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
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference
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Lincoln
Bridgeport
Chestnut Hill
Jefferson
Wilmington
Holy Family
Goldey–Beacom
Felician
Post
Caldwell
Georgian Court
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Location of CACC members: full, affiliate
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]
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 USCAA after the 2024–25 academic year.
Member schools
Current members
The CACC currently has 11 full members, all are private schools:
↑ 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.[5]
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
1 2 De facto Division I sport. The NCAA conducts combined national championships open to Division I and Division II members in both women's ice hockey and men's volleyball.
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