THE MOUNTAIN PACIFIC SPORTS FEDERATION
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The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) was established in 1992-1993 to serve the competitive needs of member institutions from the Big West, Pacific-10 (now the Pac-12) and Western Athletic Conferences, as well as other selected universities in the western United States; and to provide championship competition for Division-I Intercollegiate Olympic sports in a conference setting. The founding principles on which the MPSF was originally formed were to provide enhanced competition and championship opportunities for sports without conference affiliation, to contain the costs of competition, and to ensure the survival of endangered sports. The MPSF has also served as an incubator for emerging women's sports and as a safe harbor for sports impacted by conference realignments. Since its inaugural season, the MPSF has seen its charter conference membership grow by the addition of the Mountain West and West Coast Conferences and their respective member institutions, as well as the addition of women's water polo, women's gymnastics, fencing, artistic swimming, beach volleyball, men's rowing, men's and women's swimming and diving, and men's and women's wrestling. As a testament to its viability, the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation continues to successfully navigate the ever-changing sea of college sports by fostering contraction and expansion of its sports portfolio to meet the dynamic needs of its members. As the MPSF is in its 34th season during the 2025-26 academic year and continues its legacy of championship competition, it affirms the vision of its founders and the relevance of its founding principles.
In 2025-26, the MPSF will sponsor competition in 16 Intercollegiate Olympic sports, while serving 109 teams from 65 universities across 24 states. MPSF teams compete primarily at the NCAA Division-I level in men's and women's water polo, indoor track and field, gymnastics, swimming and diving, fencing, beach volleyball, men's volleyball, and field hockey. MPSF teams are eligible to compete in the NCAA Championships with men's and women's water polo, men's volleyball, and beach volleyball conference champions earning automatic qualification. Beach Volleyball, men's rowing, and men's and women's wrestling made their MPSF debuts in 2024-25, while field hockey entered the MPSF as the newest sport in the conference in the fall of 2025.
The MPSF captured four national championships during the 2024-25 athletic year. The programs from UCLA Men's Water Polo, Washington Men's Rowing, and Stanford Artistic Swimming and women's water polo brought the MPSF's total to 113 NCAA titles and a Non-Power Four Conference high of 121 overall national championships for the conference since its 1992 inaugural season. The MPSF has turned in a high of five national championships during the 2007-08, 2008-09, 2015-16, and 2023-24 years, while it has won at least four titles in 17 of the last 21 years, and at least two in all but one of its 33 years. In the spring of 2021, the MPSF became the first Non-Power Five Conference to reach the century mark in NCAA titles. With UCLA and Stanford winning water polo national championships last year, the MPSF stayed perfect with all 62 NCAA crowns in the sport since the inception of the conference (33 men, 29 women). In terms of conference titles, Oklahoma Men's Gymnastics owns a record of 20 overall MPSF Championships.
The MPSF has also been well represented in the last eight Olympic Games dating back to 1996, most recently in the 2024 Paris Olympics. A total of 138 current or former MPSF student-athletes and coaches participated and brought home a total of 59 medals, placing the MPSF fourth in both total participants and medals across all NCAA Conferences in the 33rd Olympiad. The MPSF's 59 total medals in Paris were an increase from 35 earned in the 2020 Tokyo Games.