The Cascade Collegiate Conference (or Cascade Conference) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Member schools are located in the Northwestern United States. The conference's members compete in 15 sports. The current commissioner of the conference is Robert Cashell.

History

Chronological timeline

• 1993 - The Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) was founded. Charter members included Albertson College of Idaho (now the College of Idaho), Concordia College, Portland (later Concordia University-Portland), Eastern Oregon State College (now Eastern Oregon University), George Fox College (George Fox University), Northwest Nazarene College (now Northwest Nazarene University), the Oregon Institute of Technology (Oregon Tech), Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University), Western Baptist College (now Corban University) and Western Oregon State College (now Western Oregon University), beginning the 1993-94 academic year.

• 1995 - George Fox left the CCC and the NAIA to join the Division III ranks of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Northwest Conference (NWC) after the 1994-95 academic year.

• 1997 - Cascade College and Northwest College (now Northwest University) joined the CCC in the 1997-98 academic year.

• 1998 - Western Oregon left the CCC and the NAIA to join the NCAA Division II ranks and the Pacific West Conference (PacWest) after the 1997-98 academic year; while remaining in the conference as an affiliate member for some sports until the end of the 1999-2000 academic year.

• 1999 - The Evergreen State College and Warner Pacific College (now Warner Pacific University) joined the CCC in the 1999-2000 academic year.

• 2007 - Northwest Christian College (now Bushnell University) joined the CCC in the 2007-08 academic year.

• 2008 - The University of British Columbia joined the CCC as an affiliate member for baseball in the 2009 spring season (2008-09 academic year).

• 2009 - Cascade left the CCC as the school ceased operations at the end of the 2008-09 academic year.

• 2010 - Lewis-Clark State College joined the CCC as an affiliate member for baseball in the 2011 spring season (2010-11 academic year).

• 2015 - Multnomah University and Walla Walla University joined the CCC in the 2015-16 academic year.

2015 - Four institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members (and/or added other single sports into their affiliate memberships), all effective in the 2015-16 academic year:

• British Columbia (UBC) for softball

• Carroll College and the University of Great Falls (now the University of Providence) for men's and women's soccer and softball

• and Rocky Mountain College for men's and women's soccer

2017 - Five institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members (and/or added other single sports into their affiliate memberships), all effective in the 2017-18 academic year:

• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott, Menlo College, Montana State University-Northern, Providence (MT) and Simpson University for men's wrestling

2018 - Two institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members (and/or added other single sports into their affiliate memberships), both effective in the 2018-19 academic year:

• British Columbia (UBC) for men's and women's golf, and men's and women's outdoor track & field

• Life Pacific University for men's wrestling

2019 - Five institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members (and/or added other single sports into their affiliate memberships), all effective in the 2019-20 academic year:

• Arizona Christian University and Vanguard University for men's wrestling

• and Life Pacific, Menlo and Providence (MT) for women's wrestling

• 2020 - Lewis-Clark State upgraded its CCC membership for all sports in the 2020-21 academic year.

• 2021 - Simpson added women's wrestling in its CCC affiliate membership in the 2021-22 academic year.

• 2022 - Life Pacific left the CCC as an affiliate member for men's and women's wrestling as the school dropped both sports at the end of the 2021-22 academic year.

• 2022 - Vanguard added women's wrestling in its CCC affiliate membership in the 2022-23 academic year.

• 2024 - Menlo and Vanguard left the CCC and the NAIA as affiliate members for both men's and women's wrestling to join the NCAA Division II ranks and the Pacific West Conference (PacWest) after the 2023-24 academic year.

• 2024 - Simpson added beach volleyball in its CCC affiliate membership in the 2025 spring season (2024-25 academic year).

• 2025 - Multnomah announced that they would be discontinuing all athletic programs and leaving the CCC at the end of the 2024-25 academic year.

2025 - Two institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members (and/or added other single sports into their affiliate memberships), both effective in the 2025-26 academic year:

• Simpson for softball

• Trinity Western University for men's and women's cross country and men's and women's track & field

Member schools

Current members

The CCC currently has 11 full members, all but five are private schools:

1. Notes:

Affiliate members

The CCC currently has nine affiliate members, all but two are private schools:

1. Notes:

Former members

The CCC had six former full members, all but one were private schools:

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Former affiliate members

The CCC had five former affiliate members, four of them were private schools:

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Membership timeline

Fielded sports

Fall

• Men's cross country: ten schools participate

• Women's cross country: ten schools participate

• Men's soccer: fourteen schools participate

• Women's soccer: Thirteen schools participate

• Women's Volleyball: all full member schools participate

Winter

• Men's basketball: all full member schools participate

• Women's basketball: all full member schools participate

• Wrestling: Added in 2017, 12 men's teams and seven women's teams participate

Spring

• Baseball: seven schools participate

• Golf (men's & women's): eight men's and seven women's teams participate

• Softball: eleven schools participate

• Men's track and field: ten schools participate

• Women's track and field: ten schools participate

Sports not sponsored

• College of Idaho participates in men's and women's skiing as a member of the Northwest Conference of the United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association, men's and women's swimming, and women's tennis, and football in the Frontier Conference.

• Eastern Oregon participates in football as a member of the Frontier Conference.

• Southern Oregon participates in football as a member of the Frontier Conference.

Commissioners

• Howard Morris (1994–2003)

• Phil Pifer (2003–2006)

• Bart Valentine (2007)

• Dave Haglund (2007–2012)

• Robert Cashell (2012–present)

Champions

Conference titles by school

Cross country

1. Men

   Women

Soccer

1. Men

   Women

Volleyball

Beach Volleyball

Basketball

1. Men

   Women

Baseball

Golf

1. Men

   Women

Softball

Track and field

1. Men

   Women

Wrestling

1. Men

   Women

References

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