Established 1995 Division Division III Region New England | Association NCAA Members 12 | |
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Sports fielded 17 (men's: 8; women's: 9) | ||
The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in New England in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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Current members
The league currently has 12 full members:
- - Women's college (no men's sports)
- - Former women's college, now a co-educational college (Emmanuel since 2001-02)
- - Suffolk's men's sports teams joined the GNAC in the 1998-99 season.
Future Members
It was announced in June 2016 that the conference would be expanding over the next couple of years with the addition of Regis College in 2017-18, followed by the addition of Colby-Sawyer College in 2018-19.
Associate Members
† - Regis will join the GNAC as a full member in 2017-18.
Sports
The GNAC sponsors championships in 17 intercollegiate athletic sports. They are baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, men's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, women's softball, women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's volleyball.
The conference also sponsors a men's swimming and diving invitational.