Eastern College Athletic Conference

Not to be confused with ECAC Hockey, a separate NCAA Division I conference.
Eastern College Athletic Conference
AssociationNCAA
Founded1938
CommissionerDan Coonan (since 2017)
Sports fielded
  • 15
    • men's: 13
    • women's: 13
DivisionI, II, III
No. of teams220
HeadquartersDanbury, Connecticut, U.S.
RegionEast Coast
Official websitehttp://www.ecacsports.com
Locations
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The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to South Carolina and west to Missouri.[1] Most or all members belong to at least one other athletic conference.

The ECAC was founded as the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics in 1938, largely through the efforts of James Lynah of Cornell University. In 1983, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) was consolidated into the ECAC. Most member schools are in other conferences as well, but through the ECAC they are able to participate in sports that their main conferences do not offer. Its headquarters are located in Danbury, Connecticut. The ECAC also now offers esports competitions to its member schools.

  1. ^ Membership Archived 2010-02-23 at the Wayback Machine. Eastern College Athletic Conference official website. Retrieved 2018-04-19.