The Northeast-10 Conference (NE-10) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the

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(NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the

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in the states of

Connecticut Connecticut ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York (state), New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. ...

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 ...

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 ...

, New York, and

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 ...

. It is the only Division II collegiate ice hockey conference in the United States.

History

The original 1980 conference was called the "Northeast 7" as the colleges were

American International College American International College (AIC) is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts. History American International College was originally established on July 18, 1885 by Calvin E. Amaron who sought to create an institution of higher ...

, Assumption College,

Bentley College Bentley University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1917 as a school of accounting and finance in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. Bentley has one undergraduate school which offers 17 business ma ...

, Bryant College, 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 ...

Springfield College Springfield College is a private university in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. The institution's mission, called the Humanism, Humanics philosophy, calls for educating students in spirit, mind, and body for leadership in service ...

, and Stonehill College. In 1981,

Saint Anselm College Saint Anselm College is a private Benedictine liberal arts college in Goffstown, New Hampshire, United States. Founded in 1889, it is named after Saint Anselm of Canterbury. As of 2024, the college's enrollment was 2,094 students. History ...

was the eighth team to join and the resulting "NE-8" stayed this way until 1984 when the

left and

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 ...

joined. The “Northeast-10” name came about in 1987 when Saint Michael's College and Quinnipiac College joined the league. The conference remained stable until 1995 when Springfield College left for Division III. The league stayed at ten members as Le Moyne College joined the league in 1996 from the

New England Collegiate Conference The New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) is an National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA NCAA Division III, Division III men's volleyball and esports List of college athletic conferences in the United States, college athletic conferenc ...

(NECC) and briefly expanded to eleven when

Pace University Pace University is a private university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, United States. It was established in 1906 as a business school by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace. Pace enrolls about ...

joined in 1997 from the

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(NYCAC). Quinnipiac moved to the Division I

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 ...

(NEC) to again return the membership to ten. The last major expansion took place prior to 2000, when five new schools joined the fold. Franklin Pierce College,

Southern New Hampshire University Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is a private university between Manchester, New Hampshire, Manchester and Hooksett, New Hampshire, United States. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education, along with ...

(SNHU; formerly New Hampshire College), 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 ...

(UMass Lowell), and

Southern Connecticut State University Southern Connecticut State University (Southern Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State, SCSU, or simply "Southern") is a public research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Part of the Connecticut State University System, it ...

(SCSU) and the College of Saint Rose (Saint Rose) giving the NE10 15 members. Since the addition of those five institutions, the league has added

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

, indoor

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, and outdoor track and field as championship sports. The expansion continued in 2003–04 as the conference added another three championships – men's

swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, such as saltwater or freshwater environments, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Swimmers achieve locomotion by coordinating limb and body movements to achieve hydrody ...

and

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, women's swimming and diving, and men's

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. However, because the NE10 is the sole Division II men's ice hockey league, its postseason champion cannot compete for the NCAA national hockey championship. David Brunk, the first full-time commissioner in league history, announced in April he was resigning July 1, 2007 to take over the Peach Belt Conference. Brunk had been commissioner since 1998. Julie Ruppert became the next full-time commissioner in June 2008, becoming the first female Division II commissioner in the country. In 2008, Bryant University announced it would begin the five-year process that would make them a full Division I member by 2012; at the same time the NE10 announced that it had given a bid to

University of New Haven The University of New Haven (UNH) is a private university in West Haven, Connecticut, United States. History The University of New Haven was founded in 1920 as the New Haven YMCA Junior College, a division of Northeastern University, which sha ...

and they had accepted. In December 2007,

Adelphi University Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York, United States. Adelphi also has centers in Downtown Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County in addition to a virtual, online campus for remote students. As of 2019, it had ...

announced it had joined the league and began playing in 2009–10. To start the 2008–09 academic year, the NE10 still had 15 members and expanded to 16 in 2009–10. On July 1, 2013, UMass Lowell left the NE10 to join the Division I

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. With the departure of UMass Lowell, the Northeast-10 Conference had 15 remaining members. Two other changes to the conference membership, both taking effect with the 2019–20 school year, were announced in 2018. First, Merrimack announced that it would begin a transition to Division I and join the Northeast Conference (the same move that Bryant made in 2008). Then,

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long I ...

announced that it would unify its two athletic programs – the Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and the Division II LIU Post Pioneers, the latter of which was a NE10 affiliate member in field hockey and football at the time of announcement into a single D-I athletic program under the LIU name. As such, the LIU Post field hockey team was merged with LIU Brooklyn's previously existing team in that sport, and the LIU Post football team became the new LIU football team, competing as a Division I FCS team in the Northeast Conference. Thus, the NE10 was at a total of 14 member schools. In 2022, the number was reduced to 13 with Stonehill College's announcement of its departure for Division I's Northeast Conference (NEC). The next change in conference membership took place on July 1, 2023 when Le Moyne left for the NEC, dropping the NE10 to 12 members for the 2023–24 season. In 2023, St. Rose announced it was ceasing operations after the 2023–24 academic year, dropping the NE10 to 11 members, effective for the 2024–25 school year. On May 6, 2025, New Haven announced it had accepted an invitation to join the Northeast Conference and begin its reclassification from Division II, starting on July 1, 2025; thus leaving the NE10 to 10 members, effective for the 2025–26 school year.

Chronological timeline

* 1980 – The Northeast-10 Conference (NE10) was founded. Charter members included

, Assumption College (now Assumption University),

(now Bentley University), Bryant College (now Bryant University), the

and Stonehill College, beginning the 1980–81 academic year. * 1981 –

joined the NE10 in the 1981–82 academic year. * 1984 ** Hartford left the NE10 to join the Division I ranks of the

(NCAA) and the ECAC North Atlantic Conference (now the America East Conference) after the 1983–84 academic year. **

joined the NE10 in the 1984–85 academic year. * 1987 – Quinnipiac College (now Quinnipiac University) and Saint Michael's College joined the NE10 in the 1987–88 academic year. * 1995 – Springfield (Mass.) left the NE10 to join the

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- ...

ranks and the Constitution Athletic Conference after the 1994–95 academic year. * 1996 – Le Moyne College joined the NE10 in the 1996–97 academic year. * 1997 –

joined the NE10 in the 1997–98 academic year. * 1998 – Quinnipiac left the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the

(NEC) after the 1997–98 academic year. * 2000 – Franklin Pierce College (now Franklin Pierce University), the University of Massachusetts at Lowell (UMass Lowell), New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University), the College of Saint Rose and

joined the NE10 in the 2000–01 academic year. * 2001 – Long Island University–Post (LIU Post) joined the NE10 as an associate member for football in the 2001 fall season (2001–02 academic year). * 2008 ** Bryant left the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the NEC after the 2007–08 academic year. ** LIU Post left the NE10 as an associate member for football after the 2007 fall season (2007–08 academic year). ** The

joined the NE10 in the 2008–09 academic year. * 2009 –

joined the NE10 in the 2009–10 academic year. * 2013 ** UMass Lowell left the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the

after the 2012–13 academic year. ** LIU Post rejoined the NE10 as an associate member for football (but also included field hockey) in the 2013 fall season (2013–14 academic year). * 2019 ** Merrimack left the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the NEC after the 2018–19 academic year. ** LIU Post left the NE10 as an associate member for football and field hockey after the 2018 fall season (2018–19 academic year), as the school announced that it would merge with Long Island University–Brooklyn (LIU Brooklyn) to unify its athletic programs after the 2018 fall season (2018–19 academic year). ** Four institutions joined the NE10 as associate members, all effective in the 2019–20 academic year: *** Mercy College, Molloy College and St. Thomas Aquinas College for field hockey *** and

Post University Post University is a private for-profit university in Waterbury, Connecticut. It was founded in 1890 as Post College. The university offers over 25 undergraduate and graduate programs in day, evening, and online courses. History Post Univer ...

for men's ice hockey * 2022 – Stonehill left the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the NEC after the 2021–22 academic year. * 2023 ** Le Moyne left the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the NEC after the 2022–23 academic year. ** The College of Staten Island joined the NE10 as an associate member in both men's and women's swimming and diving in the 2023–24 academic year. * 2024 ** Saint Rose left the NE10 as the school announced that it ceased operations after the 2023–24 academic year. ** Post added football to its NE10 associate membership in the 2024 season (2024–25 academic year). * 2025 ** The American International men's ice hockey team will rejoin the NE10 after moving down from Division I to Division II, beginning the 2025–26 academic year. ** New Haven will leave the NE10 to join the NCAA Division I ranks and the NEC, beginning the 2025–26 academic year. ** The

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and Felician University will join the NE10 as associate members in both men's and women's swimming and diving, beginning the 2025–26 academic year. * 2026 – Mercy, Molloy, and St. Thomas Aquinas will leave the NE10 as associate members for field hockey to move their programs to their full-time conference home of the ECC once it begins play in the 2026 season (2026–27 academic year).

Member schools

Current members

The NE10 currently has 11 full members; all but one are

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schools. ;Notes:

Affiliate members

The NE10 currently has 5 affiliate members; all are

schools. ;Notes:

Future affiliate members

The NE10 will have 2 future affiliate members; both being

schools. ;Notes:

Former members

The NE10 had nine former full members; all but one were

schools. ;Notes:

Former affiliate members

The NE10 had one former affiliate member, which was also a

school. ;Notes:

Membership timeline

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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 ...

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Conference facilities

Presidents' Cup Champions

Sports

Men's sponsored sports by school

Women's sponsored sports by school

Other sponsored sports by school

;Notes

Championships

References

External links

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