Heart Of America Conference Announces Two New 2024 Football Members

The Heart of America Athletic Conference has announced the addition of the St. Ambrose University and William Woods University football programs as Associate Members to the conference. Both programs will join the Heart in the sport of football in the fall of 2024.

The St. Ambrose Fighting Bees of Davenport, Iowa are a long-established program and has been competing as a football program in the Mid-States Football Association Midwest.  William Woods, in Fulton, Missouri, announced the creation of a football program in May.  The 2024 season will be their first year of competition in football.

The Heart will now feature seven teams in the Heart North and seven in Heart South, becoming the largest football conference in the NAIA:

2024 Heart North Division:

Grand View University
William Penn University
Peru State College
St. Ambrose University
Graceland University
Culver-Stockton College
Clarke University

2024 Heart South Division

Baker University
Benedictine College
William Woods University
Central Methodist University
Missouri Valley College
Missouri Baptist University
MidAmerica Nazarene University