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ESPN SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH SIAC THROUGH 2027
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and ESPN have reached a multi-year rights agreement that will feature SIAC football and basketball games through 2027. “We are very proud to both continue and broaden our media relationship with ESPN to provide...
UBS partners with Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference to invest in the next generation of talent
UBS scholarship program with 14 colleges and universities, 13 of which are Historically Black Colleges & Universities (“HBCUs”), will drive financial literacy and engagement with UBS’s Tomorrow’s Talent Program New York, NY, February 23, 2021 – UBS and...
$1 MILLION GRANT HELPS 6 SIAC SCHOOLS START VARSITY MEN’S VOLLEYBALL PROGRAMS
Diversity and inclusion initiatives can come in all forms. For the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, such efforts have come as a $1 million grant from USA Volleyball and the First Point Volleyball Foundation. The conference will use the funds to start...
Academy Sports & Outdoors to Sponsor SIAC
Academy Sports + Outdoors has entered into sponsorship agreements with the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and signed on as the Official Sporting Goods and Outdoor Retailer of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC). “We are very pleased to...
Gregory Moore named to the DOUG WILLIAMS CENTER FOR RACE AND POLITICS BOARD
Doug Williams Center Names Executive Director & Inaugural Board Center moves swiftly to implement mission of promoting diversity and access for all in athletics GRAMBLING, La. – September 9, 2020 – Grambling State University has named Brandon A. Logan as Executive...
SIAC COMMISSIONER INVITED BY NEW JERSEY STATE LEGISLATURE TO TESTIFY IN CONNECTION WITH NEW JERSEY FAIR PLAY ACT
ATLANTA, Ga. – Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Commissioner Gregory Moore was invited to provide a testimony in connection with the New Jersey Fair Play Act (“Assembly Bill 5863”). This legislative proposal would allow student-athletes to earn...
SIAC SIGNS FIRST NCAA CONFERENCE-WIDE AGREEMENT WITH NIKE
ATLANTA, Ga. – The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC), BSN Sports and Nike have entered into a six-year agreement which will make Nike the exclusive apparel, accessory, and equipment brand of the SIAC. The agreement will begin January 2018. “As one of...
ESPN’S UNDEFEATED: THE SIAC CONTINUES TO INNOVATE NOT ONLY ON THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SIDE, BUT ON THE DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA SIDE
Despite the doomsday scenarios that say the bottom is falling out within athletic departments at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) is pursuing several groundbreaking initiatives and continuing...