The United Volleyball Conference was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III men's volleyball conference located in the northeastern United States. Formed in August 2010 with play starting in January 2011, the conference operated out of the same offices as the all-sports Empire 8 league, though the two remained separate entities.
The UVC disbanded following the 2026 season as part of an agreement between it, the New England Volleyball Conference (NEVC; an offshoot of the former all-sports New England Collegiate Conference), and three all-sports conferences—the Conference of New England (CNE), Empire 8, and New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC). CNE and NEWMAC started sponsoring men's volleyball in the spring 2027 season, and the Empire 8 elevated the sport to full NCAA championship status at that time. Of the final UVC members, three moved men's volleyball to the Empire 8 (all being full members of that conference), four joined NEWMAC men's volleyball (one as a full member and three as affiliates), and Hobart became a men's volleyball affiliate of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference.
Teams Final members The league had 8 members in its final 2026 season.
Note that because NCAA men's volleyball is a spring sport, the year of joining is the calendar year before the first season of competition.
InstitutionLocationFoundedJoinedTypeEnrollmentNicknamePrimaryconferenceCurrentvolleyballconference Elmira College Elmira, New York 1855 2010 Private 1,170 Soaring Eagles Empire 8 Hobart College Geneva, New York 1797 2024 Episcopal 905 Statesmen Liberty AMCC Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 1861 2013 Private 4,602 Engineers NEWMAC Nazareth University Pittsford, New York 1924 2010 Private 2,034 Golden Flyers Empire 8 (New Paltz) New Paltz, New York 1828 2010 Public 6,717 Hawks SUNYAC NEWMAC (NYU) New York, New York 1831 2010 Private 26,733 Violets UAA NEWMAC Rochester, New York 1948 2017 Private 2,700 Cardinals Empire 8 Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 1861 2010 Private 2,450 Brewers Liberty NEWMAC
Other former members InstitutionLocationJoinedLeftTypeNicknameCurrentvolleyball conference Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 1860 2010 Private Raptors CNE Buffalo, New York 2010 2014 Private Spartans NEC Hilbert College Hamburg, New York 2010 2014 Private Hawks AMCC Medaille College Buffalo, New York 2010 2014 Private Mavericks Penn State Erie, The Behrend College (Penn State Behrend) Erie, Pennsylvania 2011 2017 Public–private hybrid Lions AMCC (Sage) Albany, New York 2017 2020 Private Gators Empire 8 Stevens Institute of Technology (Stevens) Hoboken, New Jersey 2010 2019 Private Ducks MAC (SUNY IT) Marcy, New York 2010 2013 Public Wildcats CNE
Championship history SeasonRegular seasonTournament 2011 Stevens (East)Nazareth (West) Nazareth 2012 NYU (East)Medaille (West) Nazareth 2013 Nazareth Nazareth 2014 Nazareth New Paltz 2015 Stevens Stevens 2016 New Paltz New Paltz 2017 Vassar NYU 2018 Stevens, New Paltz Stevens 2019 Stevens, New Paltz New Paltz 2020 None Canceled 2021 New Paltz Vassar 2022 New Paltz St. John Fisher 2023 Vassar Vassar 2024 Vassar NYU 2025 NYU NYU 2026 New Paltz MIT
See also
Volleyball
References
External links United Volleyball Conference website National Collegiate Athletic Association website NCAA men's volleyball NCAA Division III