Continental Volleyball Conference

Continental Volleyball Conference
(CVC)
Established April 4, 2011
Association NCAA
Division Division III
Members 8
Sports fielded 1
Headquarters Madison, New Jersey
Commissioner Graeme Millar
Website TheCVC.org

The Continental Volleyball Conference is an intercollegiate men's volleyball conference associated with the NCAA's Division III.

History

On April 4, 2011 Gary Williams, Associate Athletic Director of Carthage College announced in Milwaukee the formation of the Continental Volleyball Conference. The league was established as a direct result of the launch of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in the next school year of 2011–12, with the inaugural tournament to take place in April 2012.[1]

With the continued growth of Division III men's volleyball, the CVC announced in March 2014 that it would split into two leagues after the 2014 season.[2] The league's six Eastern members retained the CVC name and branding, while the six Midwestern members, plus two other Midwestern schools that had been announced as incoming CVC members, formed a new men's volleyball conference that was later unveiled as the Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League (MCVL).[3] When the split was announced, the eastern members also added Rutgers–Newark, a Division III school which had previously played at the National Collegiate (Division I/II) level as a "grandfathered" scholarship-granting program, for the 2015 season.[4]

The conference added the newly launched men's volleyball program of Alvernia as its eighth member for the 2017 season.[5]

Current members

The league currently has eight full members.

Note that because NCAA men's volleyball is a spring sport, the year of joining is the calendar year before the first year of competition.

Institution Location Nickname Founded Type Enrollment Joined Primary
conference
Alvernia University Reading, Pennsylvania Crusaders 1958 Private 2,906 2016 MAC Commonwealth
Cairn University[n 1] Langhorne, Pennsylvania Crimson Eagles 1913 Private 911 2011 CSAC
Eastern Mennonite University Harrisonburg, Virginia Royals 1917 Private 1,589 2011 ODAC
Juniata College Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Eagles 1876 Private 1,593 2011 Landmark
Marymount University Arlington, Virginia Saints 1950 Private 3,633 2013 Capital
Rutgers University–Newark Newark, New Jersey Scarlet Raiders 1936[n 2] Public 12,011 2014 NJAC
Stevenson University Owings Mills, Maryland Mustangs 1947 Private 3,929 2011 MAC Commonwealth
Thiel College Greenville, Pennsylvania Tomcats 1866 Private 1,000 2011 Presidents'
  1. ↑ Cairn was known as Philadelphia Biblical University until July 2012.
  2. ↑ Rutgers University as a whole was founded in 1766. The founding date in this table reflects that of the University of Newark, which was merged into Rutgers in 1946 and became the current Rutgers–Newark campus.

Former members

Institution Location Nickname Type Joined Left Current
volleyball conference
Carthage College Kenosha, Wisconsin Redmen Private 2011 2014 MCVL
Dominican University River Forest, Illinois Stars Private 2013 2014 MCVL
Fontbonne University St. Louis, Missouri Griffins Private 2011 2014 MCVL
Lakeland College Sheboygan, Wisconsin Muskies Private 2013 2014 MCVL
Mount St. Joseph University[b 1] Delhi Township, Ohio Lions Private 2011[b 2] 2014 MCVL
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) Milwaukee, Wisconsin Raiders Private 2011 2014 MCVL
University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) Santa Cruz, California Banana Slugs Public 2011 2013 Independent
  1. ↑ The school was known as the College of Mount St. Joseph before July 2014.
  2. ↑ Mount St. Joseph fielded a team in the CVC's first season of 2012. It did not field a team in 2013, but returned for 2014.

In addition to the above schools, two other institutions that were adding men's volleyball for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season)—Benedictine University in Illinois and Loras College in Iowa—had been announced as new CVC members. They never officially joined the CVC, instead uniting with the six Midwestern CVC schools in the MCVL.[3]

References

  1. ↑ History of the CVC
  2. ↑ "CVC Announces Split As Teams Continue To Join" (Press release). Eastern Mennonite Royals. March 13, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "Raiders' New Conference Has A Name" (Press release). MSOE Athletics. April 4, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Transitioning Scarlet Raiders Join CVC" (Press release). Rutgers–Newark Athletics. March 13, 2014. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ "CVC Welcomes Alvernia To League" (Press release). Continental Volleyball Conference. May 26, 2016. Retrieved July 16, 2016.


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