Upper Midwest Lacrosse Conference

The Upper Midwest Lacrosse Conference (UMLC) consists of 10 Division I teams and six Division II teams, representing Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, MIchigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and Ohio.

Teams by division:

DIV I: 8

DIV II: 7

DIV III: -

Division 1

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UMLC EAST

School	Mascot	Head Coach	Location	Record	Players
Indiana	Hoosiers	Brent Balek	Bloomington, IN	2 - 2	57
Miami (Ohio)	Redhawks	Jim Kennedy	Oxford, OH	2 - 3	38
Michigan State	Spartans	Connor Konas	East Lansing, MI	3 - 3	40
Western Michigan	Broncos	Nico Kittredge	Kalamazoo, MI	1 - 2	25

UMLC WEST

School	Mascot	Head Coach	Location	Record	Players
Iowa State	Cyclones	Britt Mitchell	Ames, IA	4 - 2	33
Minnesota	Golden Gophers	Jace Childs	Minneapolis, MN	2 - 1	41
Purdue	Boilermakers	Ian Wolfe	West Lafayette, IN	0 - 3	39
University of Illinois	Fighting Illini	Joe Laird	Champaign-Urbana, IL	1 - 5	39

Division 2

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UMLC East

School	Mascot	Head Coach	Location	Record	Players
Central Michigan	Chippewas	Jordon Mireles	Mount Pleasant, MI	2 - 1	32
Dayton	Flyers	Joe Venturella	Dayton, OH	1 - 1	33
Grand Valley State	Lakers	Tim Murray	Allendale, MI	1 - 0	38

UMLC West

School	Mascot	Head Coach	Location	Record	Players
Minn.-Duluth	Bulldogs	Drake Peterson	Duluth, MN	0 - 2	25
North Dakota State	Bison	Zach Bosh	Fargo, ND	3 - 3	29
St. John's	Johnnies	Adam Benney	Collegeville, MN	3 - 2	26
St. Thomas	Tommies	Jason King	St. Paul, MN	5 - 0	45

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