Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Great Lakes Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference
Association	NCAA
Founded	1972
Commissioner	Kris Dunbar (since 2018)
Sports fielded	21 men's: 10; women's: 11; ;
Division	Division II
No. of teams	10 (11 in 2024)
Headquarters	Bay City, Michigan
Region	Great Lakes
Official website	www.gliac.org
Locations

200km
125miles

Roosevelt

Parkside

Wayne State

Saginaw Valley State

Purdue Northwest

Northern Michigan

Michigan Tech

Lake Superior State

Grand Valley State

Ferris State

Davenport

Location of GLIAC members:

full, and

future.

The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) is a competitive college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level.

The GLIAC was founded in June 1972. Its eleven member institutions are located in the Midwestern United States in the states of Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. There are three affiliate members who compete in the GLIAC for sports not sponsored by their home conference.

Sponsorship of football was dropped by the GLIAC after the 1989 season. Conference schools sponsoring football joined with members of the Heartland Football Conference to form the Midwest Intercollegiate Football Conference (MIFC), which began play in 1990. The MIFC merged with the GLIAC in July 1999, and the GLIAC resumed sponsorship of football that fall.