The Summit League

In its fourth decade of Division I athletics, The Summit League offers 19 championship sports and has a combined enrollment of over at nine institutions, including four located in top 60 U.S. metro populations and two land-grant universities. Member institutions include: Denver (University of Denver), Fort Wayne (Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne), IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis), North Dakota State University, Omaha (University of Nebraska Omaha), Oral Roberts University, the University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University and Western Illinois University. Previously known as the Mid-Continent Conference, The Summit League rebranded in 2007 and has since produced eight NCAA Champions, and over 75 Academic All-Americans, 65 All-America selections and numerous former student-athletes competing at the highest professional level. Each year, approximately student-athletes continue to raise the bar and help The Summit League reach exceptional success and development. Within the past five years alone, The Summit League has produced six NCAA Champions, accounting for more than half of its all-time total. That level of success also carries into the classroom. In 2014-15, The Summit League ranked first for NCAA Graduation Success Rate in women’s basketball and second in baseball while setting records for NCAA Public Recognition awards and perfect Academic Progress Rate scores. Those achievements came on the heels of recent prestigious individual academic honors such as the Walter Byers Postgraduate Scholarship, Division Athletics Directors Association Scholar-Athlete of the Years and Capital One Academic All-America of the Year awarded to Summit League student-athletes.