Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
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| File:Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference logo.svg | |
| Association | NCAA |
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| Founded | 1961 |
| Commissioner | Daniel Mara (since 2006) |
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| Division | Division II |
| No. of teams | 11 (12 in 2026) |
| Headquarters | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Region | Atlantic Coast |
| Official website | caccathletics.org |
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The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (or CACC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Its eleven member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
The CACC was founded in 1961 as an athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and later joined the NCAA in 2002 on provisional status. The CACC Conference Office has been located in New Haven, Connecticut since 2004, the same year that it upgraded to full active status. The CACC has three full-time staff members and one part-time.[1]
History
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Recent events
[edit | edit source]On August 2, 2022, the CACC announced that it added bowling, a women-only sport in the NCAA, that began in the 2023 spring season (2022–23 academic year), with full members Bloomfield, Caldwell, Chestnut Hill, Felician, Holy Family, and Wilmington as the inaugural teams. All but Holy Family, which launched its varsity team in 2022–23, had previously been affiliates of the East Coast Conference in that sport.[2]
On November 28, 2023, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania accepted an invitation to join the CACC as an associate member in baseball and women's soccer, beginning the 2024–25 academic year.[3]
On November 6, 2025, Monroe University will join the CACC in the 2026–27 academic year, pending its acceptance into Division II.[4]
Chronological timeline
[edit | edit source]- 1961 – The Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) was founded. Charter members included Bloomfield College (now Bloomfield College of Montclair State University), Adelphi Suffolk College (later Dowling College), The King's College, the C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Southampton College of Long Island University, Marist College (now Marist University), Monmouth College of New Jersey and Nyack College (later Alliance University), beginning the 1961–62 academic year.
- 1965 – St. Thomas Aquinas College joined the CACC in the 1965–66 academic year.
- 1981 – Marist left the CACC to join the Division I ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the ECAC Metro Conference (now known as the Northeast Conference) after the 1980–81 academic year.
- 1982 – Dominican College of New York (now Dominican University New York) joined the CACC in the 1982–83 academic year.
- 1983 – Georgian Court College (now Georgian Court University) joined the CACC in the 1983–84 academic year.
- 1985 – Monmouth (N.J.) left the CACC to fully align with the NCAA Division I ranks and join the ECAC Metro after the 1984–85 academic year.
- 1987 – Caldwell College (now Caldwell University) and Post College (now Post University) joined the CACC in the 1987–88 academic year.
- 1989 – Four institutions left the CACC to join their respective new home primary conferences, all effective after the 1988–89 academic year:
- Dowling, LIU Post and LIU Southampton join the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC; now known as the East Coast Conference [ECC])
- and King's College as an Independent
- 1999:
- St. Thomas Aquinas left the CACC to join the NCAA Division II ranks as an NCAA D-II Independent (which would later join the NYCAC) beginning the 2000–01 school year.) after the 1998–99 academic year.
- Felician College (now Felician University), Goldey–Beacom College, Holy Family College (now Holy Family University), the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (USP; later the University of the Sciences before being absorbed by Saint Joseph's University in 2022) and Wilmington College of Delaware (now Wilmington University) joined the CACC in the 1999–2000 academic year.
- 2000 – The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) joined the CACC in the 2000–01 academic year.
- 2002 – The CACC was granted provisional membership status within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II ranks, transitioning from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), beginning the 2002–03 academic year.
- 2004 – The CACC had achieved full membership status within the NCAA Division II ranks in the 2004–05 academic year.
- 2005 – Philadelphia University (now Thomas Jefferson University) joined the CACC in the 2005–06 academic year.
- 2006 – NJIT left the CACC to join the NCAA Division I ranks as an NCAA D-I Independent after the 2005–06 academic year.
- 2007 – Chestnut Hill College joined the CACC in the 2007–08 academic year.
- 2009 – Concordia College of New York joined the CACC in the 2009–10 academic year.
- 2017 – The CACC began sponsoring men's lacrosse, with play starting in the 2018 spring season (2017–18 academic year).
- 2021 – Concordia (N.Y.) left the CACC as the school announced that it would close at the end of the 2020–21 academic year.
- 2022:
- USciences left the CACC when it merged into Saint Joseph's University at the end of the 2021–22 academic year.
- The University of Bridgeport joined the CACC in the 2022–23 academic year.
- The CACC began sponsoring bowling, a women-only sport in the NCAA, with play starting the 2023 spring season (2022–23 academic year), with full members Bloomfield, Caldwell, Chestnut Hill, Felician, Holy Family, and Wilmington as the inaugural teams. All but Holy Family, which launched its varsity team in 2022–23, had previously been affiliates of the East Coast Conference in that sport.
- 2023 – Alliance left the CACC as the school announced that it would close at the end of the 2022–23 academic year.
- 2024 – Lincoln University of Pennsylvania joined the CACC as an associate member for baseball and women's soccer in the 2024–25 academic year.
- 2025 – Bloomfield left the CACC and the NCAA to join the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) as an Independent after the 2024–25 academic year.
- 2026 – Monroe University will join the CACC, beginning the 2026–27 academic year; pending its acceptance into NCAA Division II.
Member schools
[edit | edit source]Current members
[edit | edit source]The CACC currently has 11 full members, all are private schools:
- Notes
- ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
- ^ This institution was a women's college, but has since then been a co-educational institution, therefore it does compete in some men's sports (Georgian Court since 2013–14).
- ^ Jefferson joined the CACC as Philadelphia University. In 2017, PhilaU merged with Thomas Jefferson University, a healthcare-only institution with no athletic program, with the merged institution taking the Thomas Jefferson name. The former PhilaU athletic program has since competed as the Jefferson Rams.[6]
Future members
[edit | edit source]| Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joining[a] | Colors | Primary conference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe University | New Rochelle, New York | 1933 | For-profit | 7,924 | Mustangs | 2026 | Independent (NJCAA Region XV) |
- Notes
- ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
Associate members
[edit | edit source]| Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined[a] | Colors | CACC sport(s) |
Primary conference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln University | Chester County, Pennsylvania | 1854 | State-related (HBCU) |
1,848 | Lions | 2024 | Baseball | Central (CIAA) | |
| 2024 | Women's soccer |
- Notes
- ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
Former members
[edit | edit source]The CACC had twelve former full members; all but two were private schools.
- Notes
- ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
- ^ Represents the calendar year when spring sports competition ends.
- ^ Formerly known as Nyack College until 2022.
- ^ Bloomfield was a private institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) when it joined the CACC. In 2023, it agreed to a merger with Montclair State University, who subsequently assumed control of the college.
- ^ Currently a USCAA athletic conference.
- ^ Concordia (N.Y.)'s campus was later sold to nearby Iona College (now Iona University).[7]
- ^ a b c d Currently an NCAA Division I athletic conference.
- ^ Long Island University merged the Post athletic program with the NCAA Division I program of its Brooklyn campus in 2019. The merged program inherited the Division I membership of the Brooklyn campus, and now competes in the Northeast Conference as the LIU Sharks.
- ^ Currently known as Marist University since 2025.
- ^ Marist was a Catholic institution operated by the Marist Brothers when it joined the CACC. In 1969, control of the college was transferred from the order to a separate organization primarily staffed by laypeople. Marist is now officially nonsectarian, but it was not treated as such by the Catholic Church until 2003, long after leaving the CACC.
- ^ USciences merged with Division I Saint Joseph's University and discontinued athletics following the 2021–22 school year.
- ^ LIU Southampton's campus was later sold to Stony Brook University in 2006.[8]
Membership timeline
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Sports
[edit | edit source]| A divisional format is used for baseball, men's & women's basketball, and volleyball. In baseball, Georgian Court is placed in the North Division. | |
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Men's sponsored sports by school
[edit | edit source]- ^ Affiliate member Lincoln.
Women's sponsored sports by school
[edit | edit source]Other sponsored sports by school
[edit | edit source]| School | Men | Women | |||||||||||||
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| Football | Ice hockey |
Swimming & diving |
Tennis | Track & field indoor |
Volleyball [a] | Wrestling | Golf | Gymnastics | Ice hockey[a] |
Rowing | Swimming & diving |
Track & field indoor | |||
| Bridgeport | NE-10 | GEC | NE-10 | ||||||||||||
| Chestnut Hill | PSAC | ||||||||||||||
| Dominican | ECC | ||||||||||||||
| Felician | NE-10 | IND | NE-10 | ||||||||||||
| Georgian Court | ECC | ECC | |||||||||||||
| Holy Family | ECC | ECC | |||||||||||||
| Jefferson | PSAC | NE-10 | IND | ||||||||||||
| Post | NE-10 | NE-10 | ECC | IND | NEWHA | ECC | |||||||||
References
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External links
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