The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the

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's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern

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in the states of

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and

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History

The most recent changes to conference membership took place in 2020, with two full members and one associate member leaving.

D'Youville College D'Youville University (D'Youville or DYU) is a private university in Buffalo, New York. It was founded as D'Youville College in 1908 and named by the Grey Nuns after the patroness saint Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. As of Fall 2020 D'Youville Col ...

began a transition to

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in the

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, and Franciscan University of Steubenville completed a multi-year transition to full membership in the D-III

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, which became a men's volleyball associate in 2018–19, left the AMCC to return to the

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, where it had played from the start of its program in the 2015–16 school year through 2017–18. Medaille College joined the entirely New York-based

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, effective the 2022–23 school year.

Wells College Wells College is a private liberal arts college in Aurora, New York. The college has cross-enrollment with Cornell University and Ithaca College. For much of its history it was a women's college. Wells College is located in the Finger Lakes ...

, current affiliate member for swimming and diving, will add men's volleyball to compete in the AMCC as an affiliate, effective the 2023 spring season (2022–23 school year). Carlow University is joining in 2023–24 from the

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but is spending its exploratory year in the prior NAIA season.

Chronological timeline

* 1997 - In 1997, the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) was founded. Charter members included

Frostburg State University Frostburg State University (FSU) is a public university in Frostburg, Maryland. The university is the only four-year institution of the University System of Maryland west of the Baltimore-Washington passageway in the state's Appalachian highlan ...

, La Roche College (now La Roche University),

Lake Erie College Lake Erie College is a private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio. Founded in 1856 as a female seminary, the college converted to a coeducational institution in 1985. As of the 2016–2017 academic year, the total enrollment was 1,177 stud ...

, Pennsylvania State University at Erie, the Behrend College (a.k.a. Penn State–Erie or Penn State–Behrend), the

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(a.k.a. Pitt–Bradford) and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg (a.k.a. Pitt–Greensburg), effective beginning the 1997-98 academic year. * 1998 - Pennsylvania State University at Altoona (a.k.a. Penn State–Altoona) joined the AMCC, effective in the 1998-99 academic year. * 2005 -

Hilbert College Hilbert College is a private Franciscan college in Hamburg, New York. The college is named after Mother Colette Hilbert of the Franciscan Sisters of Saint Joseph, who founded the school in 1957 to train teachers. Hilbert College enrolls approxim ...

and Medaille College joined the AMCC, effective in the 2005-06 academic year. * 2006 -

Mount Aloysius College Mount Aloysius College is a private Catholic college in Cresson, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1853 and is conducted under the tradition of the Sisters of Mercy. The college is located on a 193-acre campus in the Allegheny Mountains. History ...

joined the AMCC, effective in the 2006-07 academic year. * 2008 ** Lake Erie left the AMCC to join the

ranks of the

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(NCAA) as an NCAA D-II Independent (which would then later join the

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(GLIAC) a few seasons later, effective beginning the 2010-11 academic year), effective after the 2007-08 academic year. **

(now "University") joined the AMCC, effective in the 2008-09 academic year. * 2009 - Franciscan University of Steubenville joined the AMCC, effective in the 2009-10 academic year. * 2010 - Frostburg State left the AMCC to join the

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(CAC), effective after the 2009-10 academic year. * 2015 - New Jersey City University joined the AMCC as an associate member for women's bowling, effective in the 2016 spring season (2015-16 academic year). * 2017 -

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joined the AMCC as an associate member for men's volleyball, effective in the 2018 spring season (2017-18 academic year). * 2018 - Five institutions joined the AMCC as associate members:

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Thiel College Thiel College (, ) is a private college in Greenville, Pennsylvania. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is one of the smallest colleges or universities in the region with about 100 full-time and part time facult ...

and

for men's volleyball;

Saint Vincent College Saint Vincent College is a private Benedictine college in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 by Boniface Wimmer, a monk from Bavaria, it is operated by the Benedictine monks of Saint Vincent Archabbey, the first Benedictine monastery in the ...

for women's bowling; and the

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for men's & women's swimming & diving, all effective in the 2019 spring season (2018-19 academic year). * 2019 -

Alfred State College Alfred State College (ASC, SUNY Alfred, SUNY Alfred State) is a public college in Alfred, New York. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. The college, formerly the Technical College at Alfred, offers a wide variety o ...

joined the AMCC, effective in the 2019-20 academic year. * 2020 ** Two institutions left the AMCC at the end of the 2019–20 academic year. D'Youville began a transition to NCAA Division II as a new member of the

(ECC), and Franciscan, which was already a multi-sport associate member of the

(PAC), became a full member of that league. ** Also at that time, men's volleyball associate Wittenberg left to return to its previous men's volleyball home of the

. ** Two schools became associate members effective in 2020–21—Saint Vincent added men's volleyball to its AMCC associate membership, while

joined the AMCC as an associate member for men's and women's swimming & diving. * 2022 ** Medaille left the AMCC at the end of the 2021–22 academic year to join the Empire 8 Athletic Conference (Empire 8). ** Wells added men's volleyball to its AMCC associate membership, effective with the 2023 spring season (2022–23 academic year). ** Two schools announced that they would join the AMCC in 2023–24. Carlow University will join after spending its first NCAA exploratory season in the NAIA's

, and Wells will become a full AMCC member.

Member schools

Current members

The AMCC currently has eight full members, with four being part of Pennsylvania's

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, made up of state-funded but privately chartered institutions; one other public institution; and three private institutions. ;Notes:

Future members

Associate members

The AMCC currently has six associate members, all but one are

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schools:

Former members

The AMCC had four former full members, all but one were

schools: ;Notes:

Former associate members

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Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1997 till:2027 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:20 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.5,0.691,0.824) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in some sports, but not all (consider identifying in legend or a footnote) id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference where OtherC1 has already been used, to distinguish the two PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:FullxF from:1997 till:end text: La Roche (1997–present) bar:2 color:FullxF from:1997 till:end text: Penn State–Erie (1997–present) bar:3 color:FullxF from:1997 till:end text: Pittsburgh–Bradford (1997–present) bar:4 color:FullxF from:1997 till:end text: Pittsburgh–Greensburg (1997–present) bar:5 color:FullxF from:1997 till:2010 text: Frostburg State (1997–2010) bar:5 color:OtherC1 from:2010 till:2019 text: CAC bar:5 color:OtherC2 from:2019 till:end text: MEC bar:6 color:FullxF from:1997 till:2008 text: Lake Erie (OH) (1997–2008) bar:6 color:OtherC1 from:2008 till:2010 text: D-II Ind. bar:6 color:OtherC2 from:2010 till:2017 text:

GLIAC The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) is a competitive college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. The GLIAC was founded in June 1972. Its el ...

bar:6 color:OtherC1 from:2017 till:end text: G-MAC bar:7 color:FullxF from:1998 till:end text: Penn State–Altoona (1998–present) bar:8 color:FullxF from:2005 till:end text: Hilbert (2005–present) bar:9 color:FullxF from:2005 till:2022 text: Medaille (2005–2022) bar:9 color:OtherC1 from:2022 till:end text:

bar:10 color:FullxF from:2006 till:end text: Mount Aloysius (2006–present) bar:11 color:FullxF from:2008 till:2020 text: Franciscan (OH) (2008–2020) bar:11 color:OtherC1 from:2020 till:end text:

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bar:12 color:FullxF from:2009 till:2020 text: D'Youville (2009–2020) bar:12 color:OtherC1 from:2020 till:end text: ECC bar:13 color:AssocOS from:2015 till:end text: New Jersey City (2015–present) bar:14 color:AssocOS from:2017 till:end text: Hiram (2017–present) bar:15 color:AssocOS from:2018 till:end text:

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situa ...

(2018–present) bar:16 color:AssocOS from:2018 till:2020 text: SUNY Delhi (2018–2020) bar:17 color:AssocOS from:2018 till:end text: Thiel (2018–present) bar:18 color:AssocOS from:2018 till:2020 text:

Wittenberg Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, north of ...

(2018–2020) bar:19 color:FullxF from:2019 till:end text: Alfred State (2019–present) bar:20 color:AssocOS from:2020 till:end text: Saint Vincent (2020–present) bar:21 color:AssocOS from:2020 till:end text: Wells (2020–2023) bar:21 color:FullxF from:2023 till:end text:(2023–future; full) bar:22 color:FullxF from:2023 till:end text:

Carlow Carlow ( ; ) is the county town of County Carlow, in the south-east of Ireland, from Dublin. At the 2016 census, it had a combined urban and rural population of 24,272. The River Barrow flows through the town and forms the historic boundar ...

(2023–future) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1997 TextData = fontsize:M textcolor:black pos:(0,25) tabs:(400-center) text:^"Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference membership history"

Sports

The AMCC Conference sponsors championships in the following sports:

Men's sponsored sports by school

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the AMCC that are played by AMCC schools

Women's sponsored sports by school

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the AMCC that are played by AMCC schools

References

External links

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