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Since 2010 many college or university athletic programs have changed membership from one National Collegiate Athletic Association athletic conference to another.
Announced future changes
- Notes
- The "year" column indicates the calendar year in which the conference change will take place, which in the case of spring sports will differ from the year in which competition will begin.
- ↑ When the addition of women's lacrosse was announced, Charlotte was a member of Conference USA, but had already announced its move to The American effective in 2023.
- 1 2 Menlo and Vanguard began transitions from the NAIA to NCAA Division II in 2023–24, and will align fully with the NCAA in 2024–25. The NCAA's top-level men's volleyball championship is open to members of Divisions I and II.
- 1 2 Before announcing their moves to the MAAC, Merrimack and Sacred Heart had been announced as members of the NEC's reinstated men's lacrosse league.[16]
- ↑ Stunt does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ Women's triathlon does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ Because Oregon State and Washington State are joining the WCC as affiliate members in twelve sports, each sport is listed one at a time.[30]
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
- ↑ When the addition of beach volleyball was announced, Sam Houston was a member of the Western Athletic Conference, but had already announced its move to Conference USA effective in 2023.
- ↑ Jamestown is set to start a transition from the NAIA to NCAA Division II in 2024–25, and will align fully with the NCAA in 2025–26. The NCAA's top-level men's volleyball championship is open to members of Divisions I and II.
- 1 2 3 UC Merced will begin a transition from the NAIA to NCAA Division II in 2024–25, and will align fully with the NCAA in 2025–26. The NCAA's top-level men's volleyball championship is open to members of Divisions I and II, and the NCAA water polo championships for both men and women are open to members of all three NCAA divisions.
- ↑ The CalPac (in full, California Pacific Conference) does not officially sponsor men's water polo, but its members that sponsor the sport hold a season-ending round-robin event that serves as a de facto conference championship.
- ↑ UC Merced competes in women's water polo both as an NAIA independent and as a member of the club division of the Collegiate Water Polo Association.
History
2023–2024
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 At the time this change was announced, the merged football league of the ASUN and Western Athletic Conferences was known by the placeholder name of "ASUN–WAC Football Conference". The permanent name of United Athletic Conference was announced in April 2023.[53]
- ↑ Women's triathlon does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ Assumption joined the NEWHA for administrative purposes in 2022, but did not start varsity play until 2023–24.
- ↑ Not to be confused with Augustana College in Illinois, an NCAA Division III member also nicknamed Vikings.
- 1 2 CAA Football is a separate entity from the multi-sports Coastal Athletic Association, known before the 2023–24 school year as the Colonial Athletic Association.
- 1 2 3 Stunt, a women-only cheerleading discipline, does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but competition in Divisions I and II became part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program in 2023–24.
- 1 2 This school is a Division II member. Beach volleyball has a single national championship event open to members of all NCAA divisions.
- 1 2 Women's triathlon does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- 1 2 Beach volleyball, a sport not sponsored by The American, remains in C-USA.
- ↑ Hartford's new Division III home of the Commonwealth Coast Conference sponsors golf only for men.
- ↑ Women's wrestling does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ Kentucky had a club team in place before elevating stunt to varsity status in 2022–23, a year before the sport was added to the Emerging Sports for Women program in Divisions I and II.
- ↑ Le Moyne's new home of the Northeast Conference sponsors lacrosse only for women.
- ↑ Acrobatics & tumbling does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ The NCAA currently operates a single coeducational team championship in fencing, with all bouts involving members of the same sex. At the time of announcement, LIU sponsored varsity fencing, but only for women.
- ↑ Murray State was an OVC affiliate member in football for the 2022 season before joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2023.
- 1 2 At the time Robert Morris announced its reinstatement of men's and women's hockey, neither team had a confirmed conference home, but shortly thereafter both teams were reinstated to their former home conferences, respectively Atlantic Hockey and College Hockey America.[112][113]
- ↑ Thomas More, which was a provisional Division II member in 2022–23 while competing in the NAIA, fully aligned with Division II in 2023. The NCAA organizes a joint national championship event open to D-I and D-II members, and scholarship limits are identical in both divisions.
- ↑ UT Martin competed in stunt on an exhibition basis in the 2022–23 school year while awaiting NCAA Division I approval to add stunt to the Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ The NCAA currently operates a single coeducational team championship in fencing, with all bouts involving members of the same sex. At the time of announcement, Wagner sponsored varsity fencing, but only for women.
2022–2023
- ↑ Although Bryant is a Division I member, its bowling team competes in a Division II conference. The NCAA bowling championship is open to members of all NCAA divisions, and scholarship limits in that sport are the same for D-I and D-II members.
- ↑ Dallas Baptist is an NCAA Division II member, but competes in Division I baseball.
- 1 2 3 CAA Football is a separate entity from the multi-sports Coastal Athletic Association, known before the 2023–24 school year as the Colonial Athletic Association.
- ↑ Hobart is a Division III member that competes in Division I men's lacrosse.
- ↑ At the time Lindenwood announced the addition of the sport, it was a Division II member and had not announced a future affiliation for that sport. By the time Lindenwood's program started play, it joined a beach volleyball-sponsoring conference.
- 1 2 The Ohio Valley Conference merged its men's tennis league into that of the Horizon League shortly after Lindenwood and Southern Indiana officially joined the OVC. The two schools had competed in their former home of the Great Lakes Valley Conference in the 2021–22 season.
- ↑ Because the MVC does not sponsor football, Murray State remained in OVC football in the 2022 season until joining the Missouri Valley Football Conference (a separate though related entity) in 2023. It remains in the OVC as a rifle-only member.
- ↑ While North Carolina A&T became a full CAA member, that membership did not include football. The CAA football league, branded as CAA Football, is a separate entity from the all-sports CAA, despite sharing the same administration. NC A&T joined CAA Football in 2023.
- 1 2 Simpson is an NCAA Division III member. The NCAA holds single national championship events in men's and women's gymnastics that are open to members of all three NCAA divisions.
- ↑ Stony Brook was already a member of CAA Football, which is a separate entity from the all-sports CAA.
- ↑ West Virginia had originally announced that it would join Conference USA men's soccer in 2022.[203] However, later conference realignment led to the demise of C-USA men's soccer after the 2022 season.
2021–2022
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 These particular moves were originally announced for 2022.[189] However, they were moved forward to 2021 after the Southland Conference expelled four schools that had announced their departure for the WAC.
- 1 2 Augusta is an NCAA Division II member, but competes in Division I men's and women's golf.
- ↑ Not to be confused with Augustana College in Illinois, an NCAA Division III member also nicknamed Vikings.
- 1 2 3 4 Acrobatics & tumbling, a women-only sport at the NCAA level, does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 This conference is a revived Central Collegiate Hockey Association, inheriting the name of a conference that had operated from 1971 to 2013.
- ↑ Equestrianism, a women-only sport at the NCAA level, does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ While Brown had sponsored fencing for both men and women before dropping the sport effective in 2020–21, the reinstatement of fencing applies only to women.
- ↑ Dixie State University changed its forward-facing name to Utah Tech University in May 2022, ahead of the legal name change on July 1 of that year.
- ↑ Francis Marion is an NCAA Division II member, but competes in Division I men's golf.
- 1 2 In addition to the sports named in this listing, George Washington also dropped varsity teams in the non-NCAA sports of men's rowing, sailing, and men's and women's squash.[237]
- ↑ Initially, men's swimming & diving was included in the list of programs to be dropped, but this decision was reversed on May 3, 2021.
- ↑ Women's wrestling is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ At the time UConn made this announcement, it was a member of the American Athletic Conference.
- ↑ UConn had also announced that it would drop women's rowing, but after a judge's ruling in a Title IX lawsuit brought by team members, the university reinstated rowing for a minimum of two years.[268]
- ↑ At the time Valparaiso's move was announced, it had abandoned its previous nickname of Crusaders and had yet to adopt a new one. By the start of the 2021–22 NCAA swimming season, Valparaiso had adopted its current nickname of Beacons.
- ↑ The Valparaiso men's aquatics program has swimmers but no divers.
2020–2021
- ↑ Brown dropped three other sports, namely women's skiing and men's and women's squash. Brown did not compete within the NCAA structure in skiing, and squash is not an NCAA-sanctioned sport.
- 1 2 Brown continues to field teams in all sports that it dropped, but at club level instead of varsity level.
- ↑ In addition to the sports named, Brown initially dropped its entire men's program in the sport of athletics, encompassing three NCAA-sanctioned sports: cross country and indoor and outdoor track & field. However, the school decided to reinstate all three teams without interruption.[282]
- ↑ Equestrian, a women-only sport at the NCAA level, does not have an NCAA-sanctioned championship, but is currently part of the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ↑ While Chicago State is a full WAC member, it will not play a full conference schedule in men's soccer until 2021.
- ↑ Dartmouth also dropped the non-NCAA sport of men's lightweight rowing.
- ↑ When D'Youville announced its move to D-II, its nickname was Spartans. The nickname was changed to Saints effective in 2020–21.[291]
- ↑ At the time, Paine was an NCAA Division II member. The NCAA operates a single men's volleyball championship open to both Division I and Division II members. Scholarship limits in that sport are the same in both divisions.
- ↑ Paine ultimately never played volleyball in the SIAC. The conference did not play volleyball in 2020–21 due to COVID-19 concerns, and Paine left the NCAA for the National Christian College Athletic Association after the 2020–21 school year.[319]
- ↑ Robert Morris originally planned to play the 2020 football season as a Division I FCS independent and join Big South football in 2021.[323] After COVID-19 led the Big South to move its football season from fall 2020 to spring 2021, with three football members choosing not to play at all in 2020–21, Robert Morris became a Big South football member ahead of schedule.
- ↑ Robert Morris' new home of the Horizon League does not sponsor lacrosse for either sex.
- ↑ Urbana was an NCAA Division II member. The top-level NCAA men's volleyball championship is open to members of both Divisions I and II.
2019–2020
- Note
- Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools that made conference moves affecting only spring sports were unable to complete their first seasons in the new league, or in some cases to even play said seasons.
- 1 2 3 4 This school is a Division II member, but has long competed in Division I wrestling.
- ↑ Delaware Valley is a Division III member. Fencing has a single NCAA championship open to members of all three divisions.
- 1 2 3 4 The New England Women's Hockey Alliance, formed in 2017 as a scheduling alliance between the then-current Division I and Division II women's ice hockey independents, was officially recognized as an NCAA conference effective with the 2019–20 season.[353]
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 After the 2018–19 school year, Long Island University merged the athletic programs of its two campuses—Division I LIU Brooklyn and Division II LIU Post—into a single Division I program under the LIU name. All varsity sports previously sponsored by either campus continued to be sponsored by the new LIU program, which inherited LIU Brooklyn's Division I and Northeast Conference memberships. The new nickname of Sharks was announced on May 15, 2019.[356][357]
- 1 2 3 4 5 At the time LIU announced its athletic merger, this sport was sponsored by LIU Post but not LIU Brooklyn.[356]
- ↑ LIU Brooklyn announced that it would add women's ice hockey shortly before the LIU athletic merger was announced.[358]
- ↑ When LIU Brooklyn announced that it would add women's hockey, it announced that it would join the New England Women's Hockey Alliance, which was a scheduling agreement between all of the then-current Division I and Division II independents in the sport. The NEWHA officially organized as a conference in 2018,[359] and received official NCAA recognition for 2019–20 and beyond.[353]
- ↑ At the time UC San Diego moved women's water polo to the Big West, it was a Division II member. Women's water polo has a single NCAA championship open to all NCAA member schools.
- ↑ USCSA is a collegiate sports federation separate from the NCAA.
2018–2019
- ↑ At the time Hampton's Big South move was announced, it was not certain whether Hampton football would immediately move to the Big South; the conference stated that Hampton would start Big South football play "no later than 2019."[387]
- ↑ Although an independent, Holy Cross was part of the New England Women's Hockey Alliance, then a scheduling agreement among several independent Division I and Division II ice hockey teams.
2017–2018
- ↑ The NCAA considers swimming and diving to be a single sport. Following the 2011–12 school year, Clemson almost completely eliminated its program in that sport, dropping the entire sport for men and also dropping women's swimming. Only women's diving was retained.[351]
- ↑ Valparaiso does not include divers in its men's swimming & diving program.
2016–2017
- ↑ Although LIU Brooklyn initially announced that it would start varsity field hockey in 2015, the team did not actually debut until 2016.
2015–2016
2014–2015
- ↑ Georgia Regents, now known as Augusta, was and still is an NCAA Division II member, but competes in Division I men's and women's golf.
2013–2014
- Note
- On February 28, 2013, it was reported that the seven Catholic schools that had announced plans to leave the Big East Conference (collectively called the "Catholic 7") would do so in July 2013, two years ahead of the original schedule, and would keep the "Big East" name.[592] On April 3, the football-sponsoring conference that retained the charter of the original Big East announced that it would be called the American Athletic Conference (AAC or The American).[593] Accordingly, the following convention is being used in the 2013–14 table:
- Big East (1979–2013) — The conference as it existed before July 2013.
- Big East (2013) — The new conference formed by the "Catholic 7" schools.
- 1 2 CAA Football has been administered by the multi-sports Coastal Athletic Association (then the Colonial Athletic Association) since 2007, but is a separate entity.
- ↑ Charlotte initially joined Conference USA as a full but non-football member. The football team, which started play in 2013, joined in 2015.
- ↑ Dallas Baptist is an NCAA Division II member, but competes in Division I baseball.
- ↑ While Notre Dame became a full ACC member, its football team has remained an FBS independent to this day. The ACC and Notre Dame have an extensive cross-scheduling arrangement in football.
- ↑ Old Dominion initially joined Conference USA as a full but non-football member. The football team, relaunched in 2013 after a decades-long absence, joined in 2014.
- ↑ The 2013–14 school year was the first in which the University of Connecticut officially used "UConn" as its primary athletic brand.
2012–2013
2011–2012
2010–2011
| School | Sport(s) | Former Conference | New Conference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bemidji State Beavers | Men's ice hockey | CHA | WCHA |
| Duquesne Dukes | Baseball | Atlantic 10 | Dropped baseball |
| Georgia State Panthers | Football | (non-football) | Division I FCS Independent |
| High Point Panthers | Women's lacrosse | Club team | National Lacrosse Conference |
| Hofstra Pride | Football | CAA | Dropped football |
| Lamar Cardinals | Football | (non-football) | Division I FCS Independent |
| Old Dominion Monarchs | Football | (non-football) | Division I FCS Independent |
| New Orleans Privateers[704] | All sports (non-football) | Sun Belt | Independent |
| Niagara Purple Eagles | Men's ice hockey | CHA | Atlantic Hockey |
| Northeastern Huskies | Football | CAA | Dropped football |
| Robert Morris Colonials | Men's ice hockey | CHA | Atlantic Hockey |
| SIU Edwardsville Cougars | Men's soccer | Division I Independent | Missouri Valley Conference |
| UAH Chargers | Hockey | CHA | Division I Independent |
| UNO Mavericks | Hockey | CCHA | WCHA |
See also
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- 1 2 3 The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference is an NCAA Division III league, but its bowling schools compete alongside Division I and Division II members for a single national championship in that sport.
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The league serves up its second season with opening matches this weekend featuring (16) FIU, (12) Florida Atlantic and UAB, along with new members Jacksonville State and (ARV) Tulane.
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The Dukes will be playing the 2022 season as an independent team and will play 17 games...
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- 1 2 3 4 This school is a Division II member. Scholarship limits for acrobatics & tumbling differ between Divisions I and II; Division II members may choose to operate under the rules of either division.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 This school is an NCAA Division II member. Women's water polo has a single national championship for all divisions. In that sport, Division II members are allowed to award the same number of full scholarship equivalents as Division I institutions.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 This school is an NCAA Division III member. Bowling, a women-only sport at the NCAA level, has a single national championship for all three NCAA divisions.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin is a Division III league that began sponsoring bowling, a sport with a single championship open to members of all NCAA divisions, in 2020–21.
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Stephen F. Austin begins its first season in the league and is set to open its 2022 campaign at the Kingsville Tournament where they face Ottawa, Texas A&M Kingsville, Missouri Baptist and Colorado Mesa.
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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 The Central Intercollegiate Bowling Conference was an NCAA Division III league, but its bowling schools competed alongside Division I and Division II members for a single national championship in that sport.[273]
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The Saints will still maintain a relationship with Conference Carolinas as an associate member in acrobatics and tumbling. The Limestone field hockey and men's wrestling teams will also continue in their respective leagues that are sponsored by Conference Carolinas and the South Atlantic Conference.
This press release made no mention of a men's volleyball affiliation. - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 The Great Lakes Valley Conference, which added bowling for 2019–20, is an NCAA Division II league, but its bowling schools compete alongside Division I and Division III members for a single national championship in that sport.[349]
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