Colonial Hockey Conference
The Colonial Hockey Conference was an athletic conference that operated in the northeastern United States. It participated in the NCAA's Division III as an ice hockey-only conference and included only women's teams.
The formation of the conference was originally announced in late 2014 under the ECAC umbrella, with the conference to be known as the ECAC North Atlantic. The eight founding institutions all had either independent or newly formed women's hockey teams, so no teams had to switch conferences to join the ECAC-NA. In 2015, however, just before the conference's first season commenced, the members announced that the conference would be renamed the Colonial Hockey Conference, dropping the ECAC affiliation. The conference lasted until the 2019-20 season, when the Commonwealth Coast Conference, now known as the Conference of New England, took over operations. At that time, all of the remaining members of the CHC were full members of the CCC.
Final Members
Former members
- Becker College
- * Becker closed.
- Daniel Webster College
- * Daniel Webster was a founding institution in 2015, but the college went bankrupt in 2016. It was able to field a men's team for its last academic year, 2016–17, but the women's team didn't have enough players.
- Johnson and Wales University
- Salem State University
- Stevenson University
- SUNY Canton
Membership timeline
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