The GSAC fall sports teams have opened the 2009 season. To see the standings, rankings, and schedules use the links at the left for men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s soccer, and volleyball. Defending NAIA Volleyball Champion Fresno Pacific is ranked No. 1 in the NAIA preseason poll and is joined by 6 other GSAC teams in the top 25. Men’s and women’s soccer each have 3 teams ranked in the Top 25 of their respective preseason polls. Cross country polls will be released on August 26.

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The NAIA-affiliated Golden State Athletic Conference decided Friday to begin gathering information regarding NCAA Division II membership.

During discussions held over two days (Aug. 6 & 7), the athletics directors of all 11 GSAC-member schools agreed to initiate fact-gathering processes particular to each campus and report their findings to the presidents of their respective institutions.

A specific timeline for the processes was not established, and neither the individual schools nor the conference as a whole are committed at this time to make application for NCAA membership. In fact, GSAC members have agreed that current on-going talks between administrative staffs of the NAIA and NCAA are important and are looking forward to an established direction of those conversations.

“We are proud members of the NAIA and are grateful for what the association has meant in the development of our conference,” said GSAC Commissioner Dr. Cliff Hamlow. “We are conducting some homework and charting our future, and nothing more should be construed by our actions. We are unique in our competitiveness and camaraderie, and it is not unusual for us to act together as a conference on a number of activities and decisions.”

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The GSAC has nearly 40 teams in 12 different sports that have qualified as NAIA Scholar Teams. To qualify a team must have a 3.0 grade point average. To see the complete list of NAIA Scholar Teams, go to www.naia.org. To see the list of GSAC teams that qualified, use the link for each sport on the left, click on Awards on the left, and scroll down to the NAIA Scholar Teams list.

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