Newman University in Wichita will be an associate member of the MIAA in wrestling beginning next season. The Jets join Nebraska-Kearney, Central Missouri, Central Oklahoma, Fort Hays State, Lindenwood and Truman as wrestling schools in the conference. Truman, who is leaving the league at the end of the school year, will remain as an associate member in wrestling for 2013-14.

The conference also announced that the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota will become an associate member in men’s soccer beginning in the fall of 2013. MIAA members that currently sponsor men’s soccer include Harding, Fort Hays State, Lindenwood,  Northeastern State and Southwest Baptist. Southern Nazarene and Upper Iowa are associate members.

In 2013 MIAA men’s soccer teams will play a modified round robin schedule of 10 league games.  The top four regular season finishers qualify for the MIAA post-season tournament that will be held in Olathe, Kan., Nov. 7 and 9, 2013.