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Encyclopedia > Commonwealth Coast Conference

The Commonwealth Coast Conference (or CCC) is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Official language(s) None (English de facto; French is also an administrative language) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... Official language(s) English Capital Concord Largest city Manchester Area  Ranked 46th  - Total 9,359 sq mi (24,239 km²)  - Width 68 miles (110 km)  - Length 190 miles (305 km)  - % water 3. ... Official language(s) English Capital Providence Largest city Providence Area  Ranked 50th  - Total 1,214* sq mi (3,144* km²)  - Width 37 miles (60 km)  - Length 48 miles (77 km)  - % water 32. ...

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Current members

North Division

Colby-Sawyer College is a small, liberal arts college in New London, New Hampshire. ... Endicott College is a co-educational independent college located in Beverly, Massachusetts, 32 kilometers north of Boston, the college ‘capital’ of the world. ... Gordon College is a nationally ranked four-year, nondenominational Christian liberal arts college on Boston’s North Shore. ... New England College is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in Henniker, New Hampshire. ... The University of New England is an independent, coeducational university with two distinctive campuses in two Maine coastal cities. ... The Wentworth Institute of Technology is a nationally accredited institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

South Division

Anna Maria College is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college located in Paxton, Massachusetts. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Eastern Nazarene College is a small liberal arts college south of Boston in Quincy, Massachusetts. ... Nichols College is a career college that is located in Dudley, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the womens college in Massachusetts. ... Roger Williams University, commonly abbreviated as RWU, is a private, coeducational American liberal arts college located on 120 acres in Bristol, Rhode Island, above Mt. ... Ochre Court, Salves administrative building Salve Regina University is a university in Newport, Rhode Island. ...

Sports

The CCC sponsors intercollegiate athletic competition in men's baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, women's field hockey, men's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women’s soccer, women's softball, men's and women's tennis, and women's volleyball. A view of the playing field at Busch Stadium II St. ... Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. ... The Minnesota State High school Cross Country Meet A cross country race in Seaside, Oregon. ... A game of field hockey in progress Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world; it is the second most popular team sport after football (soccer)[]. Its official name and the one by which it is usually known is hockey [1][2... Greg Norman on the 18th tee at St Andrews. ... The Dive Shot. Lacrosse is a team sport that is played with either ten players (men field) six players (men box,indoor) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Softball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches (or rarely, 16 inches) (28 to 30. ... A tennis net Tennis is a game played between either two players (singles) or two teams of two players (doubles). Players use a stringed racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponents court. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...


Expansion

The CCC will welcome Western New England College into the conference in the fall of 2007. Western New England College is a private, independent, coeducational university founded in 1919. ...


External link

  • Official site of the Commonwealth Coast Conference

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List of college athletic conferences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (368 words)
This is a list of athletic conferences of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).
This conference will disband its football section in 2007, when its football members begin play in the Colonial Athletic Association.
Note: All Division I-A and I-AA football conferences are also basketball conferences, with the exception of the Gateway Football Conference, Great West Football Conference, and the Pioneer Football League.
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