In 1997, the MIAC was given over $400,000 in grant money from the USOC to establish varsity women's hockey in the conference.

Augsburg alumnus and Univ. of Arizona men's basketball head coach Lute Olson is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

MIAC student-athletes compete without the benefit of athletic aid or scholarships.

MIAC Football Officials will be using pink whistles during the month of October to support breast cancer awareness.

The Saint John's men's golf team won back-to-back NCAA titles in 2007 and 2008.

Saint Mary's teams have won 34 MIAC championships - led by baseball’s 13.

Bethel Alumnus Greg Barkey '85 was one of three Americans who helped referee during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Bethel baseball brothers Brandon and Kirby Carr both hit grand slams in the same game vs. Carleton on April 14, 2007. This had never been done in NCAA history.

The MIAC has 13 member institutions.

The MIAC was founded in 1920

Over 6,000 student-athletes compete in the MIAC each year.

Over 25% of the Saint Mary's students compete in intercollegiate athletics

The MIAC competes at the NCAA Division III level

Macalester won the NCAA Division III women’s soccer championships in 1998 and placed second the following year.

Only two Minnesota college football teams have ever played bowl games on January 1 - the Minnesota Gophers (several times) and in 1949, St. Thomas' Cigar Bowl team.

A charter member of the National Football League (NFL) Hall of Fame, John “Blood” McNally attended Saint John’s from 1920-23. McNally played in the NFL for 14 seasons and won four championships with the Green Bay Packers from 1929-36.

The MIAC sponsors 22 championship sports.

Saint John's head football coach John Gagliardi begins his record 60th season as a collegiate head football coach in 2008. The winningest coach in college football history, Gagliardi currently owns a 453-122-11 (.782) collegiate career record.

Over 70% of all student-athletes competing in the MIAC are products of Minnesota high schools.

St. Thomas baseball alum Chuck Hiller, Class of 1956, is believed to be the only MIAC player to play in baseball's World Series. Hiller hit a grand slam in game four in Yankee Stadium of the 1962 World Series, which was won in seven games by New York over the Giants.

Kofi Annan – former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Prize recipient in 2001, was among Macalester’s top track sprinters in the early Sixties.

Carleton College alum Phillip Dunn ’93 recently competed in his third Olympic games. He participated in the 50km race walk at the Summer Olympics held in Sydney (2000), Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008).

St. Catherine alum Jeanne Arth ('56) was a three-time national tennis doubles champion and three-time singles runner-up while competing for St. Kate's. She went on to win two US open and one Wimbledon doubles title.

Devean George, Augsburg basketball, became the first Division III player ever selected in the first round of the NBA Draft and went on to win three NBA titles with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Jeff Nelson, a 1987 Bethel graduate, is a Major League Baseball umpire.

The MIAC has led Division III in football attendance for the past three seasons (2005, 2006, 2007).

Led by two-time National Coach of the Year John Tschida, St. Thomas won back-to-back NCAA Softball titles in 2004 and 2005 and placed second nationlly in 2006.

St. Thomas is one of eight institutions to win NCAA team championships in six or more different sports. The Tommies have won team crowns in softball, baseball, women's basketball, men's indoor track and men's and women's cross country.

Saint Mary's won the 2000 NCAA Division III Fastpitch Softball national championship.

Bethel's nickname was the Indians prior to changing to the Royals in 1952.