network are owned by the cable network division of the U.S. telecommunications company Comcast.