Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference

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 twelve 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.

History

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.

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.

Chronological timeline

* 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, 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.
* 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 New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC, now known as the East Coast Conference) 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) in 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 (NY) 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.

Member schools

Current members

The CACC currently has 12 full members, all but one (Bloomfield) are private schools:

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Associate members

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Former members

The CACC had eleven former full members; all but one were private schools.

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Membership timeline

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Sports

Men's sponsored sports by school

Women's sponsored sports by school

Other sponsored sports by school

References

External links

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