The ECAC was established in 1961 and was originally part of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a governing body for many different sports at all three NCAA divisions. In 1985 the ECAC started a women’s tournament and eventually became an official sponsor of women’s hockey in the 1993-94 season. In 2004 the NCAA DI conference split ways with that organization and simply kept the abbreviation, possibly for consistency, and is known as ECAC Hockey now. This conference now consists of twelve women’s teams, with corresponding men’s teams from the same schools, making it the largest conference in DI women’s hockey.
A Midseason Review of the ECAC
