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
AssociationNCAA
FoundedAugust 31, 2010
CommissionerChuck Mitrano (since 2010)
Sports fielded
  • 1
DivisionDivision III
No. of teams9
HeadquartersRochester, New York
Official websiteTheUVC.org

Teams

Current members

The league currently has 9 members.

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 Founded Joined Type Enrollment[lower-alpha 1] Nickname Primary
conference
Elmira College Elmira, New York 1855 2010 Private 1,170 Soaring Eagles Empire 8
Hobart College Geneva, New York 1797 2024 Episcopal 905 Statesmen Liberty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 1861 2013 Private 4,602 Engineers NEWMAC
Nazareth University Pittsford, New York 1924 2010 Private 2,034 Golden Flyers Empire 8
State University of New York at New Paltz (New Paltz) New Paltz, New York 1828 2010 Public 6,717 Hawks SUNYAC
New York University (NYU) New York, New York 1831 2010 Private 26,733 Violets UAA
St. John Fisher University Rochester, New York 1948 2017 Private 2,700 Cardinals Empire 8
Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 1861 2010 Private 2,450 Brewers Liberty
  1. Undergraduate enrollment.

Former members
Institution Location Joined Left Type Nickname Current
volleyball conference
Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 1860 2010 Private Raptors NECC
D'Youville College Buffalo, New York 2010 2014 Private Spartans AMCC
Hilbert College Hamburg, New York 2010 2014 Private Hawks AMCC
Medaille College Buffalo, New York 2010 2014 Private Mavericks AMCC
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College (Penn State Behrend) Erie, Pennsylvania 2011 2017 Public–private hybrid Lions AMCC
The Sage Colleges (Sage)[lower-alpha 1] Albany, New York[lower-alpha 2] 2017 2020 Private Gators NECC
Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) Hoboken, New Jersey 2010 2019 Private Ducks MAC
State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNY IT)[lower-alpha 3] Marcy, New York 2010 2013 Public Wildcats NEAC
  1. The Sage Colleges, which were recognized by the UVC, NCAA, and the state of New York as a single institution, consolidated its three colleges as one and rebranded as Russell Sage College in July 2020. Russell Sage consisted of three components—the formerly women-only namesake college, the coeducational Sage College of Albany (SCA), and the Sage Graduate Schools. In the context of the UVC, Russell Sage's team consists predominantly of former SCA students, since SCA was the only RSC component that enrolled male undergraduates.
  2. Russell Sage has campuses in both Albany and Troy, New York, but the former SCA operated only in Albany.
  3. 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.
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