Eastern College Athletic Conference

Eastern College Athletic Conference

Association	NCAA
Founded	1938
Commissioner	Dan Coonan (since 2017)
Sports fielded	15 men's: 13 women's: 13
Division	I, II, III
No. of teams	220
Headquarters	Danbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Region	East Coast
Official website	http://www.ecacsports.com
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The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 15 sports (13 men's and 13 women's). It has 220 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to South Carolina and west to Missouri.^[1] Most or all members belong to at least one other athletic conference.

The ECAC was founded as the Central Office for Eastern Intercollegiate Athletics in 1938, largely through the efforts of James Lynah of Cornell University. In 1983, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (EAIAW) was consolidated into the ECAC. Most member schools are in other conferences as well, but through the ECAC they are able to participate in sports that their main conferences do not offer. Its headquarters are located in Danbury, Connecticut. The ECAC also now offers esports competitions to its member schools.