Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute is leaving the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference and will become the eighth full-time member of Atlantic East in the 2024-25 year.
Founded in 1887 with a population of approximately 5,100 undergraduate students, Pratt is one of the newest members of NCAA Division III. The Cannoneers attained full membership in 2022 after a four-year exploratory and provisional process. A world-class and internationally ranked college with programs in art, design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information studies, Pratt is one of the very few Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) institutions to sponsor athletics at the NCAA level.
The Cannoneers have a history of athletics that includes the 1959 NAIA Men’s Soccer National Championship and 18 conference titles in the Hudson Valley Athletic Conference, their former conference prior to commencing the NCAA process.
Pratt will bring 14 varsity sports to the Atlantic East Conference — they’ll compete in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross-country, men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s volleyball. Pratt also has a co-ed equestrian team that competes in the intercollegiate Horse Shows Association.
The Atlantic East Conference members are: Cabrini, Gwynedd Mercy, Immaculata, Marywood and Neumann Universities in Pennsylvania; Centenary University in New Jersey and Marymount University in Virginia.
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