The America East Conference (AmEast) is a collegiate

athletic conference An athletic conference is a collection of sports teams which play competitively against each other in a sports league. In many cases conferences are subdivided into smaller Division (sport), divisions, with the best teams competing at successively ...

affiliated with

NCAA Division I NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...

whose members are located in the

Northeastern United States The Northeastern United States (also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast) is List of regions of the United States, census regions United States Census Bureau. Located on the East Coast of the United States, ...

. The conference is headquartered in

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

. Founded in 1979, the conference has nine core members including eight

public In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociology, sociological concept of the ''Öf ...

research universities A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are "the key sites of knowledge production", along with "intergenerational knowledge transfer and the ...

, three of which - the

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine, United States. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universitie ...

, the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire, United States. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant coll ...

, and the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Foun ...

- are the flagship universities of their states. Two non-flagship university centers of the

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY ) is a system of Public education, public colleges and universities in the New York (state), State of New York. It is one of the List of largest universities and university networks by enrollment, larges ...

- the

University at Albany The State University of New York at Albany (University at Albany, UAlbany, or SUNY Albany) is a Public university, public research university in Albany, New York, United States. Founded in 1844, it is one of four "university centers" of the St ...

and

Binghamton University The State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton) is a public university, public research university in Binghamton metropolitan area, Greater Binghamton, New York, United States. It is one of the four uni ...

- are in the conference along with

UMass Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a Public university, public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of M ...

New Jersey Institute of Technology New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a Public university, public research university in Newark, New Jersey, United States, with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Founded in 1881 with the support of local indust ...

(NJIT) and

Bryant University Bryant University is a private university in Smithfield, Rhode Island, United States. It has three colleges, the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Health and Behavioral Sciences, and the College of Business, and is accredited by the New E ...

. Bryant is the latest institution to join the conference in 2022, when Stony Brook University and the University of Hartford departed the conference. It is the only

private university Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. However, they often receive tax breaks, public student loans, and government grants. Depending on the count ...

among the core members. The America East Conference sponsors 18 sports (8 men's and 10 women's). The conference is among the best in the country according to Graduation Success Rate (GSR) data released by the

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates College athletics in the United States, student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, and Simon Fraser University, 1 in Canada. ...

History

The America East Conference was founded as the Eastern College Athletic Conference-North, a men's basketball-only athletic conference, in 1979. The conference was known as the Eastern College Athletic Conference-North from 1979 to 1988 and the North Atlantic Conference from 1988 to 1996. The charter members were the

University of Rhode Island The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of Rhode Island. The univer ...

, the

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by educators Benedict Joseph Fenwick and Thomas F. Mulledy in 1843 under the auspices of the Society of Jesus. ...

Canisius College Canisius University is a private Jesuit university in Buffalo, New York. It was founded in 1870 by Jesuits from Germany and is named after St. Peter Canisius. Canisius offers more than 100 undergraduate majors and minors, and around 34 ma ...

Niagara University Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in the census-designated place Niagara University, New York, in the town of Lewiston near Niagara Falls. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and ...

Colgate University Colgate University is a Private university, private college in Hamilton, New York, United States. The Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York ...

Northeastern University Northeastern University (NU or NEU) is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by the Boston Young Men's Christian Association in 1898 as an all-male instit ...

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. BU was founded in 1839 by a group of Boston Methodism, Methodists with its original campus in Newbury (town), Vermont, Newbur ...

, the

and the

. The America East Conference made history during the

2018 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament The 2018 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the men's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I college basketball national champion for the 2017–18 seas ...

on March 16, 2018, when No. 16 seed UMBC defeated No. 1 seed

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...

, marking the first time in men's tournament history that a No. 1 seed had lost to a No. 16 seed. Many other events have occurred since its formation: * Rhode Island left in 1980. * Holy Cross left in 1983. *

Siena College Siena College is a Private college, private Franciscan college in Loudonville, New York, United States. It was founded by the Order of Friars Minor in 1937 and is named after the Franciscan friar Bernardino of Siena. The college enrolls approxi ...

joined in 1984. * The

University of Hartford The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Its main campus extends into neighboring Hartford and Bloomfield. It enrolled approximately 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students as ...

joined in 1985. * The conference became an all-sports conference, named the North Atlantic Conference, in the 1988–89 season, only for Canisius, Niagara and Siena to leave after the spring of 1989 to join the

Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC, ) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I. Its current 13 full members are located in five Northeastern states: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachuse ...

(MAAC). * Colgate left in 1990 to join the

Patriot League The Patriot League is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference comprising primarily leading Private university, private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United ...

. * The

University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially known as UD, UDel, or Delaware) is a Statutory college#Delaware, privately governed, state-assisted Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Newark, Delaware, United States. UD offers f ...

and

Drexel University Drexel University is a private university, private research university with its main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Drexel's undergraduate school was founded in 1891 by Anthony Joseph Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, a financier ...

joined in 1991. *

Hofstra University Hofstra University is a Private university, private research university in Hempstead, New York, United States. It originated in 1935 as an extension of New York University and became an independent college in 1939. Comprising ten schools, includ ...

joined in 1994. *

Towson University Towson University (TU or Towson) is a public university in Towson, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1866 as Maryland's first training school for teachers, Towson University is a part of the University System of Maryland. Since its foundin ...

joined in 1995. * On July 1, 1996, the conference's name changed to its present name, the America East Conference. * During 2001, Delaware, Drexel, Hofstra and Towson left to join the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA; now the

Coastal Athletic Association The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA' ...

) while the

and

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public university, public research university in Stony Brook, New York, United States, on Long Island. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is on ...

replaced them. * The

University of Maryland, Baltimore County The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is a Public university, public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County, Maryland, Baltimore County. It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, 61 un ...

(UMBC) soon joined in 2003. * Northeastern left in 2005 to join the CAA. * Boston University left to join the

on July 1, 2013, while the

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a Public university, public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of M ...

joined from Division II. * In 2020,

(NJIT) joined from the

ASUN Conference The Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and began sponsoring football at the Division I FCS level in 2022. ...

. * In March 2022,

accepted an invitation to join the America East Conference, leaving the

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

. This move took effect on July 1. * On July 1, 2022,

left to join the all-sports Colonial Athletic Association (now the Coastal Athletic Association); it had been a member of the CAA's technically separate football arm, CAA Football, since 2013. Then-current field hockey associate

Monmouth Monmouth ( or ; ) is a market town and community (Wales), community in Monmouthshire, Wales, situated on where the River Monnow joins the River Wye, from the Wales–England border. The population in the 2011 census was 10,508, rising from 8 ...

left to join the CAA, which sponsors that sport. * In 2022, the

left the conference during its transition down to Division III. At the time this move was announced, the school's departure from the conference had been planned for 2023, but this was eventually changed to 2022. On May 6, 2021, Hartford's governing board voted to begin the process of transitioning the school from Division I to

NCAA Division III NCAA Division III (D-III) is the lowest division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that do not offer athletic scholarships to student- ...

. Under the plan, Hartford would formally apply to the NCAA for reclassification in January 2022, stop awarding athletic scholarships to incoming students from 2022–23 forward, and join an as-yet-undetermined D-III conference in 2023 before becoming a full D-III member in 2025–26. Several media reports indicated that Hartford's last year in the American East Conference would be the 2021–22 season. This was confirmed on June 21, 2022, when the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC; now known as the

Conference of New England The Conference of New England (CNE), formerly known as the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC), is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in New England in the states of ...

) announced that it would be Hartford's partner in the school's reclassification process, with the Hawks joining that league effective in 2023–24. Hartford played most of its sports in the 2022–23 season as a D-I independent. At the time, Hartford was the only private university in the conference; this status transferred to Bryant when it joined in July 2022. On July 20, 2022, the conference announced that

Merrimack College Merrimack College is a Private university, private Order of Saint Augustine, Augustinian university in North Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. It en ...

would join as a men's lacrosse member for the 2022–23 season.

Members

Current full members

Associate members

Two schools currently hold associate membership: one from California and one from Virginia ;Notes:

Former full members

Former associate members

Eight schools have had single-sport membership in the past. Three of these, Fairfield, Monmouth, and Providence, moved their America East sports into their all-sports conferences. Another such school, NJIT, left when it joined a conference that sponsored its America East sport, but returned as a full member in July 2020 (by which time the AmEast had dropped that sport). Pacific dropped its America East sport following the 2018–19 academic year due to budget cuts. Merrimack College dropped its America East sport following the 2023–24 academic year when the school joined the MAAC. Both Stanford and Cal moved their America East sports into the ACC following the 2023–24 academic year when both of the schools joined the conference.

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1000 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1979 till:2029 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:AssocF from:1979 till:1980 text:

Rhode Island Rhode Island ( ) is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Is ...

(1979–1980) bar:1 shift:(120) color:OtherC1 from:1980 till:end text:

A-10 The Fairchild Republic A-10 , also infamously known under the nickname , is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF). In service since 19 ...

bar:2 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1983 text: Holy Cross (1979–1983) bar:2 shift:(50) color:OtherC1 from:1983 till:1990 text: MAAC bar:2 color:OtherC2 from:1990 till:end text:

Patriot A patriot is a person with the quality of patriotism. Patriot(s) or The Patriot(s) may also refer to: Political and military groups United States * Patriot (American Revolution), those who supported the cause of independence in the American R ...

bar:3 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text:

Canisius Canisius may refer to: People * Saint Peter Canisius (1521–1597), Dutch Jesuit Catholic priest * Theodorich Canisius (1532–1606), Jesuit academic, half-brother of St. Peter Canisius * Henricus Canisius (1562–1610), Dutch canonist and histor ...

(1979–1989) bar:3 color:FullxF from:1988 till:1989 text: bar:3 color:OtherC1 from:1989 till:end text: MAAC bar:4 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text: Niagara (1979–1989) bar:4 color:FullxF from:1988 till:1989 text: bar:4 color:OtherC1 from:1989 till:end text: MAAC bar:5 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text: Colgate (1979–1990) bar:5 color:FullxF from:1988 till:1990 text: bar:5 color:OtherC1 from:1990 till:end text:

bar:6 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text: Northeastern (1979–2005) bar:6 color:FullxF from:1988 till:2005 text: bar:6 color:OtherC1 from:2005 till:end text: CAA bar:7 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text:

(1979–2013) bar:7 color:FullxF from:1988 till:2013 text: bar:7 color:OtherC1 from:2013 till:end text:

bar:8 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text:

Maine Maine ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the United States, and the northeasternmost state in the Contiguous United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Provinces and ...

(1979-present) bar:8 color:FullxF from:1988 till:end text: bar:9 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text:

New Hampshire New Hampshire ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...

(1979-present) bar:9 color:FullxF from:1988 till:end text: bar:10 color:AssocF from:1979 till:1988 text:

Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Ca ...

(1979-present) bar:10 color:FullxF from:1988 till:end text: bar:11 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1981 text: Ind. bar:11 color:OtherC2 from:1981 till:1984 text:

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...

bar:11 color:AssocF from:1984 till:1988 text:

Siena Siena ( , ; traditionally spelled Sienna in English; ) is a city in Tuscany, in central Italy, and the capital of the province of Siena. It is the twelfth most populated city in the region by number of inhabitants, with a population of 52,991 ...

(1984–1989) bar:11 color:FullxF from:1988 till:1989 text: bar:11 color:OtherC1 from:1989 till:end text: MAAC bar:12 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1984 text: D-II Ind. bar:12 color:AssocF from:1984 till:1988 text:

Hartford Hartford is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The city, located in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, had a population of 121,054 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 ce ...

(1984–2022) bar:12 color:FullxF from:1988 till:2022 text: bar:12 color:OtherC1 from:2022 till:2023 text: Ind. bar:12 color:OtherC2 from:2023 till:end text: CCC / CNE (D-III) bar:13 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1991 text: ECC bar:13 color:FullxF from:1991 till:2001 text:

Delaware Delaware ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic states, South Atlantic regions of the United States. It borders Maryland to its south and west, Pennsylvania to its north, New Jersey ...

(1991–2001) bar:13 color:OtherC1 from:2001 till:2025 text: CAA bar:13 color:OtherC2 from:2025 till:end text: CUSA bar:14 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1991 text: ECC bar:14 color:FullxF from:1991 till:2001 text: Drexel (1991–2001) bar:14 color:OtherC1 from:2001 till:end text: CAA bar:15 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1994 text: ECC bar:15 color:FullxF from:1994 till:2001 text: Hofstra (1994–2001) bar:15 color:OtherC1 from:2001 till:end text: CAA bar:16 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1981 text: CAA bar:16 shift:-1 color:OtherC2 from:1981 till:1982 text:

bar:16 shift:10 color:OtherC1 from:1982 till:1992 text: ECC bar:16 color:OtherC2 from:1992 till:1995 text: Big South bar:16 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2001 text: Towson State/Towson (1995–2001) bar:16 shift:60 color:OtherC1 from:2001 till:end text: CAA bar:17 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1987 text: SUNYAC bar:17 color:OtherC2 from:1987 till:1995 text: D-III Ind. bar:17 color:OtherC1 from:1995 till:1999 text: NECC bar:17 color:OtherC2 from:1999 till:2001 text: Ind. bar:17 color:FullxF from:2001 till:end text: Albany (2001-present) bar:18 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1997 text: SUNYAC bar:18 shift:-20 color:OtherC2 from:1997 till:1998 text: D-III Ind. bar:18 color:OtherC1 from:1998 till:2000 text: NECC bar:18 color:OtherC2 from:2000 till:2001 text: Ind. bar:18 color:FullxF from:2001 till:end text:

Binghamton Binghamton ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the con ...

(2001-present) bar:19 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1989 text: D-III Ind. bar:19 color:OtherC2 from:1989 till:1994 text:

Skyline A skyline is the wikt:outline, outline or shape viewed near the horizon. It can be created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural area, rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the ...

bar:19 shift:-20 color:OtherC1 from:1994 till:1995 text: D-III Ind. bar:19 color:OtherC2 from:1995 till:1999 text: NECC bar:19 color:OtherC1 from:1999 till:2001 text: Ind. bar:19 color:FullxF from:2001 till:2022 text: Stony Brook (2001–2022) bar:19 color:OtherC1 from:2022 till:end text: CAA bar:20 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1986 text: D-II Ind. bar:20 color:OtherC2 from:1986 till:1990 text: Ind. bar:20 color:OtherC1 from:1990 till:1992 text: ECC bar:20 color:OtherC2 from:1992 till:1998 text: Big South bar:20 color:OtherC1 from:1998 till:2003 text:

bar:20 color:FullxF from:2003 till:end text: UMBC (2003-present) bar:21 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1981 text: D-II Ind. bar:21 color:OtherC2 from:1981 till:2000 text: NECC bar:21 color:OtherC1 from:2000 till:2013 text: NE-10 bar:21 color:FullxF from:2013 till:end text:

(2013-present) bar:22 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1990 text: D-III Ind. bar:22 color:OtherC2 from:1990 till:1997 text:

bar:22 color:OtherC1 from:1997 till:2000 text: ECC (D-II) bar:22 color:OtherC2 from:2000 till:2006 text: CACC bar:22 color:OtherC1 from:2006 till:2008 text: Ind. bar:22 color:OtherC2 from:2008 till:2013 text: GWC bar:22 shift:60 color:OtherC1 from:2015 till:2020 text: ASUN bar:22 shift:-15 color:AssocOS from:2013 till:2015 text:(2013-2015; w. tennis) bar:22 color:FullxF from:2020 till:end text:

NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a Public university, public research university in Newark, New Jersey, United States, with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Founded in 1881 with the support of local indust ...

(2020-present) bar:23 color:OtherC1 from:1979 till:1980 text: NAIA Ind. bar:23 shift:45 color:OtherC2 from:1980 till:2008 text: NE-10 bar:23 color:OtherC1 from:2008 till:2022 text:

bar:23 color:FullxF from:2022 till:end text: Bryant (2022-present) bar:N color:blue from:1979 till:1988 text:ECAC North bar:N color:powderblue from:1988 till:1996 text:North Atlantic (NAC) bar:N color:blue from:1996 till:end text:America East ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1980 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(0,30) tabs:(400-center) text:^"America East Conference Membership History" # > If the chart uses more than one bar color, add a legend by selecting the appropriate fields from the following six options (use only the colors that are used in the graphic.) Leave a blank line after the end of the timeline, then add a line with the selected values from the list, separated by a space. <#

Facilities

Sports sponsored

The America East Conference sponsors championship competition in eight men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports. The most recent changes to the roster of America East sports were announced in 2016, with the dropping of women's tennis after the 2015–16 season due to a lack of sponsoring teams and the revival of men's swimming and diving effective in the 2017–18 school year.

Men's sports

;Notes

Women's sports

;Notes

NCAA team championships

On December 16, 2024, the Vermont men’s soccer team won the Men’s D1 National Soccer Championship, becoming the first America East school to win a national title in a sport sponsored by the conference.

Men's basketball

All-time school record by winning percentage

This list goes through the 2018–19 season.

List of regular season champions

List of tournament champions

No. 16 UMBC upset of No. 1 Virginia

During the 2018 NCAA tournament, UMBC became the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's tournament, beating the Virginia Cavaliers 74–54.

Women's basketball

All-time school record by winning percentage

List of regular season champions

List of tournament champions

Lacrosse

Soccer

2024 NCAA Championship win by the Vermont Catamounts

On December 16th 2024, the

Catamounts Men's Soccer team defeated the Marshall University Thundering Herd in the

2024 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament The 2024 NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament was the 66th edition of the NCAA Division I men's soccer tournament, a postseason tournament that determined the national champion of the 2024 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The College Cup ...

championship game to claim the 2024 College Cup. This marks the first national championship by any America East Conference team in league history.

References

External links

* {{NCAA nonfootball Div1 conferences Northeastern United States Sports in the Eastern United States Sports organizations established in 1979 Articles which contain graphical timelines

History

Members

Current full members

Associate members

Former full members

Former associate members

Membership timeline

Facilities

Sports sponsored

Men's sports

Women's sports

NCAA team championships

Men's basketball

All-time school record by winning percentage

List of regular season champions

List of tournament champions

No. 16 UMBC upset of No. 1 Virginia

Women's basketball

All-time school record by winning percentage

List of regular season champions

List of tournament champions

Lacrosse

Soccer

2024 NCAA Championship win by the Vermont Catamounts

See also

References

External links