The Continental Volleyball Conference is an intercollegiate men's volleyball conference associated with the

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's Division III.

History

On April 4, 2011, Gary Williams, Associate Athletic Director of

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announced in

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the formation of the Continental Volleyball Conference. The league was established as a direct result of the launch of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in the next school year of 2011–12 where the inaugural tournament was held in April 2012. With the continued growth of Division III men's volleyball, the CVC announced in March 2014 that it would split into two leagues after the 2014 season. The league's six Eastern members retained the CVC name and branding, while the six

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members, plus two other Midwestern schools that had been announced as incoming CVC members, formed a new men's volleyball conference that was later unveiled as the

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(MCVL). When the split was announced, the eastern members also added Rutgers–Newark, a Division III school which had previously played at the National Collegiate (Division I/II) level as a "grandfathered" scholarship-granting program, for the 2015 season. The conference added the newly launched men's volleyball program of Alvernia as its eighth member for the 2017 season. Further membership changes were announced in 2016. First, on October 12, the

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, whose Commonwealth Conference was the all-sports home of charter CVC member

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and new CVC member Alvernia, announced that its Middle Atlantic Conference would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2018 season, leading to the departure of those schools from the CVC. Within a week of this development, the CVC announced that Kean,

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, and

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would become new members for the 2018 season, and that Thiel would leave after that same season. Then, on November 21, Ramapo was announced as an incoming member for the 2018 season. Thiel did not initially announce its future men's volleyball affiliation, but would eventually be revealed as a new affiliate member of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference effective with the 2018–19 school year. While Thiel left after the 2018 season, the CVC added three new members for the 2019 season, all of which launched new varsity programs at that time. First, in October 2017, Randolph–Macon College was announced as an incoming member. Then, in December of that year, the CVC announced that Elizabethtown College and Immaculata University would also join. On July 1, 2018, the New Jersey Athletic Conference announced they would add men's volleyball as a sponsored sport. Kean and Rutgers–Newark maintain dual membership in the CVC and NJAC starting in 2018–19. Ramapo College left the CVC and returned to the

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; Rampo maintains dual affiliation for men's volleyball in the NJAC and Skyline. Inaugural member Cairn departed the conference for the 2019–20 academic year after the university's all-sport conference, the Colonial States Athletic Conference, announced the addition of men's volleyball as a conference sport. The CVC added another member when

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announced the addition of men's volleyball for the 2022 season. With the addition of men's volleyball in the

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, Eastern Mennonite, Randolph-Macon, and Roanoke departed the CVC after the 2024 season to participate in men's volleyball competition in their home conference. Four more members are set to depart after the 2026 season. Drew, Elizabethtown, Juniata, and Wilkes will move men's volleyball to their primary home of the Landmark Conference, which will begin sponsoring the sport in the 2027 season.

Member schools

Current members

The league currently has 8 full members. Note that because NCAA men's volleyball is a spring sport, the year of joining is the calendar year before the first season of competition.

Former members

School names and nicknames reflect those in use during the final season each school was a CVC member. In addition to the above schools, two other institutions that were adding men's volleyball for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season):

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in Illinois and Loras College in Iowa—had been announced as new CVC members. They never officially joined the CVC, instead uniting with the six Midwestern CVC schools in the MCVL.

Membership timeline

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History

Member schools

Current members

Former members

Membership timeline

Conference Tournament Champions

League titles by school

Notes

References