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The MAAC will support 25 sports and championships
during the 2015-16 academic year, which almost
all have NCAA Championship Access through
automatic bids or regional qualifying systems.
Highlighting the MAAC’s commitment to providing a
first rate experience for its fans and student-athletes
are those championships held at the Walt Disney
World Resort ESPN Wide World of Sports.
The 2015-16 academic year represents the MAAC’s
17th year of hosting championships at the complex
where the league hosts 3 events each year. These
include one fall championship each year with all 11
member schools participating as with men’s soccer
in 2015. The sports that rotate include men’s soccer,
men’s & women’s cross country, women’s soccer,
and volleyball. In the fall of 2016, cross country
will return to the complex for its championship. The
championship operation at Disney allows the MAAC
to provide its participating student-athletes and their
families and fans a world-class sports championship
experience. The access to the playing facilities, on-
site hotels, theme parks, including an after-hours
awards banquet, are designed to provide lasting
memories as the student graduate and become
alumni of the league and its member schools.
The MAAC recently approved a new events
agreement with Disney for 2015-18, which
includes ESPN broadcasting elements for all the
championships. ESPN’s state-of-the-art studios
broadcast highlights of MAAC on-site tournaments
throughout all Disney World Resort hotel properties
as well as on ESPN3 and MAAC.TV. All MAAC
contests for Volleyball, Men’s and Women’s Soccer,
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country, and Men’s and
Women’s Golf are broadcast by ESPN’s on-site
studios. This year’s men’s soccer championships
will have its final championship game, semi-finals,
two of the quarterfinal games and two of the first
round games broadcast on ESPN3 to a national
audience available for viewing in 86 million homes
on high speed internet networks.
The MAAC has also co-hosted with ESPN since
2006 the Advocare Invitational (previously the Old
Spice Classic) at the ESPNWWS complex. This
8-team tournament is held over Thanksgiving
weekend continues to draw elite men’s basketball
teams to compete. One MAAC school is included in
the field each year and this Thanksgiving Monmouth
University will compete in this premier event.
The MAAC also hosts its Men’s & Women’s Golf
Championships at the Disney complex. The men’s
and women’s golf teams compete at PGA-caliber
courses during the spring and rotate between Palm
and Magnolia (2016) at the Arnold Palmer managed
courses. The golf hosting agreement at Disney was
recently extended through 2018 championships.
As noted before, ESPN studios in Orlando is an
important element of MAAC broadcasting efforts.
It also serves as the production site for the annual
MAAC Pre-Season Coaches Show and develops
in-season features, commercials and promotional
elements for the MAAC ESPN broadcasts and for
MAAC.TV.
During the 2012-13 season, both the Cross Country
and Golf Championships saw live coverage on
ESPN3 for the first time in MAAC history because of
the valuable partnership between the MAAC and the
Walt Disney World Resort. Also shot on site is the
annual MAAC SAAC Forum where student-athlete
leaders from all MAAC schools participate on a live
issues forum on ESPN3 form the sports complex.
THE MAAC AND THE WALT DISNEY WORLD RESORT ESPN WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS PARTNERSHIP
FUTURE DISNEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
DISNEY CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY
2015 – 2016
Men’s Soccer
◆
October 31 – November 4, 2015
Men’s & Women’s Golf
◆
April 21-24, 2016
2016 – 2017
Cross Country
◆
October 25-30, 2016
Men’s & Women’s Golf
◆
April 27-30, 2017
2017 – 2018
Women’s Soccer
◆
October 25-30, 2017
Men’s & Women’s Golf
◆
April 26-29, 2018
2018 – 2019
Volleyball
◆
November 14-18, 2018
Men’s & Women’s Golf
◆
April 25-28, 2019
Men’s Golf Champions
2000
Iona
2001
Iona
2002
Iona
2003
Loyola
2004
Loyola
2005
Loyola
2006
Siena
2007
Siena
2008
Loyola
2009
Loyola
2010
Loyola
2011
Loyola
2012
Loyola
2013
Loyola
2014
St. Peter’s
2015
St. Peter’s
Women’s Golf Champions
2000
Fairfield
2001
Siena
2002
Siena
2003
Siena
2004
Siena
2005
Siena
2006
Siena
2007
Siena
2008
Siena
2009
Siena
2010
Siena
2011
Siena
2012
Siena
2013
Butler
2014
Siena
2015
Albany
Men’s Soccer Champions
1999
Fairfield
2003
Saint Peter’s
2007
Loyola
2011
Fairfield
Women’s Soccer Champions
2001
Loyola
2005
Fairfield
2009
Loyola
2013
Monmouth
Volleyball Champions
1998
Fairfield
2002
Manhattan
2006
Siena
2010
Niagara
2014
Siena
Men’s Cross Country Champions
2000
Iona
2004
Iona
2008
Iona
2012
Iona
Women’s Cross Country Champions
2000
Marist
2004
Marist
2008
Iona
2012
Iona