The Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference was an eight-member college athletics conference founded in 1995 and given official status in 1999. It competed in

NCAA Division III NCAA Division III (D-III) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States. D-III consists of athletic programs at colleges and universities that choose not to offer athletic scholarships to their stu ...

and as its name implies, only offered championships in

women's sports The participation of women and girls in sports, physical Physical fitness, fitness and exercise, has been recorded to have existed throughout history. However, participation rates and activities vary in accordance with nation, era, geography, ...

. In the conference's later years, several of its members finally became co-educational. Following the 2006–07 season these members, seeking homes for their newly created men's athletic programs departed for other conferences. Other members also switched affiliations, leaving the conference without enough members to be officially sanctioned. Following the 2007 spring season, the conference ceased operations.

Member schools

Final members

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Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:900 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1995 till:2025 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:20 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports id:FullxF value:rgb(0.551,0.824,0.777) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in all sports except for football id:AssocF value:rgb(0.98,0.5,0.445) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member for football only id:AssocOS value:rgb(0.5,0.691,0.824) # Use this color to denote a team that is a member in some sports, but not all (consider identifying in legend or a footnote) id:OtherC1 value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference id:OtherC2 value:rgb(0.988,0.703,0.383) # Use this color to denote a team that has moved to another conference where OtherC1 has already been used, to distinguish the two PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text:

Chatham Chatham may refer to: Places and jurisdictions Canada * Chatham Islands (British Columbia) * Chatham Sound, British Columbia * Chatham, New Brunswick, a former town, now a neighbourhood of Miramichi * Chatham (electoral district), New Brunswic ...

(1995–2007) bar:1 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:end text: PAC bar:2 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text: Chestnut Hill (1995–2007) bar:2 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:end text: CACC bar:3 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text:

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(1995–2007) bar:3 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:2012 text:

CAC CAC may refer to: Arts * California Arts Council, an agency for advancing California through the arts and creativity * Campbelltown Arts Centre, multidisciplinary contemporary arts centre south-west of Sydney, Australia * Comics Arts Conference, ...

bar:3 color:OtherC2 from:2012 till:end text: MAC-C bar:4 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text: Mary Baldwin (1995–2007) bar:4 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:end text: USA South bar:5 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text: Notre Dame (Md.) (1995–2007) bar:5 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:end text: CSAC bar:6 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text: Trinity University (1995–2007) bar:6 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:2012 text: D-III Ind. bar:6 color:OtherC2 from:2012 till:2015 text: GSAC bar:6 color:OtherC1 from:2015 till:end text: D-III Ind. bar:7 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text:

Wells Wells most commonly refers to: * Wells, Somerset, a cathedral city in Somerset, England * Well, an excavation or structure created in the ground * Wells (name) Wells may also refer to: Places Canada *Wells, British Columbia England * Wells ...

(1995–2007) bar:7 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:end text: NEAC/United East bar:8 color:FullxF from:1995 till:2007 text: Wilson (Pa.) (1995–2007) bar:8 color:OtherC1 from:2007 till:2018 text: NEAC/United East bar:8 color:OtherC2 from:2018 till:end text: CSAC bar:N color:red from:1995 till:2007 text:Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference bar:N color:blue from:2007 till:end text:Post-AWCC ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:2 start:1995 TextData = fontsize:M textcolor:black pos:(250,30) # tabs:(0-center) text:"Atlantic Women's Colleges Conference membership history"

Championships offered

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

Field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

Soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ...

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

Defunct NCAA Division III conferences Women's sports organizations in the United States Organizations established in 1995 Organizations disestablished in 2007 1995 establishments in the United States 2007 disestablishments in the United States