The American Athletic Conference is an NCAA Division I conference that sponsors championships in 22 sports (10 men's and 12 women's). For every sport except football, the champion is determined using a postseason tournament or meet.

Members[edit]

Cincinnati

East Carolina

Florida

Old Dominion

Memphis

South Florida

SMU

Tulane

Tulsa

Sacramento State

Temple

Navy

Vanderbilt

Wichita State

UAB

Florida Atlantic

Charlotte

North Texas

Rice

UTSA

Florida International

James Madison

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– All-sports member
– All-sports member, departing
– All-sports member, arriving
– Full, non-football member
– Affiliate member (football)
– Affiliate member (other)

The American has 14 full member institutions:^[1]

• Charlotte
• East Carolina
• Florida Atlantic
• Memphis
• North Texas
• Rice
• South Florida
• SMU
  • SMU will leave The American in July 2024 to join the Atlantic Coast Conference.^[2]
• Temple
• Tulane
• Tulsa
• UAB
• UTSA
• Wichita State (non-football member)

In addition, the conference has 8 current affiliate members:^[3]

• Cincinnati (women's lacrosse)
  • Cincinnati will leave after the spring 2024 season when its primary home of the Big 12 Conference begins sponsoring women's lacrosse.^[4]
• Florida (women's lacrosse)
• FIU (men's soccer and women's swimming and diving)
• James Madison (women's lacrosse)
• Navy (football)
• Old Dominion (women's lacrosse and women's rowing)
• Sacramento State (women's rowing)
• Vanderbilt (women's lacrosse)

The American will add an affiliate member in July 2024:

• Army (football)^[5]

Former members[edit]

Six schools were formerly full members of The American:

• Cincinnati (2013–23)
• Houston (2013–23)
• Louisville (2013–14)
• Rutgers (2013–14)
• UCF (2013–23)
• UConn (2013–20)

Additionally, two schools were formerly affiliate members of the conference:

• Villanova (women's rowing, 2013–15)
• San Diego State (women's rowing, 2015–21)

Membership timeline[edit]

Full members Full members (non-football) Affiliate members (football only) Affiliate members (one sport, non-football) Affiliate members (multiple sports)

Key: MS – Men's Soccer; WSD – Women's Swimming and Diving; WR – Women's rowing; WL – Women's lacrosse

Most recent champions[edit]

2022–23[edit]

2021–22[edit]

^[3]

Baseball[edit]

Baseball is sponsored by 10 of the 14 full American Conference members. The only schools which do not sponsor baseball are North Texas, departing member SMU, Temple, and Tulsa (though Temple had a team in the 2014 season, which was dropped after that season).^[6][7]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Men's basketball[edit]

All 14 full members of The American support men's basketball, making it the only men's sport sponsored by every team in the conference.^[9]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Women's basketball[edit]

Like men's basketball, women's basketball is also sponsored by all 11 full members of the conference.^[10] It is also played by all six schools joining The American in 2023–24.

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Men's cross country[edit]

Men's cross country is supported by 12 of the 14 American Conference teams, with the only exceptions being UAB and departing member SMU.^[11]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Women's cross country[edit]

Unlike men's cross country, women's cross country is sponsored by every full member of the conference.^[11]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Football[edit]

Football is sponsored by every full member of The American except for Wichita State. Affiliate member Navy also plays football in the conference, and Army becomes a football affiliate in 2024.^[12]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Men's golf[edit]

Tulane and Tulsa are the only schools in the conference that do not sponsor men's golf, though Tulsa did until the 2016 season.^[13][14]

†: No longer members of the conference ^[3]

Women's golf[edit]

Rice and Temple are the only full members of the conference that do not sponsor women's golf.^[13]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Women's lacrosse[edit]

Only two full members of the conference offer women's lacrosse, which the conference began sponsoring in 2019. Those schools are East Carolina and Temple. Five affiliate members play women's lacrosse in the AAC: Cincinnati, Florida, James Madison, Old Dominion, and Vanderbilt.^[15] South Florida has announced plans for a women's lacrosse team to begin play in the 2024 season (later pushed back to 2025).^[16] None of the six schools that joined the conference in 2023–24 sponsored women's lacrosse, though Charlotte has announced that it will have a team beginning in 2025. Cincinnati remained an affiliate member of The American for women's lacrosse after otherwise joining the Big 12, which at the time did not sponsor the sport.^{[17] [18]} Cincinnati will leave after the 2024 season when the Big 12 adds women's lacrosse as a sponsored sport.

^[3]

Women's rowing[edit]

4 full members offer women's rowing: SMU, Temple, Tulsa, and UCF. They are joined by affiliate members Old Dominion and Sacramento State.^[19] Villanova competed as an affiliate member in rowing from 2013 to 2015 before leaving for the Colonial Athletic Association (now known as the Coastal Athletic Association) and San Diego State competed as an affiliate member in rowing from 2015 to 2021 but discontinued their program because of financial difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. None of the six schools that joined The American in 2023–24 sponsor the sport.

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Men's soccer[edit]

Men's soccer is offered by 8 full members of the conference: Charlotte, FAU, Memphis, South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulsa, and UAB; it is also sponsored by affiliate member FIU.^[20] Cincinnati also had a men's soccer team before cutting it in April 2020.^[21] Charlotte, FAU, FIU and UAB joined the conference in 2022–23 as affiliate members for men's soccer. This was one year before those schools (besides FIU) joined as full members.^[22]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Women's soccer[edit]

Women's soccer is sponsored by every school in the conference except Tulane and Wichita State.^[23]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Softball[edit]

Softball is sponsored by 10 of the 14 schools in the conference, the exceptions being Rice, departing member SMU, Temple, and Tulane (though Temple sponsored it until 2014).^[24][7]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Men's swimming and diving[edit]

The American dropped men's swimming & diving after the 2022–23 season. Of the conference's 14 members in 2023–24, only Florida Atlantic and departing member SMU offer men's swimming and diving.^[26] East Carolina competed in the sport until 2020 but eliminated the program in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[27] Both FAU and SMU joined the ASUN Conference for that conference's inaugural swimming & diving season in 2023–24, with SMU moving from there to the ACC in 2024–25.

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Women's swimming and diving[edit]

The conference features 7 women's swimming and diving teams: full members FAU, East Carolina,^[a] North Texas, Rice, SMU, and Tulane plus affiliate member FIU.^[26] FAU, North Texas, and Rice joined as affiliate members along with FIU in 2022–23, the year before the former three joined the conference as full members. Note: Rice only competes in swimming, not diving.^[22]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Men's tennis[edit]

Every school in The American apart from East Carolina and North Texas offers men's tennis; though East Carolina offered the sport until 2020 when it was dropped due to budget concerns brought on by the COVID-19.^[27][29]

†: No longer members of the conference ^[3]

Women's tennis[edit]

All current American Conference schools sponsor women's tennis.^[a][30]

†: No longer members of the conference ^[3]

Men's track and field[edit]

Men's indoor[edit]

Men's indoor track & field is sponsored by seven AAC schools: Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, Tulsa, and Wichita State.^[31] Of the members joining in 2023–24, it is sponsored by Charlotte, North Texas, Rice, and UTSA. Temple sponsored the sport in 2014 but dropped it after that season.^[7]

Men's outdoor[edit]

Men's outdoor track and field is sponsored by all the same schools that sponsor men's indoor track and field with the addition of Tulane.^[32] It is sponsored by the same four future members that sponsor indoor track and field. Like with men's indoor track and field, Temple sponsored men's outdoor track and field until 2014.^[7]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Women's track and field[edit]

Every school in the conference sponsors both indoor and outdoor women's track and field.^[31][32]

Women's indoor[edit]

Women's outdoor[edit]

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Volleyball[edit]

Every American Conference school sponsors women's volleyball.^[33] No conference member sponsors men's volleyball.

†: No longer members of the conference

^[3]

Summary[edit]

Note: Shared titles (ex: 2014 football, 2020 men's basketball) are counted as a full title for each co-champion.

Accurate as of June 14, 2023.

*- Does not include vacated championships

†- No longer a member of the AAC

‡- Affiliate member

See also[edit]

• American Athletic Conference
• American Athletic Conference baseball tournament
• American Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament
• American Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament
• American Athletic Conference Football Championship Game
• American Athletic Conference men's soccer tournament
• American Athletic Conference women's soccer tournament
• American Athletic Conference softball tournament

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• American Athletic Conference website