New England Collegiate Conference

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The New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) is an NCAA Division III college athletic conference based in the Northeastern United States.

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History

In June 2007, nine colleges from New England announced the creation of a new athletic conference under the same NECC name.

The league, which began operations July 1, 2008, as a Division III conference, includes Bay Path College (Longmeadow, Mass.), Becker College (Leicester, Mass.), Elms College (Chicopee, Mass.), Lesley University (Cambridge, Mass.), Mitchell College (New London, Conn.), Newbury College (Brookline, Mass.), Southern Vermont College (Bennington, Vt.), and Wheelock College (Boston, Mass.). Regis College (Weston, Mass.) joined in the 2011-12 academic year, but left for the Great Northeast Athletic Conference after the 2016-17 academic year. Daniel Webster College (Nashua, NH), formerly in the league, ceased operating in May 2017.

The conference will expand over the next few years with the addition of Dean College (Franklin, Mass.) in 2017-18 and the additions of Eastern Nazarene College (Quincy, Mass.) and New England College (Henniker, N.H.) in 2018-19. However, Wheelock will leave the conference at the end of the 2017-18 school year as it merges into Boston University.

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Sports

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Member schools

Full members

+ - Women's college, therefore not competing in men's sports
± - Started four-year provisional NCAA membership in 2017-18

Associate members

Future members

Future associate member

Former members

Membership timeline

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Notable alumni

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References

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External links

• Official site

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