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Cascade Collegiate Conference
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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 and in British Columbia. The conference's members compete in 15 sports. The current commissioner of the conference is Robert Cashell.

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Lewis–Clark State
Walla Walla
Multnomah
Bushnell
Warner Pacific
Evergreen State
Northwest
Southern Oregon
Oregon Tech
College of Idaho
Eastern Oregon
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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:
  • 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:
  • 2018 – Two institutions joined the CCC as affiliate members (and/or added other single sports into their affiliate memberships), all 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:
  • 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 – Trinity Western University will join the CCC as an affiliate member for men's and women's cross country and men's and women's track & field in the 2025–26 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.
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Member schools

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Current members

The CCC currently has 12 full members, all but five are private schools:

Notes
  1. Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. Formerly known as Northwest Christian University until 2020.
  3. Walla Walla withdrew from CCC competition during the 2020–21 school year for men's & women's basketball, men's soccer and volleyball as part of its COVID-19 safety plan. All of those mentioned sports returned back to CCC conference play for the 2021–22 school year.[1]

Affiliate members

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

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  1. Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. Rocky Mountain has various affiliations: The Mainline Protestant, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), and the United Church of Christ.

Future affiliate members

The CCC will have one new affiliate member, a private school:

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  1. Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.

Former members

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

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  1. Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. Represents the calendar year when spring sports competition ends.
  3. Currently an NCAA Division II athletic conference.
  4. Currently an NCAA Division III athletic conference.
  5. Northwest Nazarene adopted its current nickname of Nighthawks since 2017.
  6. Western Oregon remained in the CCC as an affiliate member for some sports from 1998–99 to 1999–2000.

Former affiliate members

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

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Notes
  1. Represents the calendar year when fall sports competition begins.
  2. Represents the calendar year when spring sports competition ends.
  3. Currently an NCAA Division II athletic conference.
  4. Western Oregon was a full member of the CCC from 1993–94 to 1997–98.

Membership timeline

Trinity Western UniversityLewis–Clark State CollegeVanguard UniversityArizona Christian UniversityLife Pacific UniversitySimpson UniversityMontana State University–NorthernMenlo CollegeEmbry–Riddle Aeronautical University, PrescottRocky Mountain CollegeUniversity of ProvidenceCarroll College (Montana)Walla Walla UniversityMultnomah UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaBushnell UniversityWarner Pacific UniversityEvergreen State CollegeNorthwest University (United States)Cascade CollegeWestminster CollegeGreat Northwest Athletic ConferencePacific West ConferenceWestern Oregon UniversitySouthern Oregon UniversityOregon Institute of TechnologyGreat Northwest Athletic ConferencePacific West ConferenceNorthwest Nazarene UniversityCollege of IdahoNorthwest ConferenceGeorge Fox UniversityEastern Oregon UniversityCorban UniversityGreat Northwest Athletic ConferenceConcordia University (Oregon)

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Fielded sports

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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

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Commissioners

  • Howard Morris (1994–2003)
  • Phil Pifer (2003–2006)
  • Bart Valentine (2007)
  • Dave Haglund (2007–2012)
  • Robert Cashell (2012–present)

Champions

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Conference titles by school

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Track and field

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