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Lindenwood-Belleville to Compete in USCAA
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| 08/21/2009 |
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The new athletics department at Lindenwood University in Belleville, which is starting with men’s and women’s soccer programs next fall, will compete in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA).
The USCAA is a national organization that exists to provide quality athletic competition on a regional and national level for smaller institutions of higher learning and their student-athletes. The goal of the organization is to provide opportunities for small colleges to compete on an equal level of competition with schools of like size and athletic programs.
The USCAA currently has 65 members in 24 states stretching across the nation. The organization sponsors national championships in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball (Division I and II in men’s basketball), men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, men’s golf, and women’s volleyball.
Two other Illinois universities compete in the USCAA--Robert Morris-Lake County and Robert Morris-Springfield. Six other schools come from states that border Illinois in Indiana Northwest, St. Catherine (Ky.), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.), Silver Lake (Wisc.), Spalding (Ky.), and Taylor-Ft. Wayne (Ind.).
Dan Hogan will be the first head coach of the Lindenwood-Belleville soccer teams. Hogan, a former collegiate player at Belleville Area College (now Southwestern Illinois College), has been a college coach for 20 years. He coached at Ottawa University from 1989-90, Columbia College from 1991-99, and the University of Southern Indiana from 2000-08. At Columbia, he led the Cougars to three conference championship titles and nine appearances in the regional tournament. Hogan’s Southern Indiana squads appeared in three Great Lakes Valley Tournaments, including reaching the finals in 2002.
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