Northeast-10 Conference
The Northeast-10 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association ’s Division II level. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. It is the only Division II collegiate hockey conference in the United States.
History
The original 1980 conference was called the "Northeast 7" as the colleges were American International College, Assumption College, Bentley College, Bryant College, the University of Hartford, Springfield College, and Stonehill College. In 1981, Saint Anselm College was the eighth team to join and the resulting "NE-8" stayed this way until 1984 when the University of Hartford left and Merrimack College joined.The “Northeast-10” name came about in 1987 when Saint Michael's College and Quinnipiac College joined the league. The conference remained stable until 1995 when Springfield College left for Division III. The league stayed at ten members as Le Moyne College joined the league in 1996 from the New England Collegiate Conference and briefly expanded to eleven when Pace University joined in 1997 from the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference. Quinnipiac moved to the Division I Northeast Conference to again return the membership to ten.
The last major expansion took place prior to 2000, when five new schools joined the fold. Franklin Pierce College, Southern New Hampshire University, the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and Southern Connecticut State University were joined by the College of Saint Rose giving the NE-10 15 members. In 2008, Bryant University announced it would begin the five-year process that would make them a full Division I member by 2012; at the same time the NE-10 announced that it had given a bid to University of New Haven and they had accepted. In December 2007, Adelphi University announced it had joined the league and began playing in 2009–10. To start the 2008–09 academic year the NE-10 still had 15 members and expanded to 16 in 2009-10.
With that major expansion, the NE-10 now stands as the second-largest NCAA Division II conference in the nation. The strength in numbers was the guiding force in the addition and strengthening of a number of championship sports the league now offers. However, because the NE-10 is the sole Division II hockey league, its postseason champion cannot compete for the NCAA national hockey championship.
On July 1, 2013, UMass Lowell left the NE-10 to join the Division I America East Conference. With the departure of UMass Lowell, the Northeast-10 Conference has 15 remaining members.
Since the addition of those five institutions, the league has added football, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field as championship sports. While the expansion has added championships in certain sports, it has also increased the championship opportunities for countless student-athletes with the expansion of postseason tournaments for sports such as field hockey, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, and baseball.
The expansion continued in 2003–04 as the conference added another three championships to its diverse menu – men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, and men's ice hockey – the only Division II ice hockey conference in the nation. The conference also continued to expand in the classroom. Each year, the NE-10 honors a record number of scholar athletes to the Commissioner's Honor Roll.
The most recent changes to the conference membership, both taking effect with the 2019–20 school year, were announced in 2018. First, Merrimack announced that it would begin a transition to Division I and join the Northeast Conference.
Then, Long Island University announced that it would unify its two athletic programs—the Division I LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds and the Division II LIU Post Pioneers, the latter of which was a NE-10 affiliate member in field hockey and football at the time of announcement—into a single D-I athletic program under the LIU name. As such, the LIU Post field hockey team was merged with LIU Brooklyn's previously existing team in that sport, and the LIU Post football team became the new LIU football team, competing as a Division I FCS team in the Northeast Conference. Thus, the NE-10 now has a total of 14 member schools.
David Brunk, the first full-time commissioner in league history, announced in April he was resigning July 1, 2007 to take over the Peach Belt Conference. Brunk had been commissioner since 1998. Julie Ruppert became the next full-time commissioner in June 2008, becoming the first female Division II commissioner in the country.
Member schools
Current members
Affiliate members
Former members
Former affiliate members
Membership timeline
DateFormat = yyyy
ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:20
Period = from:1980 till:2025
TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal
PlotArea = right:5 left:5 bottom:20 top:5
Colors =
id:line value:black
id:Full value:rgb # all sports
id:FullxF value:rgb # non-football
id:AssocF value:rgb # football-only
id:AssocOS value:rgb # associate
PlotData =
width:15 textcolor:darkblue shift: anchor:from fontsize:s
bar:1 color:FullxF from:1980 till:2001 text:American International
bar:1 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:2 color:FullxF from:1980 till:2001 text:Assumption
bar:2 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:3 color:FullxF from:1980 till:2001 text:Bentley
bar:3 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:4 color:FullxF from:1980 till:2001 text:Bryant
bar:4 color:Full from:2001 till:2008
bar:5 color:FullxF from:1980 till:1984 text:Hartford
bar:6 color:FullxF from:1980 till:2001 text:Stonehill
bar:6 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:7 color:FullxF from:1980 till:1995 text:Springfield
bar:8 color:FullxF from:1981 till:2001 text:Saint Anselm
bar:8 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:9 color:FullxF from:1984 till:2001 text:Merrimack
bar:9 color:Full from:2001 till:2019
bar:10 color:FullxF from:1987 till:1998 text:Quinnipiac
bar:11 color:FullxF from:1987 till:end text:Saint Michael's
bar:12 color:FullxF from:1996 till:end text:Le Moyne
bar:13 color:FullxF from:1997 till:2001 text:Pace
bar:13 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:14 color:FullxF from:2000 till:2019 text:Franklin Pierce
bar:14 color:Full from:2019 till:end
bar:15 color:FullxF from:2000 till:2001 text:UMass Lowell
bar:15 color:Full from:2001 till:2003
bar:15 color:FullxF from:2003 till:2013
bar:16 color:FullxF from:2000 till:end text:Saint Rose
bar:17 color:FullxF from:2000 till:2001 text:Southern Connecticut State
bar:17 color:Full from:2001 till:end
bar:18 color:FullxF from:2000 till:end text:Southern New Hampshire
bar:19 color:AssocF from:2001 till:2008 text:LIU Post
bar:19 color:AssocOS from:2013 till:2019 text:
bar:20 color:FullxF from:2008 till:2009 text:New Haven
bar:20 color:Full from:2009 till:end
bar:21 color:FullxF from:2009 till:end text:Adelphi
bar:22 shift: color:AssocOS from:2019 till:end text:Mercy
bar:23 shift: color:AssocOS from:2019 till:end text:Molloy
bar:24 shift: color:AssocOS from:2019 till:end text:St. Thomas Aquinas
bar:25 shift: color:AssocOS from:2019 till:end text:Post
ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:5 start:1981
Conference facilities
Presidents' Cup Champions
| Year | First Place | Second Place | Third Place |
| 1985 | Springfield | Bryant | St. Anselm |
| 1986 | Springfield | Bryant | Bentley |
| 1987 | Springfield | Bentley | Bryant |
| 1988 | Springfield | Bentley | Bryant |
| 1989 | Springfield | Bentley | Bryant |
| 1990 | Springfield | Bentley | Merrimack |
| 1991 | Springfield | Bentley | Merrimack |
| 1992 | Springfield | Bentley | Quinnipiac |
| 1993 | Springfield | Bentley | Quinnipiac |
| 1994 | Springfield | Bentley | Quinnipiac |
| 1995 | Springfield | Bentley | Quinnipiac |
| 1996 | Bentley | Quinnipiac | St. Anselm |
| 1997 | Bentley | Quinnipiac | Merrimack |
| 1998 | Bentley | Quinnipiac | Merrimack |
| 1999 | Bentley | Merrimack | St. Anselm |
| 2000 | Merrimack | Bentley | Assumption |
| 2001 | Bentley | Merrimack | Assumption |
| 2002 | Bryant | Bentley | Southern Connecticut State |
| 2003 | Bryant | Bentley | UMass Lowell |
| 2004 | Bryant | Bentley | UMass Lowell |
| 2005 | Bryant | Bentley | Stonehill |
| 2006 | Bryant | Stonehill | Bentley |
| 2007 | Bryant | Bentley | Stonehill |
| 2008 | Bryant | Bentley | Stonehill |
| 2009 | Bentley | Stonehill | UMass Lowell |
| 2010 | Stonehill | Bentley | Adelphi |
| 2011 | Stonehill | Bentley | Southern Connecticut State |
| 2012 | Stonehill | Southern Connecticut State | Bentley |
| 2013 | Adelphi | Bentley | Stonehill |
| 2014 | Adelphi | Stonehill | Bentley |
| 2015 | Stonehill | Adelphi | Assumption |
| 2016 | Adelphi | Bentley | Stonehill |
| 2017 | Adelphi | Stonehill | Merrimack |
| 2018 | Merrimack | Adelphi | Stonehill |
| 2019 | Merrimack | Adelphi | Assumption |
Sports
| Sport | Men's | Women's |
| Baseball | ||
| Basketball | ||
| Cross Country | ||
| Field Hockey | ||
| Football | ||
| Golf | ||
| Ice Hockey | ||
| Lacrosse | ||
| Soccer | ||
| Softball | ||
| Swimming & Diving | ||
| Tennis | ||
| Track & Field Indoor | ||
| Track & Field Outdoor | ||
| Volleyball |