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The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. One rule that is common to all UAA schools is that no university awards athletic scholarships.1 Member teams
- (Each university is followed by its sports nickname in parentheses.)
- Brandeis University (the Judges)
- Carnegie Mellon University (the Tartans)
- Case Western Reserve University (the Spartans)
- Emory University (the Eagles)
- New York University (the Violets)
- University of Chicago (the Maroons)
- University of RochesterLocated in Rochester, New York and founded in 1850, the University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian institution. A member of the Association of American Universities, Rochester offers degree programs at the bachelor's, master's, a (the Yellowjackets)
- Washington University in St. LouisWashington University in St. Louis Motto''Per veritatem vis (Strength through truth) Established 1853 School type Private Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton Location St. Louis, MO, USA Enrollment 7,188 undergraduate,5,832 graduate Faculty 2,911 Endowment US$3. (the Bears)
All of the universities listed above are founding members except Brandeis. Johns Hopkins UniversityThe Johns Hopkins University is a prestigious private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. Hopkins holds many "firsts" in American education: it was the first university in the United States to put an emphasis on research, founde was a founding member, but no longer participates in the UAA.
2 Sports
The UAA sanctions competition in the following sports:
2.1 Men
- BaseballBusch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. Baseball is a team sport in which a small hand-sized ball is thrown and hit with a bat. Scoring involves running and touching markers on the ground called bases, hence the name. The ball itself is also called a base
- BasketballBasketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing the ball through a basket. Basketball is highly suited to viewing by spectators, as it is primarily an indoor sport, played in a relatively small playing ar
- Cross Country
- FencingFencing encompasses any system of sword-based offense and defense but is most commonly used to denote styles of European origin. Today it can be considered to refer to the European martial art of swordplay, Olympic sport-fencing, stage-fencing or academic
- FootballAmerican football known in the United States simply as football is a competitive team sport that rewards players' speed, agility, skill, tactics, and brute strength as they run and throw a ball, and block, tackle, and outrun each other, trying to force th
- Golf
- Soccer
- Swimming & Diving
- Tennis
- Track & Field
- Wrestling
2.2 Women