West Coast Conference

The West Coast Conference is an NCAA collegiate athletic conference consisting of eight member schools in California, Oregon, and Washington. It was founded in 1952 by a group of five schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. All of the current members are private, religiously-affiliated institutions; four of the eight are Jesuit, and only Pepperdine is not Catholic. It is also a remarkably stable union in the constantly changing world of college athletics. The WCC has not had a school join or leave the conference since 1980. Only two conferences, the Ivy League and the Pac-10, have remained unchanged for a longer period of time.

Former members

• University of the Pacific (1952-1971)
• San Jose State University (1952-1969)
• California State University, Fresno (=Fresno State) (1955-1957)
• University of California, Santa Barbara (=UCSB) (1964-1969)
• University of Nevada (1969-1979)
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas (=UNLV) (1969-1975)
• Seattle University (1971-1980)