Intercollegiate competition has been a cornerstone of organized
athletics in the United States of America for over 100 years. Through
collegiate athletics millions of students have been provided with the
opportunity to participate in the sport of their choice during college,
not only recreationally, but as a developmental ground for
Olympic-caliber athletes. Until the late fall of 2005 there had been no
concerted effort on the part of triathlon's national governing body to
facilitate the development of the sport of triathlon at the collegiate
level (an annual National Collegiate Championship notwithstanding). As
such in the spring of 2006, California and western Nevada, representing
over 500 student-triathletes, banded together to develop the basic
structure for intercollegiate competition for the sport of triathlon.
The result was the birth of the West Coast Collegiate Triathlon
Conference (WCCTC) which successfully completed the first collegiate
races series in the spring of 2006. In response to the WCCTC's highly
successful inaugural season, the MWCTC has formed in the hopes of
extending the intercollegiate triathlon racing to the Midwestern USA
and beyond. In 2009 the MWCTC grew to more than 34 Collegiate
Clubs. From the large size, the conference was split into two
Conferences, thus forming the MECTC in April 2010.
The Mideast Collegiate Triathlon Conference (MECTC), founded in 2010,
is an association of colleges and universities located in the
Mideastern United States of America. The MECTC is officially recognized
as the governing body for the sport of triathlon at the collegiate
level in the Mideastern United States of America by United States of
America Triathlon (USAT), the national governing body of triathlon in
the United States of America. The offices of the MECTC are currently
located in Dayton, Ohio USA. |
The MECTC at the 2012 USAT Collegiate National Championship
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The Mission of the Mideast
Collegiate Triathlon Conference is to promote and grow collegiate
triathlons throughout the Mideast Region by providing its triathletes
with racing and networking opportunities while embracing the higher
ideals of sportsmanship and athletic excellence of USA Triathlon.
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