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Association | NCAA |
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Founded | 2012 |
Commissioner | Reid Amos (since 2012) |
Sports fielded |
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Division | Division II |
No. of teams | 11 (12 in 2026) |
Headquarters | Bridgeport, West Virginia |
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Official website | mountaineast.org |
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The Mountain East Conference (MEC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level and officially began competition on September 1, 2013. It consists of 11 schools, mostly in West Virginia with other members in Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Formation and history
[edit]The conference is an offshoot of the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC), another Division II conference that had operated primarily in West Virginia since 1924. In June 2012, the nine football-playing schools in that conference announced plans to break away and form a new all-sports conference. The schools that made the initial announcement were the University of Charleston, Concord University, Fairmont State University, Glenville State College (now a university), Seton Hill University, Shepherd University, West Liberty University, West Virginia State University, and West Virginia Wesleyan College.[1] All of these schools were in West Virginia, except for Seton Hill, located in Pennsylvania. According to regional media, the split was "supposedly rooted in different philosophies of progressivism",[2] and also was partially driven by a desire to expand the new conference's footprint outside West Virginia.[3] The divisions in the WVIAC were also rooted in the split between public and private schools, although the departing schools included institutions of both types.[4]
At the time of the original announcement, the nine schools planned to expand to at least 12 members.[2] Before the official launch of the conference on August 20, 2012,[5] the MEC sought to add the WVIAC's other Pennsylvania member, the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown; however, both Seton Hill and Pittsburgh–Johnstown chose to join the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC).[3] The MEC filled out its charter membership with another West Virginia school, Wheeling Jesuit University, today known as Wheeling University; two Ohio schools, Notre Dame College and Urbana University; and the University of Virginia's College at Wise (UVA Wise), located in Southwest Virginia.[5] Wheeling Jesuit was a WVIAC member that had been left out of the original WVIAC split.[3] Urbana and UVA Wise were members of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) in 2012–13, while Notre Dame was a Division II independent that had housed five of its 22 sports in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.[5] UVA Wise, which had previously been turned down for WVIAC membership,[3] was transitioning from the NAIA and did not officially become an active D-II member until 2015-16; all of the other charter members were already full D-II members.[5]
At its launch, the MEC had 11 football members, with Wheeling (then known as Wheeling Jesuit) being the only non-football school.[3] On February 15, 2013, the NCAA accepted the MEC as its 25th D2 conference.[6] The 2015–16 school year was the first in which MEC teams were eligible for automatic bids to NCAA Division II championships; before then, they were eligible only for at-large bids.[6]
In 2018, UVA Wise and the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) jointly announced on April 13 that UVA Wise would leave the MEC to join the SAC for 2019–20 and beyond.[7] Next, Shepherd and the PSAC jointly announced on June 7 that Shepherd would join the PSAC in 2019, becoming that league's first full member outside of Pennsylvania.[8] The MEC would replace both members in the ensuing months. On July 5, the Mountain East Conference announced that Frostburg State University had accepted an offer of membership beginning with the 2019–20 academic year, contingent upon Frostburg State achieving active membership status in NCAA Division II (which would occur on the announced schedule).[9] Finally, on August 30, the MEC announced two additional new members effective in 2019–20. Davis & Elkins College would become a full member, and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNC Pembroke) would join in five sports. UNC Pembroke began MEC competition in men's and women's indoor track & field, women's swimming & diving, and wrestling in 2019, with football following in 2020.[10]
Multiple MEC membership changes were announced in 2020. On April 16, multi-sport associate member UNC Pembroke announced it would join Conference Carolinas (CC) effective in 2021–22. Because CC sponsors all of the non-football sports that UNCP housed in the MEC, UNCP is now an MEC member only in football.[11] Five days later, charter member Urbana announced it would close at the end of the 2019–20 school year.[12] Finally, on June 5, Alderson Broaddus University, a West Virginia school left out of the WVIAC split, announced that it would leave the G-MAC to join the MEC the following month.[13] However, their tenure in the MEC was short-lived, as on July 31, 2023, Alderson Broaddus' authorization to grant degrees was revoked, resulting in the immediate suspension of all athletics.[14]
In 2024, charter member Notre Dame College announced it would shut down.[15] That same year, it was announced that Point Park University would join the conference from the NAIA River States Conference. This marked the MEC’s first member in Pennsylvania.[16]
Chronological timeline
[edit]- 2013 – The Mountain East Conference was founded. Charter members included the University of Charleston, Concord University, Fairmont State University, Glenville State College (now Glenville State University), Notre Dame College of Ohio, Shepherd University, Urbana University, the University of Virginia's College at Wise (UVA Wise), West Liberty University, West Virginia State University, West Virginia Wesleyan College and Wheeling Jesuit University (now Wheeling University), beginning the 2013–14 academic year. Every member school (except UVA Wise, Notre Dame (Oh.) and Urbana) came from the defunct West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC).
- 2019
- UVA Wise left the MEC to join the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) after the 2018–19 academic year.
- Davis & Elkins College and Frostburg State University joined the MEC in the 2019–20 academic year.
- The University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNC Pembroke) joined the MEC as an associate member for men's and women's indoor track & field, women's swimming & diving and wrestling in the 2019–20 academic year.
- 2020
- Alderson Broaddus University joined the MEC in the 2020–21 academic year.
- UNC Pembroke added football to its MEC associate membership in the 2020 fall season (2020–21 academic year).
- 2021 – UNC Pembroke left the MEC as an associate member for men's and women's indoor track & field, women's swimming & diving and wrestling after the 2020–21 academic year.
- 2023 – Alderson Broaddus left the MEC before the 2023–24 academic year began, as the school had suspended all athletic programs. For the 2023-2024 academic year, the Mountain East Conference announced a non-conference scheduling agreement with NCAA Division II Independent and former WVIAC member Salem University to fill in the scheduling gaps left by the Alderson Broaddus' closure. The Tigers would compete against MEC schools in baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, softball, and women’s volleyball.[17]
- 2024
- Point Park University joined the MEC in the 2024–25 academic year.[16]
- Notre Dame announced it would permanently close at the end of the 2023–24 academic year.[15]
- Dominican University of California joined the MEC as an associate member for women's lacrosse for the 2025 seasons (2024–25 academic year). Dominican will not play regular season games against MEC member schools, but will participate in the conference women's lacrosse tournament in order for the MEC to maintain the 6 member minimum required to maintain an automatic bid to the NCAA Division II women's lacrosse tournament.[18]
- Salem joined the MEC as an associate member for men's and women's swimming & diving and men's wrestling for the 2024–25 academic year. Additionally, the MEC also announced it would extend the non-conference scheduling agreement it made with Salem through the 2024–25 academic year.[19]
- 2025
- UNC Pembroke will leave the MEC as an associate member for football after the 2024 fall season (2024–25 academic year), thus ending its associate membership within the conference.
- Kutztown University of Pennsylvania will join the MEC as an associate member for acrobatics & tumbling for the 2025 season (2025–26 academic year).
- 2026 – Shawnee State University will join the MEC in the 2026–27 academic year, pending its acceptance into Division II.[20]
Member schools
[edit]Current members
[edit]The Mountain East currently has 11 full members, with five being private and six being public schools. Reclassifying members listed in yellow.
- Notes
- ^ Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
Future member
[edit]Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Endowment (millions – FY24) |
Nickname | Joining[a] | Colors | Current conference |
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Shawnee State University | Portsmouth, Ohio | 1986 | Public | 3,641 | $24.8[29] | Bears | 2026 | River States (RSC)[b] |
- Notes
Associate members
[edit]The Mountain East currently has three associate members, one public school and two private schools:
Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined[a] | Colors | MEC sport(s) |
Primary conference |
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Dominican University of California | San Rafael, California | 1890 | Catholic | 1,818 | Penguins | 2024 | women's lacrosse | Pacific West (PacWest) | |
Kutztown University of Pennsylvania | Kutztown, Pennsylvania | 1866 | Public | 7,468 | Golden Bears | 2025 | acrobatics & tumbling | Pennsylvania (PSAC) | |
Salem University[b] | Salem, West Virginia | 1888 | Nonsectarian (For-profit) |
894 | Tigers | 2024 | men's swimming & diving | D-II Independent | |
women's swimming & diving | |||||||||
men's wrestling |
- Notes
Former members
[edit]The Mountain East had five former full members; three are private schools which left the MEC when the schools closed, while two are public schools that remain in operation.
Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined[a] | Left[b] | Colors | Current conference |
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Alderson Broaddus University | Philippi, West Virginia | 1871 | Baptist | 750 | Battlers | 2020 | 2023 | Closed in 2023 | |
Notre Dame College | South Euclid, Ohio | 1922 | Catholic | 1,522 | Falcons | 2013 | 2024 | Closed in 2024 | |
Shepherd University | Shepherdstown, West Virginia | 1871 | Public | 4,400 | Rams | 2013 | 2019 | Pennsylvania (PSAC)[30] | |
Urbana University | Urbana, Ohio | 1850 | Nonsectarian | N/A | Blue Knights | 2013 | 2020 | Closed in 2020 | |
University of Virginia's College at Wise (UVA Wise) |
Wise, Virginia | 1954 | Public | 2,000 | Cavaliers | 2013 | 2019 | South Atlantic (SAC)[31] |
- Notes
Former associate member
[edit]Current Mountain East football associate UNC Pembroke had housed four sports in the MEC before it joined a conference that sponsored all of those sports.
Institution | Location | Founded | Affiliation | Enrollment | Nickname | Joined[a] | Left[b] | Colors | MEC sport(s) |
Primary conference |
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University of North Carolina at Pembroke[c] | Pembroke, North Carolina | 1887 | Public | 5,827 | Braves | 2019[10] | 2021[32] | men's indoor track & field | Carolinas (CC) | |
women's indoor track & field | ||||||||||
women's swimming & diving | ||||||||||
men's wrestling | ||||||||||
2020 | 2025 | football |
- Notes
Membership timeline
[edit]
Full members (all sports) Full members (non-football) Associate members (football-only) Associate members (other) Other Conference Other Conference
Sports
[edit]The MEC sponsored 16 sports in all, eight each for men and women, at its formation.[3] Women's lacrosse became the 17th conference sport for the 2014–15 school year (2015 season). Men's and women's swimming and diving were added as the 18th and 19th conference sports for 2017–18, with the MEC and Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) forming a swimming and diving alliance that conducts a joint conference championship meet.[33] The following school year saw the MEC add acrobatics & tumbling as an official sport, two years before it was added to the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.[34] The MEC was the first NCAA conference to establish acrobatics & tumbling as an official sport.[35] The most recently added sports are men's and women's indoor track & field and wrestling, which debuted in 2019–20.[10]
A divisional format is used for basketball (M/W), baseball, soccer (W), softball and volleyball (W). | |
North
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South
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Sport | Men's | Women's |
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Acrobatics & tumbling | – |
6
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Baseball | 11 |
–
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Basketball | 11 |
11
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Cross country | 10 |
11
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Football | 9 |
–
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Golf | 10 |
9
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Lacrosse | – |
7
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Soccer | 8 |
10
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Softball | – |
11
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Swimming & Diving | 5 |
5
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Tennis | 7 |
7
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Track & field (indoor) | 8 |
8
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Track & field (outdoor) | 9 |
9
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Volleyball | – |
10
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Wrestling | 8 |
–
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Men's sponsored sports by school
[edit]Departing member in pink.
School | Baseball | Basketball | Cross Country |
Football | Golf | Soccer | Swimming & Diving |
Tennis | Track & Field Indoor |
Track & Field Outdoor |
Wrestling | Total MEC Sports |
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Charleston | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 9 |
Concord | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | 8 |
Davis & Elkins | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
Fairmont State | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | 8 |
Frostburg State | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
Glenville State | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | 7 |
Point Park | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8 |
West Liberty | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
West Virginia State | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | 5 |
West Virginia Wesleyan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 10 |
Wheeling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
Associate Members | ||||||||||||
Salem | Yes | Yes | 2 | |||||||||
Totals | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 4+1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 7+1 | 93+2 |
Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the Mountain East Conference which are played by MEC schools:
School | Lacrosse | Volleyball[a] |
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Charleston | EIVA | |
Davis & Elkins | G-MAC | |
Frostburg State | ECC | |
Point Park | G-MAC | |
Wheeling | G-MAC |
- ^ Effective Division I sport; the NCAA's top-level championship is open to members of Divisions I and II.
Women's sponsored sports by school
[edit]School | Acrobatics & Tumbling |
Basketball | Cross Country |
Golf | Lacrosse | Soccer | Softball | Swimming & Diving |
Tennis | Track & Field Indoor |
Track & Field Outdoor |
Volleyball | Total MEC Sports |
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Charleston | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
Concord | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8 |
Davis & Elkins | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 11 |
Fairmont State | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | 9 |
Frostburg State | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 11 |
Glenville State | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | 7 |
Point Park | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
West Liberty | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 10 |
West Virginia State | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | 7 |
West Virginia Wesleyan | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 12 |
Wheeling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9 |
Associate Members | |||||||||||||
Dominican (CA) | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
Kutztown | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
Salem | Yes | 1 | |||||||||||
Totals | 6+1 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 6+1 | 10 | 11 | 4+1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 103+3 |
Women's varsity sports not sponsored by the Mountain East Conference which are played by MEC schools:
School | Field Hockey | Triathlon[a] | Wrestling[a] |
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Davis & Elkins | IND | ||
Frostburg State | PSAC | ||
Point Park | TBA[b] |
- ^ a b Included in the NCAA Emerging Sports for Women program.
- ^ Point Park has not yet announced an affiliation for its women's wrestling team.
In addition to the above:
- Charleston considers its female cheerleaders (but not its male cheerleaders) to be varsity athletes.
- Glenville State considers its female cheerleaders (but not its male cheerleaders) to be varsity athletes. It also fields men's and women's teams in the non-NCAA sport of boxing.
- Wheeling fields a varsity team in the non-NCAA sport of men's rugby.
- Future member Point Park considers its cheerleaders, both male and female, and its all-female dance team to be varsity athletes. It also sponsors a varsity esports program, with men and women competing alongside and against one another.
National Championships
[edit]Since the founding of the conference in 2013, member institutions of the Mountain East Conference have won six NCAA national championships.
Year | Sport | School | Ref |
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2014 | Men’s wrestling | Notre Dame (OH) | [36] |
2015 | Volleyball | Wheeling | [37] |
2017 | Men's soccer | Charleston | [38] |
2017 | Men’s wrestling | Notre Dame (OH) | [39] |
2019 | Men's soccer | Charleston | [40] |
2022 | Women’s basketball | Glenville State | [41] |
Conference facilities
[edit]School | Football | Basketball | Baseball | ||||
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Stadium | Capacity | Arena | Capacity | Stadium | Capacity | Ref | |
University of Charleston | UC Stadium at Laidley Field | 18,500 | Wehrle Arena | 1,589 | Welch Athletic Complex | [42] | |
Concord University | Callaghan Stadium | 3,700 | Carter Center | Anderson Field | [43] | ||
Davis & Elkins College | non-football school
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McDonnell Center | 1,200 | Harpertown Field | [44] | ||
Fairmont State University | Duvall-Rosier Field | 5,000 | Joe Retton Arena | 2,711 | Dale Miller Field at Mylan Park | [45] | |
Frostburg State University | Bobcat Stadium | 4,000 | Bobcat Arena | 3,600 | Bob Wells Field | [46] | |
Glenville State University | I.L. & Sue Morris Stadium | 5,500 | Waco Center | 3,000 | Sue Morris Sports Complex | [47] | |
Point Park University | non-football school
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CCAC-Allegheny Gym | 1,000 | Point Park Field | [48] | ||
Shawnee State University | non-football school
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Waller Gymnasium | Branch Rickey Park | ||||
West Liberty University | West Family Stadium | 4,000 | Academic, Sports, and Recreation Complex | 1,200 | Kovalick Field | [50][51] | |
West Virginia State University | Lakin-Ray Field at Dickerson Stadium | 5,000 | Walker Convocation Center | 1,350 | Cal Bailey Field | 500 | [52] |
West Virginia Wesleyan College | Cebe Ross Field | 3,000 | Rockefeller Center | 3,200 | Hank Ellis Field | [53] | |
Wheeling University | Bishop Schmitt Field | 1,300 | McDonough Center | 2,200 | J.B. Chambers Baseball/Softball Complex | [54] |
Note: Shawnee State is set to join the conference in the 2026–27 academic year and is scheduled to begin sponsoring football in 2028.[55]
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