The Allen University athletics will be taking a major step as the newest provisional member of NCAA Division II effective for the 2020-2021 academic year.
Allen is currently on the NAIA level with nine intercollegiate programs - football, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s and women’s track & field, and women’s volleyball and men’s wrestling.
Allen jjoined the NAIA Appalachian Athletic Conference in the fall of 2016. The move to Division II will require a three-year membership process. As far as what conference Allen University will join, the popular opinion is the SIAC where cross-street rival Benedict College currently resides.