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Eastern College Athletic Conference

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Eastern College Athletic Conference is a College Athletic Conference that competes in 35 men’s and women’s sports having 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina.

The ECAC was founded as the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics in 1938. In 1983, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) was consolidated into the ECAC.