The ECAC Lacrosse League was an American

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college athletic conference and part of the

Eastern College Athletic Conference 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 fro ...

. Founded in 1999 with play beginning in 2000, this part of the conference only sponsored men's

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. It disbanded at the end of the 2014 season as an indirect result of the early-2010s NCAA conference realignment.

History

The founding members included

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(Penn State),

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university in Stony Brook, New York. Along with the University at Buffalo, it is one of the State University of New York system's ...

, the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

, and the

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. In 2005,

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, Hobart College, and St. John’s University joined the ECAC. And in 2006,

Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-time ...

joined the league. In 2010, the league added

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, Bellarmine,

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and

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, replacing Georgetown, Rutgers and St. John's, who left for the original Big East Conference, and Massachusetts and Penn State, who left for the

Colonial Athletic Association The Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I whose full members are located in East Coast states from Massachusetts to South Carolina. Most of its members are public universi ...

. In 2011, the ECAC added the

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who were making their move from club level to

. They became full members in 2013, the same year in which Loyola's lacrosse team joined the rest of the school's sports in the

Patriot League The Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States. Outside the Ivy League, it is among the most selective gr ...

. After the 2013 season, a number of members announced their intention to exit the ECAC. In late May, following a second semi-finals appearance in three years,

announced that they would leave the ECAC to join the new

Big East Conference The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletic conference that competes in NCAA Division I in ten men's sports and twelve women's sports. Headquartered in New York City, the eleven full-member schools are primarily located in Northeast and M ...

for the 2014 season, leaving the ECAC with six teams for that season. In early June, the

Big Ten Conference The Big Ten Conference (stylized B1G, formerly the Western Conference and the Big Nine Conference) is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States. Founded as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representati ...

announced the start of conference competition in 2015, removing Michigan and Ohio State from the ECAC after the 2014 season. In mid-June, Fairfield announced it would join the

for the 2015 season. On July 1st, Hobart announced it would join the

Northeast Conference The Northeast Conference (NEC) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Teams in the NEC compete in Division I for all sports; football competes in the Division I Foo ...

beginning immediately for the 2014 season. One week later, Bellarmine announced it would become an affiliate of the

ASUN Conference The ASUN Conference, formerly the Atlantic Sun Conference, is a collegiate athletic conference operating mostly in the Southeastern United States. The league participates at the NCAA Division I level, and began sponsoring football at the Divisio ...

(then known as the Atlantic Sun Conference) for the 2015 season, leaving Air Force as the only ECAC school without a new conference home for 2015. Before Bellarmine's move took effect, the ASUN and

Southern Conference The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly ...

(SoCon) announced a lacrosse alliance under which the two leagues split sponsorship of the sport, with women's lacrosse remaining in the ASUN and men's lacrosse shifting to the SoCon. Accordingly, Bellarmine played in the SoCon from the 2015 season until the ASUN established its own men's lacrosse league for the 2022 season.

Final members

Previous members

Membership timeline

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Rutgers Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was a ...

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Champions

Regular Season Champions

Playoff Champions

ECAC teams in the NCAA Tournament

Awards

All-time ECAC season statistic leaders

* Points:

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, Massachusetts (31, 2005) * Points per game: Steve Dusseau, Georgetown (5.40, 2002) * Goals: Scott Urick, Georgetown (21, 2000) * Goals per game: Steve Dusseau, Georgetown (3.6, 2002) * Assists:

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, Georgetown (18, 2006) * Assists per game:

, Georgetown (2.57, 2002) * Saves:

Drew Adams Drew Adams (born August 19, 1986 in Springfield, Pennsylvania) is a former professional lacrosse player who played for the Archers Lacrosse Club of the Premier Lacrosse League and the Long Island/New York Lizards of Major League Lacrosse. Adams p ...

, Penn State (87, 2006) * Goals against average: Mickey Jarboe, Navy (5.96, 2000)

References

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