The Cascade Collegiate Conference (or Cascade Conference) is a

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affiliated with the

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(NAIA). Member schools are located in the

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. The conference's members compete in 15 sports. The current commissioner of the conference is Robert Cashell.

History

Chronological timeline

* 1993 - The Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) was founded. Charter members included

Albertson College of Idaho The College of Idaho (C of I) is a private liberal arts college in Caldwell, Idaho. Founded in 1891, it is the state's oldest private liberal arts college and has an enrollment of over 1,000 students. The college's alumni include eight Rhodes ...

(now the College of Idaho), Concordia College, Portland (later Concordia University–Portland),

Eastern Oregon State College Eastern Oregon University (EOU) (officially designated as Oregon’s Rural University) is a public university in La Grande, Oregon. It was formerly part of the Oregon University System, since dissolved. EOU was founded in 1929 as a teacher� ...

(now Eastern Oregon University), George Fox College (George Fox University), Northwest Nazarene College (now Northwest Nazarene University), the

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(Oregon Tech),

Southern Oregon State College Southern Oregon University (SOU) is a public university in Ashland, Oregon. It was founded in 1872 as the Ashland Academy, has been in its current location since 1926, and was known by nine other names before assuming its current name in 1997.Kr ...

(now Southern Oregon University), Western Baptist College (now Corban University) and

Western Oregon State College Western Oregon University (WOU) is a public university in Monmouth, Oregon. It was originally established in 1856 by Disciples of Christ pioneers as Monmouth University. Subsequent names included Oregon State Normal School, Oregon College of ...

(now Western Oregon University), effective beginning the 1993-94 academic year. * 1995 - George Fox left the CCC and the NAIA to join the Division III ranks of the

National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...

(NCAA) and the

Northwest Conference The Northwest Conference (NWC) is an athletic conference which competes in the NCAA's Division III. Member teams are located in the states of Oregon and Washington. It was known as the Pacific Northwest Conference from 1926 to 1984. History ...

(NWC), effective after the 1994-95 academic year. * 1997 - Cascade College and Northwest College (now Northwest University) joined the CCC, effective in the 1997-98 academic year. * 1998 - Western Oregon left the CCC and the NAIA to join the

NCAA Division II NCAA Division II (D-II) is an intermediate-level division of competition in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). It offers an alternative to both the larger and better-funded Division I and to the scholarship-free environmen ...

ranks and the

Pacific West Conference The Pacific West Conference (also known as the PacWest) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in California and Hawaii. T ...

(PacWest), effective after the 1997-98 academic year; while remaining in the conference as an affiliate member for some sports until the 1999-2000 academic year. * 1999 - The

Evergreen State College The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a p ...

and

Warner Pacific College Warner Pacific University is a private Christian university in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1937, the university is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities and affiliated with the Church of God. History The school w ...

(now Warner Pacific University) joined the CCC, effective in the 1999-2000 academic year. * 2007 -

Northwest Christian College Bushnell University is a private Christian university in Eugene, Oregon. It is historically affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the Christian churches and churches of Christ. The institution was renamed from North ...

(now Bushnell University) joined the CCC, effective in the 2007-08 academic year. * 2008 - The

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks among the top thr ...

joined the CCC as an affiliate member for baseball, effective in the 2009 spring season (2008-09 academic year). * 2009 - Cascade left the CCC as the school announced that it would close, effective after the 2008-09 academic year. * 2015 -

Multnomah University Multnomah University (MU) is a private Christian university in Portland, Oregon. Composed of a college, seminary, graduate school, and online distance-learning program, the university offers bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees, as well as ...

and

Walla Walla University Walla Walla University is a private Adventist university in College Place, Washington. The university has five campuses throughout the Pacific Northwest. It was founded in 1892 and is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The un ...

joined the CCC, effective in the 2015-16 academic year. * 2015 - Three institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members: Rocky Mountain College for men's and women's soccer;

Carroll College Carroll College is a private Catholic college in Helena, Montana. The college has 21 buildings on a 63-acre campus, has over 35 academic majors, participates in 15 NAIA athletic sports, and is home to All Saints Chapel. The college motto, in La ...

and the

University of Providence The University of Providence (UP, formerly University of Great Falls) is a private Roman Catholic university in Great Falls, Montana. It is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. History The University of Provide ...

for men's and women's soccer and softball, effective in the 2015-16 academic year. * 2017 - Four institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members: Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University–Prescott,

Menlo College Menlo College is a private college specializing in business and is located in Atherton, California. Campus Menlo College is situated on 45-acre (0.18 km2) campus in Atherton, California, 25 miles southeast of San Francisco and 20 miles nort ...

, Montana State University–Northern and Simpson University (with Providence also adding the sport in its CCC affiliate membership), effective in the 2017-18 academic year. * 2018 -

Life Pacific University Life Pacific University (LPU) is a private Christian Bible college endorsed by the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and located in San Dimas, California. LPU serves as the denomination's flagship institution for higher education. Th ...

joined the CCC as an affiliate member for men's wrestling, while British Columbia added men's and women's golf, and men's and women's track & field in its CCC affiliate membership, effective in the 2018-19 academic year. * 2019 -

Arizona Christian University Arizona Christian University is a private Christian university in Glendale, Arizona. History Founded in 1960 as Southwestern Conservative Baptist Bible College, Arizona Christian University's original campus was located at 2625 E. Cactus ...

and

Vanguard University Vanguard University of Southern California is a private Christian university in Costa Mesa, California. It was the first four-year college in Orange County. The university offers over 39 undergraduate degrees and emphases in 15 different departm ...

joined the CCC as affiliate members for women's wrestling (with Life Pacific, Menlo and Providence also adding the sport in its CCC affiliate membership), effective in the 2019-20 academic year. * 2020 -

Lewis–Clark State College Lewis–Clark State College is a public college in the Northwestern United States, northwest United States, located in North Central Idaho, north central Idaho at Lewiston, Idaho, Lewiston. Founded in 1893, it has an approximate annual enr ...

joined the CCC, effective in the 2020-21 academic year. * 2021 - Simpson added women's wrestling in its CCC affiliate membership, effective in the 2021-22 academic year. Life Pacific dropped their wrestling programs in 2022.

Member schools

Current members

The CCC currently has 12 full members, all but five are

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schools: ;Notes:

Affiliate members

The CCC currently has 10 affiliate members, all but two are

schools: ;Notes:

Former members

The CCC had five former full members, all but one were

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Former affiliate members

The CCC had three former affiliate members, two of them were

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Membership timeline

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Fielded sports

Fall

*Men's cross country: ten schools participate *Women's cross country: ten schools participate *Men's

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 ...

: fourteen schools participate *Women's

: Thirteen schools participate *Women's

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 Sum ...

: all full member schools participate

Winter

*Men's

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 ...

: all full member schools participate *Women's

: all full member schools participate *Wrestling: Added in 2017, 12 men's teams and seven women's teams participate

Spring

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding t ...

: seven schools participate *

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

(men's & women's): eight men's and seven women's teams participate *

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 ...

: eleven schools participate *Men's

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping eve ...

: ten schools participate *Women's

: ten schools participate

Sports not sponsored

* College of Idaho participates in men's and women's

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee ( ...

as a member of the Northwest Conference of the

United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association The United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) is the sports federation for collegiate skiing and snowboarding in the United States. With over 180 member colleges, the USCSA fields some 5,000 men and women, alpine, Nordic, fr ...

, men's and women's

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 ...

, and women's

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 cov ...

, and

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

in the

Frontier Conference The Frontier Conference is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The conference was founded in 1934. Member institutions are located in the northwestern United States, in the ...

. * Eastern Oregon participates in

as a member of the

. * Southern Oregon participates in

as a member of the

Commissioners

*Howard Morris (1994–2003) *Phil Pifer (2003–2006) *Bart Valentine (2007) *Dave Haglund (2007–2012) *Robert Cashell (2012–present)

Champions

Conference titles by school

Cross country

;Men ;Women

Soccer

;Men ;Women

Volleyball

Basketball

;Men ;Women

Baseball

Golf

;Men ;Women

Softball

Track and field

;Men ;Women

References

External links

* {{NAIA conference navbox College sports in Oregon 1988 establishments in Oregon Articles which contain graphical timelines