ECAC East

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Eastern College Athletic Conference - East (ECAC East)
Established: unknown

NCAA	Division III
Members	15
Sports fielded	Ice hockey (men's: 10 teams; women's: 12 teams)
Region	New York and New England
Headquarters	Centerville, MA
Commissioner	Rudy Keeling
Website	http://www.ecacsports.com/dIII_hockey/

ECAC East is a college athletic conference which operates in the northeastern United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division III as a hockey-only conference.

1 Members
2 Former members
3 External links

[edit] Members

There are currently 15 member schools; the men's division of the ECAC East has ten members, while the women's division has twelve. A sixteenth member will be added in 2008; Nichols College will compete in the women's division.

Institution	Location	Nickname	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Joined	Men's championships	Women's championships	Primary Conference
Babson College	Wellesley, Massachusetts	Beavers	1919	Private	1,800			N/A	NEWMAC
Castleton State College	Castleton, Vermont	Spartans	1787	Public	1,800	2004			North Atlantic Conference
College of the Holy Cross	Worcester, Massachusetts	Crusaders	1843	Private (Catholic)	2,700		Plays in Atlantic Hockey (D-I)		Patriot League (D-I)
Manhattanville College	Purchase, New York	Valiants	1841	Private	1,700		Plays in ECAC West		Middle Atlantic Corporation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Engineers	1865	Private	4,127		N/A		NEWMAC
New England College	Henniker, New Hampshire	Pilgrims	1946	Private	900				Commonwealth Coast Conference
Nichols College	Dudley, Massachusetts	Bison	1815	Private	1,459	2008	Plays in ECAC Northeast		Commonwealth Coast Conference
Norwich University	Northfield, Vermont	Cadets	1819	Private (military)	2,000				Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Plymouth State University	Plymouth, New Hampshire	Panthers	1871	Public	4,192		Plays in ECAC Northeast		Little East Conference
Saint Anselm College	Goffstown, New Hampshire	Hawks	1889	Private (Catholic)	2,000				Northeast Ten Conference (D-II)
Saint Michael's College	Colchester, Vermont	Purple Knights	1904	Private (Catholic)	2,000				Northeast Ten Conference (D-II)
Salem State College	Salem, Massachusetts	Vikings	1854	Public	6,687			N/A	Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
Salve Regina University	Newport, Rhode Island	Seahawks	1934	Private (Catholic)	2,100		Plays in ECAC Northeast		Commonwealth Coast Conference
Skidmore College	Saratoga Springs, New York	Thoroughbreds	1903	Private	2,500			N/A	Liberty League
University of Massachusetts Boston	Dorchester, Massachusetts	Beacons	1964	Public	10,008				Little East Conference
University of Southern Maine	Portland, Maine	Huskies	1878	Public	10,974				Little East Conference

Holy Cross, a Division I school, is not allowed to participate in the ECAC East playoffs, nor is the team eligible for the Division III national tournament.

The same is true for St. Anselm and St. Michael's, which are Division II schools. However, their primary conference, the D-II Northeast Ten Conference, sponsors a post-season tournament involving the six member schools that play down to the Division III level in men's hockey. (The other four teams play in the ECAC Northeast.) St. Anselm and St. Michael's are thus considered to be members of both the ECAC East and the Northeast Ten in men's hockey.