The Northwest Conference (NWC) is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The conference is made up of teams mostly affiliated with the NAIA's now defunct Evergreen Conference. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Darker red states are always part of the Pacific Northwest. ...

Member teams

• George Fox University
• Lewis & Clark College
• Linfield College
• Pacific University
• Pacific Lutheran University
• University of Puget Sound
• Whitman College
• Whitworth College
• Willamette University

Member teams compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track and field and volleyball. George Fox University is a Christian university of the liberal arts, & sciences, and professional studies. ... Lewis & Clark College, a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, was founded in 1867 as Albany Collegiate Institute by a group of Presbyterian pioneers in the Willamette Valley town of Albany 46 miles south of Portland. ... Linfield is one of the oldest colleges in the west. ... Pacific University is a located in Forest Grove, Oregon about 40 minutes west of Portland, Oregon. ... The University is located near Tacoma. ... Campus Map The University of Puget Sound (UPS) is located in the North End of Tacoma, Washington. ... This article is about the college in Washington state. ... Whitworth College is an institution of higher learning located in Spokane, Washington that offers bachelors and masters degrees in a variety of academic disciplines. ... Willamette University is a private institution of higher learning located in Salem, Oregon. ... Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball at a player on the other team (the batter), who attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat that can be made out of either... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... A cross country race in Seaside, Oregon. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Softball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches (28 to 30. ... A breaststroke swimmer Swimming is a technique to move unaided through water. ... Tennis ball This article is about the sport. ... Athletics, also known, especially in American English, as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events, which can roughly be divided into running, throwing, and jumping. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams, separated by a high net, hit a ball back and forth over the net between the teams. ...

External link

• Northwest Conference Online