According their webpage, the nations oldest athletic conference is the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association and it was started in 1888.
http://miaa.org/history/index.html
Pocket Athletic Conference was created in 1938.
Sunrise Athletic Conference was created in 2002.
Dakota Athletic Conference was created in 2000.
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference was created in 1972.
The Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) was created on July 27, 2011. It was founded by seven institutions from the Midwest region of the United States looking to establish a new NCAA Division II athletic conference.
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The Big Ten Conference is an college athletic division in the United States. It is the oldest Division I athletic conference, being established in 1986, and currently has 12 members.
I'm assuming we're talking about the National Basketball Association here. I could list the names of the NCAA conferences as well, but that would take a little longer than I want to spend. Also, the names of the Conferences is pretty easy: Eastern Conference and Western Conference. For the sake of completeness, I'm assuming that the question refers to the names of the Divisions within those Conferences. The NBA is arranged as follows: EASTERN CONFERENCE - Atlantic Division, Central Division, Southeast Division WESTERN CONFERENCE - Northwest Division, Pacific Division, Southwest Division
Appalachian Athletic Conference was created in 2001.
Pocket Athletic Conference was created in 1938.
Sunrise Athletic Conference was created in 2002.
Dakota Athletic Conference was created in 2000.
Lakeland Athletic Conference was created in 1980.
25:California Collegiate Athletic AssociationCentral Atlantic Collegiate ConferenceCentral Intercollegiate Athletic Association^Conference CarolinasEast Coast ConferenceGreat American Conference^Great Lakes Football ConferenceGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference^Great Lakes Valley ConferenceGreat Northwest Athletic Conference^Gulf South Conference^Heartland ConferenceLone Star Conference^Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association^Northeast Ten Conference^Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference^Pacific West ConferencePeach Belt ConferencePennsylvania State Athletic Conference^Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference^South Atlantic Conference^Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference^Sunshine State ConferenceWest Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference^Division II Independent schools
The acronym WAC can refer to a number of things. One of them is the Western Athletic Conference. The Western Athletic Conference is an American collegiate athletic conference.
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) is America's oldest collegiate athletic conference - Founded in 1888 by Olivet College, Albion College, and Michigan State University. http://miaa.org/history/index.html The Big 10 IS the oldest Division 1 conference in the United States - Founded 1896 http://www.bigten.org/trads/big10-trads.html
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference was created in 1972.