Upper Midwest Athletic Conference

The College of St. Scholastica, who has won nine consecutive UMAC championships in women’s cross country, was the unanimous choice to win the conference title yet again in 2010 according to a poll of the league’s coaches. The Saints, who have claimed every UMAC trophy since 2001, earned 24 points and six first place votes in the poll.

Greenville College took the cake in the 2010 UMAC Preseason Coaches’ Poll, earning 58 points and five first place votes in the first preseason ballot to include all nine conference teams in one division.  Greenville bested second place-Martin Luther College in the poll.

All nine head football coaches from the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) were represented in Wednesday morning's online chat session, which was a prelude to the preseason coaches' poll results. 

"This Week in the UMAC" is a weekly publication of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference that is distributed on Tuesdays throughout the academic year.  This Week in the UMAC features standings, schedules, upcoming events and the conference's Player of the Week awards.

Momentum is swaying towards the College of St. Scholastica. After winning the 2009 UMAC Volleyball Tournament in November, the Saints are the league coaches’ preseason prediction to win the conference title in 2010. St. Scholastica edged last year’s regular season champion, Northwestern College, by a point in the poll, earning four first place votes.

For the first time in the history of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC), the league conducted a live online chat with all eight of its head volleyball coaches on Thursday, August 26.  Click the headline to view a replay of the chat session.

Winners of four of the last six UMAC championships, the College of St. Scholastica was the overwhelming favorite to win the conference title again in 2010, according to a preseason poll of the league’s coaches. The Saints, who won the UMAC regular season in 2007 and 2008, fell one game shy of the conference crown last season as a tie separated St. Scholastica and the University of Minnesota, Morris in the final league standings.