Volunteer State Athletic Conference

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The Volunteer State Athletic Conference ("VSAC") was a former college athletic conference which was predominantly for smaller colleges in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

The VSAC was organized in the 1940s and dissolved in the early 1980s. Member schools were in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Long-term members of the conference included the institutions now known as Belmont University, Bethel College, Christian Brothers University, Lipscomb University, Lambuth College, Union University, Lee University, and Bryan College. The conference dissolved when the institutions in the eastern portion of the state seceded to form the short-lived Tennessee Valley Athletic Conference (TVAC). Those in the western part of the state formed in turn the Tennessee Collegiate Athletic Conference (TCAC), which was also rather short-lived. The current TranSouth Athletic Conference is sometimes regarded as something of a successor to the VSAC and its two short-lived successors.