The Missouri Valley Convention (MVC) has introduced the addition of males’s swimming and diving to the convention, bringing the game again as they final sponsored it in the course of the 2002-2003 season.
“The Valley is worked up and welcomes the chance to supply this expertise for our student-athletes,” mentioned MVC Commissioner Jeff Jackson. “We look ahead to an amazing championship occasion and the continued development and enhancement of our Convention.”
The convention already sponsors ladies’s swimming and diving and has performed so since 1983. The MVC used to sponsor males’s swimming and diving, first including the game 100 years in the past in 1924 and final sponsoring it in 2003.
The MVC at the moment sponsors a complete of 15 sports activities, with six on the boys’s aspect and 9 on the ladies’s aspect. The addition of males’s swimming and diving brings it to 16 sports activities with seven on the boys’s aspect.
The convention is house to 12 groups, though solely 5 of them are house to a males’s swimming and diving program. Evansville, College of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Missouri State, Southern Illinois, and Valparaiso shall be joined by Ball State and Miami-OH from the Mid-American Convention.
All seven packages made up the Mid-American Convention (MAC) for males’s swimming and diving lately. Ball State and Miami-OH are members of the MAC and had the opposite 5 be a part of as affiliate members however now the roles shall be reversed.
The Miami-OH males have received the final 4 straight MAC titles as in 2024 they completed with 729 factors complete and 2nd place Missouri State had 679.5 factors.
