United East Conference | |
Founded: | 2004 |
Association: | NCAA |
Division: | Division III |
Teams: | 17 |
Sports: | 20 |
Mens: | 10 |
Womens: | 10 |
Region: | Mid-Atlantic |
Formerly: | North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) |
Headquarters: | Latham, New York, U.S. |
Commissioner: | Stephanie Dutton |
Website: | https://gounitedeast.com |
Map: | UEC-USA-states.png |
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The United East Conference (UEC), formerly known as the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC), is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III.
Member institutions are located in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference was founded in 2004. The original membership consisted of the following schools: Baptist Bible College (now known as Clarks Summit University), Bard College, Philadelphia Biblical University (now known as Cairn University), Cazenovia College, Chestnut Hill College, D'Youville College (now a university), Keuka College, Keystone College, Penn State-Berks, Polytechnic University (later known as the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and now fully merged into NYU as its Tandon School of Engineering), State University of New York at Purchase (SUNY Purchase), and Villa Julie College (now known as Stevenson University).
At the conclusion of the 2006–07 season, the NEAC had a shifting of membership losing five institutions and gaining three new members. The departing members were: Bard, Chestnut Hill, Polytechnic (N.Y.), SUNY Purchase, and Stevenson; while the new members were: Penn State-Harrisburg, Wells College, and Wilson College (Pa.). The NEAC consisted of 10 members in the 2007–08 season.
At the conclusion of the 2007–08 season, the NEAC lost an additional three institutions while gaining two new members. The departing members were: Baptist Bible, Cairn, and Keystone (all to the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, later renamed the Colonial States Athletic Conference). The new members were State University of New York at Cobleskill (SUNY Cobleskill) and State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNYIT); the latter is now known as SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly). The NEAC consisted of nine members in the 2008–09 season.
The NEAC accepted four associate member institutions for the 2008–09 season; they were: Medaille College (later a university; for men's and women's lacrosse), Rutgers University–Camden (for men's golf), State University of New York at Oneonta (for men's tennis), and the University of Dallas (in men's soccer, men's golf, men's & women's cross country, and men's & women's basketball). The University of Dallas also competed in women's volleyball to the NEAC in the 2009–10 season.
At the conclusion of the 2008–09 season, the NEAC lost an additional founding member in D'Youville. In the 2009–10 season, the NEAC welcomed three additional new members in the College of Saint Elizabeth, Penn State-Abington, and State University of New York at Morrisville (SUNY Morrisville). The NEAC had accepted four associate member institutions in that same season. Additionally, the NEAC also began a three year partnership with the North Atlantic Conference in four sports: baseball; women's lacrosse; and men's and women's tennis. Departing the NEAC at the conclusion of the 2009–10 season were associate members the University of Dallas and SUNY Oneonta.
In the 2010–11 season, the NEAC welcomed by Gallaudet University. In the 2011–12 season, the NEAC gained one new full member in Lancaster Bible College while Rutgers–Camden (already an associate member in men's golf) joined the NEAC in men's tennis. The partnership between the NEAC and the NAC ended for baseball and women's lacrosse following the 2011–12 season.
At the conclusion of the 2012–13 season, the NEAC lost one full member in Penn State Harrisburg. In the 2013–14 season, the NEAC added Cedar Crest College as an associate member for women's swimming. Beginning in the 2014–15 season, the NEAC accepted two new full members in Bryn Athyn College and Pennsylvania College of Technology. Also in that same season, Wilson College, a former women's college that became co-educational in the 2013–14 school year, began a men's athletic program, and four other schools became men's volleyball associates.
Changes in the NEAC membership have continued to the present. On August 30, 2017, Bryn Athyn and Wilson announced that they would leave the NEAC for the Colonial States Athletic Conference in the 2018–19 school year.[1] The next change of membership came in 2019–20 with the return of Penn State Harrisburg[2] and the departure of Saint Elizabeth for the Colonial States Athletic Conference.[3] In July 2020, the NEAC lost four members, with Keuka departing for the Empire 8 Conference[4] and Cazenovia, SUNY Cobleskill, and SUNY Poly leaving for the North Atlantic Conference.[5] The NEAC membership returned to 9 in 2021 with the arrival of St. Mary's College of Maryland.[6]
On August 2, 2021, the conference revealed that they were rebranding themselves as the United East Conference.[7] The conference said that the name “United East” was chosen because it describes the conference’s commitment to collaborate on a shared mission in a diverse environment while also still giving a nod to the geographical placement of the member schools.
On March 1, 2022, SUNY Morrisville announced that it would leave the United East to join the North Atlantic Conference starting in the 2023–24 academic year.[8]
On July 6, 2022, the United East Conference announced that Clark Summit joined the conference as an associate member in men's golf and men's tennis starting in the 2022–23 academic year.[9] [10]
On August 15, 2022, Wells announced that it would leave the United East to join the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference starting in the 2023–24 academic year.[11]
On December 19, 2022, the United East Conference and the Colonial States Athletic Conference announced their intent to merge beginning with the 2023-24 academic year. The merger was intended to address the evolving landscape of higher education by stabilizing conference membership and solidifying the sport sponsorship currently offered by the existing conferences. This merger also provided member institutions an opportunity to decrease the number of associate memberships necessary to support the current sport offerings on each respective campus. When the merger was finalized sports with a large number of members would compete in north and south divisions.[12] [13]
On June 23, 2023, the CSAC and United East officially announced that the merged conference would retain the United East name, officially ending the CSAC on July 1, 2023.[14] Consequently, all ten members from the CSAC (Bryn Athyn College, Cairn University, Cedar Crest College, Clarks Summit University, Keystone College, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Rosemont College, Saint Elizabeth University, the University of Valley Forge, and Wilson College of Pennsylvania) joined the United East.
On January 4, 2024, the United East accepted Penn State Brandywine's application to become a full member of the conference beginning in 2024–25.[15]
On July 1, 2024, Clarks Summit University announced that it had ceased operations.[16]
The United East currently has seventeen full members, eleven of which are private, with two public and four hybrid:
The United East currently has four associate members, all but one are private schools:
Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined | Primary conference | United East sport(s) | |
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Alfred State College | Alfred, New York | 1908 | Public | 3,737 | Pioneers | 2023 | AMCC | men's outdoor track and field; women's outdoor track and field | |
La Roche University | McCandless, Pennsylvania | 1963 | Private | 1,465 | Redhawks | 2020 | AMCC | men's lacrosse; women's lacrosse | |
Mount Aloysius College | Cresson, Pennsylvania | 1853 | Private | 1,600 | Mounties | 2020 | AMCC | women's lacrosse | |
Rutgers University–Camden | Camden, New Jersey | 1766 | Public | 6,158 | Scarlet Raptors | 2008 | NJAC | men's golf | |
Penn State–Behrend | Erie, Pennsylvania | 1948 | State-related | 4,700 | Lions | 2023 | AMCC | men's outdoor track and field; women's outdoor track and field | |
Pratt Institute | Brooklyn, New York | 1887 | Private | 5,137 | Cannoneers | 2023 | AEC | men's volleyball | |
Sweet Briar College | Sweet Briar, Virginia | 1901 | Private | 353 | Vixens | 2023 | ODAC | field hockey; women's lacrosse |
The United East had twelve full members, all but four are private schools:
The United East has had eleven former associate members, with eight being private schools and three public. One of these schools, Rutgers–Camden, is currently a United East associate in a different sport.
Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined | Left | Primary conference | United East sport(s) |
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Alfred State College | Alfred, New York | 1908 | Public | 3,737 | Pioneers | 2019 | 2020 | AMCC | men's lacrosse |
Cedar Crest College | Allentown, Pennsylvania | 1867 | United Church of Christ | 1,885 | Falcons | 2013 | 2021 | United East | women's swimming |
Clarks Summit University | Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania | 1932 | Baptist | 1,142 | Defenders | 2022; 2022 | 2023; 2023 | N/A | men's golf; men's tennis |
Irving, Texas | 1956 | Catholic | 2,576 | Crusaders | 2008 | 2010 | SCAC | various | |
Buffalo, New York | 1908 | Catholic | 3,200 | Spartans | 2014 | 2017 | ECC | men's volleyball | |
Hilbert College | Hamburg, New York | 1957 | Catholic | 1,100 | Hawks | AMCC | men's volleyball | ||
2012 | 2023 | men's lacrosse | |||||||
Medaille University | Buffalo, New York | 1937 | Nonsectarian | 3,253 | Mavericks | 2008 2014 | 2023 2017 | N/A | men's lacrosse; women's lacrosse; men's volleyball |
Penn State–Altoona | Altoona, Pennsylvania | 1939 | Public-private hybrid | 4,182 | Nittany Lions | 2014 | 2017 | AMCC | men's volleyball |
Rosemont College | Rosemont, Pennsylvania | 1922 | Catholic | 903 | Ravens | 2021 | 2023 | United East | men's tennis |
Rutgers University–Camden | Camden, New Jersey | 1766 | Public | 6,158 | Scarlet Raptors | 2011 | 2014 | NJAC | men's tennis |
Wilson College | Chambersburg, Pennsylvania | 1869 | Presbyterian | 1,098 | Phoenix | 2021 | 2023 | United East | men's golf |
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See also: United East Men's Basketball Championship.
The UEC sponsors championships in the following sports:
Men’s soccer, women’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, softball, and women’s tennis are separated into divisions based on their former conference affiliations before the United East and CSAC merger. The remaining sports play conference schedules with no divisions or have a conference-wide championship at the end of the season.
Skye Division | Volt Division | |
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Bryn Athyn | Gallaudet | |
Cairn | Lancaster Bible | |
Cedar Crest | Penn College | |
Keystone | Penn State Abington | |
Notre Dame (MD) | Penn State Berks | |
Rosemont | Penn State Brandywine | |
Saint Elizabeth (NJ) | Penn State Harrisburg | |
Valley Forge | St. Mary's (MD) | |
Wilson |
School | Baseball | Basketball | Cross country | Golf | Lacrosse | Soccer | Tennis | Track & Field (Indoor) | Track & Field (Outdoor) | Volleyball | Total Sports | |
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Bryn Athyn | 5 | |||||||||||
Cairn | 7 | |||||||||||
Gallaudet | 6 | |||||||||||
Keystone | 6 | |||||||||||
Lancaster Bible | 9 | |||||||||||
Notre Dame (MD) | 3 | |||||||||||
Penn College | 7 | |||||||||||
Penn State Abington | 7 | |||||||||||
Penn State Berks | 6 | |||||||||||
Penn State Harrisburg | 8 | |||||||||||
Rosemont | 6 | |||||||||||
Saint Elizabeth | 6 | |||||||||||
St. Mary's | 8 | |||||||||||
Valley Forge | 5 | |||||||||||
Wilson | 5 | |||||||||||
Totals | 14 | 16 | 15 | 8+1 | 6+1 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 7+2 | 6+1 | 101+5 | |
Alfred State | 1 | |||||||||||
La Roche | 1 | |||||||||||
Penn State Behrend | 1 | |||||||||||
Penn State Brandywine | 6 | |||||||||||
Pratt | 1 | |||||||||||
Rutgers-Camden | 1 |
School | Football | Ice Hockey | Rowing | Sailing | Swimming | Wrestling | |
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Bryn Athyn | |||||||
Gallaudet | |||||||
Keystone | Independent | ||||||
Penn College | Independent | ||||||
St. Mary's |
School | Basketball | Cross country | Field Hockey | Lacrosse | Soccer | Softball | Tennis | Track & Field (Indoor) | Track & Field (Outdoor) | Volleyball | Total Sports | |
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Bryn Athyn | 7 | |||||||||||
Cairn | 7 | |||||||||||
Cedar Crest | 9 | |||||||||||
Gallaudet | 7 | |||||||||||
Keystone | 8 | |||||||||||
Lancaster Bible | 10 | |||||||||||
Notre Dame (MD) | 9 | |||||||||||
Penn College | 6 | |||||||||||
Penn State Abington | 7 | |||||||||||
Penn State Berks | 6 | |||||||||||
Penn State Harrisburg | 8 | |||||||||||
Rosemont | 6 | |||||||||||
Saint Elizabeth | 6 | |||||||||||
St. Mary's | 9 | |||||||||||
Valley Forge | 5 | |||||||||||
Wilson | 6 | |||||||||||
Totals | 17 | 16 | 7+1 | 9+3 | 17 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 9+2 | 17 | 122+6 | |
Alfred State | 1 | |||||||||||
La Roche | 1 | |||||||||||
Mount Aloysius | 1 | |||||||||||
Penn State Behrend | 1 | |||||||||||
Penn State Brandywine | 6 | |||||||||||
Sweer Briar | 2 |
School | Golf | Rowing | Sailing | Swimming | Wrestling | |
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Cedar Crest | Independent | |||||
Gallaudet | ||||||
Lancaster Bible | ||||||
Penn State Harrisburg | ||||||
St. Mary's |