Western Athletic Conference

Association	NCAA
Founded	July 27, 1962; 63 years ago (1962-07-27)
Commissioner	Rebekah Ray (since March 13, 2025)
Sports fielded	16 men's: 7 women's: 9
Division	Division I
Subdivision	Non-football[a]
No. of teams	7 (9 in 2026)
Headquarters	Arlington, Texas
Region	Southwestern United States Pacific Northwest
Broadcaster	ESPN
Official website	wacsports.com
Locations

TheWestern Athletic Conference (WAC) is anNCAA Division I conference founded in 1962, which will rebrand in 2026. A total of 43 institutions have been full members of the WAC, in locations spanning 15 states in thewestern United States. For its final year of competition under its current identity (2025–26), the conference includes three members inTexas, three inUtah, and one inCalifornia.

For the first 41 years of its existence, the WAC competed at the highest level of college athletics across all sports. The conference expanded from its original six members to a peak of 16 in 1996, before seven of its institutions (including the four remaining charter members) seceded in 1998 to form theMountain West Conference. Thereafter the WAC struggled to maintain a top-level football conference and ultimately discontinued the sport after the2012–13 season, leaving the NCAA'sFootball Bowl Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-A) to become a Division I non-football conference.^[1] After a major expansion in 2021, the WAC reinstated football, competing in theFootball Championship Subdivision (FCS).^[2][3] Further membership losses soon foiled plans to someday return to the FBS level, and in 2023 the WAC again became a non-football conference, with its football-playing members joining the football schools of theAtlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) to form the football-onlyUnited Athletic Conference (UAC).

The WAC will officially rebrand as the United Athletic Conference (UAC) on July 1, 2026, and become an all-sports conference including the three remaining members of the WAC (Abilene Christian University,Tarleton State University, and non-footballUniversity of Texas at Arlington), the five football-playing members of the ASUN (Austin Peay State University,University of Central Arkansas,Eastern Kentucky University,University of North Alabama, andUniversity of West Georgia),^[4] and theUniversity of Arkansas at Little Rock (athletically known as Little Rock) from theOhio Valley Conference.^[5]

These seven institutions are the full members of the Western Athletic Conference for its final year of competition (2025–26).

  Members departing for theBig West Conference on July 1, 2026.
  Members departing for theBig Sky Conference on July 1, 2026.
  Members merging into theUnited Athletic Conference after July 1, 2026.

Notes

These nine schools field programs in the WAC for sports not sponsored by their primary conferences:

Notes

The WAC has 36 former full members:

Notes

Notes

Full membersFull members (non-football)Other conferenceOther conferenceAssociate members (non-football)

• Prior to the 1996–97 season, both Air Force and Hawaii had most to all of their women's sports competing in other conferences before joining the WAC full-time with their men's sports counterparts. At that time, Air Force was in theColorado Athletic Conference, and Hawaii was in theBig West Conference.
• Since the 2021–22 season, the WAC has played football at theFCS level.

Western Athletic Conference member locations

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California
Baptist

San Jose
State

UNLV

San Diego
State

Sacramento
State

Air Force

Utah Valley

Utah Tech

UT–Arlington

Tarleton

Southern Utah

Abilene
Christian

   

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departing member
affiliate member

Arizona

Arizona State

BYU

New Mexico

Utah

Wyoming

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Locations of WAC founding schools

The WAC formed out of a series of talks betweenBrigham Young University athletic directorEddie Kimball and other university administrators from 1958 to 1961 to form a new athletic conference that would better fit the needs and situations of certain universities which were at the time members of theBorder,Skyline, andPacific Coast Conferences. Potential member universities who were represented at the meetings includedBYU,Washington State,Oregon,Oregon State,Utah,New Mexico,Arizona,Arizona State, andWyoming. While the three Washington and Oregon schools elected to stay in a revampedPac-8 Conference that replaced the scandal-plagued PCC, the remaining six schools formed the WAC. The Border and Skyline conferences, having each lost three of their stronger members, dissolved at the end of the 1961–62 season. The charter members of the WAC wereArizona,Arizona State,BYU,New Mexico,Utah, andWyoming.New Mexico State andUtah State applied for charter membership and were turned down; they would eventually become WAC members 43 years later.

The conference proved to be an almost perfect fit for the six schools from both a competitive and financial standpoint. Arizona and Arizona State, in particular, experienced success in baseball withArizona garnering the 1963College World Series (CWS) runner-up trophy andASU winning the CWS in 1965, 1967, and 1969.Colorado State andTexas–El Paso (UTEP), at that time just renamed from Texas Western College, were accepted in September 1967 (joined in July 1968) to bring membership upto eight.^[25][26]

With massive growth in the state of Arizona, the balance of WAC play in the 1970s became increasingly skewed in favor of the Arizona schools, who won or tied for all but two WAC football titles from 1969 onward. In the summer of 1978, the two schools left the WAC for the Pac-8, which became the Pac-10, and were replaced in the WAC bySan Diego State and, one year later,Hawaii. The WAC further expanded by addingAir Force in the summer of 1980. A college football national championship won byBrigham Young in 1984 added to the WAC's reputation. This nine-team line-up of the WAC defined the conference for nearly 15 years.

Fresno State expanded its athletic program in the early 1990s and was granted membership in 1992 as the nationwide trend against major college programs independent of conferences accelerated. The WAC merged with the High Country Athletic Conference, a parallel organization to the WAC for women's athletics, in 1990 to unify both men's and women's athletics under one administrative structure.

⇙ Hawaii

Fresno State

San Diego State

San Jose State

UNLV

Air Force

Colorado State

Wyoming

BYU

New Mexico

Utah

UTEP

Tulsa

TCU

SMU

Rice

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WAC member locations during the four-pod system (1996–1998)

In 1996, the WAC expanded again, adding six schools to its ranks for a total of sixteen.Rice,TCU, andSMU joined the league from theSouthwest Conference, which had disbanded.Big West Conference membersSan Jose State andUNLV were also admitted, as well asTulsa from theMissouri Valley Conference.^[27] Also, two WAC members for men's sports at the time, Air Force and Hawaiʻi, brought their women's sports into the WAC. With the expansion, the WAC was divided into two divisions, the Mountain and the Pacific.

To help in organizing schedules and travel for the far-flung league, the members were divided into four quadrants of four teams each, as follows:^[27]

Quadrant one was always part of the Pacific Division, and quadrant four was always part of the Mountain Division. Quadrant two was part of the Pacific Division for 1996 and 1997 before switching to the Mountain Division in 1998, while the reverse was true for quadrant three. The scheduled fourth year of the alignment was abandoned after eight schools left to form the Mountain West Conference.^{[citation needed]}

The division champions in football met from 1996 to 1998 in theWAC Championship Game, held atSam Boyd Stadium (also known as the Silver Bowl) in theLas Vegas Valley.

Increasingly, most of the older, pre-1996 members—particularly Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Utah, and Wyoming—felt chagrin at this new arrangement. Additional concerns centered around finances, as the expanded league stretched approximately 3,900 miles (6,300 km) from Hawaii to Oklahoma and covered nine states and four time zones. With such a far-flung league, travel costs became a concern. The presidents of Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Utah, and Wyoming met in 1998 atDenver International Airport and agreed to split off to form a new league. The breakaway group invited old-line WAC schools New Mexico and San Diego State, and newcomer UNLV to join them in the newMountain West Conference, which began competition in 1999.^[27]

AUSA Today article summed up the reasons behind the split. "With Hawaii and the Texas schools separated by about 3,900 miles and four time zones, travel costs were a tremendous burden for WAC teams. The costs, coupled with lagging revenue and a proposed realignment that would have separated rivals such as Colorado State and Air Force, created unrest among the eight defecting schools."^[28][29]

BYU and Utah would later leave the MWC for theWest Coast Conference andPac-12 Conference, respectively; BYU joined theBig 12 Conference in 2023 while Utah followed in 2024.

⇙ Hawaii

Fresno State

San Jose State

Boise State

Louisiana Tech

Idaho

New Mexico State

Utah State

Nevada

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Locations of WAC full members from 2005 through 2011

In 2000, theUniversity of Nevada, Reno (Nevada) of the Big West joined as part of its plan to upgrade its athletic program.

TCU left forConference USA in 2001 (it would later leave C-USA to become the ninth member of theMountain West in 2005, and joined theBig 12 in 2012).

The Big West announced that it would drop football after the 2000 season, but four of its football-playing members (Boise State,Idaho,New Mexico State, andUtah State) were unwilling to drop football. Boise State was invited to join the WAC and promptly departed the Big West, while New Mexico State and Idaho joined theSun Belt Conference (NMSU as a full member, Idaho as a "football only" member) and Utah State operated as an independent D-IA program. At the same time,Louisiana Tech (LA Tech) ended its independent Div. I-A status and also accepted an invitation to join the WAC with Boise State.

In 2005,Conference USA sought new members to replenish its ranks after losing members to theBig East, which had lost members to theACC. Four WAC schools, former SWC schoolsRice andSMU, as well asTulsa andUTEP, joined Conference USA. In response, the WAC added Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State—all former Big West schools which left the conference in 2000 along with Boise State when that conference dropped football. The three new schools were allland grant universities, bringing the conference total to five (Nevada and Hawaii).

The decade of the 2010s began with a series of conference realignment moves that would have trickle-down effects throughout Division I football, and profoundly change the membership of the WAC. Boise State decided to move to the Mountain West Conference (MWC) for the 2011–12 season,^[30] and to replace departing BYU, the MWC also recruited WAC members Fresno State and Nevada for 2012–13.^[31][32] WAC commissioner Karl Benson courted several schools to replace those leaving, including theUniversity of Montana, which declined,^[33][34] as well as theUniversity of Denver,University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), andTexas State University-San Marcos, which all accepted effective 2012–13.^[35]

But the resulting eastward shift of the conference's geographic center led Hawaii to reduce travel expenses by becoming a football-only member of the MWC and joining the California-basedBig West Conference for all other sports.^[36][37] Further invitations were then issued by the WAC toSeattle University^[38] and theUniversity of Texas at Arlington.^[39] These changes meant that the conference would have 10 members for 2012–13,^[40] seven of which sponsored football, and Benson announced that the WAC planned to add two additional football-playing members to begin competition in 2013.^[41] A further boost came when Boise State decided to join theBig East in football, and return to the WAC in most other sports, as of the 2013–14 academic year.^[42] So by the end of 2011, the WAC seemed to have weathered the latest round of conference changes, and once again reinvented itself for the future.

Grand Canyon

Seattle

UTRGV

Utah Valley

California Baptist

Utah Tech

Tarleton State

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Locations of current WAC full members:

But from this seemingly strong position, early 2012 brought forth a series of moves that shook the conference to its very core, beginning withUtah State andSan Jose State accepting offers to join the MWC.^[43] Four similar announcements followed withUTSA andLouisiana Tech jumping toConference USA, plusTexas State andUT Arlington heading to theSun Belt Conference, all as of 2013–14.^{[44][45][46][47][48][49]} Boise State also canceled plans to rejoin the WAC, instead opting to place its non-football sports in theBig West Conference, before eventually deciding to simply remain in the MWC.^[50][51] These changes left the WAC's viability as a Division I football conference in grave doubt. The two remaining football-playing members, New Mexico State and Idaho, began making plans to compete in future seasons asFBS Independents;^[52][53] they ultimately spent only the2013 season as independents, rejoining their one-time football home of the Sun Belt as football-only members in2014.^[54]

In order to rebuild, as well as forestall further defections, the conference was forced to add two schools—Utah Valley University andCSU Bakersfield—which were invited in October 2012 to join the WAC in 2013–14,^[55] but this did not prevent two more members from leaving. Denver decided to take most of its athletic teams to TheSummit League as of the 2013–14 season,^[56] shortly after Idaho opted to return all of its non-football sports to theBig Sky Conference in 2014–15.^[57] The conference responded over the next two months by addingGrand Canyon University,^[58]Chicago State University,^[59] and theUniversity of Texas-Pan American.^[60][61] Then, in February 2013, the WAC announced theUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City would join in the summer of 2013 as well.^[62] These changes would put the conference's membership at eight members by 2014 with only one, New Mexico State, having been in the WAC just three years earlier. Due to losing the majority of its football-playing members, the WAC would stop sponsoring the sport after the 2012–13 season, thereby becoming a non-football conference.^[1]

In 2013, theUniversity of Texas System announced that Texas–Pan American would merge with theUniversity of Texas at Brownsville; the new institution, theUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), began operation for the 2015–16 school year. UTRGV inherited UTPA's athletic program and WAC membership.

In January 2017,California Baptist University announced it would transition fromNCAA Division II and join the WAC in 2018.^[63]

In November 2017,Cal State Bakersfield announced it would accept an invitation to the Big West and join its new conference in 2020.

In January 2019,Dixie State University, now known as Utah Tech University, announced it would move its athletics to Division I and join the WAC in 2020.

In June 2019, theUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City announced it would leave the WAC to join the Summit League in 2020;^[64] this announcement came shortly before the rebranding of its athletic program as the Kansas City Roos.^[65]

In September 2019,Tarleton State University of Division II announced that it would move to Division I and join the WAC in 2020.^[66]

Grand Canyon

Seattle

Utah Valley

Cal Baptist

Utah Tech

Tarleton

ACU

SFA

S. Utah

UTA

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Locations of WAC full members beginning in 2023 (Blue: Pre-2021, Red: Joined in 2021; Yellow: Joined in 2022)

On January 14, 2021, the Western Athletic Conference announced its intention to reinstate football as a conference-sponsored sport at theFCS level, as well as the addition of five new members to the conference in all sports, including football, at a press conference held at theNRG Center in Houston, Texas.^[2] The new members announced included fourSouthland Conference members from Texas inAbilene Christian University,Lamar University,Sam Houston State University, andStephen F. Austin State University, which would soon be dubbed the "Texas Four", plusSouthern Utah University from theBig Sky Conference. The conference also announced that it would most likely add another member that fielded a football team at a later date. While the WAC originally announced that all new members would join on July 1, 2022, commissioner Jeff Hurd later said that the arrival of the Texas Four "was expedited" to July 1, 2021.^[3] The conference officially confirmed this on January 21, 2021, adding that the relaunch of football was moved forward to fall 2021. The conference also confirmed media reports that the Southland had expelled the Texas Four after they announced their departure.^[67][68] Southern Utah entered as scheduled in 2022.^[3] During the aforementioned press conference, Hurd also announced that the WAC would split into two divisions for all sports except football and men's and women's basketball. One division will consist of the six Texas schools (the Texas Four plus existing members Tarleton and UTRGV).^[2] Also on January 14, 2021, news broke that UTRGV, a non-football playing member of the conference, had committed to create an FCS football program by 2024,^[69][70] plans that ultimately were postponed to 2025.

The WAC's planned reestablishment of a football conference at the FCS level was accompanied by speculation that the conference intended to eventually move its football league back up to the FBS level in the future, possibly by 2030.^[71] Later in January 2021, the WAC moved the start of its sponsorship of FCS football to Fall 2021, with media reports indicating that theUniversity of Central Arkansas,Eastern Kentucky University, andJacksonville State University would be added as football affiliates for 2021. The three schools were set to join theASUN Conference in July 2021; that league planned to add FCS football, but not until at least 2022.^[72][73] The entry of the three incoming ASUN members into the new football league was officially confirmed at a February 23, 2021, ASUN press conference. These schools joined the Texas Four in a round-robin schedule officially branded interchangeably as the "ASUN–WAC Challenge" and "WAC–ASUN Challenge"; the two conferences proposed an amendment to NCAA bylaws that would allow their partnership (and presumably any others of its kind) to receive an immediate FCS playoff berth. Utah Tech (formerly Dixie State) and Tarleton State were included in alliance members' schedules, but were not eligible for the FCS playoffs until completing their Division I transitions in 2024; at least for 2021, games involving those two schools did not count in alliance standings, although both were included in the separate WAC league table.^[74][75]

On the same day as the WAC's initial FCS football announcement,Chicago State University announced it would leave the WAC in June 2022.^[76] Chicago State was originally added in 2013 along with theUniversity of Missouri–Kansas City, originally with an intention for both institutions to serve as anchors for a midwestern-centered division for the conference.^[77] No other universities in the region were added to the WAC, and UMKC (now known for athletic purposes asKansas City) departed the conference in 2020 for its former home of theSummit League. This left Chicago State, which does not sponsor football, as the only WAC member east of Texas. Chicago State's departure renderedSeattle University as the only WAC member institution not geographically located in the southwestern United States.

On November 5, 2021, it was reported thatNew Mexico State andSam Houston would be leaving the WAC forConference USA in 2023.^[78] The WAC responded by addingIncarnate Word from theSouthland Conference andUT Arlington from theSun Belt Conference; however, UIW later reversed course and decided to stay with the SLC only days before the 2022-23 athletic season officially began.^[79][80] Lamar also announced that it too would return to its former home of the Southland Conference in 2023 roughly three months prior to UIW's announcement, on April 8, 2022; however, three months later, it was announced that the SLC and Lamar would be accelerating the rejoining process so that Lamar could return for the 2022 athletic season instead.^[81][82]

Jacksonville State and Sam Houston both started FBS transitions in the 2022 season, rendering both ineligible for the FCS playoffs and also dropping both the ASUN and WAC to 5 playoff-eligible football members, one short of the six required for an automatic playoff berth. This led the WAC and ASUN to renew their football partnership for the 2022 season.^[83] Both conferences would keep their own 2022 football standings, including the ineligible teams, while the eligible teams also competed as an alliance to determine their joint AQ.^[84]

ESPN reported on December 9, 2022, that the WAC and ASUN had agreed to form a new football-only conference to start play in 2024. The initial membership would consist of Abilene Christian, Southern Utah, Stephen F. Austin, Tarleton, and Utah Tech from the WAC, plusAustin Peay,Central Arkansas,Eastern Kentucky, andNorth Alabama from the ASUN. UTRGV would become the 10th member upon its planned addition of football in 2025. The new football conference also reportedly planned to move "from what is currently known as FCS football to what is currently known as FBS football at the earliest practicable date."^[85] On December 20, the two conferences announced that their joint football league would start a year earlier, in 2023, under the tentative name of "ASUN–WAC Football Conference,” playing a six-game schedule in 2023 before starting full round-robin conference play in 2024. Neither conference's official announcement mentioned any plans to move to FBS.^[86][87] On April 17, 2023, the football league announced its permanent name ofUnited Athletic Conference.^[88]

Within a year of abandoning hope of operating its own football league, the WAC began to come unraveled. In March 2024, UTRGV announced it would be departing for the Southland Conference, and two months later, Stephen F. Austin announced the same move. Both changes took effect that summer, leaving the WAC with nine members for the 2024-25 academic year.^[89][90] In May 2024, both Grand Canyon and Seattle announced they had accepted invitations to join theWest Coast Conference, beginning in the 2025–26 academic year.^[91] Grand Canyon subsequently declined the invitation to join the WCC after receiving an invite to join the Mountain West Conference. After the change in destinations, GCU planned to transition from the WAC to the Mountain West on July 1, 2026, but ultimately made the move a year earlier,^[92] leaving the WAC with seven members for 2025–26.

In February 2025, rumors began circulating about California Baptist and Utah Valley departing the WAC for theBig West Conference,^[93] California Baptist made the move official on March 5, followed by Utah Valley on June 4, in both cases to take effect July 1, 2026.^[94] Three weeks later, on June 25, Southern Utah and Utah Tech accepted offers to join theBig Sky Conference,^[95] with the same effective date, leaving the WAC with just three members to continue beyond 2025–26.

The following day, June 26, the WAC and the ASUN issued a joint statement announcing that the five football-playing members of the ASUN in the Football only United Athletic Conference would join the WAC's three remaining members–Abilene Christian, Tarleton State, and UT Arlington–and have the conference rebrand as an all-sports United Athletic Conference as of July 1, 2026. This will be done through a "strategic alliance" of the WAC with the ASUN, under which the WAC will rebrand as the UAC and become the all-sports home for the football-playing members of both conferences (plus UT Arlington) while the non-football playing members of the ASUN will continue to operate after July 1, 2026 as a non-football conference under the Atlantic Sun name. The rebranding of the WAC into an all-sports UAC enabled the conference to maintain it's automatic qualifiers to NCAA championships, avoiding the customary waiting period for a new conference. Plans called for the UAC and ASUN to operate as a "consortium" under ASUN commissioner Jeff Bacon.^[96]

The Western Athletic Conference currently sponsors championship competition in 7 men's and 9 women's NCAA-sanctioned sports. Nine other schools are currently associate members in four sports.

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Western Athletic Conference which are played by WAC schools

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Western Athletic Conference which are played by WAC schools

The WAC sponsoredfootball from its founding in 1962 through the 2012 season. However, the defection of all but two football-playing schools to other conferences caused the conference to drop sponsorship after fifty-one years.^[98]

On January 14, 2021, the WAC announced its intention to reinstate football as a conference-sponsored sport at the FCS level, as well as the addition of five new members to the conference in all sports, including football.^[99] The new members announced include the "Texas Four" ofAbilene Christian University,Lamar University,Sam Houston State University, andStephen F. Austin State University, then members of theSouthland Conference, along withSouthern Utah University, currently of theBig Sky Conference. Originally, all schools were planned to join in July 2022, but the entry of the Texas Four was moved to July 2021 after the Southland expelled its departing members.^[67] The WAC also announced that it would most likely add another football-playing institution at a later date.

On the same day, news broke that theUniversity of Texas Rio Grande Valley, a non-football playing WAC member, had committed to create an FCS football program by 2024.^[100] The program will most likely compete as part of the newly-reinstated WAC football conference.

The WAC ultimately partnered with theASUN Conference to reestablish its football league, with the Texas Four being joined by three incoming ASUN members for at least the fall 2021 season in what it calls the ASUN–WAC (or WAC–ASUN) Challenge.^[74][75] The Challenge was abbreviated as "AQ7", as the top finisher of the seven teams would be an automatic qualifier for the FCS postseason.^[101] The two conferences renewed their alliance for the 2022 season, although both leagues will conduct separate conference seasons and then choose the alliance's automatic qualifier by an as-yet-undetermined process. Both the WAC and ASUN initially planned to have 6 playoff-eligible teams in 2022, but each lost such a member with the start of FBS transitions by Jacksonville State and Sam Houston.

The WAC had been speculated to move back up toFBS following the reestablishment of the football conference at the FCS level.^[102]

As noted previously, further conference realignment led to a full merger of the ASUN and WAC football leagues, with the newUnited Athletic Conference having started play in 2023.

WAC tournament

Rivalries

Men's basketball rivalries involving WAC teams include:

Awards

WAC tournament

Rivalries

Women's basketball rivalries involving WAC teams include:

The WAC has claimed seven NCAA baseball national championships. The most recent WAC national champion is the2008 Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team.

WAC tournament

Source:^[106]

• For the sports in which the WAC recognizes both regular-season and tournament champions:
  • (RS) indicates regular-season champion.
  • (T) indicates tournament champion.
• For other sports, only a tournament champion is recognized.
• Champions from a previous school year are indicated with the calendar year of their title.

The following teams have wonNCAA national championships while being a member of the WAC:

• Arizona –baseball (1976)
• Arizona State – baseball (1965,1967,1969,1977)
• BYU –men's track & field (shared the national title in 1970)
• BYU –men's golf (1981)
• BYU –women's cross country (1997)
• Fresno State –softball (1998)
• Fresno State – baseball (2008)
• Rice – baseball (2003)
• UTEP – NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country (1969, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981)
• UTEP – NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field (1974,1975,1976,1978,1980,1981,1982)
• UTEP – NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field (1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982)
• UNLV –men's golf (1998)

The WAC has also produced oneAP national champion in football:

• BYU (1984)

The following teams wonAIAW (and forerunner DGWS)women's national championships while their universities were members of the WAC:

• Arizona State (15) – swimming (8), badminton (4), softball (2), golf (1)
• Utah (3) – cross country (Div. II), gymnastics, skiing
• UTEP (1) – indoor track and field

Total revenue includes ticket sales, contributions and donations, rights/licensing, student fees, school funds and all other sources including TV income, camp income, food and novelties. Total expenses includes coaching/staff, scholarships, buildings/ground, maintenance, utilities and rental fees and all other costs including recruiting, team travel, equipment and uniforms, conference dues and insurance costs.

Departing members in pink.

Commissioner's Cup

The WAC awards its Commissioner's Cup to the school that performs the best in each of the conference's 19 men's and women's championships.

Joe Kearney Award

Named in honor of former WAC commissioner Dr.Joseph Kearney, the awards are given annually to the top male and female WAC athlete. The various WAC member institutions Athletics Directors select the male award winner, while the WAC member institutions Senior Women's Administrators choose the female honoree.

Stan Bates Award

The award is named in honor of former WAC CommissionerStan Bates and honors the WAC's top male and female scholar-athletes, recognizing the recipients' athletic and academic accomplishments. In addition, the awards carry a $3,000 postgraduate scholarship.

In 2014–15, the WAC initiated a new digital network to give fans high quality streaming internet access to many of its regular season games and postseason championships including volleyball, soccer, swimming and diving, basketball, softball and baseball.^[122]

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