TranSouth Athletic Conference

History

Chronological timeline

• 1996 – The TranSouth Athletic Conference was founded from mostly former members of the Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference. Charter members included Bethel College, Lipscomb University">Lipscomb University">Lipscomb University, Freed–Hardeman University, Martin Methodist College, Trevecca Nazarene University and Union University, alongside Berry College, Birmingham–Southern College, Blue Mountain College, Lee College, and Williams Baptist College beginning the 1996–97 academic year.
• 1997 – Lyon College joined the TSAC in the 1997–98 academic year.
• 1999 – Bethel left the TSAC to join the Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference after the 1998–99 academic year.
• 2001 – Three institutions left the TSAC to join their respective new home primary conferences: Birmingham–Southern and Lipscomb to the Division I ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as NCAA D-II Independents, and Williams Baptist to the American Midwest Conference, all after the 2000–01 academic year.
• 2002 – Cumberland University of Tennessee joined the TSAC in the 2002–03 academic year.
• 2003 – Athens State University joined the TSAC in the 2003–04 academic year
• 2004 – Three institutions left the TSAC to join their respective new home primary conferences: Berry and Lee to the Southern States Athletic Conference, and Athens State to discontinue athletics due to lack of sponsored sports, all effective after the 2003–04 academic year.
• 2005 – Crichton College joined the TSAC in the 2005–06 academic year.
• 2006 – Lambuth University and Mid-Continent University joined the TSAC in the 2006–07 academic year.
• 2008 – Lambuth and Victory left the TSAC to become NAIA Independents as charter members of the Association of Independent Institutions after the 2007–08 academic year. At the same time, Lambuth began transition to the NCAA Division II ranks as an NCAA D-II Independent.
• 2012 – Four institutions left the TSAC to join their respective new home primary conferences: Trevecca Nazarene to the Great Midwest Athletic Conference and Union to the Gulf South Conference, Lyon to the American Midwest, and Cumberland to the Mid-South Conference, all after the 2011–12 academic year.
• 2012 – Life University joined the TSAC in the 2012–13 academic year.
• 2013 – The TSAC would cease operations as an athletic conference after the 2012–13 academic year; as many schools left to join their respective new home primary conferences beginning the 2013–14 academic year: Freed–Hardeman and Mid-Continent to the American Midwest, Bethel, Blue Mountain and Martin Methodist to the SSAC, and Life returning as an NAIA Independent.

Member schools

Final members

Former members

Membership timeline

Sponsored sports