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| Established: | 2001 |
| Members: | 24 |
| Sport: | College ice hockey |
| League: | ACHA Division III |
| Region: | Mid-Atlantic/Southeast |
| States: | Maryland Washington, DC Virginia North Carolina South Carolina |
| Headquarters: | Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Commissioner: | Brian Meyers |
| Website: | http://echahockey.pointstreaksites.com/view/echahockey/ |
The East Coast Collegiate Hockey Association (ECCHA) was an ACHA college ice hockey conference in the Southeast region of the United States.
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The ECCHA was created in August of 2001 as Blue Ridge Hockey Conference or BRHC by eight collegiate hockey programs in Virginia and North Carolina. It was originally created as an ACHA Division III spin-off of the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League (ACCHL), which competed at the Division II level. The original intent of the BRHC was to house newer and/or less organized programs until they demonstrated enough success to be promoted to the ACCHL. However, after a few years, the BRHC separated from the ACCHL and became its own stand-alone league.
The BRHC has advanced four of its members to the ACHA National Tournament since 2003.
As of the summer of 2017, the BRHC was restructured to form the East Coast Collegiate Hockey Association with the intent to improve the quality of its brand of ACHA Division III hockey in the mid-Atlantic and Southern region. The league transitioned back into the ACCHL for the start of the 2019-2020 season. [1]