TRAFFORD, Pa. (pacathletics.org) - With a 12th program joining the conference in 2025-26, the Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) has announced women’s volleyball, men’s basketball and women’s basketball divisional play beginning in the fall of 2025.
On April 23rd, 2024, the PAC announced Hiram College would return to the PAC and begin full athletic competition in the 2025-26 season, giving the conference 12 members. This will allow the league to form six-team North and South Divisions with crossover games beginning in 2025-26.
Below will be the PAC divisions for women’s volleyball and men’s and women’s basketball, beginning in the 2025-26 academic year:
| PAC North Division |
| School |
| Allegheny College |
| Geneva College |
| Grove City College |
| Hiram College |
| Thiel College |
| Westminster College |
| PAC South Division |
| School |
| Bethany College |
| Chatham University |
| Franciscan University |
| Saint Vincent College |
| Washington & Jefferson College |
| Waynesburg University |
Each sport will have a two-division, 16-game conference schedule that has teams playing two matches/games (home-and-home) with the other five teams in their division (10 total contests) and one against each of the six teams (three home/three away) in the other division (six contests). All matches/games will count in the league standings.
There will continue to be PAC Tournaments following the regular season in all three sports to determine the conference champion and recipient of the PAC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The new conference playoff format will be finalized during the 2024-25 academic year. The current six-team tournament format will remain in place for all three sports through the 2024-25 academic year.
As in past years, all match/game dates can be moved by mutual agreement between the two competing schools. Also, in the case of volleyball, schools are permitted to jointly bring in a third non-conference team to have a tri-match on a conference date.
The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC), built on the basic belief that an athletic program is an integral part of college life but not an entity, looks back on over 65 years of growth and ahead to years of continued academic and athletic excellence. The league's name clearly reflects its founding principle that operational control of all aspects of intercollegiate athletics is ultimately the responsibility of the presidents of each member institution, and thus active presidential leadership and oversight is paramount in conference administration.
Staying true to its original mission of promoting intercollegiate athletics and the pursuit of academic excellence, the PAC has seen over 300 of its participating student-athletes recognized as Academic All-Americans, while the league has also produced numerous NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship winners.