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Missouri S&T began men's volleyball play in the 2023 season (2022–23 school year). Unlike all other S&T teams, men's volleyball is a de facto Division I member. The NCAA's top-level national championship in that sport is open to both D-I and D-II members, and scholarship limits are identical in both divisions. The Miners are competing as an ...
Five full GLVC members played men's volleyball in the 2024 season, with Lewis, McKendree, and Quincy in the MIVA and Maryville and Missouri S&T as independents. Rockhurst will become the sixth GLVC member to sponsor the sport in the 2025 season, and Southwest Baptist will become the seventh in the 2026 season.
In July 2024, the GLVC formally announced that it would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2026 season (2025–26 academic year), with an initial lineup consisting of full members Maryville, Missouri S&T, Quincy, Rockhurst, and Southwest Baptist, plus associate members Roosevelt University and Thomas More University.
Missouri S&T competes in 17 intercollegiate varsity sports (10 for men, 7 for women): Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, track & field (indoor and outdoor) [a] and volleyball; while women's sports include basketball, cross country, soccer, softball, track & field (indoor and outdoor), [a ...
Missouri S&T Miners: Missouri University of Science and Technology: Rolla: Great Lakes Valley: Missouri Southern Lions: Missouri Southern State University: Joplin: MIAA: Missouri Western Griffons: Missouri Western State University: St. Joseph: MIAA: Northwest Missouri State Bearcats: Northwest Missouri State University: Maryville: MIAA ...
In some sports, the NCAA only sponsors championships open to all member schools regardless of division, with examples including beach volleyball, fencing, rifle, and water polo. In men's and women's ice hockey and men's volleyball, the NCAA holds Division III championships, but does not hold a separate D-II championship.
The remaining independents began sponsoring the sport in 2017 or later: Lincoln Memorial (2017), Thomas More (2019 as an NAIA member), Tusculum (2020), Maryville (MO; 2022), and Missouri S&T (2023). Maryville and Missouri S&T, also full GLVC members, will become charter GLVC men's volleyball members in the 2026 season, with Thomas More becoming ...
Thirteen men's volleyball programs play as independents; all but one are D-II members. Maryville, Missouri S&T, and Rockhurst will leave the independent ranks after the 2025 season once their primary home of the Great Lakes Valley Conference starts sponsoring the sport, with Roosevelt and Thomas More joining them as affiliate members. [13]