Cleveland, OH - The National Association for Athletics Compliance (NAAC) announced a three-year partnership with ACS Athletics which began at the 2008 NAAC Convention. Throughout the partnership, ACS Athletics will be known as the "Official Technology Consultant" to NAAC.

As part of the partnership, ACS Athletics will be a major sponsor of NAAC's Annual Convention and will provide consultant services to NAAC on technology and marketing related opportunities. As the official technology consultant of NAAC, ACS Athletics launched NAAC Connections, on on-line message board for NAAC members, on July 1. Throughout the partnership, ACS Athletics will work with NAAC to provide webinars for online meetings and presentations.

"The ACS Athletics partnership is a great fit for NAAC as we move forward with our newly formed goals and initiatives over the course of the next few years," stated NAAC President Judy Van Horn, associate athletics director/senior woman administrator at the University of Michigan. "With the launch of NAAC Connections earlier this month, we now have the opportunity to reach out to our members and interact with compliance professionals on a whole new level."

The 2009 NAAC Convention will include programming and professional development for compliance professionals and will take place June 17-18, 2009, at the World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, Florida. For more information on NAAC, please visit www.naaccompliance.com.

"ACS Athletics is thrilled to be the title sponsor for the 2008-2010 NAAC Annual Conventions," said Phillip Engle, President and CEO of ACS Athletics. "Partnering with the NAAC gives us the opportunity to provide consultative and technology services to the association that will improve their operations and memberships services while enhancing the ACS Athletics brand among athletics administrators, coaches and compliance staffs across the country."

"The success of ACS Athletics is built upon our commitment to help intercollegiate athletic departments improve institutional control and productivity by empowering stakeholders across a department to see a holistic view of student-athlete, recruiting, business and compliance-related information on one integrated technology platform. The improved control and increased efficiencies we bring our partners allow their people and operations to perform at the highest level. Partnerships with intercollegiate athletic departments and organizations like the NAAC drive our company to produce the highest quality of software solutions and provide the highest level of service to our clients," Engle said.

About NAAC: NAAC is in its 11th year and serves as the professional and educational association of athletics compliance professionals. For more information about NAAC, please visit www.naaccompliance.com. NAAC is administered by NACDA. In its 44th year, NACDA is the professional and educational association for more than 6,500 college athletics administrators at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. More than 2,200 athletics administrators annually attend the NACDA Convention. Additionally, NACDA administers 11 professional associations for the separate business units that report directly to the athletics director.