The CCC and Commonwealth Coast Football unveiled a new family of logos during a June 2019 visual rebrand.[1]
History
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Saint Joseph
New England College
Colby–Sawyer
Maine Maritime
Johnson & Wales
Hartford
Suffolk
Husson
Western New England
Wentworth
Univ. of New England
Roger Williams
Nichols
Gordon
Endicott
Curry
Location of current members: full member associate member future associate member
Recent events
On June 21, 2022, the
University of Hartford announced that it would join the CCC, starting the 2023–24 academic year;[2] while Salve Regina announced it would leave both the CCC and CCC Football to join the
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), once concluding the 2022–23 school year.[3]
On December 8, 2022, Johnson & Wales (RI) announced it would join the CCC as soon as the 2024–25 academic year.[4]
In 2023, two schools announced they would be reinstating their varsity football programs and joining the CCC for football, starting the 2025 fall season (2025–26 academic year); first
Maine Maritime Academy on January 9,[5] then
New England College followed suit on November 14.[6]
2017 – The CCC added football as a sponsored sport, although not directly as it absorbed the former and defunct
New England Football Conference and rebranded as
Commonwealth Coast Football (CCC Football) in the 2017 fall season (2017–18 academic year).
2017 – Becker added football to join CCC Football in the 2017 fall season (2017–18 academic year).
2018 – Eastern Nazarene left the CCC to join the NECC after the 2017–18 academic year.
2018 – Johnson & Wales and Suffolk left the CCC as associate members for men's ice hockey after the 2017–18 academic year.
2019 –
Husson University joined CCC Football in the 2019 fall season (2019–20 academic year).
2020 – Suffolk returned to the CCC, but with full membership status in the 2020–21 academic year.
2022 – Due to changes in NCAA legislation regarding the number of member schools required for an automatic qualifier (AQ), football was fully incorporated into the CCC multi-sport conference, eliminating the need for the single-sport Commonwealth Coast Football league, beginning the 2022–23 academic year.
2023 – Johnson & Wales (RI) will join the CCC as soon as the 2024–25 academic year.
2023 –
Maine Maritime Academy and
New England College will reinstate their varsity football programs and joining the CCC for football, beginning the 2025 fall season (2025–26 academic year).
The CCC sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in 20 sports. The conference started sponsoring
football in the 2017-18 season, absorbing the former football-only New England Football Conference. From 2017-2021 football was operated as a single-sport conference branded
Commonwealth Coast Football.[7] Due to changes in NCAA legislation regarding the number of members required for a for a conference to receive and automatic qualifier (AQ), football was fully incorporated into the multi-sport conference in 2022, eliminating the need for the football-only league. Women's ice hockey was added as a conference sport in 2020-21 when the CCC took over operations of the
Colonial Hockey Conference.[8]