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. The UMAC sponsors intercollegiate competition in men's baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's football, men's and women's golf, men's and women's soccer, women's softball, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field, and women's volleyball. Greenville College and Westminster College became associate members of the UMAC in football in 2009, followed by Finlandia University in 2021. In March 2023, Finlandia announced it was closing.

History

Chronological timeline

Member schools

Current members

Full members

The UMAC currently has eight full members, all but two are private schools:

Associate members

The UMAC currently has two associate members, all are private schools:

Former members

Full members

The UMAC had nine former full members, which all were private schools:

Associate members

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.

Membership timeline

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Conference sports

Conference facilities

Football champions

• • 2011 was the first year the UMAC Champion received an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Playoffs.

Yearly football standings

Ice hockey affiliations

The UMAC does not sponsor ice hockey. Two UMAC member schools sponsor men's and women's ice hockey as a varsity sport. Northland College and UW-Superior are members of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.