United Volleyball Conference

The United Volleyball Conference is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III men's volleyball conference located in the northeastern United States.[1] Formed in August 2010 with play starting in January 2011, the conference operates out of the same offices as the all-sports Empire 8 league, though the two remain separate entities.[2]

United Volleyball Conference
UVC
EstablishedAugust 31, 2010
AssociationNCAA
DivisionDivision III
Members9
Sports fielded
  • 1
HeadquartersRochester, New York
CommissionerChuck Mitrano (since 2010)
WebsiteTheUVC.org

Teams

Current members

The league currently has 9 members. Departing member Sage is highlighted in red.

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

Institution Location Nickname Founded Type Enrollment[lower-alpha 1] Joined Primary
conference
Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Raptors 1860 Private 2,051 2010 Liberty League
Elmira College Elmira, New York Soaring Eagles 1855 Private 1,170 2010 Empire 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts Engineers 1861 Private 4,602 2013 NEWMAC
Nazareth College Pittsford, New York Golden Flyers 1924 Private 2,034 2010 Empire 8
State University of New York at New Paltz (New Paltz) New Paltz, New York Hawks 1828 Public 6,717 2010 SUNYAC
New York University (NYU) New York, New York Violets 1831 Private 26,733 2010 UAA
The Sage Colleges (Sage)[lower-alpha 2] Albany, New York[lower-alpha 3] Gators 1916[lower-alpha 4] Private 850[lower-alpha 5] 2017 Empire 8
St. John Fisher College Rochester, New York Cardinals 1948 Private 2,700 2017 Empire 8
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York Brewers 1861 Private 2,450 2010 Liberty League

Sage will leave the UVC after the 2020 season (2019–20 school year) for associate membership in the New England Collegiate Conference.[3]

  1. Undergraduate enrollment.
  2. The Sage Colleges, which are recognized by the UVC, NCAA, and the state of New York as a single institution, consist of three components—the women-only Russell Sage College, the coeducational Sage College of Albany (SCA), and the Sage Graduate Schools. In the context of the UVC, Sage's team consists exclusively of SCA students, since SCA is the only Sage component that enrolls male undergraduates.
  3. Sage has campuses in both Albany and Troy, New York, but SCA operates only in Albany.
  4. The Sage Colleges date their history to the establishment of Russell Sage College in 1916. SCA was established in 1949 and adopted its current name in 2002.
  5. Reflects only enrollment in SCA, as it is the only Sage component from which men's volleyball can draw players. Sage's overall undergraduate enrollment is about 1,600.

Future member

The UVC will remain at 9 members in the 2021 season with the arrival of Keuka College, which will become a full member of the UVC's primary sponsor, the Empire 8, in July 2020.[4]

Institution Location Nickname Founded Type Enrollment Joining Current
volleyball
conference
Keuka College Keuka Park, New York Wolves 1890 Private 1,650 2020 NEAC

Former members
Institution Location Nickname Type Joined Left Current
volleyball conference
D'Youville College Buffalo, New York Spartans Private 2010 2014 AMCC
Hilbert College Hamburg, New York Hawks Private 2010 2014 AMCC
Medaille College Buffalo, New York Mavericks Private 2010 2014 AMCC
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College (Penn State Behrend) Erie, Pennsylvania Lions Public–private hybrid 2011 2017 AMCC
Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) Hoboken, New Jersey Ducks Private 2010 2019 MAC
State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNY IT)[lower-alpha 1] Marcy, New York Wildcats Public 2010 2013 NEAC
  1. Merged into the SUNY Polytechnic Institute, aka SUNY Poly, in 2014. SUNY Poly inherited the former SUNY IT athletic program.


Championship history
Season Regular season Tournament
2011 Stevens (East)
Nazareth (West)[lower-alpha 1]		 Nazareth
2012 NYU (East)[lower-alpha 1]
Medaille (West)		 Nazareth
2013 Nazareth Nazareth
2014 Nazareth New Paltz
2015 Stevens Stevens
2016 New Paltz New Paltz
2017 Vassar NYU
2018 Stevens,[lower-alpha 1] New Paltz Stevens
2019 Stevens,[lower-alpha 1] New Paltz New Paltz
  1. Top seed in conference tournament.

See also

References
  1. "United Volleyball Conference". United Volleyball Conference. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
  2. "United Volleyball Conference Forms; Begins Competition This Season" (PDF) (Press release). United Volleyball Conference. August 31, 2010. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
  3. "Sage Men's Volleyball to Join NECC as Associate Member in 2020-21" (Press release). New England Collegiate Conference. August 19, 2019. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  4. "Keuka College to Join the Empire 8 Conference Beginning in the Fall of 2020" (Press release). Empire 8 Conference. January 30, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
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