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Wilkes has 23 teams, 19 of which will be able to compete in the Landmark - baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, field hockey, football, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, men’s and women’s swimming, men’s and women’s tennis and women’s volleyball.

“The additions of Wilkes University and Lycoming College builds on the already strong Landmark brand while also creating new competitive opportunities and strategic goals for the league.” “This is an exciting time for the Landmark Conference, and I am humbled to lead such a strong group of institutions through this historic change,” league commissioner Katie Boldvich said. The other four members of the conference - Scranton, Drew, Elizabethtown and Goucher - do not have football programs. In football, Wilkes would compete with Lycoming, Catholic, Juniata, Moravian and Susquehanna. A recent vote by Division III schools at the NCAA convention ensures that conferences across all sports that have at least six teams will receive automatic bids to the NCAA tournament. The Landmark will have 10 total members by then, with six fielding football teams.

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Making the jump along with the Colonels from the MAC is Lycoming, a move that will enable the Landmark Conference to add football for the 2023 season. Above all else, the move will provide our student-athletes with exceptional academic and athletic experiences.” “The Landmark Conference includes schools that span from Pennsylvania to Washington D.C., presenting us with an excellent opportunity to enhance the Wilkes brand in these areas while continuing to attract the highest caliber students to our university. “Joining the Landmark Conference places Wilkes University in the company of institutions that are similar in size, scope and philosophy and that offer research intensive programs from bachelor’s through doctoral levels,” Wilkes President Greg Cant said through the school. The move will reunite the Colonels with Scranton in athletics but move them away from MAC members King’s and Misericordia. The university announced Thursday that it will leave the Middle Atlantic Conference and join the Landmark Conference for 2023-24. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.įor the first time in 75 years, Wilkes is heading to a new frontier in athletics.