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The West Coast Conference (known as the WCC) is a conference participating in the NCAA's Division I, with member institutions in California, Oregon, and Washington. It was founded in 1952 by five schools in the San Francisco Bay area. All current members are private, religiously-affiliated schools, and all but Pacific are church-funded (Pacific maintains a Methodist affiliation, but has not received church funds since 1969).
Until BYU joined in 2011, the WCC had not had a change in membership since 1980, a degree of stability bettered only by the Ivy League (stable since 1954). BYU would leave in 2023.
Current members[]
- Gonzaga (joined in 1979)
- Loyola Marymount (joined in 1955)
- Pacific (charter member, left for the Big West in 1971, rejoined in 2013)
- Pepperdine (joined in 1955)
- Portland (joined in 1976)
- Saint Mary's (charter member)
- San Diego (joined in 1979)
- San Francisco (charter member)
- Santa Clara (charter member)
Future full members[]
- Grand Canyon (joining in 2025)
- Seattle (rejoining in 2025)
Future associate members[]
Following the 2024 collapse of the Pac-12 Conference, the two remaining members of that conference will house most of their non-football sports in the WCC through the 2025–26 school year.
Former members[]
- BYU (joined in 2011, left in 2023 for the Big 12)
- Fresno State (joined in 1955 with joint membership in the CCAA, left in 1957 for sole CCAA membership, now in the Mountain West)
- Nevada (joined in 1969, left in 1979 for the Big Sky, now in the Mountain West)
- Nevada - Las Vegas (joined in 1969, left in 1975 to become a Division I independent, now in the Mountain West)
- San José State (joined in 1952, left in 1969 for the PCAA, now in the Mountain West)
- Seattle (joined in 1971, left in 1980 for NAIA membership, now back in Division I in the WAC and will rejoin the WCC in 2025)
- UC Santa Barbara (joined in 1964; left in 1969 for the PCAA, now known as the Big West)