New York Collegiate Hockey Association

The New York Collegiate Hockey Association was an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Second Division. The league was created in 1977 between 6 then-existing SUNYAC schools as well as Buffalo and Elmira.
==History==
With the NCAA instituting a Division II Championship beginning with the 1977–78 season 8 upstate New York schools formed the NYCHA to have a better chance at securing one of the bids. So as to not lose those member schools, ECAC 2 began holding two separate conference tournaments the same year, (East and West), allowing those 6 teams to compete with other established division II schools for an NCAA bid. Plattsburgh State left the conference in 1981 and was replaced by RIT. The Conference added Canisius and Hobart over each of the succeeding two seasons but by 1986 the effort to keep the conference as a separate entity stopped and the NYCHA was dissolved.
For the duration of the conference all teams played one another twice during the season in conference games.
==Member schools==
	Location 	Athletic nickname	Enrollment#	Colors	Founded	Joined	Left	Succeeding Conference	Current Conference†
	Brockport, New York 	Golden Eagles 	8,275 	 	1867 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	SUNYAC
	Buffalo, New York 	Bulls 	30,648 	 	1846 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	Dropped Program
	Buffalo, New York 	Ice Griffs 	3,464 	 	1870 	1982 	1986	ECAC West 	Atlantic Hockey
	Cortland, New York 	Red Dragons 	7,234 	 	1868 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	SUNYAC
	Elmira, New York 	Soaring Eagles 	1,170 	 	1855 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	UCHC
	Geneseo, New York 	Knights 	5,585 	 	1871 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	SUNYAC
	Geneva, New York 	Statesmen 	2,237 	 	1822 	1983 	1986	ECAC West 	NEHC
	Oswego, New York 	Lakers 	8,909 	 	1861 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	SUNYAC
	Plattsburgh, New York	Cardinals 	6,358 	 	1889 	1977 	1981	ECAC 2 	SUNYAC
	Potsdam, New York 	Bears 	4,325 	 	1816 	1977 	1986	ECAC West 	SUNYAC
	Henrietta, New York 	Tigers 	16,842 	 	1829 	1981 	1986	ECAC West 	Atlantic Hockey
# enrollment in 2018† as of 2018
==Membership timeline==
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 bar:1 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1981 text:[[State University of New York at Plattsburgh|Plattsburgh State]] (1977–1981)
 bar:2 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[State University of New York at Brockport|Brockport State]] (1977–1986)
 bar:3 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[University at Buffalo|Buffalo]] (1977–1986)
 bar:4 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[State University of New York at Cortland|Cortland State]] (1977–1986)
 bar:5 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[Elmira University|Elmira]] (1977–1986)
 bar:6 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[State University of New York at Geneseo|Geneseo State]] (1977–1986)
 bar:7 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[State University of New York at Oswego|Oswego State]] (1977–1986)
 bar:8 color:Full from:08/01/1977 till:05/01/1986 text:[[State University of New York at Potsdam|Potsdam State]] (1977–1986)
 bar:9 color:Full from:08/01/1981 till:05/01/1986 text:[[Rochester Institute of Technology|RIT]] (1981–1986)
 bar:10 color:Full from:08/01/1982 till:05/01/1986 text:[[Canisius College|Canisius]] (1982–1986)
 bar:11 color:Full from:08/01/1983 till:05/01/1986 text:[[Hobart and William Smith Colleges|Hobart]] (1983–1986)
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==See also==
*ECAC 2
==References==
Category:NCAA Division II conferences
Category:Established in 1977
Category:Disestablished in 1986