Colonial Athletic Association

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Colonial Athletic Association

Established	1983
Past Names	ECAC South
Classification	FCS
National Titles
Commissioner	Thomas E. Yeager
Members	12
Sports Fielded	21
States
Headquarters	Richmond, VA
Website	CAA Sports

The Colonial Athletic Association enters its third decade with two new members and an expanded geographic footprint that gives the conference a presence in five of the nation’s nine largest metropolitan areas.

The addition of Georgia State and Northeastern brings the membership of the CAA to 12 and enhances the league’s reputation as one of the nation’s top collegiate conferences both athletically and academically. The landscape of the conference now stretches along the majority of the East Coast, and includes six of the nation’s top 25 media markets – New York (1), Philadelphia (4), Boston (5), Washington, D.C. (8), Atlanta (9) and Baltimore (23). The number of television homes in the CAA market exceeds 19 million.

[edit] Members

[edit] CAA Football

The CAA football conference was formed in 2005, although it did not begin play until 2007. In the 2004–05 academic year, the CAA had five member schools that sponsored football, all of them as football-only members of the Atlantic 10 Football Conference. In 2005, Northeastern accepted the CAA's offer of membership, giving the CAA the six football-playing members it needed under NCAA rules to organize a football conference. At that time, the CAA announced it would launch its new football conference in 2007. Next, the CAA invited the Richmond to become a football-only member effective in 2007. Once UR accepted the offer, this left the A10 football conference with only five members, less than the six required under NCAA rules. As a result, the remaining A10 football programs all decided to join the CAA on a football-only basis, spelling the end of A10 football. The CAA has the roots of the Yankee Conference, which began play in 1938, became a football only conference in 1975, and merged with the A10 for football in 1997

[edit] North Division

Hofstra	Maine	Massachusetts	New Hampshire
Northeastern	Rhode Island

[edit] South Division

Delaware	Georgia State Will Begin Play in 2010	James Madison	Old Dominion Will Begin Play in 2009
Richmond	Towson	Villanova	IImage:Logo wm.png William and Mary

[edit] Expansion

in May 2006 Old Dominion announced it will add football, beginning with the 2009 season. The Monarchs will become the 13th football member in the CAA. In April of 2008 Georgia State announced it will start football program beginning in 2010. In 2010 the Panthers will become the 14th football member in the CAA