Brian McGee, Ph.D., QU president, will be a member of the MSFL Board of Governors. Bellarmine University was a member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) for many years before leaving the GLVC to join NCAA Division I.Ī separate press release announcing the new Midwest Sprint Football League was made available today and contains additional information about the new league, league members and sprint football. Quincy University fans are familiar with Bellarmine University, another charter member of the MSFL. The new MSFL will be only the second independent athletic league in the history of the sport to sponsor sprint football. Some CSFL member universities only offer sprint football, while others sponsor both sprint football and NCAA football in Division I or Division II. Military Academy, Cornell University, Mansfield University, Alderson Broaddus University and the University of Pennsylvania. CSFL member universities include the U.S. Sprint football evolved on the East Coast and has previously been sponsored only by the Collegiate Sprint Football League (CSFL). I am excited by the opportunity for QU to support two varsity football programs and to continue our strong commitment to intercollegiate football.” “Giving underserved student-athletes an opportunity to benefit from QU’s Success by Design program and to experience an outstanding Catholic and Franciscan higher education is consistent with our mission and our values. “We believe that sprint football will address an unmet need of talented high school student-athletes in Illinois, the Tri-States, and much of Middle America,” said Brian McGee, Ph.D., QU president. QU’s other non-NCAA official sport is men’s bowling. Sprint football will also be only the second non-NCAA official sport offered by QU, an NCAA Division II institution and member of the Great Lakes Valley Conference since 1994. With the addition of sprint football, QU will become the only university in the Midwest – and one of only a handful of universities in the United States – to sponsor two separate varsity football programs. Sprint football at Quincy University will be a separate varsity sport, with its own players, coaches, practices, games and uniform designs. Quincy University already sponsors an NCAA Division II football team, which has a long history and tradition at the university. Joseph (Indiana), Fontbonne University (Missouri), Midway University (Kentucky), Quincy University (Illinois), and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (Indiana). The charter members of the MSFL are Bellarmine University (Kentucky), Calumet College of St. Quincy University will join five other private colleges and universities in the Midwest and Upper South as the charter members of a new, independent athletic conference, the Midwest Sprint Football League (MSFL). Sprint football will make varsity, intercollegiate football available to hundreds of talented players in the Midwest and Upper South who don’t currently have access to a version of the sport that matches their size, quickness and athleticism.” “The reality for many NCAA and NAIA football programs today is that relatively few of their players are a match for sprint football, given the emphasis of the NCAA and NAIA versions of the sport on strength and body weight. “Many American men who are in their late teens and early twenties and at a healthy body weight will qualify to play sprint football, especially if they are under six feet tall,” said Josh Rabe, QU director of intercollegiate athletics. Like many wrestlers, sprint football players must meet a weight limit, which in the modern form of the game is 178 pounds. The sport, which previously has only been available only at East Coast colleges and universities, uses rules typical for American football while emphasizing quickness and agility over size and strength. Sprint football has been offered at American colleges and universities as a varsity sport for nearly a century. The Hawks will begin play in an independent athletic conference for sprint football, beginning in the fall of 2022. Quincy University has announced the addition of sprint football to its current roster of 21 varsity sports.
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