Continental Volleyball Conference
| Continental Volleyball Conference (CVC) |
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|---|---|
| Established | April 4, 2011 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division III |
| Members | 8 |
| Sports fielded | 1 |
| Headquarters | Madison, New Jersey |
| Commissioner | Graeme Millar |
| Website | TheCVC.org |
The Continental Volleyball Conference is an intercollegiate men's volleyball conference associated with the NCAA's Division III.
On April 4, 2011 Gary Williams, Associate Athletic Director of Carthage College announced in Milwaukee the formation of the Continental Volleyball Conference. The league was established as a direct result of the launch of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in the next school year of 2011–12, with the inaugural tournament to take place in April 2012.
With the continued growth of Division III men's volleyball, the CVC announced in March 2014 that it would split into two leagues after the 2014 season. The league's six Eastern members retained the CVC name and branding, while the six Midwestern members, plus two other Midwestern schools that had been announced as incoming CVC members, formed a new men's volleyball conference that was later unveiled as the Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League (MCVL). When the split was announced, the eastern members also added Rutgers–Newark, a Division III school which had previously played at the National Collegiate (Division I/II) level as a "grandfathered" scholarship-granting program, for the 2015 season.
The conference added the newly launched men's volleyball program of Alvernia as its eighth member for the 2017 season.
Further membership changes were announced in 2016. First, on October 12, the Middle Atlantic Conferences, whose Commonwealth Conference was the all-sports home of charter CVC member Stevenson and new CVC member Alvernia, announced that they would begin sponsoring men's volleyball in the 2018 season. Within a week of this development, the CVC announced that Kean, Neumann, and Southern Virginia would become new members for the 2018 season, and that Thiel would leave after that same season. Then, on November 21, Ramapo was announced as an incoming member for the 2018 season.
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