The American Lacrosse Conference (ALC) was a

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-only college athletic conference whose members competed at the Division I level of the

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(NCAA). All of the ALC's members throughout its history were located in the eastern half of the United States. The conference was founded in 2001 in advance of the 2002 NCAA lacrosse season with seven members; nine schools were members at one time or another during its history. In 2009–10, two more

Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ...

universities joined the ALC:

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and

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. The South Carolina program was eventually delayed with no timetable to begin play. In 2011 it was announced that the conference would add

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as the seventh member. The Wolverines began NCAA competition in 2013–14, after transitioning the program from club to varsity status. Starting with the 2015 season, Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and Northwestern joined Maryland and Rutgers in the new

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league, and Johns Hopkins' women's lacrosse team went independent. In April 2014 it was announced that the two remaining programs, Florida and Vanderbilt, would be joining the

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as affiliate members in 2015, leaving the 2014 season as the last in American Lacrosse Conference history.

Final members

In its final season, the ALC had seven members in the

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Former members

Schools that left the ALC before 2014 include

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in Davidson, North Carolina and

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in Athens, Ohio. Davidson later moved to the

National Lacrosse Conference The National Lacrosse Conference (NLC) was an NCAA Division I women's lacrosse-only college athletic conference whose members were located primarily in the Southeastern United States, with one team, Detroit (now athletically branded as Detroit Mer ...

, still later became an associate member of the

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, and now houses its women's lacrosse team with most of its other sports in the

Atlantic 10 Conference The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located in states mostly on the United States Eastern ...

exited the ALC when the OU Athletics Department decided to drop several sports programs including women's lacrosse in January 2007.

Membership timeline

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Big South The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Th ...

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Atlantic 10 The Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10) is a collegiate athletic conference whose schools compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I. The A-10's member schools are located in states mostly on the United States Eastern ...

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Johns Hopkins Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) was an American merchant, investor, and philanthropist. Born on a plantation, he left his home to start a career at the age of 17, and settled in Baltimore, Maryland where he remained for most ...

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Big Ten 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 ...

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Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...

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Ohio State The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public ...

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Penn State #Redirect Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campu ...

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Big East 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 ...

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Championship history

References

{{Reflist College lacrosse leagues in the United States Defunct NCAA Division I conferences Women's lacrosse competitions in the United States Sports leagues established in 2001 Sports leagues disestablished in 2014 2001 establishments in the United States 2014 disestablishments in Pennsylvania