2012 Track Medie Guide (pdf file) - Texas A&M Kingsville

Long known as a leader in intercollegiate athletics,
the Lone Star Conference (LSC) is an innovative
athletics conference which aims to provide a superior
competitive experience for member institutions and
to allow for comprehensive development of studentathletes
through academic services and life skills
programming. The LSC continues to build upon its
proud history while intending to be recognized as the
premier NCAA Division
II conference
in the nation.
The league’s
mission is to foster
student participation
and success
among member institutions in Division II intercollegiate
athletics as an integral part of each institution’s
total educational program. The LSC strives for
academic excellence, stresses involvement within the
community, and prides itself in upholding traditions
while continually seeking new opportunities to provide
student-athletes with a unique and superior experience.
The LSC - founded on April 25, 1931 - has developed
from a five-team conference of Texas-based
schools to an 11-member league that spans three
states (Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico). The
conference membership recently changed with the
departure of five Oklahoma schools following the
2010-11 academic year. The league continues to
assist its member institutions in the maintenance of
intercollegiate athletic programs that are compatible
with the highest standards of education and competitive
sports.
Throughout the league’s 80-year history, various
institutions have competed under the LSC banner.
Today, only Texas A&M University-Commerce (then
East Texas State) remains from the original group that
was formed in 1931 when North Texas State, Southwest
Texas State, Sam Houston State and Stephen
F. Austin withdrew from the old Texas Intercollegiate
Athletic Association.
The membership alignment has changed over the
years, with current members having been added in
each of the past six decades. Texas A&M-Kingsville
(formerly Texas A&I) joined in 1954, followed by Angelo
State in 1968 and Abilene Christian in 1973.
Conference membership remained within the Texas
borders until 1984 when Eastern New Mexico was
admitted. Since then, the LSC has grown to include
members from Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Cameron (1988, 1996) was added near the outset
of an expansion phase, while Texas Woman’s (1989)
and previous members West Texas A&M (1986, 1993)
and Tarleton State (1968, 1994) joined the league
soon after.
Midwestern State was admitted early in 1995,
while the University of the Incarnate Word became the
newest member in 2010.
Past members of the LSC include Trinity, Houston,
Lamar, Howard Payne, Sul Ross State, McMurry,
Harding, Ouachita Baptist, Central Oklahoma, East
Central (Okla.), Northeastern State (Okla.), Southeastern
Oklahoma and Southwestern Oklahoma.
With a more streamlined membership in place, the
LSC will do away with divisional formats during the
2011-12 athletic seasons. Dating back to the 1997-98
academic year, the league was formed into two divisions
- North and South - in football, volleyball, basketball,
baseball and softball. Volleyball and baseball
returned to playing without divisions in 2007-08, with
football, basketball and softball set to go back to a
one-conference model this year.
While the LSC has maintained a long-standing
tradition of competitive athletic programs for its members,
many teams and individuals have gone on to
distinguish themselves on the national stage. Entering
2011-12, LSC member institutions have collected 74
NCAA national championships since the league joined
the Division II membership in 1982. Abilene Christian
supplied the most recent additions to that total, capturing
both the men’s indoor and outdoor track and
field championships this past year.
The LSC conducts conference championships
in 16 sports (eight men and eight women). Men’s
championships include football, soccer, cross country,
basketball, baseball, track and field, tennis and golf.
Women’s titles are determined in volleyball, soccer,
cross country, basketball, softball, track and field, tennis
and golf.
The conference office is located in Richardson,
Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas. Stan Wagnon
serves as Commissioner, with assistance from Jay
Poerner (Compliance), Melanie Robotham (Media
Relations) and Travis Whipple (Marketing and Broadcasting).
Wagnon Robotham Poerner Whipple
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