The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a college athletic conference whose member teams are located in the western United States. The conference participates at the NCAA Division I level.

History[link]

The MPSF was founded in 1992 and specifically created to provide an outlet for competition in non-revenue-producing Olympic sports. The MPSF conducts championships in men's soccer; men's volleyball; women's lacrosse; and indoor track, gymnastics, and water polo for both men and women. In 2010 the MPSF added Women's swimming and diving to their list of sports, and for the 2011-2012 season they have announced Men's swimming and diving will also be added.

The conference's membership varies by sport; 38 schools are MPSF members in at least one of its sponsored sports. Schools are not required to participate in the MPSF competition for each sponsored sport if their primary conference affiliation sponsors a competition in that sport (e.g. Pac-12 soccer and women's gymnastics).

The majority of MPSF members have a primary conference affiliate. Ten are members of the Pacific-12 Conference (Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State), seven are members of the Big West Conference (Cal Poly-SLO, CSU-Northridge, Long Beach State, Pacific, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara), five are members of the West Coast Conference (BYU, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine, San Diego, St. Mary's), four are members of the Mountain West Conference (Air Force, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV), three are members of the Western Athletic Conference (Fresno State, Hawaii, San Jose State), two are members of the Big Sky Conference (Northern Colorado, Sacramento State), two are members of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (Alaska-Anchorage, Seattle Pacific), one is a member of the Big 12 Conference (Oklahoma), one is a member of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (UC-San Diego) and one is a member of the Sun Belt Conference (Denver). Two school do not (as of the 2011-12 season) have a primary athletic conference (CSU-Bakersfield, Seattle).

Current members[link]

Sports sponsored by MPSF[link]

http://www.mpsports.org/members/mpsf-members.html

Conference Champions[link]

NCAA Titles (65)[link]

The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation has won 65 NCAA titles in six sports. UCLA has won 21 national titles, Stanford has won 12 titles, USC has won eight titles, California and Oklahoma have won five titles, Arizona State, Brigham Young and Oregon have won three titles, UC-Irvine and Pepperdine have won two titles and former member Nebraska has won one title.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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A sport governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sport governing bodies come in various forms, and have a variety of regulatory functions. Examples of this can include disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport which they govern. Governing bodies have different scopes. They may cover a range of sport at an international level, like the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee, or only a single sport at a national level, like the Rugby Football League. National bodies may or may not be affiliated to international bodies for the same sport. The first international federations were formed at the end of the 19th century.

Types of sport governing bodies[link]

There are many types of sport governing bodies. This is because sports have different levels of difficulty, so they can try to organise the people playing their sport by ability and by age. The different types of sport governing bodies are all shown below.

International Federations are responsible for one sport (or a group of similar sport disciplines, such as aquatics or skiing). They create a common set of rules and organise international competitions. The promotion of the sport is also a task of an international federation. Trusts are organizations or groups that have control over money that will be used to help someone else, such as the Youth Sport Trust. National Federations have the same objectives as an international federation, but within the scope of one country, or even part of a country, as the name implies. They support local clubs and are often responsible for national teams. National Olympic Committees and National Paralympic Committees are both a type of National Federation, as they are responsible for a country's participation in the Olympic Games and in the Paralympic Games respectively. However, a national governing body or NGB is different from a national federation.

Multi-sport event organizers are responsible for the organization of a certain event which contains more than one sport. The best known example is the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the organizer of the modern Olympic Games. General sports organisations are responsible for sports related topics, usually for a certain group, such as the Catholic or Jewish sports groups. General sports organisations can also exist for the army ^[1] and other groups, but they usually are medium-sized, as they do not have that much of a budget to work with.

Professional leagues are usually the highest level of play in sport, particularly if they consist of the best players around the world in a certain sport. Because of this, they usually work with national and/or international federations, but there is usually a separation between the different federations. Most professional leagues usually do not have amateur divisions, as the amateur divisions are mostly run in separate leagues.^[2] In addition, most professional leagues are related to other leagues, as players usually attempt to play in the league with the highest level of play. Because of this, promotion and relegation can occur; or, in league systems without promotion and relegation, clubs in professional leagues can have a team in the minor leagues. This enables them to shuffle players who are not doing well to the minor leagues, which will inspire them to contribute more to the team by playing better.

See also[link]

• List of international sport federations

References[link]

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Mark O'Halloran is an Irish scriptwriter and actor. He is a native of Ennis, County Clare. He has written award-winning^[1][2] screenplays for the films Adam and Paul (in which he co-starred) and Garage and the RTE mini-series Prosperity.

Awards and nominations[link]

Awards

• 2005: Gijón International Film Festival Award for Best Actor - Adam & Paul
• 2006: Evening Standard British Award for Best Screenplay - Adam & Paul
• 2008: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script for Film - Garage
• 2008: Irish Film and Television Award for Best Script for Television - Prosperity
• 2008: Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award for Best Television Script - Prosperity

Nominations

• 2004: Irish Film and Television Award Nomination for Best Script - Adam & Paul
• 2005: European Film Award Nomination for Best Screenwriter - Adam & Paul
• 2008: Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild Award Nomination for Best Film - Garage

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mark O'Halloran at the Internet Movie Database
• Prosperity official site - RTE.ie

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