Colonial Athletic Association

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Colonial Athletic Association

Established
Classification
National Titles
Commissioner	Thomas E. Yeager
Members	12
Sports Fielded	21
States
Headquarters
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. On the playing field, the CAA has produced 16 national team champions in five different sports, 33 individual national champions, 11 national coaches of the year, 11 national players of the year and 12 Honda Award winners. Even more impressive, however, are the honors accumulated away from competition, which include five Rhodes Scholars and 16 NCAA post-graduate scholars. In 2004-05, the CAA had seven CoSIDA Academic All-Americans and more than 1,500 student-athletes posted at least a 3.2 GPA while lettering in a varsity sport and received the CAA Commissioner’s Academic Award.

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.

1 Members
2 Football Members
- 2.1 North Division
- 2.2 South Division
3 Associate Members
- 3.1 Mens Lacrosse
4 Colonial Athletic Association Fight Songs
5 External Links

Members

Football Members

North Division

Hofstra	Maine	Massachusetts	New Hampshire
Northeastern	Rhode Island

South Division

Delaware	James Madison	Richmond	Towson
Villanova	William and Mary

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