Yesterday (11/14) at 1:19 PM, the North Star Conference on playnorthstar.com announced that the University of Jamestown would again be a part of the North Star Athletic Association for the upcoming 2024-2025 academic year.

The conference in the press release said “We are pleased to welcome the University of Jamestown back to the NSAA,” stated Dr. Alan LaFave, Chair of the NSAA Board of Presidents.  “The opportunity to re-establish some of the natural and long-standing rivalries, along with a favorable geographical footprint, will allow for an exciting and positive experience for student-athletes and their families.”

Jamestown was voted out of the GPAC by its other members back on October 11th leaving them without a conference to play in next season. UJ applied to join the NSIC at the Division II NCAA level, but if accepted into the conference, that move would not come until 2025-2026. They will find out by the end of the month whether or not that move will happen but in the meantime, Jamestown will not have to sweat the immediate future for their student-athletes next season.

Ironically, Waldorf University will leave the NSAA to join the GPAC for the 2024-2025 academic year leaving Jamestown to be the 7th team in the NSAA next academic year. Back in 2013,  Jamestown was one of the inaugural members of the North Star Conference before leaving to join the GPAC for the 2018-2019 academic year.  Jamestown’s Athletics Director Austin Hieb said to the NSAA in the release  “We’re really happy to be joining the North Star for the 2024-24 season, we’ve greatly appreciated Commissioner Ternes and Dr. LaFave’s leadership throughout this process.  We expect next year to be great for both our student-athletes and supporters.”