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TheTennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference (TCAC) was a formercollege athletic conference affiliated with theNational Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA); which was predominantly for smaller, privatecolleges inWestern andMiddleTennessee.

The TCAC was created in 1985 from the western division of the oldVolunteer State Athletic Conference. The charter members wereBelmont University,Bethel College,Christian Brothers University,Cumberland University,David Lipscomb University,Freed–Hardeman University,Lambuth University,Martin Methodist College,Trevecca Nazarene University, andUnion University. The TCAC survived in that form until 1995 when both Belmont and Christian Brothers announced their intentions to go to the NCAA. The remaining teams formed a new conference, theTranSouth Athletic Conference which existed until the 2012–13 school year.

• 1985 – The Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference (TCAC) was founded. Charter members includedBelmont University,Bethel College,Christian Brothers University,Cumberland University,David Lipscomb University,Freed–Hardeman University,Lambuth University,Trevecca Nazarene University andUnion University, beginning the 1985–86 academic year.
• 1994 –Martin Methodist College (now the University of Tennessee Southern) joined the TCAC in the 1994–95 academic year.
• 1996 - The TCAC would cease operations as an athletic conference after the 1995–96 academic year; as many schools left to join their respective new home primary conferences, beginning the 1996–97 academic year: Bethel (Tenn.), David Lipscomb, Freed–Hardeman, Martin Methodist (now UT Southern), Trevecca Nazarene and Union (Tenn.) to form theTranSouth Athletic Conference (TranSouth or TSAC); with Cumberland (Tenn.) and Lambuth to theMid-South Conference (MSC); Belmont to theDivision I ranks of theNational Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) as anNCAA D-I Independent (which would later join theAtlantic Sun Conference, beginning the 2001–02 school year); and Christian Brothers to theNCAA Division II ranks and theGulf South Conference (GSC).

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 Full member (non-football) 

The TCAC sponsored 9 sports for men and women includingbaseball,basketball,golf,tennis,softball, andvolleyball. Bethel and Cumberland play football in the Mid-South Conference.

Defunct Lambuth also played football.^[1]

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