Yankee Small College Conference

Yankee Small College Conference
Association	USCAA
Sports fielded	12 men's: 6; women's: 6; ;
Division	Division II
Official website	http://www.yankeeconference.org/

Yankee Small College Conference is a Division II conference in the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA). The conference consists of two-year and four-year schools from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York State.^[1] The conference hosted its first championships in the 2008–09 season, and in 2011, the conference expanded to include Hampshire College and four new members from the disbanded Sunrise Athletic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).^[1]

Member schools

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Nickname	Joined
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences	Albany, New York	1881	Private	1,384	Panthers	2020–21
Central Maine Community College	Auburn, Maine	1963	Public^[a]	2,700	Mustangs	2008–09
Great Bay Community College	Portsmouth, New Hampshire	1945	Public^[a]	2,217	Herons	2008–09
Hampshire College	Amherst, Massachusetts	1965	Private	1,400	Black Sheep	2011–12
NHTI, Concord's Community College	Concord, New Hampshire	1961	Public^[a]	3,926	Lynx	2008–09
Paul Smith's College	Paul Smiths, New York	1946	Private	1,000	Bobcats	2011–12
Southern Maine Community College	South Portland, Maine	1946	Public^[a]	7,006	Seawolves	2008–09
University of Maine at Augusta	Augusta, Maine	1965	Public^[b]	6,000	Moose	2008–09
Vermont Technical College	Randolph, Vermont	1866	Public	1,453	Knights	2011–12

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Nickname	Joined	Primary conference	YSCC sport
Northern Essex Community College	Haverhill, Massachusetts	1961	Public^[a]	5,115	Knights	2020–21	Massachusetts (MCCAA) (NJCAA Region XXI)	softball

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Nickname	Joined	Left	Current conference
College of St. Joseph	Rutland, Vermont	1956	Catholic (Diocese of Burlington)	N/A	Fighting Saints	2011–12	2018–19	N/A^[a]
University of Maine at Machias	Machias, Maine	1909	Public^[b]	800	Clippers	2011–12	2019–20	N/A^[c]
Unity College	Unity, Maine	1965	Nonsectarian	2,923	Rams	2008–09	2019–20	Independent^[d]

^ St. Joseph (Vt.) closed after the 2018–19 school year.
^ Part of the University of Maine System.
^ Maine–Machias suspended its athletics program after the 2019–20 school year.
^ Unity (Me.) closed after the 2019–20 school year.^[2] However, the school was re-opened as of August 2021.