West Virginia State Leaves WVIAC, Bluefield State Remains
Written by HBCU Digest, Posted in Bluefield State College, Sports, West Virginia, West Virginia State University
Nine schools, including West Virginia State University, have announced their departure from the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to start a regionally-based all sports conference. Bluefield State College, one of the six teams remaining in the WVIAC, has made no comment or commitment to joining the new conference.
A joint release sent out by the nine schools on Monday said they “unanimously decided that it would be in the best interests of its institutions to pursue the formation of a new athletic conference.”
They plan to develop a regional all-sports conference of 12 institutions — all of which will play football — that will begin competition in the fall of 2013.
