Southern Conference Announces 2012-13 Championships Schedule

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The Southern Conference has announced the dates and sites for each of its 18 championships for the 2012-13 season.

The league's championship calendar gets underway on October 27 as The Citadel hosts the men's and women's cross country championship at Laurel Hill Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.

After first round matches on October 28, the semifinals and championships of women's soccer will be hosted by Samford in Birmingham, Ala., on November 2 and 4.

The men's soccer championship is moving to a new site in 2012 as the WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C., will host the semifinals and finals on Nov. 8 and 10. First round matches will be hosted by the higher seeds the previous weekend.

The final fall championship is volleyball, which will be hosted in 2012 by Davidson at Belk Arena, Nov. 17-19.

The winter sports championships begin Feb. 23-24 at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, N.C., as all of the league's track and field programs will convene for the indoor championship.

Two weekends after indoor track, the men's and women's basketball championships will return to Asheville, N.C., following a highly-successful event in 2012. The women's first round and quarterfinal games will be played at the Kimmel Arena March 8-9 while the semifinals and championship will be hosted at the US Cellular Center, March 10-11. The entire men's tournament runs March 8-11 at the US Cellular Center.

The SoCon's eight wrestling programs will descend on Lexington, Va., for the 2013 championship, as VMI hosts the meet for the 20^th time, dating back to the inaugural event in 1930.

The sites of the men's and women's golf championships remains unchanged from 2012. The women will tee it up on the North Course of the Moss Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Island, S.C., from April 14-16. A week later, the league's 11 men's golf teams will be competing at the Ralston Creek Course at the Daniel Island Club in Charleston, S.C., from April 21-23.

Elon is slated to host the men's and women's tennis tournaments from April 18-21 while Georgia Southern is the site of the men's and women's outdoor track and field championships on April 20-21.

The UNCG Softball Stadium in Greensboro, N.C., will host the SoCon's nine softball teams from May 8-11 while the top eight baseball teams return to Greenville, S.C., and Fluor Field for the 2013 baseball championship.

The SoCon sponsors 19 sports for its 12 member institutions and holds a championship event for each sport aside from football, which participates in the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) playoffs immediately following the regular season.