What is The Summit League?
'''The Summit League''' is a [[NCAA conference]] that plays in [[National Collegiate Athletic Association|NCAA]] [[NCAA Division I|Division I]]. The member [[universities]] and [[college]]s are in the [[Midwestern United States]], plus one member in [[Colorado]]. Their [[headquarters]] are in [[Sioux Falls, South Dakota|Sioux Falls]], [[South Dakota]], having moved from the [[Chicago]] [[suburb]] of [[Elmhurst, Illinois]] in 2018. The league once sponsored [[American football|football]], but dropped the sport after the 1984 season. Five Summit League members have football teams; four play in the [[Missouri Valley Football Conference]] and one in the [[Pioneer Football League]]. ==History== The Summit League was founded in 1982 as the '''Association of Mid-Continent Universities''' (AMCU or AMCU-8) with eight members. The only one of these schools that is still a member is Western Illinois. In 1989, the AMCU changed its name to the '''Mid-Continent Conference''', or MCC (those initials, however, were also being used by the Midwestern Collegiate Conference, now the [[Horizon League]]). The Mid-Continent saw many changes in the first part of the 1990s, with the biggest coming in 1992 and 1994. In 1992, the conference added women's sports after it absorbed the North Star Conference, a league that only sponsored women's sports. Then in 1994, six schools (including three charter members) left for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference. They were replaced by six other schools, five of them coming from the collapsed East Coast Conference. None of the schools that joined in 1994 are now in the league. Since the 1994 changes, the conference has had anywhere from 8 to 10 members. It changed its name to The Summit League in 2007. ==Members== The Summit League now has nine full members. The most recent change in membership took place in 2023, when the conference's last remaining charter member, [[Western Illinois University]], left for the [[Ohio Valley Conference]]. Another recent change took place in 2021, when the Univ