Coast to Coast Athletic Conference

History

Chronological timeline

• 1989 – The Capital Athletic Conference was founded. Charter members included The Catholic University of America, Gallaudet University, Mary Washington College, Marymount University, St. Mary's College of Maryland, and York College of Pennsylvania, beginning in the 1989–90 academic year.
• 1991 – Salisbury State University joined the CAC in the 1991–92 academic year.
• 1993 – Goucher College joined the CAC in the 1993–94 academic year.
• 2005 – Catholic and Goucher left the CAC for the newly-formed Landmark Conference after the 2006–07 academic year.
• 2006 – Hood College and Villa Julie College joined the CAC for some sports in the 2006–07 academic year.
• 2007 – Wesley College joined the CAC for all sports in the 2007–08 academic year.
• 2010 – Gallaudet left the CAC to join the North Eastern Athletic Conference after the 2009–10 academic year.
• 2010 – Frostburg State University joined the CAC in the 2010–11 academic year.
• 2012 – Hood and Stevenson left the CAC for the Commonwealth Conference within the Middle Atlantic Conferences after the 2011–12 academic year.
• 2013 – Christopher Newport University, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg—Capital College and Southern Virginia University joined the CAC in the 2013–14 academic year.
• 2013 – William Paterson University and New Jersey City University joined the CAC as associate members for men's golf in the 2014 spring season.
• 2016 – William Paterson left from the CAC as an associate member for men's golf after the 2016 spring season.
• 2018 – Marymount and Wesley left the CAC for the newly-formed Atlantic East Conference after the 2017–18 academic year.
• 2018 – Babson College joined the CAC as an associate member for men's golf in the 2019 spring season.
• 2019 – Frostburg State began the transition to the NCAA Division II ranks, thus departed the CAC to join the Mountain East Conference after the 2018–19 academic year.
• 2019 – Penn State–Harrisburg left the CAC to return to the NEAC after the 2018–19 academic year.
• 2019 – Carnegie Mellon University joined the CAC as an associate member for men's golf in the 2020 spring season.
• 2020 – York left the CAC to join the MAC after the 2019–20 academic year.
• 2020 – The C2C dropped men's and women's swimming and golf as conference sports after the 2019–20 academic year; therefore, men's golf associates had departed.
• 2020 – The CAC announced that it would absorb the American Collegiate Athletic Association, beginning in the 2020–21 academic year. Therefore, all full members, Mount Mary University and associate member of the ACAA joined in their respective memberships.
• 2020 – The CAC announced that it would rebrand as the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference during the 2020–21 academic year.
• 2021 – St. Mary's left the C2C to join the United East Conference after the 2020–21 academic year; while it would later rejoined to the conference as an associate member in men's and women's indoor and outdoor track & field in the 2022 spring season.
• 2021 – Southern Virginia left the C2C to join the USA South Athletic Conference after the 2020–21 academic year.
• 2021 – Pine Manor left the C2C as it was acquired by Boston College, thus dissolving their athletics programs, after the 2020–21 academic year.
• 2022 – Mills left the C2C to become a research institution, thus dissolving their athletics programs, after the 2021–22 academic year.
• 2022 – The University of Wisconsin–Platteville joined the C2C as an associate member for men's soccer in the 2022 fall season.
• 2022 – The C2C, alongside the New Jersey Athletic Conference, announced that it would form the Coastal Lacrosse Conference, beginning in the 2023 spring season. Therefore, the conference no longer sponsored men's lacrosse.
• 2022 – Warren Wilson College joined the C2C in the 2022–23 academic year.
• 2023 – Finlandia left the C2C due to announcing its closure after the 2022–23 academic year.
• 2024 – Pratt left the C2C to join the AEC after the 2023–24 academic year.
• 2025 – Mount Mary will leave the C2C and the NCAA to begin a transition to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference after the 2024–25 academic year.
• 2025 – Johnson & Wales University—Charlotte and Regent University joined the C2C, beginning in the 2025–26 academic year.
• 2026 – Alverno College will join the C2C, beginning in the 2026–27 academic year.

  Member schools

Current members

Future members

Former members

Former associate members

Membership timeline

Sports

Men's sponsored sports by school

Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the C2C that are played by C2C schools

Women's sponsored sports by school

Women's varsity sports not sponsored by C2C that are played by C2C schools

Current champions